Tuesday 25 August - Swedish Meatballs

We were inspired to make these by a visit to IKEA . Although we've never had meatballs there, they seemed to be popular there so we thought we'd have a go. Although there were frozen ones on offer, we decided to have a go ourselves, although this vital accompaniment was purchased on the way out

I googled lots of recipes, and the main differences were whether to add dill or not. I decided to add it ( a decision that George wasn't happy with.

Lots of dill and parsley were finely chopped.

These were added to a fairly basic meatball mix- pork, eggs, dried breadcrumbs, some milk and salt and pepper.

I rolled this mixture into fairly small balls, and they were fried in olive oil.

The sauce was made, by adding flour to the fat left in the pan, along with a spoonful of the jam, some beef stock, cream and lemon juice.

then the meatballs went back in, and were simmered for a while to heat through.

Served with mash, and more of the jam, and I thought they were delicious - teenagers may prefer them with no dill though.