The online order deadline for 17th May deliveries has now passed. Please come to our shop in London for your supplies – we have it all there. ScandiKitchen Cafe & shop 61 Great Titchfield St London W1W 7PP Nearest tube: Oxford Circus or Great Portland Street. Open Monday to Friday 8-19, Sat 9-18, Sun 9-17.   The post Need stuff for Norway Day 17th May? appeared first on ScandiKitchen ..read more

Want a month of binging on Nordic Noir and all things Scandi? We are doing a collab with our friends at Viaplay, the Nordic streaming service, that has just launched in the UK. Viaplay has all the best Nordic dramas, films, and series. So, if you liked all those dramas where people wear fancy woolly jumpers and seem to live in houses with not enough lightbulbs, then you’re likely to find a lot of great stuff you’ll like here. There’s full series of Gåsmamman (No Time to Mourn), Solsidan (Sunny Side), Hilma, Badehotellet (Seaside Hotel), The complete collection of Broen (The Bridge), Jäga ..read more

Every year, we make a bingo card for the Eurovision final. We LOVE Eurovision at our place – from playing along with our chosen tipple on the night to our cafe with all its Eurovision bunting, to our Eurovision cakes and cheesy playlists: We LOVE it. You can pick up your FREE bingo cards in-store from this weekend onwards. We are also shipping out cards with orders from this Thursday onwards. Alternatively, you can PRINT YOUR OWN by downloading the PDF here. It’s all print-ready for you (A5)     Nordic Eurovision goodies you need for the big night Sale In stock Quick View ..read more

Print Hveder: toasted wheat buns (Denmark) The fourth Friday after Easter is Great Prayer Day (Stor Bededag). In 1686, a Danish bishop declared that nobody was allowed to work, travel or do anything on Great Prayer Day. This meant that the bakers were not open, so people had to go to get their bread the night before.The bakers would make these delicious wheat buns from an enriched dough. These were meant to be toasted on the morning of Great Prayer Day, but nowadays, people buy hveder in the evening and eat them then as snack. I don’t blame them: there is nothing quite like freshly baked bun ..read more

Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson. Liquorice: Black gold, the food of the gods and a tool often used to make fun of unsuspecting non-liquorice lovers. This week, we talk all things salty, delicious liquorice. Every week, we give a little lesson on how to be a bit more Scandinavian in your everyday life. If you’d like the full-length version of these lessons direct into your inbox every Friday morning, simply click here to sign up. How to say it Lakrids, lakrits, Lakris, Lakritsi: similar in most Nordic languages. You may also hear it talked about as Salmiakki: the Finnis ..read more

Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson. Some weeks, we are a bit more random – like last week, when we talked about Eggs and Pants. As in trousers-pants, not underpants although there is a bit about underpants too. Every week, we give a little lesson on how to be a bit more Scandinavian in your everyday life. If you’d like the full-length version of these lessons direct into your inbox every Friday morning, simply click here to sign up. Viking pants Ragnarr Loðbrók’s epithet was Ragnor Hairy Pants (Breeches), on account of him wearing some fancy bear skin trousers that his wi ..read more

Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson. This week, we teach you about how not to be the cleverest. Handy sayings can be found in this post – do read on. Every week, we give a little lesson on how to be a bit more Scandinavian in your everyday life. If you’d like the full-length version of these lessons direct into your inbox every Friday morning, simply click here to sign up. No boat In Icelandic, the word for stupidity is heimska. Derived from Old Norse, heimskr, it meant that you were foolish and silly because you had never sailed away from home Empty headed In Norwegian ..read more

Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson. Yesterday (23rd March) was World Bear Day. Did you know that there are over 4000 brown bears in the Nordics? (None in Denmark; they never get any of the fun stuff). Every week, we give a little lesson on how to be a bit more Scandinavian in your everyday life. If you’d like the full-length version of these lessons direct into your inbox every Friday morning, simply click here to sign up. Angry bear The Finns don’t say someone is cranky… they say they are like a bear shot in the ass (kuin perseeseen ammuttu karhu). Shooting bears Acros ..read more

Hej – and welcome to your weekly ScandiKitchen lesson. As everything is still grey and cold, this week we talk about colours – and wish our Irish friends a happy St Patrick’s Day today 17th March (with lots of green all around). Every week, we give a little lesson on how to be a bit more Scandinavian in your everyday life. If you’d like the full-length version of these lessons direct into your inbox every Friday morning, simply click here to sign up. Red If a Dane says he doesn’t have a red prawn, it means he is skint (ikke en rød reje). If you have red dogs, it means German measles (røde h ..read more

A quick guide on how to Easter like a Scandi After the long, dark nights of winter, Easter and the arrival of spring are truly celebrated in Scandinavia. Whether spent in the south welcoming the return of the spring flowers or spent escaping to the mountains in the North, getting in a few last runs on the slopes, Easter is a time of renewal for Scandinavians, celebrated with good food and good company (and perhaps the odd shot of aquavit or two). Peek into the history of the Viking north and you’ll find plenty of magic things that add to the richness of Scandinavian Easter celebrations. Here’s ..read more