Although we are not yet seeing spring yet (and I will not share how grumpy this makes me), I'm happy to report the Easter witches did return last week to cast their spells and offer willow branches in exchange for candy. I guess we are now on the chocolate circuit, which is great. I was able to ask "kuva, ok?" (picture, ok?) this year, so we're doing better than last. We went out for sapas on Friday (Finnish tapas) at one of my favorite Helsinki spots, Juuri, and Gerald and I both got this perfect dessert. Chocolate cake, caramel sauce and sea buckthorn berry mousse!
I neglected to get a picture of the sapas, but here is their menu description with asterisks by our choices:
Sapas are small Finnish appetizers whose roots lie in hand-made cooking and Finnish food traditions
* Season`s mushroom soup and nettle and cheese pastie
* Lingonberry marinated salmon on maltbread, tarragon - garlic oil
Nettle marinated whitefish, blackcurrant - mustard sauce
Freshly salted whitefish with confit made of tomatoes
* Smoked small perchs from lake Pielinen
* Finnish baltic herring pasty with white radish salad
Crayfish - cottage cheese filled cabbage leaves, melted dill butter
* Fresh sausages à la Juuri, vodka mustard
* Worschmack of game, creamed sour bread
Slightly smoked reindeer heart with gelée made of rowanberry wine
* Beetroot and nut stew and small mushrooms
* Roasted swede with cauliflower puré
* Grilled salsify and rosehip jam
Here's the restaurant's link: http://www.juuri.fi/viinit/13?task=view
These sapas are fantastic and a great way to discover new cuisine.
2 comments:
Hi! We never ate at Juuri....looks like we missed out! Hope your weather improves soon. I won't tell you that I sat on our terrace in the sun today, that would be cruel. =) Elaine
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