Simpler foods are more appealing to me. A 30 minute soup should be simple? The original photos look so over-wrought to me. Like they spent hours being tinkered with by designers before they got the pic they wanted. Not interested.
It must have been either joululimppu or saaristolaisleipÀ. I like them both, but never made them. Around christmas, I top them with eg cold smoked salmon/reindeer, blue/white cheese.
The simple salmon soup already present in this thread (lohikeitto) would perhaps be my no 1 recommendation for a Finnish main, if I wanted the person to like what they eat. Itâs what I had this weekend at a 90 year old birthday party, and it can be what I would make at my home any given day.
I think most if not all of these were already present in the links here, but some of the other (more traditional) mains worth a mention in my opinion would include:
Thinly sliced sauteed reindeer (poronkÀristys). Served with mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam.
Karelian Hot Pot (Karjalanpaisti). Served with potatoes, mashed or boiled.
Black sausage (mustamakkara), served with lingonberry jam and milk.
Cabbage rolls or casserole. (KaalikÀÀryleet or kaalilaatikko). Well, again lingonberry jam, lol.
Some other things:
Dark rye bread (ruisleipÀ).
Potato salad (perunasalaatti)
Cured salmon (Graavilohi, gravlax).
Karelian pasties with eggbutter (karjalanpiirakka and munavoi, no cottage cheese to the eggbutter).
Bread cheese with cloudberry jam (leipÀjuusto)
Buttereye buns (voisilmÀ pulla)
MĂ€mmi (this easter time dessert may look wild)
Nice, Rosolli is something not everyone loves, haha not sure about my stance atm, think I didnât have it last year.
Hereâs some Finnish links for perunasalaatti, I hope some of them work and translate for you. It could be done with mayo or without. I would with mayo first to have a more traditional one.:
Without mayo, a kind of fresh âlightishâ version.:
Luckily May day is right around the corner. If you wanna go full Finn, then itâs time to enjoy the potatosalad with wienersausages, meatballs and have
Doc just told me the other day to drink 3 of drip coffee 8oz. each day. Black, no additives. Good for the liver, she said. Iâm thinking of filling my 24 oz. water bottle and sip, sip, sip throughout the day. Decaf, for sure.