by Fünchkins
My mother taught me never to go visiting without bringing something with you. This Swedish visiting cake looks like it would make a great alternative to the cake I usually make. With browned butter, orange zest, and almonds it’s not your usual cake.
Get the recipe for this visiting cake from The Pastry Affair
This amazing Swedish villa is spacious and light, with very traditional interiors. The rooms seem cozy despite the villa covering 450 square metres and including a main residence, garage, stables, a large side building and private offices.
See more amazing pictures of this Swedish Villa on Digs Digs
A couple of weeks ago I had my first taste of Swedish ginger cookies, they are crispy, if you like that kind of thing, gingery beautiful yummy bits of baked goodness. Daune Pitman from Tasty Kitchen has the recipe for Pepparkakor from the story of Pippi Longstocking.
Pippi tends to do things in a fairly theatrical way, what do you expect from a girl called “Pippi Longstocking”, she is so theatrical, that she rolls her dough out on the floor because she makes five hundred cookies at a time. Makes you feel just a little inadequate. [Read more...]
The only really good Swedish meatballs I have had were either made by my mother or my sister. I will spend hours connecting granny squares for a blanket, but the idea of making hundreds of meatballs ahead makes my head spin. But this recipe might be something I would attempt with noodles, because we love noodles in our house.
Swedish meatballs can also be served as a starter with toothpicks but I think I like the idea of the creamy sauce too much to deprive myself of the velvety texture.
These Kuksa, Finnish camping cups are gorgeous. They are also called ’guksi’ in Sami or ‘kåsa’ in Swedish and are traditionally used by the Sami people of Lapland. Made from Birch burl or burr, they are incredibly beautiful and practical, the curved, rounded grain of the wood gives each and every cup its own personality. Traditionally Kuksa should only be given as a gift or carved by the person that will own it, so you can visit Ian from Handmade From Wood’s learning to carve page to learn to carve wood yourself.
When I think of Paper Mache, I usually think of those misshapen bowls made by six year olds from news paper and balloons. But Cecilia Levy has taken that image and dashed it, rather vigorously, I must say. Her bowls are delicate and beautiful and are made with printed paper. They look like pieces of art instead of the kindergarten work we are so used to seeing. Her attention to detail and finishing of the bowls is amazing and the bowls look gorgeous on their own or filled with knick-knacks on a coffee table.
Cecilia lives and woks in Sigtuna, Sweden, exploring her creativity through various materials and mediums. She has used her MFA on Graphic Design by working as a graphic design and bookbinding teacher and holds several workshops around Sweden.
