Thursday, December 23, 2010

Christmas Market at Skansen

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If you're in Stockholm in December, I heartily recommend going to the Christmas market at Skansen. Skansen is an outdoor museum and zoo - and it's always worth a visit.

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Lots of different kinds of crisp bread. (To make your own, check out my recipes here and here.)

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There's a lot to eat at the market. This stall served...

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...elk! "A taste of Scandinavian wilderness", as they called it. It's a great-tasting meat, actually!

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Sugared almonds. Always, always found at christmas markets, and I always buy them.

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This stall sold different sorts of christmas-y drinks.

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Skansen is gorgeous all year round, and it has old houses from different parts of Sweden.

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One of few animals we met on this cold winter day.

8 Comments:

Blogger Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

Lovely! I'd love to go there.

God Jul!

Cheers,

Rosa

8:21 PM  
Blogger Lisa@ButteryBooks said...

It is in the 60s in Texas so these pictures helped get me in the Christmas spirit. Those sugared almonds look delicious!

8:54 PM  
Blogger p38fan said...

Looks absolutely beautiful. My great-grandparents emigrated from Sweden to the U.S. I love to see the pictures as they help me feel more connected to my heritage. Now the sugared almonds my mother often made at Christmas make sense. Thank you, Anne!

1:25 AM  
Blogger Pene said...

Happy Christmas to you & your family, Anne! Love the windmill photo. Enjoy the weekend & all the best for 2011.

9:41 AM  
Anonymous Rossella said...

Amazing! I want a Xmas market like this in Rome :) It's so magic for me.

Merry Xmas

12:29 PM  
Anonymous Kay in Oregon said...

Merry Christmas Anne. I love the picture of the market and museum, those buildings look so lovely. Really looks like a Christmas should be. We are mild today on Christmas eve and dry, but rain to come tomorrow. Have had a lovely week though ...nice and mild and lovely sunshine ...in mid 50's F.
I will enjoy another year reading you here. Much Love from Oregon

9:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

just here to look up pancakes for christmas morning thank you for your wonderful blog and your great recipes the meatballs esp. have a lovely christmas in oz its warm blue skies but not too hot to cook.

10:51 PM  
Blogger Gaviota said...

The sugared almonds are called garrapiñadas in Argentina…We also enjoy them at Christmas! Look forward to visiting Skansen!

Gabriela

10:53 PM  

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