CatPoet

There is a ton of drinks here in Sweden called Midsummer. This is my favorite 3 cl of honey liqueur or honey rum or Roman/ English mead. 3 fresh strawberries 1 whole frozen strawberry sparkly apple wine / Swedish apple cider. Mash the strawberries with honey booze, strain and pour into a champagne flute. Top up with sparkly apple wine or Swedish apple cider. Add a frozen strawberry.

But it much softer in texture then a devil food cake, you can hear the bubbles bursting when cutting it. Normally mine is higher and not this compacted.

Chocolate cloud cake with strawberries Chocolate fondue with Strawberries.

It turned out lovely even if I had 50 grams more chocolate, they changed the chocolate bar to contain 50 grams more then before.. Woops and when you have a toddler who things she is Tenzing Norgay, well mummy ( when home alone) has to run and sometimes get lost in the recipe. Also my electric whisk died when the egg whites nearly were whisked perfect. It became moist, soft, airy and a bit kick in the teeth too much chocolate.,

KimShook , such meals are also worth mentioning and being praised. Comfort food has it own glory. Well Midsummer Eve and the Midsummer festival is in full swing here in Sweden. So we been eating a lot of yummy stuff today. I will tell you this, yes I know my china set doesn't fully match but the China is about 110 years old and things has gone missing. So this is the nicest I can get. Dill cooked new potatoes tossed in butter, Herbed pork tenderloin cooked in the oven att very high heat and turned out amazing, green salad due to my husband dislike of tomatoes and cucumber , they are in a separate bowl and a herb sauce med with fresh herbs, mayo, sour cream and a little bit of Greek yogurt. YummY!! Dessert was chocolate cloud cake with whipped cream and strawberries. Yum, a bit too much for me but still lovely. Now I will lay down and moan for 2 days, this was too lovely, Thank God, midsummer only comes ones per year.

We had fresh bratwurst , such a treat, fresh sausages are rare here.The common thing is smoked, either warm or cold and then fried or boiled. But there is one store that does make their own sausages with Swedish meat but they do cost a fair bit. But it is midsummer so treating us to something yummy is on the menu. Happy midsummer everyone!

It is midsummer eve in Sweden, the big festival is in full swing so this is what we had in the morning. Even I went of my rutine of 2 sandwiches, tea, yogurt and meds. Well I kept the meds, tea and yogurt but still it wont be happy days tomorrow, but I dont care. I have 2 days where I can lay down and moan. Daughter's breakfast, fresh strawberries, Greek yogurt and Scottish pancakes shaped as a flower. She happily screamed CAKE and ate it all and then two more. My husbands stack of Scottish pancakes, Greek yogurt and strawberries. You wont get to see mine, it was small portion.

I will show the result, it didnt rise as much as it normaly does BUT it did rise and it looks airy and not dense. I am about to test in in 1 hour. Happy midsummer to you to.

I'm making chocolate cloud cake, it wont be as airy as normal since my electric whisky died before I got a good egg white, they where nearly there, so I hope it works.

Amrut Fusion is one of the whiskys I can drink, it is heaven.

I cant find a picture of it at all. It looks like a tube, with an electric grinder in the bottom and a push button on top. It had 3 amount you could choose from. Major problems was, it didnt fit nicely in the hand and due to the push button being on top, the thumb hurt and it was a smooth push either.

Oh, I have leftover sauce too, but I am saving it for pizza rolls, Great picnic food and great when we spend a day in the park.

I seen these and used them, you press a button on top of the mill, however after 20 burgers your thumb is pretty sore..

We has Spag'bol and daughter manage to send pasta every where.

Well just pop some seeds into a pot and see what happens.

Well most words has a common root. Germanic or Latin is the most common in Europe. The English has been invaded both by the Romans and the Norse, so of course they have a mix of most spoken languages near them. Sauna is the ONLY Finnish word that the Finns has gotten the rest of the world hooked on, however we Swedes use the word Bastu for the same thing. One thing I think is funny is when the words get used the wrong way, like Swedish sandwich, which clearly a Danish smörrebröd or Swedish limpu, which is odd, since limpu is Finnish word for one type of loaf and limpa is the Swedish version for the same thing. I see it in Sweden too and also that we seam to want to forget our own words for things, I seen soda being used for soda pop but in Sweden that is läsk and soda is actually sodium carbonate. I seen wedding forums filled with people looking for a husband for their wedding day and then you ask and they dont mean husband ( make) but make up but write it short hand make instead of the smink which the Swedish word. And now they are trying to get us to use cookies instead of kaka, which we in the first place stole and modified from the English word cake, which has given us both kaka and kex. Kaka used to be called småbröd which means little bread.

I had isterband, just a fried sausage... I realized that I again ate to little.

The inside is cookie and cake crumbs , it has to be a blend of that and then powdered sugar, cocoa , arrack and butter, then rolled into marzipan and then dipped into chocolate. Most often it is flavoured with essences and sometimes they use other liqueur flavours. I have gotten a blueberry one and a lingon one when the Crown princess got married.

Here is a picture http://raz.nu/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/dammsugare_punchrullar.jpg , you have to think old school vacuum cleaner to understand it.

Actually Swedes do eat them for that too. It sort of the best way of calming people, that and vacuum cleaners another odd thing that doesnt need a oven to make. I know we are odd. When we do business meeting we try to have a good fika planned, fika is coffee and and sweet treats and talk and the it shows how much you care about people. I been told to bake vanilla rolls, 5 types cookies, chocolate balls, vacuum cleaners and make a cake ( with frosting and all) for an important meeting when I worked as housekeeper. I have helped my dad fix up fika for the place he worked at when the local bakery had a fire and well they cant have a meeting with out cookies and in autumn apple pie. We live with the coffee mug firmly grown into out hands.

So I asked a Chinese man I know and he said looks like purple rice chiies too me...

I party fry bacon, place the rashes in to muffin tins and the pour a egg in the middle, perfect for fancy breakfasts.

I was going to do panfried chicken with gravy and potatoes and ended up with a chicken and broccoli stew ..... Oh well it was yummy and the kid got her peas, potatoes , remoulade sauce and haddock patty, it is fish day and normally we would have had salmon but they where out of it.

I Have an American friend , who thought why not write a book about different cuts of meat of America.... she started in 1979, she is still adding new names for the same pieces of meat...

Dead easy no fail chocolate balls 100 gram butter150 ml sugar4 tablespoon unsweetend cocao powder1 teaspoon vanilla1 pinch of salt2 tablespoons water, bozze or coffee500 ml rolled oats. Rolling:Non pralines, coarse grained candied sugar, chopped nuts, dedicated coconut or melted chocolate or candy melts. Mix everything up, butter and cocoa first and then the rest, end with the liquid. roll into 30 small balls and then roll them in something or for a more posher look, dip them in chocolate or candy melts