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An Introduction to Swedish Candies {Part I}
7 Nov2011
Swedes have an obsession with sweets. They have special days for pastries, cinnamon bun day, semla day, waffle day and they go crazy during Christmastime with boxed candies. Fazer and Aladdin here we go!
But nothing is more proverbial than the Swedish loose candy called lösviktsgodis or plockgodis and traditionally you buy loose candies on Saturdays. Because Saturday is the day of fun.
American Candy Love
Most Swedes think Americans do not have loose candies but we do. For the past three decades, Braches is the most common candy in the bins at the grocery store. [...] Continue Reading…
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Halloween Cupcake {Recipes}
3 Nov2011
This is a digression from my usual posts but since Liv asked in my last post about Halloween, I thought I would share the cupcake recipes I used and how I decorated them.
I am not sweet tooth person in the traditional sense. I love sweets, don’t get me wrong, but I don’t like over sugary frosting (and gross if it’s made with crisco!), or milk chocolate candy bars like Hershey’s (also gross), or anything that’s so sweet your brains want to chop off your tongue.
I do love delicious and flavorful treats. These vanilla and chocolate cupcake recipes [...] Continue Reading…
Halloween in Sweden
1 Nov2011
Happy Halloween!
What did you do to celebrate? We had a low-key Halloween eve. Watched Ghostbusters, ate pumpkin pasta, and enjoyed a halloween cupcake.
On Sunday, we had some friends over and carved pumpkins. And jeez, finding pumpkins at this time was a nightmare. There were pumpkins in all the shops a few weeks ago but not this past weekend!
We did eventually find a few pumpkins at ICA and at the market. My friend’s daughter did a spectacular job carving this little pumpkin.
It seemed this year Swedes really got into the [...] Continue Reading…
I’m starting a new series called the Top 5. Top 5 things about anything. Fun, easy to read and perhaps educational, but that’s a bonus.
My first ode to Top Fives is about Swedish words. This list is of seven Swedish words do not mean the same thing in the English language, known as “false friends”. If you translate the word as what you hear, you’d be in for a treat.
And since this is the first post in the series, I say screw it, let’s do sju instead of fem. Because sju is [...] Continue Reading…
Happy Diwali
26 Oct2011
Wishing all of you a happy Diwali. May you all have a prosperous and auspicious new year.
Kandils – Diwali lanterns. Stars are also popular.
Rangoli – Sand art created to make the goddess Laxshmi happy when she visits home
Divas – small clay lights used to welcome Laxshmi
Crappy Monday from India
24 Oct2011
I’m guessing most of you have crawled your way to the office and pouring the first cup of coffee in what is the longest day of the week.
Originally this post said happy monday, but honesty, WTF. Crappy Monday!
As for me, I’m enjoying a hot cup of chai courtesy of my mom’s recipe with fresh ginger and lemongrass. (Today is three months from when you left us, I miss you everyday but I love you and will dream big for you.)
{Animated gif by The Oatmeal, the most fabulous site out there}
The weather forecast for Mumbai [...] Continue Reading…
PSA on New York – It’s a STATE
21 Oct2011
This is a Public Service Announcement.
Swedes, Americans, and the rest of the world, please take note that New York is a state, not a city. New York City is a city and no matter how much the people bitch, they’re still going to be part of the state of New York.
[Image by Sarah Roberts]
Being from New York, it becomes annoying when people say, “I love New York City.”
Me: No, “I’m from New York. The State. You know?”
Confused fool: Blank stare.
Me: “You know, where Niagara Falls, Finger Lakes and the rest of mass between [...] Continue Reading…
Robocoptering in Stockholm
19 Oct2011
We received a pretty fabulous wedding present: a helicopter and speed boat ride, a robocopter!
Or maybe they call it ribocopter. Whatever, it was awesome.
The boat ride was an hour and the helicopter ride was around 20 minutes. It definitely could have been longer!
Here are photos, be jealous.
It fits a house!
The dials on a chopper.
Foggy islands over Sweden
The helicopter blade is bent in time!
The smallest island ever, and we landed on it.
The small island with the white trees was destroyed by the skarvar (cormorants).
Nearby to the left of the island, [...] Continue Reading…
Visit Stockholm: Bars with a View
17 Oct2011
There is one beauty you can never tire of in Stockholm: the view. Despite it being a relatively flat city with low height buildings, there are a few buildings that stand tall in the city and lend a beautiful view.
It does not matter if you come in the wintertime, summertime, fall-time, springtime or depressing time, the views will change but be spectacular nevertheless.
The bars and restaurants chosen lay on the water and offer earthly views, or lay in the sky and offer heavenly views.
Gondolen
Sitting on top of a random elevator shaft and walkway, Gondolen sits atop [...] Continue Reading…
The Best Ice Cream in Stockholm
14 Oct2011
Clearly, I am in the wrong season for ice cream. It’s cold and dreary, and cold. So why have ice cream? Because you can!!!
I love ice cream in the wintertime. It is cold, delicious, and happy. Just because it is -25C outside, it does not mean you cannot partake in childhood pleasures.
Lucky for me, the best ice cream shop in Stockholm is on my island, Södermalm. 18 Smaker (18 flavors) makes their own homemade, organic ice cream. It is founded by two friends, Danne and Karin and opened in 2009. [...] Continue Reading…
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