(edit title) Kötbullar accompaniment: chips, mash or boiled? Is Ikea letting the side down? Options

[mikewhite]

Bon appetit !

My original point was about Ikea's sin(s) against Swedish culture by denying me my spuds.

[skogsbo]

Heck, I take the meat drippings, fry up onions in it, add some flour, 40% fat cream if I have it, milk if I don't, a bit of flour, grated cheese, maybe some mushrooms, may ... (show full quote)

Heck, I take the meat drippings, fry up onions in it, add some flour, 40% fat cream if I have it, milk if I don't, a bit of flour, grated cheese, maybe some mushrooms, maybe some bell peppers if I feel like it, a bit of corn starch mixed in cold water if I want it to thicken faster, salt, pepper, cayenne and anything else that I think of and afterwards I might put a splash of Druvan Guldsoya Såskulör to give it the brown color. ... (hide full quote)

is that not onion gravy and then some? Far moved and tastier than standard Swedish brown sauce.

I just don't get it, brown sauce is a generation thing in Sweden, they buy expensive meat, cook it in umpteen different ways, then cover it and their boiled spuds in standard brown sauce, seems such a waste of potentially good food!

[byke]

Swedish meatballs, really are the dogs b*llocks.