Swedish Meatballs

[infrogmation]

My mother made "Sweedish meatballs" for Xmas eve, a recipie she got from her grandmother (who is the one I posted the pics of her kissing her fiance 100 + years ago), who probably got them from her mother, who came over from Sweden. This was originally only half of the holiday culinary tradition that side of my ancestors brought to this country. They would also traditionally have lutefisk for Christmas. I have never had any lutefisk, but I gather it is a pickled fish dish which stinks terribly. A relative told me that they were glad when the last of the family who came from the old country finally passed away, so that they didn't have to have lutefisk at Christmas any more.

The meatballs have a holsome blandness. My ma froze some of the meatballs for me to take home. I wondered if they would work with spagetti. I can now answer: Yup.

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[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

My uncle, who inexplicably plays Norwegian flat-fiddle, performed at the Norsk Hostfest, a Scandinavian festival in Minot, North Dakota, and reported that you can purchase any kind of schlock with lutefisk emblems there.

My Momma made them, too

[hyla-regilla.livejournal.com]

Swedish meatballs, that is...but she doesn't cook for more than herself now and I'm not sure she still has the recipe. Would you be willing to post it?

Re: My Momma made them, too

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

My mom said she'd give me the recipie, but she never has. I'll ask her to send it; if I get it I'll forward it to you.

Lutefisk

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

It just so happens that Dad, Betty, and I were watching a Travel Channel program with a lutefisk segment. The interviewee described lutefisk as "fish Jello". The program later went to describe the "delicacy" as, essentially, fish soaked in Drano.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to breadcrumbs and black olives and all sorts of other Italian stuff.

[triple-entendre.livejournal.com]

"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?"
"It .. isn't actually breen."
"But the smell, the taste..."
"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."

-- Na'kal and G'Kar in Babylon 5: "Walkabout"