BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU 2017 – The flowers of Nina were flying off the shelves and out the doors of Systembolaget this morning

Beaujolais Nouveau goes excellent with chicken, fish and pork but I leave further reviews to the professionals. The bottles remaining at Systembolaget were flying off the shelves this morning. From home we were tracking the numbers in stock falling at … Continue reading BEAUJOLAIS NOUVEAU 2017 – The flowers of Nina were flying off the shelves and out the doors of Systembolaget this morning

PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG | Trying out “Gröna Kassen”, Sweden’s greenest grocery bag

Gröna kassen is a grocery bag delivery service (matkasse) with an all out vegan selection and close to 100% ecological suppliers. Gröna kassen delivers out of Stockholm and now also include Uppsala and Västerhaninge. They deliver every second week and you can choose to order bags with groceries for 3-5 dishes for 4 persons each. Gröna Kassen | http://www.gronakassen.se | Sveriges miljövänligaste matkasse! Always fun to try out a new food delivery service, and even more so when one of the founders is a good friend and delivers the food in person, not that I would let that cloud my … Continue reading PAPA’S GOT A BRAND NEW BAG | Trying out “Gröna Kassen”, Sweden’s greenest grocery bag

BIRCH OIL | Straight out of Dalarna

Ah! Now that’s fresh mountain-grown birch oil from the hills of Dalarna. Finally, this is a product I’ve been looking for… …well no, but I love it. We pick the leaves from the birch tree and extract the etherial oils that provide a very aromatic flavor of birch. Birch oil is then mixed with a cold-pressed organic canola oil and bottled. Örtagård Öst It tastes spectacular mixed in butter, sprinkled on sallad or pasta, but make sure to apply it just before serving as the etherial birch oil is rather volatile and will disappear quickly if heated. Some people have … Continue reading BIRCH OIL | Straight out of Dalarna