I guess I'm going to have to learn to bake

[Cataholic]

Wow. Lillith, there aren't ovens traditionally in the home? While I can go without using my oven for a week...it usually isn't much longer. How do you cook meat? A roast? Do you usually just fry everything on the stove top? I don't eat meat anyhow, but, it is interesting.

Pies/cakes/breads/fake chicken fingers (not for me..he he). None of those, eh?

[jennielynn1970]

Jenn Librarian, you should have come over to Copenhagen when you were in Sweden, we have peanut butter and lots of licorice here. And lots of shops sell brownies too. When were you there?

I'd be glad to send you some licorice - only the postage is horrendous! Up to 250 grams is DKR. 48 = $8 and 500 grams is DKR. 72 = $12.

Then, I'm not sure what foods are allowed to send, but I guess I could write cat/dog treats on it.

Oy.... that's too much for candy! I'll find something on line, but thank you so much for the offer!

I was in Sweden from 1987 to 1988, and had a blast. They had the best pastries and candies/confections. YUM! Kokos Bullar... I remember them fondly. Some kind of spun sugar with coffee, oatmeal, coconut, covered in chocolate and coconut. YUM! Damsuggare (or whatever vacuum cleaner is in Swedish)... they were marzipan, and were chocolate on the ends and green marzipan on the middle areas. LOVE THEM!! Then there were candies with this dusty green stuff that made you make faces like EWWW.. but then you got used to the weird flavor, lol.

My favorite was still the pizza with tuna and shrimp on top. And the kebabs/gyros from the little kiosks on the street. I lived right outside of Stockholm, it was sooooo great!!!

[Randi]

Yes, it's a pity the postage is so much, but if get a good job, I'll send you some. I found some pictures of licorice and kokosboller on these sites - have a look! Perhaps you'll see the ones you like.

Kokosboller is also called flødeboller in Denmark and licorice is lakrids if you want to search for more. Haribo makes quite good candy.

In the last link is one of my favourite licorice... Anthon Berg's licorice fudge. Uhmm!!

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=...&_sb_lang=pref

http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=...rys=0&itag=crv

http://www.danishfood.net/Shopping.asp?ID=44

http://www.haribo.com/planet/dk/info/main/products/

http://www.nordichouse.com/SearchRes...?CategoryID=27

[jennielynn1970]

OMG... now i'm soooo hungry for them!!! Those little domes of kokosbullar... yummmmm!!!! They were so light and airy on the inside, and they came in different degrees of coffee and chocolate flavors. They do have them at IKEA at times, and some other Swedish items, but they don't have the right salt licorice. It's more "americanized" so it's not as salty.

These were the damsugare that I remember...