New Scandinavian Cooking

- Season 3

(2006)

Tina makes food for summer, on the island of Gotland. She rides her bicycle to a farm with local Gotland's sheep, and Tina also tries out fire eating at the yearly Middle Age festival in the historic town of Visby.

Tina visits the capital of Sweden, and presents Stockholm with all its aquatic beauty. She makes Swedish meatballs, and some lovely scallops with blueberry vinaigrette.

Midsummer is very much celebrated in Sweden, and Tina invites us to Dalarna - the heartland of Sweden, where she prepares a real Midsummer Nights meal to some locals: traditional schnapps, cured salmon and a grand strawberry cake.

Tina goes paragliding over the shores of Skåne in Sweden. This is her home county, and Tina visits Ystad and Ale Stenar, where she cooks a great variety of existing dishes.

Tina goes horseback riding in Vemdalen near the Swedish-Norwegian boarder, where she explores the proud food traditions of the area. Tina catches a regional delicacy, the whitefish, and cooks it wrapped in paper over an open fire.

On board an old paddle steamer, Tina travels to Skokloster Castle in Uppland just north of Stockholm in Sweden. This is a historically fantastic place, and also where Tina uses the fresh produce of Spring: new potatoes, salads and rhubarb.

Tina visits the far north in Sweden, where she goes downhill skiing and competes in exotic reindeer racing. In Abisko, Tina goes fishing on a frozen lake and prepares a hearty hunters stew at the famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi.

Tina visits a sailing race, that starts from the West coast of Sweden and goes all around the southern tip of the country into the Baltic Sea. She serves a big buffet for the winners: marinated meat, a lemon sorbet and chili salad.

Tina visits south of Sweden and the Kingdom of Crystal, Glasriket, in Småland. In the forest she goes wild boar hunting, and makes different pickles and sausages, before she serves the main dish, a wild boar stew.

On the beautiful rugged Swedish West Coast, Tina dives for oysters in the North Sea and prepares a seafood buffet with lobster, mackerel, oysters and Norway lobster.

Christmas is all about food and Tina travels to Värmland and to Hennickehammar Manor in Sweden, where she presents all kinds of Christmas treats: mulled wine, traditional Swedish ham and sweet candy.

Tina travels to the West Coast and to Gothenburg, the fish capital of Sweden. Here she visits the city's fish market, and prepares a crispy shrimp salad, both high and low at Liseberg Amusement Park.

Tina travels aboard a historical cruise ship on Göta Canal in Sweden, and after catching some local crayfish on lake Vättern, she invites for a very traditional Swedish crayfish party.