SAFFRON THUMBPRINT COOKIES

In the middle of the craziest weeks of the year I think I’ve managed to attract the flu. I woke up with angry throat and when I walked up the stairs to the third floor to my statistics-lab my heart was beating like I had run a marathon. Not good at all. So right now…

SWEDISH SUNSHINE BUNS

This summer have just flown by so fast. All those days I marked in my calendar in the beginning of June – The weekend in Gothenburg, the last day at work (for the second time) and our trip to Belgium are just moments away now. I’ts been a good one so far I would say. I’ve…

KROPPKAKOR – SWEDISH POTATO DUMPLINGS

Firstly let me tell you about my midsommar or midsummer – the day we Swedes celebrate the start of summer and the season of fertility. As expected we celebrated outside Jönköping, it feels like everyone leave town to go to the countryside the day before midsummer leaving all the streets empty in town. This year I…

SWEDISH KLADDKAKA w/ LEMON AND BEURRE NOISETTE

It have been the most amazing weather here the last week, 17 degrees and sunny. And also, yesterday was a bank holiday (or as we call them – red day) so the weekend suddenly felt twice as long. I spent most of my day off in my garden, planting and sunbathing. Somehow I managed to get…

SWEDISH CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY BISKVIER

Finally Friyay! I woke up feeling so tired today. We celebrated a birthday yesterday at a local pub and then ended the night with birthday-cake and coffee. And that coffee, it never bothers me to drink coffee late, its just something you get used to when working late nights in a kitchen. But, this was probably the strongest…

ROE DEER VENISON MEATBALLS

It´s something about spring that just gets me every time – the motivation to wake up and do great things is higher than ever and I´m trotting away like a Shetland pony on the streets of Jönköping just so happy. One of the exchange-students from Pakistan told me she thought of Swedish people like flowers. All…

SWEDISH KLADDKAKA

So it’s finally Easter. To me Easter symbolize the beginning of spring after too many long and dark winter months. I can’t say me and my family really celebrate Easter – we give the kids Easter-eggs filled with candy, we eat sill and lamb-roast dinner but really nothing more. But still, we all get together at…

SWEDISH SOCKERKAKA

Today its -9 degrees outside and the sun is shining bright and all of the rabbits on my backyard is laying down (we have like a whole family living there together with a pheasant and some hedgehogs), sunbathing their tummies. This is Swedish winter when it is at its best. However, I watch the sun…

SHROVE TUESDAY – THE SWEDISH SEMLOR

So, today its once again one strange Swedish tradition to celebrate; Shrove Tuesday! Or as we swedes call it; Fettisdagen. For some of you this day is actually known for eating pancakes, or as the “international pancake day”. But here in Sweden (and in most scandinavian countries, we eat a semla instead). This wonderful cream…

LOVE-YUMMIES or KÄRLEKSMUMS

So, were almost done with January. Its been a great month for me – I guess having some time off is great but I believe I feel better when having some daily routines. I’ve really gotten into yoga (once again) and I really can’t understand why I stopped. It makes a lot of difference in how…

THE GREATEST CANDYSHOP + HOW SWEDES SHOP FOR CANDY

Just a small tip, if ever visiting Gothenburg pay this candyshop a visit, its epic! They call themselves “4gott” and I think they have three stores around Gothenburg but I’ve only been to the one at Östra Hamngatan 5 just outside the centralstation. I always joke about getting diabetes just by breathing in the air in…

JANSONS TEMPTATION or JANSONS FRESTELSE

Oh, this winter is killing me – I live in a house from the early 19th century and I can’t say that isolation was a big thing then. We have been having around -10 degrees outside and 16 degrees inside the last couple of days. Layers after layers of blankets together with a massive cup of tea…