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Dinner with Finish Friendship Family

Today we had our second meeting with our Finish friendship family. We first decided to go sledding and then cook some finish food together. But as it was -18°C it was too cold for Leo and Lotta, the two children of the family. So we just skipped the sledding part and just did the cooking. But it was quite nice. We had Makaronilaatikko (noodle casserole) with is a traditional Finish meal. After that we had Piimäpiirakka (bluebarry pie) with vanilla ice cream and Joulutorttu (mince pie).  Joulutorttu actually is a Christmas dish, but we decided that it is still cold, there is snow outside and we wanted to taste it :). Together with that we drunk Glögi. You drink it hot together with nuts and raisins. Everything was really delicious and we will get the recipes. So, when we are back in Germany and anybody wants to taste some Finish food just tell us!

Buy the way, this is us togehter with Mari and Tanel our Finish friends as well as Dimitry, a Russian guy who has the same friendship family.

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5 Responses to "Dinner with Finish Friendship Family"

  • Mari says:
    February 19, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    Yes, I agree with Christopher, you really should try Munavoi (if you didn’t try it already, it’s usually served with Karjalanpiirakka). Juustoleipä is delicious too, specially with Lakkahillo. But maybe you’ve had that Juustoleipä somewhere already too.

    • Verena Hausmann says:
      February 22, 2011 at 6:11 pm

      Hi Maria and hi Christopher,
      yes, we had Munavoi with Karjalanpirakka already. But I have to say that we haven’t eaten the best Karjalanpirakka with Munavoi here in Finland :(. Johannes’ mum has a recipe from a Finnish family (which they visited a few years ago) and did it last summer back in Germany. And theses were the best ones I’ve eaten until now!
      But we haven’t tried the Juustoleipä yet. So we now know for what we have to look out.

  • Christopher Wahl says:
    February 19, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    Oh, what you should also try is Munavoi (quite easy) and juustoleipa. That’s what my friendship family once showed me 🙂

  • Verena Hausmann says:
    February 19, 2011 at 10:24 am

    We are happy about all comments we get!
    (And I just changed the name to Glögi 🙂 )

  • Mari says:
    February 19, 2011 at 12:12 am

    Thanks for visiting us! 🙂

    Hope you don’t mind, but I just have to write some comments.
    First of all, it definitely was too cold for the kids, but I’m sure it also was too cold for all of us. At least I prefer sledding in a bit warmer weather, something like 10-15 degrees warmer or so. But if you want to go sledding, we surely can do it other time, when it is a bit warmer.
    And then, the drink is Glögi with only 1 g in the middle. 🙂 And the recipies should just have arrived to you.