Chicken soup with dumbling = hønsekødssuppe? :O

Now when we have been here a little longer we have been so lucky that we have experienced the American way of cooking Danish food – or at least their attempt to J. Laurids and I ended in Niron’s house one day after school and it appeared that his host dad apparently truly appreciates cooking – and of course Niron had given him a Danish cooking book. 

He seemed quite lost in his pots and pans when we arrived, so I guess he saw us as a bless from heaven – he probably expected that three Danish kids would be able to cook their national food… So what he did was to leave us with the recipe in the company of a Chinese guy... And when we finally got to the recipe we were quite surprised to see that it wanted us to make dumplings…?! But luckily we were endowed with this Chinese guy so we sort of asked him to make Chinese dumplings with meat (didn’t really consider that it wasn’t very Danish). 

And this guy started cooking, pretty good at it actually… But of course we then realized that the dumpling the recipe was talking about was supposed to be “melboller” - and we were forced to change our plans... When the host-dad came back home and finished up the food he was stunned – apparently he had thought he was making frikadeller… J Well, chicken soup it turned out to be but I swear, I have never tried anything like that in Denmark… We didn’t dare saying that though so if the Danish cuisine is getting a bad reputation after this, we are not all innocent…