Introduction

Hello Baltimore! My name is Mathilda Kronér. My classmates and I are going to tell you about some typical swedish stuff, but first I'm going to introduce myself. I'm a tall girl with very curly hair from Sweden who was born in Gothenburg. Right now I'm living in Onsala, a little village 30 minutes from Gothenburg, with my family. I live thanks to music. I couldn't manage to stay alive without it, seriously. I listen to music all the time, but I also play the guitar, the piano, the ukulele and I sing. I hope that you will enjoy our blog!

Cheese-slicer!

Hi there, my name is Anna, I'm 16 in about a month and my work is about the cheese-slicer, the device that mostly every swedish household's got!

Hm I've might got some problem with the video... like that massive voice-problem in the beginning, I don't even know! Gah I'll fix it later, I'm off to school now!

Easter in Sweden

Sweden is a very long and narrow country, and because of that many families need to travel a lot to all their relatives and friends during the holidays.

Now days the majority of the Swedish people live in cities, but the tradition says that we should celebrate Easter holiday in the country side and that’s the way we usually do.

In the south of Sweden during Easter it’s warm and sunny. But in the north the Easter is a popular skiing week.

Easter in many other European countries is a big religious feast, but not here in Sweden. It’s very unusual that ordinary people go to church during the holiday.

From candy to salmon
Easter has some ”rituals”. The kids dress up to witches and wizards, nearly like Halloween. Then they walk to all the houses in their neighbourhood and beg for candy in exchange for small paintings they have drawn. When the kids have come home their parents have hidden some Easter eggs for a egg hunt. The Easter eggs are filled with a lot of candy, especially chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies.

A traditional Swedish Easter dinner contains many varieties of pickled herring, gravlax (salted raw salmon), ”Janssons Frestelse” ( Anchovies, cream and potatoes), lamb roast, meatballs and small sausages. With the food you drink a lot of spiced vodka but everyone around the table must sing a song before the shot! It’s called ”Snappsvisa”

The kids drink a CocaCola similar drink called "Påskmust". It sells two times a year, during Easter and Christmas.





Welcome to Gothenburg

Welcome to the city of Gothenburg

Hello there people of Baltimore, the United States of America, across the Atlantic Ocean.
Greetings from the west side of Sweden!

My name is Erik Nensén, sixteen years old, and I am joining this blogspot, with my class, to tell you things about the city of Gothenburg (Göteborg), and I am about to tell things to see, and do as activities in this 2nd biggest town in all Sweden, and things I like to do here!

I'll write stuff, show pictures of different places and I will also upload a few, short videos, of me and my friends, maybe at a local consert, moshing around a bit to brutal music, etcetra.

Next time you'll see a picture of me, pictures of the city from different views and perhaps a clip or two.

See you next time, Baltimore, my name is Erik Nensén, you can find me on facebook if you're intrested to catch me up there.

Farey well!

Swedish Food and National Dishes

Here in Sweden we eat many different dishes. Now I’ll tell you about some of these and the ceremonies they are associated with.

Herring and potatoes
Pickled herring, potatoes and chives.

Herring and potatoes are part of all the Swedish ceremonies. Christmas, Midsummer and Easter. There are many different herrings, mustard herring, pickled herring, matjeherring and more. Of these flavors mustard herring is my favorite. Now I’ll tell you more about pickled herring: To make pickled herring you have to put the herring in vinegar and spices and salt. You may also have onions or other vegetable in the mixture.

Falusausage
Falusausage is a dish that we eat during the week for dinner. We usually do not just eat the sausage when we eat it. We also usually have mashed potatoes and ketchup. Now I’ll tell you more about this sausage: The falusausage developed in Falun (a little town in Sweden), in the county Dalarna around 1890. The sausage has since been popular dish in Sweden. The name of falusausage comes from the name of Falun, the town.

Swedish meatballs, mashed potatoes, cranberries and gravy

Swedish meatballs are made of minced meat. When you’ll make your homemade meatballs, use mostly the eggs, milk, bread crumbs, potato flour, onions and of course the minced meat. Meatballs have been around a long time in Sweden. It is a very simple dish that goes along perfectly with the mashed potatoes, lingonberries and gravy. Meatballs are also good with macaronis and ketchup. But the macaronis are from Italy. The meatball came to Sweden from Turkey in the 1700s and has been popular ever since.
We in also have meatballs in our sandwiches. This is very popular and I usually have it on my sandwiches when I’m having a picnic.
Meatballs taste very good.

Now you know a bit more about traditional Swedish dishes. Enjoy!

Jonna Blixt

Welcome to our blog!

You will soon be able to read texts and see short movies about the Swedish culture. We all hope you will enjoy it.