Unfortunetly the weather isn’t at all indicative of this time of year. These couple of weeks before Christmas are the favorite of many a Swede and tightly so, it’s the cosiest time of year!
Isbjörnens kaviar
Breakfast isn’t the same without some salty Swedish caviar…
Cinnamon scented house
The whole house smells of cinnamon, a lovely homey smell. I love it! We just finnished baking about 60 or so Swedish cinnamon buns. Beautifully soft and sweet buns, that are probably the BEST baked good EVER!
Nybakta kanelbullar
Två dagar senare är bullarna äntligen klara… Ja, ibland blir det inte som man tänkt sig… 🙂
Kanelbullens dag
The 4th of October is Kanelbullens dag or the Cinnamon bun day. The best way to celebrate would be to eat lots and lots of beautiful homemade kanelbullar… Waiting for the oven Might as well be making lots of them at once In Sweden it’s popular to eat them warm with a glass of milk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karoleen – Photographer © 2005-2011 All Rights Reserved. Contact me at mail@karoleen.se .
Crayfish party
Obviously, this being Sweden and August we did make sure to have a Crayfish Party, be it small with 4 people, but we did have one… I love Crayfish or at is called in Sweden Kräftor. These are usually fished in the end of august, and only then since they are fishing for crayfish is outlawed the rest of the year. The crayfish are boiled in a brine of salt water and crown dill and local …