By the time you read this, we have already organised our 6-course banquet. However, as I write - we still have it ahead of us. On Saturday evening we have invited Peter's brother Micke and his wife Nilla and our friends Lennart and Beata. Peter has planned a six-course dinner, accompanied by various drinks. Here's a description of the dishes and preparations - we'll report on how it went later!
Table of contents
1. bread, olives, ham and cheese
If you are worried that a 6-course banquet will be too much food, we can start by saying that the portions will of course be smaller than usual. In addition, our guests arrive in the early afternoon, so we plan for the dinner to run late.
We start with a few small dishes in the living room, and only after the soup do we move to the dinner table. To start with, there are a few selections reminiscent of southern Europe: Greek farmhouse bread with Greek olive oil for dipping, prosciutto, a few good cheeses and a little olive.
2. Oysters
Dish number two will be a "light" dish with a few different types of vegetables. oyster, which we bought in the supermarket The world of food. We serve them with lime and sambal oelek.
3. crayfish soup
After the first small dishes, it's time to sit down for some soup! We have made this crayfish soup a few times before and it is both delicious and easy to make. You start by frying some grated carrots, which are then cooked with crayfish cheese, creme fraiche, lobster stock and water. When serving, add a few crayfish tails.
4. Gratuity with lobster, scallops and catfish
When we were in Canada many years ago, we were served a gratin with among other things lobster and scallops. We have searched for recipes for a similar dish here in Sweden, but haven't managed to find anything at all. So we just have to improvise! We add catfish, mix up a gratin sauce and gratinate with cheese. Saffron rice will be served as a side dish.
5. Rack of lamb, root vegetable stew and basil cream
Time for some meat! We marinate lamb racks in red wine marinade and cook in the oven. As a side dish, we'll serve a root vegetable skewer with potatoes, carrots and parsnips and a delicious basil cream.
6. Dessert from Picard
At this point, we don't want to cook anymore (and desserts are what we're worst at) so we make it easy on ourselves and pick up desserts from the French chain Picard.
What about the drinks?
Of course, the drinks are also important! We start with bubbles, which we bought in Germany. For the crayfish soup and the lobster gratin, we use white wine (Brocard) and for the lamb we use red wine (The seven deadly zins).
Then we went ahead and bought Hernö gin, which is produced in Sweden. Härnösand and managed to win the "world's best gin" award at the World Gin Awards. We also bought tonic water, which is supposed to be extra good. So ... what could go wrong? We'll tell you how it went later this week!
Lena - good for the soul says:
Wow! I would have liked to be part of that dinner 😉 It looks so good! Looking forward to the basil cream.
Hug Lena
22 October 2017 - 7:39
Helena says:
The basil cream is really a favourite! Will be back 🙂
22 October 2017 - 10:56
Mr Steve says:
OMG! That's what I really call a festive dinner. With Hernö gin from my Ångermanland as "icing on the cake".
22 October 2017 - 7:42
Helena says:
The gin was really good! No wonder it has won awards!
22 October 2017 - 10:57
Karin Eklund says:
Lots of goodies all at once, albeit long. It looks great and it certainly tasted great. I got full just reading about all this. I remember once in an inn in Tuscany somewhere that we had an eleven-course dinner. I almost died, but it was good.
22 October 2017 - 8:16
Helena says:
Eleven dishes ... wow! It is important to make sure that the dishes are not too big, then it is fantastic with many dishes, I think 🙂.
22 October 2017 - 10:58
Kenneth Risberg says:
Wow so much good food, please send recipes for everything, haha. Do you still have Hanse Sekt left, I regret not buying a whole carton, it was good bubbly.
22 October 2017 - 8:59
Helena says:
Yes, it's not over yet 😉 You rarely regret buying a lot I think, at least not if you have found something that tastes good 😉.
22 October 2017 - 10:59
Ninny says:
Wow, it both sounds and looks super tasty! Hope it was successful!
22 October 2017 - 9:13
Helena says:
We are satisfied! It was good and a nice evening! 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:46
Ama de casa says:
Wow so much good! It surely went VERY well 🙂 ðŸ™'
22 October 2017 - 9:14
Helena says:
No major mishaps, ie it went well! And it was really good 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:47
Ditte says:
Truly a festive dinner with lots of goodies! And Härnö gin is really special... I bought some from there when I was on a work trip along the high coast. But I skimp on it.
Picard is really good with a bit of everything that can brighten up both everyday life and parties.
22 October 2017 - 9:14
Helena says:
Glad you also found Härnö gin! Very good 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:47
Thor says:
Glad that you liked the recipe for the crayfish soup 😉.
22 October 2017 - 11:17
Helena says:
Crayfish soup is good 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:48
Marina says:
So very good, except for the oysters 😉 Something tells me you had some very happy diners.
22 October 2017 - 12:06
Helena says:
We hope and believe that we had! We ourselves thought it was a very good dinner 🙂 .
22 October 2017 - 13:49
Petra says:
The dinner looks fantastic!!! Oysters and lobster are a favourite!!! Looking forward to reading more about the dinner ?
/Petra
22 October 2017 - 12:49
Helena says:
The oysters were also really, really good! 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:49
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
What a lovely menu (although I like to skip the oysters). Smart move to start in the morning and let the meal run long. Lovely food pictures too!
22 October 2017 - 13:15
Helena says:
We start more and more often a little earlier in the afternoon. Then you can take a little break between dishes and it doesn't necessarily have to be so late at night (which it was yesterday anyway ;)).
22 October 2017 - 13:51
BP says:
That luxury dinner was worth it, for sure. Dregel, dregel! I assume it was a great success with your dinner guests:-)
PS. Picard is a goldmine! We buy lots of things there, including the best seafood in the world. DS.
22 October 2017 - 13:31
Helena says:
We have so far only bought small cuts and desserts at Picard, but we may have to look at the seafood dishes too! 🙂
22 October 2017 - 13:52
Across the board says:
A lovely menu and everything seems delicious. I am very curious about Picard, but it is not available here in the neighbourhood....
22 October 2017 - 13:45
Helena says:
You have to check out Picard when you are passing Stockholm 🙂 Everything is frozen, but they really have some different and luxurious frozen dishes!
22 October 2017 - 13:53
Anna in Dubai says:
Give me that soup!
I had visitors last week from Sweden and they brought lobster stock. Will probably be a fish soup soon. It would have been nice to have a little more cough and rain, but that season can be very cold.
22 October 2017 - 13:54
Helena says:
We could exchange some weather with each other I think 😉 And hey, lobster fund, of course it will be fish soup 🙂 .
23 October 2017 - 20:50
Husis blog says:
Wow, what a lot of work you put into this. But it is always nice to have guests. My owners love lamb, so I hope to hear what you and the guests thought of it.
22 October 2017 - 17:21
Helena says:
We also love lamb, and the rack of lamb was perhaps one of the most successful parts of the evening 🙂.
23 October 2017 - 20:50
annar aas says:
Thanks for the tips, we will try this sometime in the autumn. We have the drinks in the cellar, not the gin of course, but otherwise. We have Germany as a close neighbour.
22 October 2017 - 19:59
Helena says:
It's nice to have Germany as a neighbour sometimes 🙂 We still have some bubbly left from our trip to Germany, but soon it will probably run out ... 😉.
23 October 2017 - 20:51