Yesterday was All Saints' Day and we visited the cemetery with my (Helena's) family, and then enjoyed a game menu at Skänkstugan in Täby. So today we will take some food pictures, and at the same time we will (unexpectedly) immerse ourselves in chemical elements. Or well, we'll stay pretty superficial to the subject ...
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ShareAll Saints' Day with the family
Yesterday was All Saints' Day and we visited my father's grave in Täby together with the immediate family. Then we had a family dinner at the restaurant Skänkstugan (Nygårds Inn), which has almost become a tradition for us on All Saints' Day. In fact, we wrote about our All Saints' Day dinner at Skänkstugan in Täby last year as well.
Game menu at Skänkstugan in Täby
There was a lot on the menu that looked good, but several of us chose the restaurant's "game menu". For starters, we were served deer fillet and wild boar pastrami with pickled chanterelles and horseradish cream. Then it was time for reindeer fillet with baked root vegetables and potato croquette.
Last but not least, we got a small, but really good, dessert with pickled pears and mascarpone cream. A really, really good menu, although someone thought that the reindeer fillet could have been a little more tender.
Local beers - and Swedish elements
We ordered local beer from microbreweries, partly from Nynäshamn's steam brewery and partly from the even more local Roslags Näsby Byggeri. I drank Indianviken Pale Ale, which was really good and tasty!
Speaking of Ytterby beer, my brother told me that no less than nine (!) elements have been discovered in the Ytterby mine on Resarö in the Stockholm archipelago. Impressive one must say! What's more, the elements have rather funny names that all relate to either Ytterby (like yttrium, ytterbium and terbium), Stockholm (holmium) or Scandinavia (scandium). Maybe you had it all figured out, but I learnt something new!
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Lena - good for the soul says:
That dessert! I would have liked that too!
Eehh, it feels like I have never heard of those elements. Probably they swizzled by in high school, but without me memorising them 🙂.
Hug Lena
05 November 2017 - 7:12
Helena says:
The dessert was in my taste too! Good, and not too big at all 🙂 Chemistry has never been my strong point, but this local connection was a bit fun 🙂 .
05 November 2017 - 8:26
Carin says:
A lot of good things on the plates that were on the menu.
Have a nice Sunday
Mum C
05 November 2017 - 7:34
Helena says:
Very good! 🙂 Wishing you a nice Sunday!
05 November 2017 - 8:26
Razzy says:
Which menu looks super good. I've known about the pub but never been there, maybe it's time to change that. I know the elements but that's more because I live on the island and not so far from the mine.
05 November 2017 - 8:22
Helena says:
We have been to Skänkstugan a few times now and have never been disappointed! And what fun that you live near this mine!!!! Then I understand that you had control 🙂
05 November 2017 - 8:27
Diana says:
Yummy how good, we had game table last weekend hugs
05 November 2017 - 8:35
Helena says:
Game tables sound delicious! Happy Sunday!
05 November 2017 - 9:43
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
There's nothing wrong with game on the menu. We are so fortunate to have kind hunters in our family that both elk and deer end up on our plates.
Despite having worked in the lab all my life, I only recognised scandium, but found the others by looking at the periodic table.
05 November 2017 - 9:08
Helena says:
Fantastic with hunters in the family! 🙂 And since you did not know about these elements either, I do not have to feel so stupid then 😉 They may not be among the most famous elements directly, but a little fun that so many have been found here in Sweden and in the same place!
05 November 2017 - 9:45
Lisa in the village says:
What a yummy menu. It both looked and sounded good.
05 November 2017 - 9:16
Helena says:
Really tasty! Wishing you a nice Sunday!
05 November 2017 - 9:45
Ama de casa says:
Wow what a tasty menu! Love wild food! (Although it may well lie still, so to speak... 😉 ).
I had no idea about the elements, you learn so much from reading blogs 🙂 ).
Have a nice Sunday!
05 November 2017 - 9:40
Helena says:
Haha, yes the food can lie still ...! 😉 And TOTALLY agree with you that you learn a lot from reading blogs! More general education than you might think! 🙂
05 November 2017 - 9:46
Matts Torebring says:
A nice way to celebrate the weekend with your loved ones. We ate at Restaurant Sunrice in Eksjö. It is a really big place and we were surprised that it was almost full. Perhaps a good habit, to eat out on a weekend like this.
05 November 2017 - 10:06
Helena says:
Yes, perhaps there are many families meeting this weekend and going out and about! There were also a lot of people at the cemetery when we were there.
05 November 2017 - 13:05
Fantasy Dining says:
It looks so good. Makes you hungry!
05 November 2017 - 11:51
Helena says:
Yes, haha, I'm almost getting hungry again myself 😉.
05 November 2017 - 13:05
BP says:
Yummie, yummie! A menu completely in my taste, I must say - MUMS!!!! Love game meat:-)
I've never heard of these topics, but it's great to have a local connection. Five minutes from my home there is Roslags Näsby and Ytterbyvägen, the school with the same name and Ytterbystugan with the local history association. Fun!
05 November 2017 - 12:58
Helena says:
Wow, now we really talk about local anchoring! 🙂 A lot of Ytterby in your neighbourhood 🙂 .
05 November 2017 - 13:06
Mr Steve says:
A nice tradition you have created. I remember last year's post with the beautiful house the restaurant is housed in.
Even though I no longer eat meat, I think the "game menu" looks delicious.
The subject of elements is far beyond my horizon.
05 November 2017 - 13:31
Helena says:
Glad you remember our last post from here Steve! They have tasty menus and not so bad when it comes to vegetarian either, they had two vegetarian main courses on the menu (as well as fish) and the vegetarian in the party seemed satisfied 🙂.
05 November 2017 - 19:31
Marina says:
It's great to see all the new beers and microbreweries popping up everywhere!
05 November 2017 - 13:56
Helena says:
Yes, I like it! I think beer is good and it's great that more and more beer varieties with a lot of flavour are starting to appear. It's also nice that it's possible to make it on the market as a microbrewery!
05 November 2017 - 19:32
Isabel says:
Oh that looked very good 🙂 .
05 November 2017 - 17:08
Helena says:
It was too 🙂 Wish you a nice Sunday evening!
05 November 2017 - 19:34
Ditte says:
Perfect with different menus to choose from because then there is something for everyone. Your game menu looked really good.
It's great to see the local beers and the emergence of more microbreweries. Fun facts about Ytterbyölen. Have not tried it, but will keep an eye out for it.
05 November 2017 - 18:02
Helena says:
There's something to be said for locally produced beer and microbreweries! 🙂
05 November 2017 - 19:35