Thread: Finnish Food

Thank You Peni for posting the Blueberry Pie recipe. My mom used to make this when I was a child but I never knew how the crust was made. I will be making this now that you have written it for everyone to enjoy. Thanks again.

Rahkapiirakka <3 ^o^

You're very welcome Riitta

Lanttulaatikko


1 large Scottish turnip (i.e. rutabaga or swede – the yellow fleshed one)

150ml cream (single, double or crème fraîche)

1 egg

1/2 tspn nutmeg

Seasoning

2 tblspns soft butter (plus a little extra)

1 tblspn honey

Peel the turnip and cut into 2cm wide chunks. Just cover in salted water and boil until completely tender. Drain.
Mash the turnip well and push through a potato ricer or a sieve.
Combine the cream, butter, honey, nutmeg and egg. Add to the turnip and mix well. Season to taste.
Add turnip mixture to a small casserole dish, level off with a fork and dot with butter.
Bake in a 180 degreeC pre-heated oven for 40 minutes until golden and crisp on top.

Is Reindeer your first choice when coming to Finland?

Reindeer was one of the first things i tried when i came to finland.

and...did you like it?

I love reindeer meat.

Especially Sauteed reindeer

Originally Posted by maniya

my favorite is probebly Sautéed Reindeer (poronkäristys in Finnish) =p~!is the perhaps best known traditional meal from Lapland, especially in Finland.
i saw it in MFF for the first time & i told it to my mom to make it....aaa!
here is the picture *again from MFF*

I ate that up in rovaniemi, and was goood :-)

I really don't like Finnish food.

I find it bland, bland, bland. There is nothing in Finnish cuisine that really makes me excited in the same way as a bowl of pasta, or a fresh pizza, or a vegetable curry, or even an English fry-up.

I don't enjoy salmiakki, or mämmi, or vispipuuro, or viili, or rahka, or hernekeitto, or ruisleipä, or piimä, or glögi, or sima, or koskenkorva, and so on. Why is it so hard to find a bag of sweets without any salmiakki in?

Also, I'm a vegetarian (lacto-ovo). So much of Finnish food is meat and fish, I am really restricted. I thought that it was difficult finding good vegetarian food in a typical restaurant in the UK, but here it's many times harder.

Cheese is particularly bad here. Most people just eat that tasteless "edam" that comes in bricks, but even when I do see some proper cheddar available in the shops, it's like five euros for the same amount that would cost less than two pounds in the UK, and it's still too mild for my liking. This is a problem for me; I'm a cheese lover.

But you could name pretty much any type of food, and I would tell you something wrong with it. Which is a shame, because I'm normally a very positive person... Honest! I love bilberries. See?