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Thoughts on: Thanksgiving in Stockholm

23 Nov

Being in Stockholm, David and I will miss Thanksgiving this year.  Because we don’t have the day off from rehearsals, it’s also difficult to make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of our own (i.e. I don’t have any time to roast a whole turkey — truthfully, I doubt our tiny oven couldn’t handle it anyway).  Thanksgiving is one of our favorite (food) holidays, though, and we’d hate to do *nothing* for the occasion.  And so I have come up with a slightly nontraditional and simplified (i.e. manageable with work) Thanksgiving menu, with what I think might be some fitting “Swedish” inspirations/substitutions.

Here’s what it looks like for now:

HORS D’OEUVRES

  • Deviled eggs with chives, topped with caviar
  • Thinly sliced chorizo on sliced cucmbers

VEGETABLES

  • Roasted beets with pistachios and basil
  • Roasted Jerusalem artichokes
  • Mashed potatoes (perhaps with wasabi, if I can find it… or maybe caramelized onions, still mulling this one over)
  • Grilled asparagus

MAIN

  • Roasted mustard-coated salmon (– since I can’t roast a turkey, salmon seems a good substitute, since we are in Sweden after all)
  • Lingonberry (or some other berry) chutney

DESSERT

  • Duo of dark chocolate: flourless cardamom/orange chocolate cake + “pot o’ coco(nut)”

I love making paleo pumpkin pie, but I can’t find any pureed pumpkin here in Stockholm — as I don’t have time to puree pumpkin myself, I am going to opt for a decadent dark chocolate dessert with high percent cocoa chocolate.  As usual, I will photograph the dishes and upload them here.

It will be a cozy little Thanksgiving for us this year, but I’m happy about at least trying to do something memorable with our nontraditional Thanksgiving Day in Stockholm.

Wishing everyone a very happy Thanksgiving!!! x x x x

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Settling into Stockholm

5 Nov

David and I will live in Stockholm, Sweden, through mid-February 2012.  We visited Stockholm on business twice last year, but on those trips we stayed in hotels.  We have never lived here — in an apartment, settling in and acclimatizing with the Stockholm way and life of things.  Surely, our time here will be an adventure… especially since we shall experience the (in)famous Swedish/Scandinavian winter!  Our furnished one-bedroom apartment is in Kungsholmen, an island in Lake Mälaren just across the bridge from central Stockholm.  So far, so good.  We arrived this past Monday and have located our local supermarkets and identified where we can get our daily essentials; we know where to buy good wines.  We even found a special Irish butcher that sells beautiful meats and home-made sausages.  We brought a shopping trolley with us (yes, in a suitcase), which is a must-have here.  Our kitchen is small — three electric stoves squished on top of a tiny oven.  But with constraints come creativity and inventiveness (one hopes)!

And so we dive right into our life in Stockholm.

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Hello, world!

5 Nov

Well, this is very exciting.  A brand new blog, a brand new website.  I look forward to sharing my foodventures while eating, cooking, dining, living life in the paleo food/lifestyle.  Thank you for visiting and reading.

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