Marinated Salmon (Lax Gravad)

Lunch plate with lax gravad, garlic toast, salad greens and senap dill (mustard with dill sauce),

at the Ikea Restaurant.

Soldier's Pea Soup

Split Yellow Pea soup with extra ham,

A hearty, traditional Swedish meal on Thursdays, dating to before the Protestant Reformation when fasting was required on Fridays. Still served in the Swedish Army, hence the name, and in school lunch rooms and private homes.  Garnished with timjam och mejram (thyme and marjoram) and a dollop of coarse Swedish mustard; served with toasted tunnbröd (flat bread).  As a supper, this would be followed by Pannkakkor, Swedish crepes with whipped cream and preserves.

From Sverige Online and IKEA.

Julbord

Counter-clockwise from 11 o'clock - herring, gravlax, lingonberry sauce, cucumber salad, kottbullar (Swedish meat balls), red beet salad, Julskinka (Swedish style Christmas Ham), prinskorv (Prince's sausage - Swedish cocktail franks), wedges of lax kallrokt (hot smoked salmon, served cold), and a soft roll.  In the center of the plate, another variety of herring and an apple salad; underneath the roll a creamy, dilled Swedish potato salad.

Glogg Alkoholfri - hot, spiced, non-alcoholic 'wine'

Swedish Rice Pudding with almonds

At Ikea, Houston.  There were other offerings on the buffet including hard boiled eggs with mayonnaise and shrimp, gravy for the meat balls, mashed potatoes, Janssen's Temptation (potato casserole), crisp bread and poached salmon with mustard sauce, Swedish cheeses and other desserts, but I didn't take a picture of my second, smaller plate.

Smörgåsbord

The Swedish Club of Houston at Braeburn Country Club

Breads and Cheeses

Deviled eggs, plain and with caviar

Salad table:  Gravad Lax at the far end, salad fixings in the middle, marinated cucumbers at the near end.

Heering in wine and mustard sauces, bread and cheeses, potatoes, deviled eggs and Gravad Lax.

Marinated cucumber slices, salad greens.

Mr. Jannson's Temptation, Swedish meat balls with lingonberries, ham and Gravad Lax.

Blueberry cobbler and Blue Bell Ice Cream.