Monday, March 21, 2011

The cuisine so far !!

Hej hej
firstly let me say that our stay in sweden had been awesome ! its the best thing that we have ever done ! I am part of the culture ambush and i am quite keen to know more about the swedish cuisine and hence i have been asked to focus more on the Swedish cuisine.Pretty soon I will be interviewing the head of the cooking staff and a couple of others to know more about the cuisine and the traditional dishes.
We start our day with a rather fullfilling breakfast consisting of ham,turkey,cheese,tomatoes,cucumbers,bellpeppers,boiled eggs(hard boiled or soft boiled),cereals with yogurt or milk and dry friuts,juices,a varity of jams and breads,coffee or tea.The breakfast here is filling and nutritious and provides us energy to hit the streets stockholm,we walk a lot here say roughly nothing less then 8 kilometers a day !The swedish cuisine has incorporated variuos aspects from the diverse people living here.hence our lunch is varied.we usually have our lunch at the gymnasium,some of the dishes here are pasta with sauce,risotto,a kind of chicken saute etc .we usually have dinner at around 6.30-7.00 at Kungshallen,which is a food court that serves cuisines from around world like Lebanese,Thai,Indian,Mexican,Chinese,Italian etc.the Thai food court is a favourite amongst our clan!
On our second night here in Sweden we were invited to a dinner hosted by Tullinge gymnasium.This dinner consisted of authentic swedish food like raw salomon and smoked salmon,but what set my taste buds ablaze was the variety of herrings served ! the food not only looked pleasing to our eyes but they equally pleased our taste buds.There were hard boiled eggs topped with shrimps and some cheese.Another interesting dish was the parmesan cheese salad with some seasoning.I was quite fascinated by the variety of breads offered at th gymnasium,a Turkish bread called pitta was lovely.
When we visited Skansen,an open air museum that showed a little bit of the architecture from different parts of sweden we had an oppurtunity to relish on typical Swedish MEATBALLS ! lucky aren't we ? this is a dish I have eagerly been looking forward to.It consists of meatballs made from both beef and pork accompanied by boiled potatoes,a creamy sauce and lingonberry jam with some garnish.the vegetarian option contained of typical swedish pancakes......

heres me signing off and hoping to taste some more amazing food when in Sweden...

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