{"id":3931,"date":"2011-08-02T20:44:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2011-08-02T20:44:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T20:44:03","slug":"a-swedish-grillfest-barbeque-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/a-swedish-grillfest-barbeque-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Swedish grillfest (barbeque party)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A walk around any town, village or big city\u00a0at dinner time during the Swedish summer you are most likely to be accompanied by a smell. And\u00a0what smell would that be? Well, the smell of barbeque of course! Swedes are crazy about their grillar (barbeques<\/strong>), in fact a recent study <\/a>shows that 94% of the Swedes over 15 barbeques during the summer. The grills\u00e4song (barbeque season)<\/strong> kicks off as soon as the weather gets slightly warmer. In my family, we even have a Christmas barbeque tradition. On the December the 22, no matter how many degrees below zero or how much snow we have – we barbeque. Or my dad barbeques, more correctly. A big piece of steak, to prepare us for all the endless julbord (Christmas tables)<\/strong> we are facing.<\/p>\n

Anyway. You can barbeque more or less anywhere in Sweden – as long as the\u00a0ground isn’t too dry (the weather forecast\u00a0\u00a0will\u00a0warn you about\u00a0fire hazards) \u00a0and as long as you make sure to put the fire out and dispose your garbage afterwards. In some apartment blocks you are even aloud to do it on the balcony and pretty much all big blocks of flats have common areas with barbeques. Many public areas has\u00a0 big barbeques that anyone can use and the sales of eng\u00e5ngsgrillar (disposable barbeques)<\/strong> are rocketing by this time.<\/p>\n

If you are invited to a party during the Swedish summer, well it’s highly likely that it will be a grillfest (barbeque party). <\/strong>At a typical Swedish grillfest, you will most certainly be served grilled\u00a0meat, perhaps\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018flintastek,\u2019\u00a0ham cut in thick slices and marinated in vinegar before being barbequed. Other popular grillr\u00e4tter (barbeque dishes)<\/strong> are korv (sausage) lax (salmon), majskolv (corn-on-the-cob) gr\u00f6nsaksspett (vegetable skewers) <\/strong>with halumi cheese, even homemade pizzas on the grill has become\u00a0a growing trend.<\/p>\n

With your main meat\/fish\/vegetable you would normally have a salad, perhaps a potato salad or just a nice gr\u00f6nsallad (green salad) and perhaps a splash of\u00a0tsatziki,\u00a0b\u00e9arnaise sauce or garlic butter on top.\u00a0 Mmm… makes my belly kurra (rumble)<\/strong>, perhaps time for a barbeque English style? This is how we do it over here!<\/p>\n

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What’s on your barbeque this summer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

A walk around any town, village or big city\u00a0at dinner time during the Swedish summer you are most likely to be accompanied by a smell. And\u00a0what smell would that be? Well, the smell of barbeque of course! Swedes are crazy about their grillar (barbeques), in fact a recent study shows that 94% of the Swedes…<\/p>\n

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