Sweet beetroots add flavor and color to dishes. Now it is root vegetable season in Sweden. Carrots, white cabbage and beetroots are very low at price. I always cook a beetroot soup at this time of the year. A rich and healthy soup with lots of fibres, minerals and folic acid.

My husband is a big fan of this soup and if there are any leftovers, I put them in the freezer.

INGREDIENTS:
serves 8-10

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INGREDIENTS:
serves 4
* 4 egg yolks, preferably free range
* 4 tablespoons sugar, or icing sugar
* 4 dl whipping cream
* 1 vanilla bean, or 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
* 1 liter (1000 ml) fresh strawberries
* 4 tablespoons orange liqueur

METHOD:
1. Cut vanilla bean open and scrape out the seeds.
2. Beat the egg yolks with sugar and vanilla.
3. Whip the cream and fold it into the egg mixture.
4. Pour your prepared mixture into a wide plastic freezer container.
5. Put it, covered, into your freezer for a couple of hours.

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Horiatiki Salata

INGREDIENTS:
serves 4

* 1 kg (1000 g) hard salad tomatoes
* 1 medium sized red onion
* 1 green bell pepper
* 1 cucumber
* ab. 80 g Kalamata black olives
* ab. 180 g Feta Cheese, diced, sliced or crumbled
* dried oregano
* 80 g (80 ml) olive oil
* red wine vinegar (or lemon juice) and salt to taste

METHOD:
1. Cut the tomatoes in segments and the cucumber in slices.
2. Arrange on a plate and season with salt to taste.
3. Add the onion and the green pepper cut in thin rings.
4. Add dried oregano, the Feta Cheese and olives.
5. Pour the olive oil and vinegar to taste over the salad. Too much vinegar makes the salad too sour.

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In the Scandinavian countries the flesh of crayfish (craw-fish or crawdad) is considered a great delicacy. I don´t have the possibility to catch my own, very few people have, and Swedish crayfish are very expensive. Imported crayfish are low at price. They are on sale all year round. Arranging a crayfish party in August has become a tradition for my family. This year I served six grown-ups.

My grandchildren don´t eat crayfish. They are picky eaters. The art of eating crayfish does not attract them. Well, there are no rules really, but a lot of slurping and splashing.

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Patricia! In the Swedish calendar, your nameday is on the 16th of April. Did you know that?

You know, in Sweden we like to celebrate, not only our birthday but our nameday too. It is an old tradition of attaching personal names to each day of the year in our calendar. The tradition originates from the Christian church calendar. Long ago it was an old tradition to name children after saints.

Karin is my first name, and the name is a Swedish short form of Katarina (Katherine), deriving from the Greek word “katharos“. Old names have a meaning. This Greek word “katharos” means “clean and pure, free from corrupt desire and guilt free from every admixture of what is false“.

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