Comments on: Cooking for Christmas: Janssons frestelse.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:16:27 +0000

Yummy yummy yum… The best recipe for Jansson’s Temptation I’ve found in years.

By: Lotta

Lotta — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:48:33 +0000

Hi Anna!
I have just started to “blogg” around and today I “found” your site. It was fun to see all your photos and of course the recipe to Janssons Frestelse. I´m living in Sweden so this is what my family and I eat (a lot!) during Christmas.
I sorry to hear that you don´t speak Swedish..but you can learn!! My father came from Denmark (my mother was Swedish) So I´m half swedish/danish :-) My english is a little bad so I hope you can understand this!?
Hej from Lotta

By: jan

jan — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:51:38 +0000

there seems to be a few of us with the same problem, i only know some swedish nursery rhymes (learned from my grandfather)! this recipe sounds delicious, and i’m definitely going to give it a go! more swedish recipes please….another thing lost….

By: Mommy

Mommy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:02:42 +0000

Anna, I’m so happy to see Swedish food being promoted this way! As for my not teaching you to speak Swedish… In my defense, it’s hard to teach that second language to your kids unless both parents are from that country – especially a language that you virtually never hear anywhere else. When both parents do speak a foreign language in the home (as did mine who spoke only Danish at home) it’s not necessarily that much fun for the child. I felt a great deal of anxiety when I started school because this other language was spoken in the home. Of course, I had been a fairly isolated kid until then since I didn’t attend nursery school or day care; other children thught I sounded weird. Anyway, it’s never too late to learn another language!

By: Barb McMahon

Barb McMahon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:51:50 +0000

I saw a recipe for this years ago and have been wanting to make it ever since. Didn’t save the recipe, though, so Thank You!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:36:43 +0000

YUM! Thanks for the recipe!

By: sandra

sandra — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:39:39 +0000

I know what it’s like, my father didn’t give me his language either. That’s really a shame, I would have loved to be bilingual. Föräldrar… ;)

By: Anna at D16

Anna at D16 — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:25:51 +0000

Nicole: You can make it without the sprats (my mother made a fish-free version for me for years!), but it will be a completely different dish. Sugar, cinnamon, sandalwood and ginger are the spices used in the brine — maybe you can experiment and see what works in terms of quantity? (And yes, Global knives are the best!)

Sandra: No, sadly I do not speak Swedish. You can blame my mother for that (I’m sure she’s reading this)!

By: sandra

sandra — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:45:27 +0000

oh yum! do you speak swedish as well?

By: nicole

nicole — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:36:38 +0000

loving these food posts. i’ll have to try and think of a veggie alternative, so i can make it at home.

(those global knives are the best ever, aren’t they?)

By: lottie

lottie — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:45:41 +0000

That sounds (and looks) fantastic! I might have to give it a try.