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Watch VideosMost of the Danish food that I really miss is the Danish desserts. Um, they have eboke, which I've seen it a couple different ways, but the one that I really like is made up like applesauce and whipped cream and these little cookie things that they have in Denmark. Um, and they have drommake, which is a cake with this coconut stuff on top, and then they have, um, ebeskiver, which it's like these little, um, pancake things, little balls, and you eat them with jam and, um, powdered sugar. Um, I just love Danish desserts so much. Also, there's pastry shops on like every corner, and they're really dangerous because they're so good, and so you usually just want to go there and eat there like every day, but that's not good for your health.
Favorite food, there's a ton of great food in Denmark. Fleskesteg, this has got to be one of them. It's like pork but they keep the skin on it and they salt it and cook it and you can peel it off and it's real crunchy and freaking delicious. But I have to say my favorite thing is something they eat at Christmas time, they call it brun kartoffel. Translation just means brown potatoes. And what it is, is they melt sugar and butter in a pan and then cook potatoes in it. So it kind of like caramelizes the potatoes and it is absolutely to die for. It is so so delicious. I mean not healthy but you just go ham eating those at Christmas time. They are so good when done right.
Favorite Danish food would definitely be Christmas food. What they serve on Christmas day, they do pork which is, it's called fleskestøy and it's just a big lump of pork with the skin kept on and the fat on the skin on top gets left to go crispy and it's so good. Then they'll serve that with something cool which is pickled red cabbage. Sounds kind of gross but it's actually really good. Golden kartoffler and that's brown potatoes. It's just boiled potatoes put in a pan with a bit of caramelized sugar over and it goes crispy and it's delicious and it's served with a like a brown sauce which is a gravy style thing over the top. Definitely a thing to look forward to.
One of my favorite foods is found during the winter season, only the winter season, and it's called Riesalmon. It's basically just a rice pudding, but better. It's got almonds, vanilla, sugar, which is a special ingredient they have in Denmark. We don't really have it here in the States, but it's so creamy, milky. It's thick enough to chew, obviously. But it is just so delicious. It's hard to explain what it is, but if you like rice pudding, it's basically a glorified rice pudding. The best way to explain it is just miraculous.
My favorite things to eat over there was called a trecanta and it was a shaped like a triangle, very very large, it was a pastry filled with yummy cream covered in chocolate, so delectable and delicious. One day we're sitting on a park bench eating one, they're huge, each of us were eating one and this sweet little old Danish lady came up to us and called us American pigs because apparently they would take those big trecantas and they sliced them up and give a little piece to each family member or guest or whatever it is they're feeding you with, anyway feeding you for it, it was hilarious, we laughed very hard but we didn't stop.
Fulon ha. It's like 400, like 4 kilos of beef. Is that right or is it a kilo? It's a lot. A lot of beef, a lot of ground pork. Mash it all together in one giant blend. You layer bacon on all over it. You bake it for 20 minutes then you pour cream on it. You just like fill just normal cream out of the carton just all over it and then you bake it for another 20 minutes and use the cream to make your Fulon's house. And then from there it's just oh my gosh it's just so good. I can't I can't describe it with words. That mac and cheese was I think the best meal we ever had. I think we had it with mac and cheese. I don't know. You can also throw potatoes in there too for the brown sauce. Like that's what it's made for so.
So there's this food in Denmark called forloren ha. It's essentially just a bacon wrapped meatloaf that you put meat sauce on top of. And you generally eat it with something they call white potatoes, which is just basically skinned and boiled potatoes. And I don't know, it's just heavenly. That's the thing that stood out the most about Danish food to me. It's just how good that dish was when I was first fed it. It's extremely unhealthy. You feel like you're going to have to have a heart attack after you eat it. But I still make it today and it's probably my favorite Danish food.
I don't even know where to begin with this one. The food in Denmark is amazing. I mean, awesome. The Christmas stuff is, I mean, out of this world. Fleskesteg, which is like pork with the skin still on, and they leave the top layer of the skin on until it becomes really crispy. That's pretty decent. Brun kartoffel, brown potatoes with gravy, and you got potatoes where they have sugar and it's glazed on them. Really, really good. The pastries, out of this world. Really good stuff.
My favorite food is definitely the Christmas food. Danes know how to do the Christmas food. They have what's called a fleskesteg, which is pork, and then they fry, they kind of fry the top fat skin part. Sounds gross, super good. These crunchy little salty fat things, delicious. Then they'll have like potatoes with a ton of this gravy that they call brunsaus or brown sauce. And they also do these potatoes that they put sugar on, they're like sugar potatoes, super good. Dessert, they'll have this kind of rice pudding stuff with some cranberry sauce on it, super good. Lots of meat, lot of potatoes, delicious.
Favorite food would definitely be the kebabs that they had everywhere. It's their their fast food that they would have. Every city would have their go-to place. I love the the hot chili sauce that you put on it especially, so good. Another favorite food would be the pastries.














































