What is your favorite Nordic kitchen?

[Savage]

What is your favorite Nordic kitchen?

And what is your favorite meals thereof?

[Savage]

For the Norwegian kitchen, of course noone beats it on fish. The various salmon receipts are of course classy, but my favorite is halibut, steamed, with butter, carrots and almond-potatoes...

The sami kitchen has spezialized on reindeers, salomon and trout. Quite simple, but with the purest ingredients in Europe, and meat from freerange animals, gives a quite other energy than from prisoned animals.

Also Norwegian diary products are quite clean, compared to much of the continental alternatives. Our brown cheese must be mentioned.

The danes certainly knows how to enjoy life, and danish food are much fatter than Norwegian. I like the danish frikadeller and also red danish salami.

And dont forget Swedish kjøttbullar (meat bolls) and Swedish herring suprises. Unbeatable cold dishes.

[Carnyx]

I can't tell; I've never tried any nordic kitchen. There are plenty of exotic restaurants over here but none have a nordic cuisine.

[Exeter]

Smörgåstårta, or in English, "sandwich torte", which I guess fall under Swedish. I also like Danish smørrebrød, literally "butter bread" or open sandwich.

Norway has great cod and salmon, but I do not know much about the cooking traditions.

Finland's cuisine is the most different, it is more eastern.

[svin]

Finland and northern Russia have very similiar cooking traditions, I guess.

As for me, I don't actually enjoy food very much. I view it only as energy for my body and mind.

[wilpuri]

Originally Posted by Exeter

Finland's cuisine is the most different, it is more eastern.

In what ways? I'd say our kitchen is very similar to the rest of the Nordic countries: plenty of fish, potato, bread, stews, etc. I think traditional cuisine is determined more by available resources and geographical location, which are fairly similar to most of the Nordic countries.

I don't even know what traditional Finnish cuisine is, though.

[Gil]

Haven't tried any. Would love though.

[Siegmund]

My favorite "Nordic" kitchen is Manji's Portuguese kitchen, Nordic or not! Manji, more recipes, please!

But seriously, the only authentic "Nordic" (perhaps "Scandinavian" is more apt?) food I've tried is Swedish meatballs, from an "authentic" Swedish restaurant - delicious. I'd love to try more, especially Scandinavian fish dishes.

[Menydh]

I like fish much.. too.

I like fish raw as in Japanese cuisine (maki, sushi, sashimi). I know next to nothing about Scandinavian cuisine, apart from the Norwegian smoked salmon and the Danish bacon.

So I will make a wild guess and say that the Saami have some kind of raw fish dish or cured in an exotic way.. and I'll vote for Saami!

[Savage]

Originally Posted by wilpuri

In what ways? I'd say our kitchen is very similar to the rest of the Nordic countries: plenty of fish, potato, bread, stews, etc. I think traditional cuisine is determined more by available resources and geographical location, which are fairly similar to most of the Nordic countries.
I don't even know what traditional Finnish cuisine is, though.

Sure, much is alike, but there are specialities...
The Danes does eel very good. Eel does barely exist in the Norwegian kitchen. Neither does halibut or deep water fish like uer have any place in the Finnish kitchen? And of certain reasons are danish mountain butter quite rare?

Then it comes to national goodies like
Smalahoved, smoked and boiled sheepscull, with all and everything...yummmi



The Icelenders have some similar traditions, and also on horsemeat.

The "all and everything" tradition are also served as kobbesveive in northern Norway, that is seal (kobbe) with skin and eyes and hairs in a large cauldron. Children rarely eats it.

And I grew up on whale beef, I still love it...

[Siegmund]

Originally Posted by Mynydd

So I will make a wild guess and say that the Saami have some kind of raw fish dish or cured in an exotic way.. and I'll vote for Saami!

Great idea! I vote Saami too!

[marius]

Reindeer food receipts are good in Norway, for example, but the restaurants offering them are very hard to find. Usually, restaurants offering local Norwegian food are not easy to find, most of restaurants offering either Italian cuisine such as pasta and pizza (there are even jokes about a very often found pizza mark, "Grandiosa" as being now a national Norwegian receipt), fast-food-like cuisine, or International cuisine.

Smoked salmon fish is also good.

Concerning sweet things, nothing is better than the Swedish cakes, with or without cream.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by marius

Reindeer food receipts are good in Norway, for example, but the restaurants offering them are very hard to find. Usually, restaurants offering local Norwegian food are not easy to find, most of restaurants offering either Italian cuisine such as pasta and pizza (there are even jokes about a very often found pizza mark, "Grandiosa" as being now a national Norwegian receipt), fast-food-like cuisine, or International cuisine.

Smoked salmon fish is also good.

Concerning sweet things, nothing is better than the Swedish cakes, with or without cream.

He-he, you are rignt, Pizza Grandiosa is probably some of the most eaten food in Norway these days.


And yes, our national cultural complexes has just recently lost its grip, so discovering our own cousine and appreciating and valuing it has a renessanice.
Funny you mention reindeer meat, I`m just going to town to see if I can get some dried and smoked reideer heart for a special occation. Pure energy bombs.

[Carnyx]

I've seen a TV programme on Norway once. They said people are used to open the barrel, in which the rotten fish is kept, outside, because it's way too risky to do it inside (explosion).

[Ferran]

I have always loved Danish cookies.

[Gottslav]

Now I'm about evenly split between Lapin Kulta and Viola processed cheese