At first, my excuse was the holidays. We were out of town and there wasn't a lot of cooking on our part, mainly people cooking for us. Luxury! And you know when you're holiday lazy? All you want to do is eat simple food and wear pants with elastic? That's kind of the diet we've been on recently even though it's well past the holiday season. I love wearing elastic pants.
And the be honest, I just haven't felt inspired in the kitchen lately. It's dark here. It's grey. It's cold. It's freakishly chilly, like to the bones. All I want to do is stay snuggled on our couch watching TV.
Also you guys should know that we're moving in the next two weeks! It's super exciting for many reasons but one of the big ones is we're getting a dishwasher! YAY! I'm going to make so many dirty dishes.
This is a hard bread sandwich. It's my way of apologizing to you for not writing here in almost a month. It's an apology because I'm showing you one of my favorite foods.
It took me about two years to actually appreciate the Swedish version of a sandwich. A piece of hard bread (literally, bread that is hard, like a cracker), a bunch of butter, a few slices of cheese, and your choice of a vegetable. Most sandwiches have cucumber. I opt for red pepper or sometimes cherry tomatoes. To mix it up a bit you can use some grated pepper or some salt! Swedes are shaking their heads right now: seasoning a hard bread sandwich is too adventurous!
I thought this sandwich was stupid when I first came here. I mean, I come from a country where a sandwich is TWO pieces of soft bread and the size of your face. I started eating Christmas flavored hard bread this year (flavored with anise and fennel, it tastes like friendship) and from there I went to the regular stuff. Now I eat hard bread sandwiches for breakfast, sometimes lunch, snack, and sometimes dinner. Maybe I've been here too long but the simplicity of this sandwich is really lovely. The crunchy, wheaty bread with creamy butter, the salty cheese, and the fresh crisp veggies- it's perfect really.
