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Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
You missed off my fave too... gravadlax sass... basically a dill mustard sauce which is amazing with smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagels (lox &), and is fab as a glaze for pan-fried salmon too.... in fact any fishy dish can benefit from it!
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
Ah, thanks for this! I will definitely have to pick some of this stuff up the next time I'm in Ikea, which now may have to be sooner than later. I've only ever gotten the Swedish meatballs and sauce in the marketplace, but I'll definitely have to look for those onions, sausages, elderflower concentrate and sparkling pear cider. I'll pass on the seafood, I'm really not a fan of seafood. Ooh, and maybe I'll try the coffee, too...
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
I was amazed that the Ikea in England sold booze too! I got some pear cider to try and it was really good! It's now one of my favorites!
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
Oh Michele, I feel like you just keep coming up with new reasons for me to go to Brooklyn... one more post like this and I might have to do it. Although the boyfriend was so overwhelmed by his last (and first) Ikea experience, I don't know that I'm ever getting him back there... we still have two sets of wrong-sized "BESTA NORUM" drawers that it's probably way too late to return. I'll have to make a friend who likes Swedish superstores so I can get me some of that lingonberry jam.
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
The green marzipan rolls are traditionally made with arrak extract or a Swedish liqueur called Punsch and they are called Arrak rolls. The popular name of these rolls in Sweden is dammsugare or vaccum cleaners!
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
Hey AlisonEats and others, I have learned at various Ikea stores on the East Coast of the US that you can send a runner to get the food from the little grocery store while another person waits in the main cashier line and they'll ring up your food purchases too (obviously this only works if there are at least 2 of you--although you can get the food. leave your cart and then pay the main cashier for everything). This really helps those of us that have spent all out energy in the store and just want to get out and go home.
My food faves are the meatballs with the gravy, Lingonberrys which I put on everything, the small round crisp bread (Kna:ckebrot) in the white package. and the vanilla sauce which I use for Bavarian apple strudel (THAT, you'll have to make at home!)
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
That flatbread - is it made from potatoes by any chance? 'Cause if that's lefse, I could seriously do with having it sometimes without all the rolling. =)
Oh, and the local grocery store just got those crispy oat cookies in - I bought two boxes. They're called "double chocolate crisps" and the ones I have were made by Gille.
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
You missed those perfect little cookies in the cafe at the checkout counter. They are crispy waffer like cookies, with dark chocolate in the middle. I don't know the name, but I LOVE them!
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
Heh! My twin granddaughters, aged 2 years and 8 months, love going to Ikea in St. Paul, Minnesota, where they live. They now call it the "meatball store" and have been chomping down on meatball plates (and take-home meatballs) for at least a year. Children's plates have five meatballs, but they usually put away ten at a time.
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
@mrbill & @iheartcupcakes - Good to know. Liquor retailers do have something to fear, then...
Ikea Groceries: Some Assembly Required
@mrbill - yes Ikea in the UK sells booze - absolut vodka, and some other Swedish booze, including Swedish ale, Koppaberg perry, liquers and glogg at Christmas time!
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You missed off my fave too... gravadlax sass... basically a dill mustard sauce which is amazing with smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagels (lox &), and is fab as a glaze for pan-fried salmon too.... in fact any fishy dish can benefit from it!