Carlsberg Factory

Danish Gastronomy: Skipperlapskovs

That was the last danish meal I tasted during my Erasmus trip. It was 2 weeks ago when we were in Aarhus because of a student event, I just met a danish friend who made me discover that old speciality. Basically it's made with potatoes, beetroots, pork and other different ingredients I don't know. Because of the meat aspect and the potatoes I guess it has been boiled for a long time as a "baeckeoffe" (meal from my region).

It's really tasty and my friend told me that people are usually eating it as a snack while drinking cold beer. The bar was proposing a lot of old danish speciality in order to allow people (danish and foreigners) to taste the old local food.

Finally, the only things I was knowing before the erasmus trip was smorbrode and it's the only meal I haven't taste. It seems to be an appelation for danish sandwich in general. Special bread with a lot of mix isn't that special at the end.

Danish gastronomy: Gulerodskage med laekker cremet topping

The origin of this meal is disputed between the USA, the Great Britain and sometimes Denmark. Actually after some research, a lot of people tasted carrot cake in scandinavian country.

I get the occasion to taste it at a dinner with friends who bring it randomly. It's sort of a dessert here in Denmark or people can eat it while drinking coffee, tea etc...

As always I like to find what it's made of regarding the taste, the different flavours exploding in your mouth and that time I wasn't able to decide between cinnamon and gingerbread. Finally it's seems that it's made with cinnamon and cardamom. This last one is used in order to give a lemon taste and a "pine sape" taste which is really interesting. It's called a carrot cake but because of this spicy mix we can't really notice its presence, only the color
and the little pieces for decoration are arguing in the right way.