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i am susan thye. aka chocolatesuze. lives in sydney, australia. born 30.5.83. hitched to noods. started The Biscuit Tree. this is a food and lifestyle blog with heaps of photos and not much writing heh. i like cheeseburgers, ice cream and macarons. i also like long walks on the beach :D
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ikea, a taste of sweden foodbloggers meetup
6 May 2009, 03:28
it all started with this post and soon dave from IKEA has emailed me about organising a foodbloggers meetup in the ikea restaurant. the foodbloggers who came were: Grab Your Fork, A Table For Two, Eat Show & Tell, Here Comes the Food, Citrus and Candy, the <3 of Food, and I Am Obsessed With Food
the lovely petra who was very knowledgeable in all things fish joked that serving alcohol with the food was the more common practice in sweden but tonight we had to make do with cider heh heh
our roped off area in the restaurant was near a tempting kids playground area which i couldnt resist…
behold! a tray of canape style entrees! there was [Clockwise from bottom left]: Swedish red caviar on Tunnbröd scroll with sour cream; Leksands knäckebröd triangle with boiled egg and Kaller smoked roe; Hällakaka rounds with boiled egg and mustard pickled herring; Gravlax salmon on bread with sweet mustard and dill; Sandwich fingers with shrimp, boiled egg, mayonnaise, lettuce leaves and cucumber
and the pickled herrings platter! with Dillsill herring in dill marinade; Inlagd sill herring in marinade with onion and carrots; Senapssill herring in mustard sauce; and Hällakaka rounds
mmm tasty bites! i especially loved the bright gunvor tablecloths and yes they are of course for sale in the fabric section
as we are nibbling at the entrees we got a lil demo on some of the cookware available and my gosh did you know ikea has a 24cm frying pan for the super low bargain price of $4.50?! geez i dont think i could make anything with $4.50!
we are then given meal cards and get to pick our main meal. we race off and return and find that the majority of us have gotten the much loved meatballs which comes in 3 sizes- small ($6.95), medium ($7.50), and large ($8.95)
but not to worry for others have gotten other foods and we can taste test!
the Salmon pytti panna with basil and mustard sauce ($3.95) is a colourful jumble of vegetables and cubed salmon
others have opted for the Chicken breast schnitzel with chips ($3.95) and after finding his schnitzel to be eerily heart shaped simon is soon attacking his
but then it is dessert time! and my beloved princess cake ($3.95) arrives in all its crazy green neon-ness! for those who have never tried the princess cake it has a layer of light sponge cake spread with gooey jam, topped with a thick layer of cream and is covered in a thin skin of marzipan. biting into it is quite like biting into mochi! slightly chewey at first but with deliciously tasty innards
um i like my cake =P
dessert platter of Punch rolls and Delicato balls
billy is lucky enough to win the door prize and scores a giant pot complete with cooking utensils! the rest of us score the ikea cookbook and other assorted goodies like the awesome giant pancake flipper!
but then the store was closing and a mad dash thru checkout to the sweden shop to stock up on some goodies before heading to my place for a slice of daim cake. ahhh gotta love em. super thanks to dave for the awesome night!
Back to home
Aah princess cake for a princess! Lol couldn’t resist!! Thanks for the slice of daim cake sweetie! Your place is a wonderland :)
— Karen May 6, 04:03 AM #That was fun! My closest IKEA is outside of Washington DC, about three hours away. I have not been in years, but this inspires me to plan a visit.
— bethieofVA May 6, 05:30 AM #The schnitzel attack wasn’t just because I thought it was heart shaped because the guy who plated it broke it. I just ahh… exaggerated that a little :)
I like what you did with the salmon pytti panna shot.
Oh, almost forgot. Thanks for the Daim cake afterwards. Never had it before but will certainly go for it again sometime :)
— Simon May 6, 09:21 AM #oh super fast post :) a great evening – are you in the mood for Princess Cake? lol
— Helen (grabyourfork) May 6, 10:27 AM #YAY for princess cake! I always get it when I visit IKEA. Is that a pac man bracelet? It’s kind of awesome :)
— Steph May 6, 10:55 AM #I had such fun with all you guys! So sorry i didn’t get to try the Daim cake :-( Next time!
— reemkski May 6, 12:20 PM #Just want to say thanks for the blog. I enjoy it very much. Saw you at the Eveleigh Markets the other day, but too shy to say hello!… heehee…
Another thing… just curious, but the impression I get is that most of you Sydney foodbloggers are Asian?
— pojaya May 6, 01:50 PM #I wish I bought some Daim cake and some meatballs… mmmmmm daim cake with a side of meatballs, mash, lingonberry jam and graddsas XD!!
— FFichiban May 6, 06:41 PM #I think my most memorable memory of ikea is falling head first down some unpadded concrete steps in the children’s play area, but I suppose that wouldn’t have amounted to a law suit back then! I think I must replace that memory with the food here – looks much more tempting than the breakfast menu!
— Chris May 6, 07:05 PM #Sounds like a great day out :) IKEA’s meatballs are the best!
— foodie-central May 6, 08:36 PM #Looks fun fun fun! I’ve got to get some meatballs next time!
— Yas May 6, 08:50 PM #$4.50 for a pan?? woah!!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE those marzipan things for dessert, my favorite!
They also do an awesome chicken Cesar wrap!
damn it I want to go to IKEA!!
— Iron Chef Shellie May 6, 11:06 PM #Damn wish I was there, I want Billy’s prize! Food looked really good, well looked after.
— Howard May 7, 12:52 PM #I live so close to Ikea I keep forgetting how cheap the food are!
Mmmmm meatballs with the gravy and the berry jam (lingonberry?
)…..
— Trisha May 7, 04:24 PM #Oh so so sad I missed out on Daim cake~ Great to see you again dude!
— Minh May 7, 05:24 PM #My boy dislikes shopping so much that we’re usually in and out of Ikea at running speed (don’t know why – I could spend ages in there.. oh hang on. That’s why he hates it? ;p) I’ll have to slow him down to try the food there next time.
— Forager May 7, 06:17 PM #I’m so peeved that I couldn’t make it! So we are going this weekend to make up for it. And just as well I don’t know where you live, otherwise we’ll knocking at the door for some Daim cake!
— Belle May 8, 05:00 PM #I loveeee Ikea! If only I could live there! I would sleep in a different themed “room” every night and eat till I explode!
Very nice shots of the food by the way! :)
Oh, and I stumbled onto your blog after joining nuffnang! Congrats on being of the featured bloggers! :)
— LishyWishy May 8, 10:46 PM #DUDE the canape style entrees and ALL the desserts look SO GOOD!
— K May 12, 12:36 AM #snitzel in the shape of a broken heart hehe
— Betty Pham May 15, 10:42 AM #hilarious! if i’d known i would have gone along for sure! but maybe that’s a bit of a cheat for me, since my husband is swedish afterall :)
— Anna May 27, 06:09 PM #