Skyndi-kjötbollur

Fast made meatballs

Meatballs are very popular in Scandinavia. Who doesn't know Swedish "köttbullar" from Ikea restaurants? In Iceland they are named "kjötbollur" and their popularity is similar. Here we have a very simple recipe, well suited for campsite cooking especially.


Ingredients

600 g ground meat
1 sachet instant leek soup
20 salted crackers
1 egg
2 Tbsp oil


Preparation

Crumble the crackers, add the meat, the soup powder and the egg. Mix and knead everything. Form ping-pong ball-sized balls.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the meatballs until crispy brown from all sides.

If you like sauce for the meatballs, here a very simple recipe:

Put 150 g hot meat stock, 150 g redcurrent jelly and a shot of whipping cream into a pan, stir everything and let simmer for 5 minutes. That's it.

Grautarlummur

Rice pudding patties

Here once again a very classically Icelandic dish as it is know by many Icelanders from their "Amma" (= grandma): Icelandic pancakes called "Lummur". If you ever have rice pudding left over from yesterday, then this is the perfact way for its utilization.


Ingredients for 12 pieces

200 g rice pudding
200 g flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 egg
1 pinch of vanilla
200 ml milk
50 g raisins


Preparation

In a large bowl mix rice pudding, flour, sugar and baking powder.

Add the egg and a pinch of vanilla.

Finally stir in milk and raisins.

Mix everything until it is a smooth dough.

Drop tablespoons of the mixture into a pancake pan...

... and fry them from both sides until golden brown.

Sprinkle the lummur with sugar and serve them with fresh fruits, stewed fruits or marmalade.

Gamla Bakaríið in Ísafjörður

The "Old Bakary"

The first bakary in Iceland was Bernhöftsbakarí. It was founded in Reykjavík in 1834. I already visited it on my "Reykjavík Food Walk".

The second bakary in Iceland followed in 1868 in Akureyri und the thiord one in 1871 Ísafjörður. This still exists and runs as "gamla bakaríið", literally meaning "the old bakary".

On the square in front of the store, you normally can see this beautiful old car advertising the bakary.

In addition to the salesroom, the bakary has a guest are, where you can sit and have breakfast, drink coffee and eat cake. But we didn't try it.

On one afternoon sduring our stay in Ísafjörður we took a look at the old bakary. Unfortunately we were quite late. Hence the choice of cake was manageable. And the young sales assistant seemed a bit clumsy, when she wrapped up our order. Anyhow, this did not bother us.

We bought following selection: rabarbarasnitta (rhubarb cake), skúffukaka (chocolate cake) and vínarbrauð (Vienna bread, here made with yeast dough).

I can recommend all three kinds of cake. Child no. 2 was deeply impressed by the Vienna bread.