Questi piatti ti sembrano norvegesi?

Nope, I’ve never heard of them. I mean sure I eat reindeer, but not with pineapple!

Not really. Never even heard of that first dish, and quail isn’t a normal ingredient either. The third dish, reindeer with pineapple! Now I’ve heard everything, LOL.

I’d rather recommend newer sources like this website (Scandinavian Recipies) I. can’t really speak for the danish/swedish section of that site, but the Norwegian dishes she makes are all familiar. The author is Norwegian. [https://scandinaviancookbook.com/17-traditional-norwegian-recipes/](https://scandinaviancookbook.com/17-traditional-norwegian-recipes/)

The recipes are absolutely not common home cooking. This could possibly have been some restaurant signature dishes a few decades back.

Reindeer with pineapple….. Weird, but I’d like to try that one time.
Veal with Crab….. that is just weird. But again, it is so weird that maybe one should try before dismissing.
The quail pancake thingy is definitely something that is the result of a creative mind.

100% not a Norwegian thing.

Reindeer cutlets wtf? 😂 I mean the northerners have good access to reindeer meat so I wouldn’t rule it out completely but I’ve never heard of such a thing.

And the fowl dish would most likely be imported meat and expensive as hell so the people eating this would be living in upper east side Oslo/Bærum and say things like ‘Morn, du’.

I mean, I’ve never heard of any of them. When I think of typical norwegian food I think of Fårikål (lamb and cabbage), pinnekjøtt (dried, salted lamb then damped – christmas dish) or kjøttkaker i brun saus (meat cakes in brown gravy). Maybe this is some kind of special occasions food somewhere in Norway? Doubt it though.

Pineapple, olives and bechamel… No, these recipes are not Norwegian.

Hilarious. But in no way Norwegian.

Norwegian National dish is “fårikål” basicly lamb with cabbage. In english mutton cabbage. Some place its more common with fish.

Reindeer with pineapple and apple? What is this heresy?
Any sami brother and sister would agree with me here that this is a disaster recipe.

XD hahaaha

I mean..quail does exist in Norway sometimes. Or it could be raised on a farm. Madeira wine or some sweet essence replacement is used in desserts, if very rarely. And this is something fairly modern (1900s), more continental, Danish or French. The foie gras follows the same pattern, like the truffles. And the pancakes in the recipe are also filled crepes, even if the proportions used in the pancake batter could pass for something commonly made in Norway (apart from the amount of butter). You’d see something like 1/1-2/1-2 on flour, egg, milk depending on taste, so this is an average of some kind.

Tarts with foxberry.. difficult to imagine where this even comes from. It could be a sweet cake with jam or gel filling… a general European thing in different variants.. but the jam is replaced with foxberry because that’s “common” in cooking with game in Norway. I don’t really enjoy it myself, but juniper berry and foxberry can be used in sauces to give the meat of game a bit of balance, specially with lean meat that might feel very dry. But adding foxberry next to a sweet meal, or a fowl like this is just ridiculous. Same with putting crepes into a dinner with expensive game.. no. You could imagine a restaurant would maybe use a more savory crepe (like the Norwegian ones typically are) to spruce up cold plates with *cough* “hunted” meat. And that’s not a terrible idea. But you’d likely just use “flatbread” and have individual ingredients laid out – given that it would have been prepared on beforehand. So a buffet of some sort with “dug”, gravet salmon or trout, cured salt meat, mustard-sauce, dill-potatoes, stuff like that, could be where the inspiration came from.

But this whole page is just crazy. What are they keeping in that “tine”, the rose-painted cake-container..? Miniature butter squares? Truffles that Askeladden’s helpers just fetched from the end of the world? It makes absolutely no sense.