This week's theme was Scandinavian cuisine. It was a loooong day of cooking. This one was tough for me because I couldn't really decide what to make. Let's be honest though, I always have a rough time deciding what to make. There isn't really a method to how we decide what to cook, but because it is our family dinner we need some kind of balance between meat versus vegetables, etc. This one ended up being meat heavy. In fact, my daughter asked me quietly if there was anything that wasn't meat while we were at the table.
We made a cucumber salad , classic Swedish meatballs, a venison stew, which everyone kept calling deer meat stew, and I know it actually is but it sort of turned me off lol. We also had a salmon with dill sauce and a Danish Rye.
I attempted a regular and a low cal version of the meatballs. For the low cal version I actually used the Ikea packet for the sauce. It was nowhere near as good as the authentic version.
