The month of April is one of the busiest months when it comes to birthday-celebrations in my vicinity, both the fourlegged kind of parties and the twolegged.
I suppose the two most distinguished celebrations of the month are the birthdays of M and my mother. The later we celebrated a day after the actual B-day with a nice meal out today (and of course a cat-show comes before a celebration of an even numbered birthday...).
The outing took place at Måns Ols Utvärdshus (the name is a bit quirky to translate, Måns Ols is an old fashion name and the name of a dammwatcher in the 1800 century. Utvärdshus means OutInn, since the Inn is mostly situated outdoors) - a restaurant/coffeehouse close to the small town of Sala. (Sala was founded as a town in the 1700 century, most known for its famous silver mine).
A trip to Måns Ols in the summers with the cab is a pleasant way to spend a lazy day. And the food is pretty good, with quite a bit of inventive thinking when it comes to vegetarian alternatives.
A trip to Måns Ols in the summers with the cab is a pleasant way to spend a lazy day. And the food is pretty good, with quite a bit of inventive thinking when it comes to vegetarian alternatives.
Like this baked paprika filled with chanterelles and sundried tomatoes, served with potatoe wedges and garlic cream cheese. I did miss the minced quorn though...
They also serve some nice fish-dishes. Like the one some had today - salmontrout with lemonsauce and pressed potatoe.
Måns Ols Utvärdshus is quite scenically situated close to the (actually man-made) lake of Långforsen. And the best way to enjoy a meal is of course outdoors and close to the lake. And why not have a nice walk, before or after the meal, on one of the many promenades close to the different damms in the neighbourhood? Even if there's no road around the whole lake.
And having had a brisk walk you well deserve one of Måns Ols' often very nice sweets. Like this classical dessert of banana-cream pastry.
Today was far from an outdoorish day though, so we had to sit indoors. Which was pretty enjoyable too. The only real blemish of the whole experience was this lovely looking chocolate/passionfruit pannacotta with strawberrysauce I chose for dessert.
It was just a horrible lump of tasteless jelly and far from that smooth-melting-on-your-tongue experience a well-made pannacotta is suppose to be.
But I guess even the smallest sun has its faults, and what matters the most is that the birthday-mother enjoyed her celebration with family and friends! So a massive dose of happy birthday to her!!
Oooh! It all looks so fancy!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Everyone! :)
xox
I'll be sure to pass that on:)
ReplyDeleteIt's quite fun how something that seems so... well, usual, normal, everyday-life-like can be regarded as fancy, picturesque, quaint, exotic if you happen to look at it from another point of view in the world. I was in absolute awe of the little african lodge we stayed in at the safari in South Africa - that was so extraordinary and fantastic to me, I'm sure the natives regarded it as somewhat... well, non-fancy and very basic standard. But for me it was one of the most treasured experiences there...:)