Last week we brought you World Food Sundaysas a way to reclaim your Sundays from the depths of depression of despair. The idea is simple… Grab your friends or housemates, pick a country or area of the world and spend the day making a feast of epic proportions related to said country. .
This week we're all about Scandinavia...
The Food
There’s a lot more to Scandinvian grub than just meatballs you Ikea obsessed lot. They're responsible for some pretty wicked sausage creations like the ‘falukorv’ which is a giant old pre-cooked thing that looks just like a frankfurter on growth hormones. It’s SO GOOD. Here’s a recipe for a stroganoff using the falukorv from the guy at The Scandi Kitchen – which incidentally is a brilliant place to pick up Scandi wares – you can even shop online.
Korv Stroganoff
Ingredients:
1 Falukorv sausage
1 chopped onion
1 Tin Chopped tomatoes
150 ml crème fraiche
Instructions:
Heat a think bottomed saucepan, add a dash of oil. Add chopped onion and roughly chipped sausge and cooked until the onion is soft. (Falukorv is already cooked so just needs heating). Add the puree, stir, then add the tin of tomatoes. Season weel to taste with salt and pepper (we usually add a bayleaf and pinch of paprika to ours). Leave to simmers for a few minutes, then stir in the crème fraiche.
Serve with boiled rice.
The Drink
Finally an excuse to make the Polar Bear! Here’s the Swedish take on the classic cocktail (normally made with peppermint liquer)
Ingredients
• 4 cl Grey Goose Vodka
• 2 cl Blue Curacao
• Lemon Soda
• Ice Cubes
*Instructions *
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Mix Grey Goose vodka and Blue Curaco, fill it up with Lemon soda.
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Use lots of icecubes.
The Playlist
The Film
The choices! There's always the original versions of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. If you're feeling more in the mood for something a bit scary then Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In about a little girl vampire who makes friends with a little boy is an oddly heartwarming winner. Last year’s A Royal Affair from Denmark was nominatedat the Oscars for best foreign language film and stars the excellent Mads Mikkelsen from Sky Living’s terrifying Hannibal. Also, anything with Alexander Skarsgard totally counts.
Pictures: Getty
This article originally appeared on The Debrief.