On Christmas Eve we were invited to Peter's niece Dessi and her husband Lasse, who live on Blidö in the Stockholm archipelago, for a fantastic homemade Christmas dinner. Dessi is very interested in cooking and incredibly good at organising luxurious festive dinners for many.
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ShareIf you've been following our blog for a while, you might remember New Year's dinner we were invited to last year or the wedding this summer, where Dessi herself composed and largely cooked the wedding dinner. We naturally looked forward to the Christmas table at Dessi's house, and yet it exceeded all expectations ...
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A great cook
Dessi is only 27 years old and doesn't work with food at all, but in her spare time she composes meals that rival those of master chefs. In addition to planning and cooking everything herself, she manages to both keep track of all pots and pans and converse casually with all guests.
Her husband Lasse also had to go away for a few hours during the cooking because he was working as a Santa Claus for the local children ... We are both very impressed and very happy to be guests!
Home-made Christmas table
As well as being treated to a fantastic homemade Christmas dinner, we were seated at a beautifully set table. The first dish we started with was a saffron soup with cured salmon and red rum. So ... soooo good!
Cold dishes
I cannot possibly list all the dishes on the Christmas table, but we were offered, among other things, herring with several different own inlays (archipelago herring, mustard herring, lingonberry herring and sea buckthorn herring and more), gravad salmon of different varieties, hot smoked rainbow trout, hot smoked mackerel, eggs with mayonnaise and shrimps, black and red caviar, serrano ham, wild boar sausage, truffle sausage, smoked moose meat, lamb sausage from Blidö, liver paste and Christmas ham with different kinds of mustard.
Hot dishes
Among the hot dishes, we found Jansson's temptation (with caviar), homemade meatballs, prince's sausage, and ribs, bacon-wrapped dates, baked red cabbage cooked in mulled wine, spruce bark roasted beef fillet and Brussels sprouts. These included beetroot salad and kale salad with apple.
Desserts
I am not very good at this with desserts, so I can't account for all the amazing stuff, but it was good! First there was a table with several different cheeses, homemade marmalades, grapes and fresh figs.
Then came small glasses of creamy desserts (lingonberry pannacotta and something gingerbread-flavoured) and various homemade Christmas sweets: crack... Maybe the best Christmas table ever! Big THANK YOU to Dessi, Lasse, Micke, Nilla and everyone else for a fantastic Christmas Eve!
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Ditte says:
Fantastic! And so many goodies! Amazing to have cooked everything yourself!
To me it sounds like a very successful combination of everything. Became extra hungry among other things. on the saffron soup and the spruce bark fried beef fillet but everything felt so fresh and good and with, in my opinion, a clear new thinking in food and with some of the more traditional left.
Even the desserts and savouries are very tempting.
Understand that the appreciation of all guests was great.
26 December 2016 - 6:23
Lena - good for the soul says:
But my goodness! How impressive that you can manage to get so much together. And it was beautiful, too.
Hug Lena
26 December 2016 - 7:00
Lennart says:
Looks really good!
26 December 2016 - 7:04
Imelda says:
Wow, so much good stuff! Here it was traditional and on a small scale. We had a green novelty, fried Brussels sprouts with orange. Good continuation!
26 December 2016 - 8:17
Johanna in Skåne says:
Wow! Sounds absolutely fantastic! I was at the Grand in Lund for Christmas dinner and it was good, but even there they didn't have saffron soup. Good continuation of Christmas!
26 December 2016 - 9:06
Evy Knoph says:
Wow! Sounds delicious and impressive! Spruce bark fried fillet sounds exciting. Personally, there was a minimal celebration this year with brother, mother and son..none of us belong to the genus of master chefs or kitchen princesses and chose catering :-). So nice for us to avoid stressing about the food. Good too. Good continuation of the weekend!
26 December 2016 - 9:14
Maggan and Ingemar says:
What a fantastic Christmas table. Here we reduce all the delicacies that a Christmas table contains, but the ham is of course still there. I'm afraid we're not master chefs, and I'd love to go to a table setting. Saffron soup sounds good. Here it will be oven-fried chicken today. Then you wonder how she has time and strength to make all that food 🙂 A praise to her. Good continuation!
26 December 2016 - 9:54
Snows says:
Mmm...just saying! No need to worry about you 😉
Good luck!
26 December 2016 - 9:55
Role o Carina says:
It wasn't a bad Christmas party!
Understand everything tasted super......:-)
26 December 2016 - 10:32
admin says:
Ditte, yes, it was really appreciated. Absolutely fantastic and very, very tasty! I like when the traditional is on the Christmas table, but at the same time fun with a little creative news!
Lena, I know, I would never manage that, so I am really impressed!!!!
Imelda, small scale can also be cosy and then you can choose what you like! Brussels sprouts are a favourite for me, interesting combination with orange!
Johanna in Skåne, thank you very much! Hope you had and have a really nice Christmas! Where do you celebrate? We are going to my mum today and it will be the last part of this year's Christmas celebration 😉.
Evy Knoph, catering sounds easy if you don't want to cook! Hope it tasted good! Wishing a continued nice Christmas holiday!
Maggan and Ingemar, we may think it's a little fun to cook sometimes, but in this class it will not be ... This year we have been invited to the table most days, so we have no Christmas food at home. Last night it was ready grilled chicken here at our house 😉 Wishes Good continuation!
Znogge, no, we really didn't need it ... Wishing you all the best!
Rolle o Carina, yes an absolutely fantastic Christmas table 🙂 Wish you a good continuation of the weekend!
26 December 2016 - 10:47
Mr Steve says:
O M G! What a fantastic Christmas table. There was EVERYTHING and more. Both in terms of content and appearance.
Good luck!
26 December 2016 - 12:18
Matts Torebring says:
Absolutely fantastic, not least to the eye. What a party! Let's face it, we're still in primary school. Enjoy the rest of the day
26 December 2016 - 12:29
Dessi says:
Oh! But thank you please for such a nice post about the food. As usual, great fun to have you as guests, you are incredible! ?????
26 December 2016 - 13:01
hagfish says:
What a Christmas gift to sit down at such a beautifully set table with such delicacies! There was both a lot of the traditional and a lot of new thinking. Homemade too! The saffron soup sounds very tempting. Shouldn't Peter's niece change her profession and become a master chef?
26 December 2016 - 13:19
BP says:
It was probably the best and most different Christmas table I have seen. Oh then I have seen a number over the years! Absolutely incredible! To keep track of all the dishes alone is absolutely incredible. I barely manage to get two dishes ready at the same time;-)
She should go on one of those cookery shows on TV - Master Chef perhaps.
Keep up the good work!
PS. Incredibly delicious pictures by the way! DS.
26 December 2016 - 13:28
Goatfish says:
Wonderful Christmas table with new ideas! Some people seem to be born with the whisk and ladle in hand.
So nice to just sit down at the table.
Now it is also the case that cooking is perishable. I have definitely retired, but I am happy that my children have become so fantastic and have such a great interest 😀.
Appealing pictures, looks yummy. Good continuation 😀.
26 December 2016 - 16:55
Deciree says:
But wow, such deliciousness. Looks like you were in a hotel having a luxurious dinner. What a talented girl who can cook so much good. Lovely to be invited to them:) Hugs
26 December 2016 - 17:19
JoY says:
What a fantastic Christmas meal you were treated to. Exciting new dishes like baked red cabbage, dates with bacon sweetness and saltiness it seems good and roasting with a spruce branch really inventive. Good girl who cooked all this, bravo.
Hugs
26 December 2016 - 17:52
admin says:
Steve, isn't it? I also wish you a good continuation!
Matts, we are also still in primary school 😉 .
Dessi, it is we who should thank you for this fantastic invitation! It's fun to take photos and write when you get to be involved in such things 🙂 .
Inger, it really was a Christmas present! Yes, if she wanted to, she could definitely succeed in any cooking profession!
BP, I also usually find it difficult to keep track of several dishes and get easily stressed, so that particular part impresses me too! Glad you like our pictures!
Geddfish, yes, as with everything, you forget a bit if you don't do as much, but it can certainly be refreshed if you want. Glad that your children have become interested in and skilled at cooking!
Deciree, yes it is really luxurious to be invited like this!!!! 🙂
JoY, yes, fun with some news among the traditional! Also fun when you use traditional ingredients, like red cabbage and kale, but combine them in new ways!
26 December 2016 - 18:22
gun says:
Wow, what a lot of good things you got to taste...
The girl must be an incredibly talented cook.
and she had really set the table nicely.
Today it was Russian pudding for me.
gun
26 December 2016 - 18:52
Kicki says:
What great platters with different dishes.
Thank you very much for visiting me.
It's nice to have a holiday tomorrow, you'll have a great time at work.
Keep up the good work, hugs
26 December 2016 - 20:32
Lots of other stuff and some concrete says:
Oh, what a Christmas table! Hard to eat just right with so much good stuff!
Good luck!
Hugs Agneta
26 December 2016 - 20:35
Ruth in Virginia says:
Fantastic everyone! Logistically speaking / incredible.
Christmas in Sweden seems to centre on food much more than in the past.
I read the list of cold dishes and wonder, how one can possibly
try all the good stuff. Same with the desserts. Do you take a little bit of everything or
choose one or a couple?
You sure rolled home after such a Christmas dinner! 🙂
26 December 2016 - 20:35
admin says:
Gun, Russian pyttipan ... what's the difference between it and regular...? Have fun!
Kicki, thank you so much and take care!
A lot of other things and some concrete, yes I can admit that it can easily be a bit too much at a time like this 😉.
Ruth in Virginia, maybe it's that food has become more of a focus? I haven't thought about that, but maybe it becomes clearer when you see it from the outside." And yes, haha what strategy should you choose? My strategy was to taste a little of almost everything 😉.
26 December 2016 - 22:33
bia says:
But what a Christmas table !...looked as good as ever....but now I'm tired of Christmas food, one day it can be good but then...now I'm hungry for vegetarian food...the daughter is a vegetarian so it becomes vegetarian here sometimes even for me ;))
Hug beer
26 December 2016 - 22:49
Ruth in Virginia says:
Peter - It would be nice to hear what your childhood Christmases were like.
Or ONE of them at least. 🙂
26 December 2016 - 22:58
Eva says:
Oh what Christmas food, so good of you to have the time and energy.
I will make the saffron soup, I like saffron, made a saffron cake from leftover rice pudding. Everyone in the family praised it and I went crazy.
We had a lot of greens on the Christmas table this year and much less of the Christmas food, yet there was plenty left over. My family is about 16 people (2 live in Canada).
But me and my hubby live in the big house ourselves, but when everyone gets together it doesn't get crowded, hi hi . . .
Merry Christmas/ Eva
26 December 2016 - 23:05
Elisabeth says:
What an incredible Christmas table! To the eye, I can attest, and you to the palate. She could certainly change careers if she wanted to!
26 December 2016 - 23:17
admin says:
Bia, you can get tired of Christmas food if you eat it several times. Since we were invited away, there won't be many times for us (i.e. no leftovers). We can eat vegetarian food for a change sometimes, but I'm not very good at vegetarian cooking, so it's mostly at the lunch restaurant at work 😉.
Ruth in Virginia, I greet him 😉 .
Eva, we are also impressed by Dessi, who invited us. We ourselves have not cooked any Christmas food at all this year 😉 Sure, saffron is good! Saffron cake sounds interesting 🙂 Have fun!
Elisabeth, it was better than many restaurants I've been to 😉.
27 December 2016 - 7:42
Dryden - Traveller's Edition says:
My goodness, what a treat! And to have done it myself as well. I am so damn proud that I managed to arrange both rice porridge and an omelette! Haha!
27 December 2016 - 8:34
steel city anna says:
How nice it looks! I could be a bit like that when I was younger haha. Perfectionist. Stopped with it but would like to know one and go and eat at 🙂 Britons go to the pub, tax and demand cheese but thought to eat a Swedish Christmas table that someone else cooked, what a dream!
27 December 2016 - 8:41
anita wåg agrimanaki says:
Wow, that wasn't bad! Outstanding, impressive! Tell her she's amazing! Everything sounds so incredibly good!
27 December 2016 - 8:53
Petra says:
What a nice Christmas table, nicely laid out and beautiful table setting!
/Petra
28 December 2016 - 20:15