After Latvia, it was back for a few days with my wonderfully fantastic, amazingly brilliant new Swedish buddies, and fellow foodies, Tuna Man (TM) and Tuna Man's Wife (TMW) (the first pic there was my welcome home dinner...Wild Mushroom Pie - DEAR LORD!).
What can I say about this couple? These are the people that introduced me to amazing things like Havrebollar, Langos, Thursday Pea Soup Night, and who could ever forget The Flying Jacob (see Swedish posts for all these wonderful and wacky dishes)!?! These are the crazy crazy critters who started my love of creme fraiche/sour cream with fish roe and diced red onion served with pretty much anything! These are the wackadoodles who took me on my first ever mushroom hunt and taught me to cook Chanterelles on toast (with loads of butter and white pepper)....mmmmmmm.
So, what does this couple do for me on my final night in Stockholm, a Friday night by the way...they make me another special Friday night dinner...Stuffed Sausage. Oh yeah baby. I watched every step of the way, and documented it for you.
TMW started with a big big sausage - it's cheap and sorta like a giant frankfurt without the skin. She makes professional incisions on the top, then fills each cut, alternatively, with a piece of sliced onion, tomato, and apple. Yes apple. Then she delicately pours on mild mustard, spicy mustard, and ketchup, then tops it off with chopped gherkin! After this mess of sauces, she then gently places thin slices of cheese and sprinkles parmesan on the top. WOW. Who could have ever thought up such a dish! This all then gets wacked in the oven for a good roasting. Et voila!
You can see it above in all its glory. What a thing of beauty. And the taste????
UNREAL BANANA PEEL!!!! The best food any aussie gal could want on her farewell Sweden dinner. It was soooooooooooooooo yum...I bloody loved it. I think I went for 3 servings (all with some of that velvety perfect mash)...it really was that good! All those crazy flavours came together in a chorus of intense harmony (too much?????). Sigh. Magnificent.
So, to my very special friends, TMW and TM (and to Tuna Baby, who is baking away there inside TMW) I say the humblest of thank yous. Thank you for your warmth, generosity, laughter, Swedish Idol commentary, and of course the most wonderful food.
I miss you already.
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