This weekend was Easter weekend in Sweden. About this time last year, I was moving here, which means lots of unpacking and getting paper work done. This year I was able to enjoy my first proper Swedish Easter. What does that mean? Well, first off, a four day weekend! Yep, in Sweden, Friday and Monday are “red days”, meaning no work or school! Many young people started off the four day weekend with a party, which you could hear all night long. Here in Norrland, after the long winter we are ready to celebrate the welcome of Spring.
Thursday is also the day we receive our Påsk eggs full of chocolate. Yummy! Don’t forget you can win your own Easter egg from Swedish Freak (minus the chocolate).
Sunday I decided to host an Easter brunch with my family. Thanks to @Tillymea I had some Swedish recipes to try out! So the brunch included raggmunk*, shrimp Easter eggs and pickled herring Easter eggs. My Mor*-in-Law brought over a salmon pie she made. It consists of shrimp, salmon, dill, and a lot of mayonnaise. I’m sure there was more to it as well, and it was a unique taste but yummy as well.
There was too much food to eat, but it was all delicious!
All in all it was a great helg*. We later headed up to the cottage to enjoy some of the spring animal activities. Hare were jumping around along with forest birds mating! And the weather was great, not much more you can ask for on a long weekend.
Vocabulary
Påsk – Easter
raggmunk – potato pancakes
mor – mother
helg – weekend
so was the salmon pie as good as it looked?? i wonder what it’s called in sweden.
Its all relative. I’m not a huge fan of mayonnaise, so it wasn’t my favorite. But it was still yummy. In Swedish it is “Lax Pij”
*Lax Paj 🙂
We wouldn’t eat much of what you had during easter in my family, this is what my plates looked like in 2009:
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lol, I’d say it is the same: eggs and fish 🙂 the potato pancakes were more just random, I wanted to try them, and have something without fish/egg in it. And the bread was Czech.