Who ate all the piirakat?
Not that I'm getting any twinges of homesickness you understand, but two tastes of home came recently. For lunch today I cooked a home-made Steak & Kidney pie (as you can't get anything like this here) using BBC Good Food website recipe; whilst it is a bit more rustic looking that it might be, I didn't let a lack of rolling pin, pie dish or scales get in the way of tasty British stodge. Thumbs up from the Finns too. The other taste of home? Well that came courtesy of Ruotsi (Sweden) in the shape of a visit to Ikea the other day; we could have been in Edmonton just as easily.
As a postscript to that, we went to our local big blue and yellow box in Vantaa with Konna's isä (dad) who had unbelievably never been before! I mean is there even a house left in UK not at least half furnished from there? Maybe it is just deep seated resistance to Swedish cultural imperialism...
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Hmm - a bit of casual research shows that although UK had Ikea in 1987, Finland held out until 1996. May be he has more of an excuse than I thought!
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IKEA_stores ]
Your pie looks great! Your mother taught you well!
I was quite pleased with it - any suggestions what to try next?
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