Last night I attended a Danish cooking class that I signed up for through DIS. It is actually a series of 5 classes, but I only signed up for one. Last night was so fun though that I wish I would have done more!
The class started at 6:30pm, and there were 13 of us students. The class was led by a Danish woman named Lene, who used to teach Home Economics to sixth graders, but then she went on a 3 month skiing vacation and realized that was a lot more fun then teaching. So she quit her job as a teacher… which is interesting I guess. Anyway, she was super nice, and she had this awesome menu planned for us!
We divided into 3 groups of 4 or 5 people, and each group had to cook every dish for themselves, except the meatballs which we all shared. Here was the menu:
Chicken meatballs with zucchini
Traditional Danish meatballs (aka Frikadeller)
Gravy (made with potato water!)
Potatoes and root vegetables cooked in the oven
White cabbage salad with ginger dressing
Strawberry Stew (aka the hardest Danish word to pronounce in the world… Rødgrød med fløde)
I helped make the Frikadeller, which tasted great when cooked, but was absolutely disgusting to prepare! I had to mix 300 grams minced pork, 1 cubed red onion, 1 egg, a splash of milk, flour, 1/2 tsp salt, and pepper. I beat everything together, then we shaped them into little meatballs and fried them for about 20 minutes in smør (butter).
The meatballs weren’t in a sauce like we would normally think of in the US, instead we put a gravy over them. The gravy had 20 grams of butter, 2 Tbs flour, 3-4 deciliters of water from the boiled potatoes, salt, pepper, and this super weird thing called kulør (since there is no meat base in the gravy, this adds the brown color… kinda gross).
The veggies were actually my groups favorite part of the whole meal. It was just carrots, beet root, 2 cloves garlic, oil, and salt baked for 30 minutes in the oven. We put a yummy dressing on top of the veggies that was sour cream, parsley, and herb salt.
This is my group getting ready to eat! Dinner was good, but the strawberry dessert we made was the best!
It’s a popular Danish dessert, and it is super easy to make. We added strawberries to a pot with some water and boiled them for 4-5 minutes. Then we added sugar to taste. On the side, we mixed some water with potato flour and added it to the boiling strawberries. Right after adding the mixture, we removed the pot from the heat, put the strawberry stew in a bowl, sprinkled with sugar, and placed it in the fridge. It is traditionally served with cream on top, but my teacher says cream is too fattening so we used skim milk :)
YUM! It was such a fun way to spend a Monday night!
Tomorrow I have two study tours, one to a Muslim private school and one to Rosenborg Castle. I will be back with updates soon!
Bye for now,
Emily
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