This post is dedicated to my warm and wonderful new friends and foodie soul-mates, Tuna Man and Tuna Man's Wife. Thank you for bringing me into your Swedish fold, and sharing your friends and family, and food with me. I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship!
And yet another Swedish food adventure.
Thursday night in Sweden is Pea Soup Night. Yep, every single Thursday! And the cool thing is that after Pea Soup comes Pancakes with Jam for dessert. These Swedes do it in style!
I was lucky enough to be invited to a very special Pea Soup Night last night at Tuna Man's aunty's house. Once a year there is a fair held in his aunty's town, this fair has been held on the first Thursday of October for the last 300 years. So, combine Pea Soup Night with Fair and we have a great great night!!
We rocked up to TM's aunty's place to eat the smokey, salty, mustardy, divine Pea Soup, or in Swedish, Artsoppa. Lots of family rocked up too, four generations in fact, and we all sat and ate together, yummmmmmmm soup and bread with cheese.
This soup is made from dried yellow peas, ham hock, onions, carrots and a bit of seasoning and is left to cook for hours and hours. Before you tuck in, though, you need to wack a huge glob of mustard in it and sprinkle on some thyme and marjoram flakes and mix it all in to make a creamy soup. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...it was so good. It was perfect for the cold rainy night, and to steel us for wandering the fair.
All souped-up, we headed off to the fair. Of course TMW and I were inseparable at all the food stalls, where I tasted a heap of sausage, including moose, bear, and reindeer! I also tasted the sweetest of treats, "havrebollar", which is coconut balls, a sweet fudgy oaty coconut round that went down so well I had to have another!
Now, you can also see above something that looks incredibly delicious...because it was! TMW had told me all about Langos, which I believe was originally a Hungarian thing, but now is all over Sweden. It's got a fried bread base with whatever you want on top - we had the traditional one which is cheese, sour cream, red onion and some fish roe on top...OH YUMMMMMM. It was just so good I couldn't help but laugh while I ate it!
What a night. Pea Soup, Havrebollar and Langos. Loving Sweden. Oh yeah, baby.
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