Tag: cake

• June 11, 2020Uncategorized

  This is not a “cake”!

  Don’t be fooled, expats in Sweden. If you are offered a smörgåstårta at an event, this is NOT a cake! Yes, “tårta” is the Swedish word for cake, but “smörgås” […]

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  January 22, 2015Uncategorized

  It should be against the law….

  The Swedes know he rest of the world would never define this fusion of substances that were never meant to be served together as "cake.

• December 12, 2014Uncategorized

  Deep discussions between 5-7 year olds

  Overheard with the 5 yr old neighbor girl and my 7 yr old son. Girl: Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Boy: What do you mean? Girl: Do you have […]

• October 7, 2013Uncategorized

  Ugly cake

  My oldest son turns 9 today.  Birthdays are fun, but I always have an ambition to make a special cake and it always turns into a disaster. For example, I […]

• July 12, 2013Uncategorized

  Accent

  My Swedish husband had a great accent when we first met.  When we went back to Texas on vacation, everyone would ask where he was from.  We (he) got free […]

• November 19, 2012Uncategorized

  Balsam does not mean Shampoo

  Many of us foreigners who move to Sweden like to tell stories of the horrible mistakes we’ve made in the grocery store.  Two of my friends made a cake with […]