Monday, August 6, 2007

Okay, here's the article that was supposed to be done the day before yesterday. And I've come to the conclusion that I'll post articles as they come, not once a week because it's a hell of a job. ^^''' Sorry if I disappointed you all. Well here it is! Enjoy! ---------------------- Finnish food and meals There are three meals per day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. In all schools including high school, a hot free lunch is served as part of Finland's welfare state agenda. Among workers, lunch is often not so heavy, and may be a sandwich or a salad, depending on whether the company has a lunch restaurant. In the evening, the dinner is usually a hot meal. Breakfast usually consists of open sandwiches. The sandwich is often buttered (with margarin), with toppings such as hard cheese or cold cuts. Finns usually don¢®¯t have sweets on their breads such as jam or chocolate. Sour milk products such as yogurt or viili are also common breakfast foods, usually served in a bowl with cereals such as corn flakes, muesli, and sometimes with sugar, fruit or jam. A third food that is commonly eaten at breakfast is porridge, often made of rolled oats, and eaten with a pat of butter and/or with milk, or fruit or jam, especially the sort made of lingonberries. Drinks are milk, juice, tea, or coffee. There are long traditions of hunting and fishing in Finland. The hunters focus on deer and moose, but small game such as hare, ducks and grouse are popular for their taste. The game food makes natural additions to the Finnish cuisine. Due to very strict food hygiene regulations, moose meat is mainly consumed within households and is rarely attainable in restaurants. Finnish restaurants are accustomed to serving reindeer dishes instead. To add some vitamins and make the rather heavy food more enjoyable a traditional jam is made from lingonberry and served with meat. A more exclusive but not uncommon jam is the cloudberry jam. Blueberry soup and blueberry pie are very traditional Finnish desserts. ---------------------- Happy cooking! ^^

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