Tricked a friend to accompany me on this trail. The ice is leaving the ground, so the paths were equal parts mud and rotten ice.
On the road were a nice castle with a park, an outdoor museum village "Fornhem", 350 year old oaks, bronze age burial mounds, a canal with lock staircases, and several well kept shelters to have lunch and fika in. In the summer there will be a lot of cattle around.
In Sweden Friday is the day to eat tacos. Tacofredag is our version of taco Tuesday I guess? Friday dinner with the family. If you are served taco in your school cafeteria it’s probably Friday. Tacos are (as you probably know) not Swedish at all but it’s good so we love it anyway. We have special pre made taco spice mixes that we just dump on the minced meat while cooking it. The bread is heated in the micro or in the oven. We chop all the vegetables up in tiny cubes and put them in small bowls. Then everyone assembles their own taco at the table.
Några fraser - Some phrases
Kan du göra guacamolen så hackar jag grönsakerna? - Can you make the guacamole if I cut the vegetables?
Skulle du kunna skicka …? - Could you pass me …?
Skulle du kunna skicka gräddfilen? - Could you pass me the sour cream?
Skulle jag kunna få en servett? - May I have a paper towel?
Den faller sönder! - It is falling apart!
Jag får inte plats med något mer - I can’t fit anything else (in my taco)
Åh nej jag glömde gurkan! - Oh no I forgot the cucumber!
* Means they are uncountable so they don’t really use en/ett and it only indicates it’s grammatical gender.
There are probably millions of other things you can put on a taco but this is everything I could think of. Taco hej!
I've never had a taco, and my New Year's resolution is to live another year without having a taco.
Google's AI says: Norway surprisingly ranks as the second-highest per-capita consumers of tacos globally, especially Tex-Mex style, with "Taco Friday" (tacofredag) being a strong national tradition.
Tonight was coincidentally Taco Friday Chez Chaos!
Toppings include pineapples, peanuts, and cucumbers.
Well, some variation on what I have taken to calling "nachotaco". Depending on the mood you're in and how you assemble the thing? It may be more like nachos, or it may be more like a taco salad. You decide.
I hadn't added the bulk of the salad part yet. Because you couldn't see much under it otherwise.
This did end up slightly more Swede-Mex than usual: we did get some chopped cucumber, because Mr. C picked up a couple of them with some other fixings, and it does make a pretty nice addition. No pineapple or corn, however!
Yes, if you want to, you can buy small cans of tidbits explicitly marketed for using on tacos and pizza. I was interested to see that when I was buying canned pineapple to make a dessert.
My actual excuse for turning tonight into Nachotaco Friday? We had roughly half a pound of ground meat left from that last bamboo shoot creation, which needed used up. So, I figured bulking it out with some beans and turning it into something vaguely chili-esque to eat with tortilla chips might be a reasonable low effort plan. Only a short step from there to nachotaco!
Mostly gone. It did seem to go over well. That waa an unconventional bean choice, but we had an extra can of butter beans, I like them, and it seemed worth a try. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A pack of very Swedish taco seasoning was also involved for part of the seasoning. So was a good spoonful of those Lao Gan Ma chopped pickled red chiles, because they were good. And the taste didn't clash, as I was hoping.
Besides his also unconventional lettuce choice tonight, he also decided to pick up some of that "jalapeño & chili" flavored grated cheese to try along with their plain "Tex-Mex" blend. It doesn't taste particularly chiliriffic, but it was tasty enough.
(And yes, dude likes to use part flavored tortilla chips in his nachos. That is apparently not unusual here. He also prefers flavored potato chips to eat with dip. To each their own...)
They do indeed sell nacho cheese Doritos here, unlike the UK at any point I was there! On the much less exciting side? This version evidently made somewhere in the Low Countries seems to be based on the weird Euro-standard style of "tortilla chips". And the seasoning tastes pretty different to anything I remember having.
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