Tag: vikings

History Cookbook: Is what it says it is

So you’re holding a Viking themed party, but don’t know what to cook. That’s a dilemma. You could cook some beancakes. Yum.

Here are the ingredients.

broad beans, in their pods
stoneground flour
goats milk
honey
optional: hazelnuts and linseeds

If that doesn’t excite you then get on board the history train and find something that does. There are dishes from prehistoric time through to today.

Viking Flashmob

A horde of vikings, led by a Hollywood prop builder, are running around LA invading restaurants and pillaging as they see fit.

The best bit of this story is about the mob’s visit to IKEA. The homeland.

“We got a group of nine vikings to go there for the Swedish meatballs,” he said. “At one point, the security guards came up and asked, ‘What are you doing here?’ We said, ‘We’re from the home office in Sweden.’ They didn’t know how to react.”