Typical Finnish Foods -- Fresh Finnish Fish by the roadside.

Typical Finnish Foods while driving on road 12, 40 km north of Tampere, that fish sign caught my attention "Again"!

It's that yellow sign with black letters which says...? "Smoked Fish"

At Kalakeidas they smoke the fish on the spot. Sell it to ya...freshly smoked.

See the Kalakeidas fish food stop in Google maps

Try:

• Sea salmon, Merilohi caught in the ice-sea, higher in fat then the Finnish trout. Kirjalohi
• Finnish Rainbow trout Kirjalohi,caught in Finland.
• Zander Kuha

Fresh Fish Shop opening times: Mondays thru Sunday 9am - 8pm Make sure to call them before going! Mobile number: 358(0)50 542 0528

Smoked Rainbow Trout on our counter

Here is my Finnish Rainbow trout in August.

Trying out my smoked trout for the first time.

Smoked rainbow trout on my fork

Smoked rainbow trout I got from along the roadside.

Let's go out to sea for some typical Finnish Foods

On a ferryboat trip from Stockholm, Sweden to Turku Finland, we decided to eat at Grill-House on Silja Galaxy. A bit pricier restaurant in our ferryboat.

I ordered the arctic shark. Locals choose slightly smaller ferryboats, like ours here, the Silja Galaxy- over the larger Silja Euroopa Less crowded for one reason. Better service. They even claim...better food. Silja Galaxy has more exquisite restaurants than Silja Euroopa.

The cream sauce and thin crispy shelled hashed potatoes...really tasty. Excellent mushrooms with a plain consistency! Ahh...mild tasting white shark meat...distinctively shark.

The sweet sparkling white wine fit perfectly with the meal. A few leaves of fresh spinach. Probably the best meal I have had on a ferryboat in Finland. 27 euros for this meal -A High price but very worth it.

My Arctic Shark meal

Typical Finnish foods Aura makes -- A tastebuddy healthy treat.

My Finnish inlaws live long lives. Is cooking habits the reason why? Aura knows about cooking home-made food without those unhealthy fats.

Our Ryynimakkara sausage is partly filled with Ryyni(Finnish) coarsly ground barley and pork.

Barley filled sausage

Hulled barley significantly lowers the percentage of unhealthy fats. Our hot-dog is a low-fat pork feast. Amazing!!

Souteet onion in olive oil. Red beat salad has Red beats vinegar, salt and suger with some eggs mayonaise/sour cream.

On the Plate: Lettuce, Rye bread and Finnish Squeaky Cheese Leipäjuusto

Recipe: Fry the sausage in a pan without oil. Cook barley for 2-3 hours in a pot, adjusting cooking time according to grain type. Add half beef and half lamb, about a 50/50 balance. Mix meat and porridge together. Stuff the skins with meat mixture. Boil sausage and bake them in the oven.

Try eating this sausage with potato salad too!

Typical Finnish foods Aura's Mom makes -- A distinctful home-made taste unique to her personality.

Granny Mumma -- That is what Tomi and Rosa call her grew up in Kuusamo, near Lapland, hence her food seasoning is very Northern Finnish. She does add some healthy extras to her cooking.

Potatoes in meatsauce

Flower in the backround shows us the coloring of our food. The plate has small meat-balls. Taken from the freezer she chipped off meat directly into boiling pot of water.

Homemade black currant juice Mustaviinimarja herukka mehua

Sliced semi-sweet pickes

Zuchini Kesä kurpitsa thinly sliced, mild in taste and has the texture of a squash.

What is in the meat sauce? Ground beef, smashed tomatoes, garlic, basil, water and Lovage plant leaves.

Mumma happenend to find some Lovage plant (Levisticum officinale) around the yard and added Lovage leaves for some extra meaty flavor. Oat creamy, rice flower and salt.

Sliced and souteed cabbage with a bit of sugar and rapeseed oil. The health benefit of rapeseed oil is that it contains a balance of Omega oils, manufactured by pressing out saturated not-so-healthy fats.

Because the sauce has a bit of sugar in it when you eat potatoes with the sauce in combination with the dill pickle the taste gets harmonious balanced out betwen slightly sweet and sour taste.

The cabbage is mild and of balanced consistency. Not too soggy or crisp, with a mild sweet taste. Potatoes are fresh and firm, with home made berry Juice.

Since Mumma has had over 50 years experience cooking, there is no substitute for her chef's skill.

Typical Finnish foods summer Favorites at home during Juhannus when the sun does not set

Get 24 hours of daylight light in Finnish Lappland in the middle of June

During June 21 we celebrate Juhannus in Finland, and we live about 1000 km south of Lappland and get 19 hours of daylight.

Makkara hot dog's on our disposable grill

While your at the shop get a disposable grill kertäkäyttögrilli from the grocery store. Fits eight sausages. 3 Grills for 5 euros.

Our June meal in Finland with Makkara hot-dog

Picture of my plate has only one Makkara -a bland hot-dog. Two types of potato salads.

Try some yummie makkara with 100% meat then go for Wilhelmi A-luokka The standard slighty cheaper Makkara tasted less meaty, has less meat, fills your tummy nevertheless.

Aura thinks that Wilhelmi and Kabanossi are the best. Rosa says that Wilhelmi tastes like a hot-dog or german Bratwurst.

Typical Finnish Foods during Christmas at an ABC chain service station.

While Oma and Opa visited us this Christmas we drove from Tampere to Hyvinkää where we had a Christmas meal at an ABC chain service station. You can stop to get gas, shop at a grocery store, or eat fast food, sometimes there are Hessburger fast food hamburgers at these service stations.

Along with our main dish of food came salad from the salad bar, and creamy mushroom soup.

Our buffet style meal cost 9,90 euros.

When you are hungry,take a larger helping of food. It is acceptable to take a good helping on the first go ...One go is acceptable. This is not an all-U-can-eat buffet, and that goes for most lunch food.

Our typical Finnish Foods included...

• Rudebager casserole
• Reindeer
• Cream potatoes
• Baked Potatoes or Rice
• Beef
• Game(Rabbit, Moose), or mini sausages
• Finnish roasted/brewed Coffee, milk, water or Kotikalja(Malty drink with real low alcohol content)

Top it off during Christmas with most popular Finnish Christmas beverage the whole family can enjoy.

Glöggi -- by Marli

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