What's on a Swedish / Finnish smorgasbord?
Here is a good site on "Swedish culinary classics", http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Common... - most of these are typical Swedish smorgasbord dishes. Look up the recipe links in the left menu. - Köttbullar, meatballs - always there! - Raggmunk and kroppkakor are wonderful potato dishes, but not very common on the smorgasbord. - Biff à la Lindström and Wallenbergare are the Swedish hamburgers. - Svampsoppa (mushroom soup) is a typical autumn dish. - Silltallrik (herring dish) - there are ALWAYS several herring dishes on the smorgasbord. Salt herring pickled with dill, or mustard, or garlic, or in curry mayonnaise - and countless other sill dishes. Sill is eaten cold with fresh boiled potatoes, "knäckebröd" (crisp rye bread) and very often sour cream with fresh chopped chives. Well matured Swedish hard cheese goes well with the sill dishes. - Gravad lax (cured salmon) is always on the smorgasbord. Smoked salmon in slices, too. If you are lucky you get "äggröra" (creamy, scrambled eggs) to it. - Stekt strömming (fried Baltic herring) and lax pudding (salmon pudding) are common on the Smorgasbord. - Janssons frestelse ("Jansson's Temptation") is a must! A wonderful dish served hot from the oven - potato strips, pickled anchovy fillets, sliced onions and fresh cream baked into a delicious gratin. It's always on the smorgasbord. - Cold dishes of thinly sliced meat are also popular. - Prinskorv , "prince sausages", a kind of chipolata sausages - tiny hot dog sausages. Popular with children; almost always on the smorgasbord. - Egg dishes are popular. Omelettes, scrambled eggs, "egg royale", boiled egg halves filled with the yolk mixed with a little mayonnaise and curry or caviar and more. - Fresh shrimps - mmm. - Lots of boiled potatoes, sometimes garnished with dill, sometimes buttered and garnished with finely chopped parsley. - Salads, of course. - For dessert, rice pudding with berry sauce is popular ("Ris à la Malta"). In the summer, fresh strawberries or raspberries with cream are a must. Pastries are also popular. You drink beer or mineral water to smorgasbord dishes, not wine. Lättöl, almost alcohol free beer, is refreshing and popular. Brännvin (Swedish vodka) is not necessary, but quite popular especially to the sill (herring) dishes.
What is the difference between a buffet and a smorgasboard?
Same concept but a smorgasbord implies that you are going to have a much wider variety of food.
What type of food is your favourite restaurant and how often do you go there?
I go to a place that serves a smorgasbord and has two tables. One is laden with many types of salads and breads and wonderful liver pate and crackers. The other has fried or baked chicken, roast beef with someone serving and slicing what you want, meatballs, mashed potatoes, and of course a station for dessert. You can try byt you will eat more than you thought and struggke to get up and go home. But its all good food. Oh and specialty popovers! Yup its good
What is your most favorite Scandinavian food?
I am Norwegian so we do not have a Smörgåsbord like the Swedes do at Chrismas, etc. As a little girl, my favorite Norwegian food, was made by my Norwegian grandmother or Bestemord, Lill+Aase, born in 1909, orphaned in 1911 and lived in Denmark with a strict aunt until she could finally come back to Norway at 18. These were her super thin dollar size pancakes that we would wrap around fresh jam that we had just made from blueberries and sometimes, the elusive cloudberry that we had just picked in the woods around our hytte. She made them during the summer when our extened family stayed at our landset ar Betna More og Romsdal pa Skalvikjorden, in the summer. My cousin and I would steal them off the window sill where they were left to cool. I stole and ate so many waffles the summer I was 8 years old, I got a big stomach and my family called me waffelstomach or vaffelmaven.
Up to how many calories do average people eat at feasts like thanksgiving or all-you-can-eat buffets?
Well, you figure that at a Chinese Buffet most of the food is cooked in oils of all kind. Also, some foods are fried. The average person consumes about two plates at a buffet. Two full plates is about 1200 calories a piece, so an average human man would consume around 2400-3000 based on the number of plates and whether he consumed soda or water.
I think buffet means unlimited access to food, but I came across a restaurant providing a buffet and unlimited buffets at different prices. Does a buffet not mean unlimited access to food?
Your question really resonated with me because when I was younger I thought the same thing! I had only been to buffets that were all-you-can-eat (ACE) and one price. As you have seen in the other answers, it is a style of presentation and does not necessarily mean unlimited. Then I began to travel more and experience all the variations. Here are a few that I have personally experienced.I attended a casino buffet that was unlimited and one price except for steak. For an extra charge they would cook a steak to order for you.I was at a Brazilian buffet where everything was unlimited except the meats. For those they were weighed by the plate.I was at a wonderful Sunday brunch at a Four Seasons restaurant. You ordered a plated entree at varying prices and everything else was a fantastic unlimited buffet.I was at a lunch buffet that was unlimited make-your-own sandwiches. The twist was it included unlimited beer & wine! That was interesting!I have been to several buffets where I was charged by weight by the plate.I was at one buffet that charged by the plate. You wouldn't believe what some folks could actually pile on! It was actually embarrassing to watch!I have been to several buffets that were timed. Ninety minutes was common.It’s always been a joke that some buffets have a scale and weigh the customer and charge based on that! It’s actually been tried several times and it never lasts more than a few weeks!In the US I’ve been to buffets in all fifty states including Alaska and Hawaii so trust me, I know these things!
How many pounds of food does the average person eat at a buffet?
Pounds? The actual amount is more like a pound.See: What does the average meal weigh? answersHowever, AYCE (All You Can Eat) buffets may attract or encourage people who will take such an opportunity to overeat. Notice how certain buffet-style restaurants—out of ostensible health concerns—now advertise "all you care to eat" instead of AYCE.That said, no one ever lost money betting against people on weight-losing diets flocking to buffet food service outlets.Bearing that in mind, notice how most full-service restaurants promptly trot out the bread and water? At worst, they will hold off until after you order—giving you ample opportunity to request too much food. This is the old "eyes larger than stomach" equation and it holds quite well in the context of menu ordering. In all cases, a steady supply of bread and water ensures that you do not leave feeling hungry, a serious impediment to any restaurant's rate of return business.Similarly, buffets are usually set up in a manner that encourages you to load up on inexpensive items like salads, soups, starches and so forth. Anyone who has ever been to a AYCE sushi bar will notice how onigiri (rice balls) or hosomaki and futomaki rolls typically precede any real sushi nigiri or sashimi. Likewise, surimi products usually show up before any tuna or eel. How often these latter and far more expensive stations are replenished is another matter entirely.Any event planner or caterer worth their proverbial salt will take into account the altered consumption patterns of buffet diners and budget somewhere around one and a quarter to one and a half pounds of food per person, depending upon the presence of children or elderly patrons—both of whom typically consume much less. The presence of exotic or luxury ingredients (e.g., shellfish, prime rib, etc.) will also prompt a slight upward recalculation of the final amounts as well.
If you have a choice between a buffet or a cooked to order meal, do you always pick the cooked to order meal?
I’d rather eat at a busy buffet than cooked to order. The key is to go during peak hours so you aren’t eating old food.I’m a grazer. I also like salad and fruit a lot. To get what is well rounded to me, it’s best that I have a variety of foods both hot and cold. The problem is, I don’t really like many prepared foods offered on buffets. Now, an Indian buffet is fine and dandy but Chinese can be really bad and usually is. A southern buffet is mighty fine as is breakfast or brunch.In my ideal world, all restaurants would have a salad bar type buffet and also a menu for main courses and sides. Just give me lots of fresh stuff, too.