Lingonberry Preserves
So Todd brings me food from exotic locales when he goes on business trips, which is often fun. This time he brought back a set of preserves: lingonberry, cloudberry and cranberry. Turns out the cranberry fits in perfectly with the other two. Lingonberries are tiny little reddish berries that are really, really tart. Todd said he was serves lingonberry preserves and a traditional Lapland restaurant alongside a meat dish, like turkey and cranberries. I remembered Marcus Samuelsson's recipes for whipped lingonberry cream with his Swedish pancakes, so I used some of my preserves in a pale approximation, over good-old U.S. pancakes with sweetened whipped cream. it was OK but I think I want to try some more authentic uses for them, like meatballs with lingonberries or Samuelsson's more crepelike pancakes with a mixed cream.
Hi Kim,
Can't get into copydesk. We've been down a few hours so I thought I'd check your blog. I was raised with lingonberries prepared as a condiment and used the way cranberries are here. Don't recall having them in whipped cream, but rather with roast meats or poultry. I think especially with duck to cut the fattiness.
How are you? August has a birthday coming up as I recall. What a big boy he must be. All iis well here. Not much changed. George pretty OK. He'll have hernia surgery early December. Hopefully it can wait until after Thanksgiving. We plan to go to Claudia's in VA and would hate to have to cancel.
I'll go back to your blog now and see what you've written before the berry piece. Best to Todd.
Ellen