My mother is Swedish and though she grew up in the states her family has carried on some wonderful tradition that she has passed on to me. I thought that it would be extra special to make a Swedish-themed hostess gift to help her kick of the Christmas season and Swedish Advent.
I chose to give her lingonberry jam and glogg. We Swedes love lingonberry preserves on our Swedish pancakes, mashed potatoes, Swedish meatballs and let's be honest...on anything. Lately, I've been putting it on Greek yogurt and oatmeal. The second part of the hostess gift was glogg. This is traditionally a mulled wine, since we don't drink alcohol I found a fruit juice based version.
Both the lingonberry preserves and glogg were found at IKEA, during one of my recent shopping adventures. I can't be the only one that goes in for one item and comes out three hours later with 20, am I? And don't you love the little Swedish gift tag, also IKEA.
And did you notice my little Santa hat decor hanging on my flip-out coat rack? For some reason this is one of my favorite little Christmas decor touches. Gotta love the dollar store Santa hats!
Other Swedish posts you may like:
St. Lucia Day - Project Domestication
How To: Making Authentic Swedish Meatballs - Cafe Johnsonia
Swedish Pancakes - The Bitten Word
4 comments:
(Thanks for the link, first and foremost.)
I love, love, love lignonberry preserves! We stock up on Glogg too. My grandpa is from Norway, but sadly we don't have a lot of traditions he passed along. They became too Americanized once they got here.
You're not the only one who leaves IKEA stocked up. :)
Do you like the Julmust soda? It's fantastic.
Got my Glogg ready to go for the Holidays. I should have brought my mother-in-law something for having us all over at thanksgiving - now I feel bad...
Fun stuff! I have a jar of those preserves someone gave me from IKEA in my fridge. I need to try it more. I've only used it once--and it was good. And now to go check out that glogg. We only live 22 minutes from IKEA. (Yes, I've timed it.) ;)
What a great tradition to give a hostess gift! Why isn't this in our culture?? I am definitely going to start doing this as well.....
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