Surströmming

As I mentioned before, my mom is Swedish. The Swedes have a lot of great food.

• Köttbullar (meatballs)
• Janssons Frestelse (Jansson’s Temptation)
• Råraka (Potato pancakes)
• Gravlax (raw salmon, cured in a salt-sugar-dill mixture)
• Pytt i Panna (pan-fried finely-chopped potatoes, onions, and meat, served with fried eggs and beets)
• Pölsa (kind of like hash)
• Kroppkakor (cooked potato-dumplings, filled with pork)
• Falukorv (Swedish Bologna)
• Plättar (Swedish pancakes, kind of like crepes)
• Kanelbullar (cinnamon buns)
• Pepparkakor (gingersnaps)
• Lussekatter (saffron buns)
• Risgrynsgröt (creamy rice pudding)
• Nyponsoppa (rosehip soup)

On August 18th, however, the Swedes will have the yearly premier of one of their more revolting foods, surströmming (fermented herring). My mom and a good number of our Swedish friends and relatives love it. I have actually tried it once, but really didn’t like it. Ever since then my sister and I have had korv (sausage) instead.