@tymektt ....seriously THESE are the best I've ever had. they are super soft, perfectly flavored, and just the right amount of dry mold on top. I bought them here in Dubai and I'm in LOVE
@bethany WHAT? some of my favorite foods have mold! - Shropshire cheese - from your part of the world - being one of them. An amazing piece of shropshire with a pinch of apricot preserve on top, wrapped with a fatty piece of Prosciutto, immediately washed down with a super tuscan? heaven!
@sinbach okay, serious question. Did you like this kind of food in your 20s? Or is this a... recent thing?
@bethany it's minna. ALL minna. in my early 20s i only really ate pizza, burgers, donuts, macaroni and cheese, etc. food got in my way for the most part. i didn't REALLY enjoy anything. then one day i accidentally ate a piece of minna's "medium rare" steak at Ruth's Steak House (yes, there's a difference). i say accidentally, because i hated the idea - i ONLY liked well done. i immediately fell in love! I also HATED salmon. hated the smell of any fish cooking. but in my late 20s, minna tricked me into eating grilled salmon in Finland called Loimulohi - and OMG - its all I wanted to eat for a month straight. Then every xmas, she had me eat raw salmon with mustard sauce - now it's my fave. my taste buds went through a radical transformation in my 30s and i fell in love with food. i also fell in love with cooking. now in my 40s, rich flavored food and deep dark wine are two things that paint my world happy.
@sinbach it's embarrassing to admit but I had to google loimulohi... I have eaten all kinds of lohi, but not exactly loimulohi. Most dishes are simultaneously Swedish and Finnish (like meatballs that originate from Sweden)... and then we have these typically Finnish dishes, that don't even have a Swedish name.
@tanjaostman we often stay at a small remote Island that my wife's family owns in the archipelago. Every year we take the Silja Line to Turku and drive to Kustavi and take a personal boat to the island. In Kustavi they sell the loimulohi - made on a grill like the picture below. My favorite is when they crumble blue cheese on it! we often get about 5 or 6 of them and take them to the island with us and live for about a week with no electricity, no people, no computers - just sauna, swimming, reading, and loimulohi!!! 🤣
@sinbach Thanks for the picture! ❤️ I love the Turku (Åbo for me) archipelago, it's so beautiful! Then you know exactly how Finns love to spend their holidays. Sauna and swimming...mmm. You are very lucky if you have access to a cabin both in the Swedish mountains and one in the Finnish archipelago!
It takes 3,5-4 hours to drive to Turku from us. My husband's head office is there. If you happen to be in Turku, please let me know, if we happen to be close by!
You are forgiven if you can't pronounce the complex vowel sounds. 😂
@tanjaostman we never spend much time in Turku. We have always felt that it feels a little more Russian there. It is only the place where the ship pulls in. So we just drive through on our way to Kustavi and spend time there. it is about 90 minutes away from Turku. Have you been there? My wife's aunt and uncle are both doctors in Kustavi, so we go there and spend time with them and then head out from Kustavi to the archipelago.