Reason number 6 for having an exchangestudent

Al though I haven't done it much lately cooking is one of my favorite pass times. Between kids and every day chores I just don't seem to have much time to do it. But I am looking forward to teaching her some traditional danish meals.

We are an "international" family so we don't eat very traditional danish food - at least not for dinner. 

I remember when I was an exchange student I asked my mom to send some recipes so I could cook for my host parents. I did cook a few times but after I on two separate occasions started a small fire and flooded the kitchen they asked if I could just bake from then on. 

One of the dishes I made was meatballs in curry or as we say in Danish: "boller i karry". It is basically pork meatballs which is boiled and served with a curry sauce and rice. This was actually what I was making when I set the kitchen stove on fire as an exchange student.

Another dish is one that most foreigners have heard of; Frikadeller - again pork meatballs, served with either potatoes and gravy or potato salad.

She has expressed interest in making frikadeller - it will be fun to teach her even more about danish food traditions.