Scandinavian Kitchen

Having a baby? How about having it the Scandi way...

One day workhops are now being held at Scandi Kitchen for a group called Prepare4birth - lovely Swedish Kiki and Nina are hosting one day workshops on birth preparation.  The courses are designed for couples to attend together and they are using the downstairs area of Scandi Kitchen for the event.

The course is a one day course from 10 am - 5 pm - lunch and refreshments are included in the price (£185 per couple).

There are still a few spots left for the course on Saturday 29th October - visit here for more info

Little shops we like #4

Anna Wetterlin is a Swede, living in London.  She set up her own company designing and selling Swedish style children’s moccasins – meaning no more slipping and sliding for the kids running around inside.

With a background in fashion, Anna set about designing the wonderful little Moccis, as she calls them.  Moccis are made of ecotex certified materials and the leather soles allow the little feet to move freely and for the baby’s muscles to develop properly. 

Anna’s Moccis are doing well and are currently available in UK, Ireland, Germany and Sweden.

You can find out more about Anna’s super-cute Moccis here

Swedish Mum group in Sydney?

One of our lovely Swedish friends who used to live just around the corner from SK moved to Sydney a while back with her husband and two little children.  She was wondering if any of you guys know of a Swedish Mum's group in the Eastern suburbs of Sydney.  if you do, please let us know iloveherring@scandikitchen.co.uk and we'll put you guys in touch.

We're loving that Scandi Kitchen reaches as far as Australia.  Yahoo.  Come on, help us prove we can world-wide network, Mums!

Little shops we like #3

This post refers back to an older post about nice little shops

One of the things we get asked about most from the people in the Scandinavian community is childcare.  Generally, in the UK, this can be a bit of a minefield but it gets harder when you need childcare that speaks the same language as your kids and you don't happen to be living in your own country.

Nordic Childcare is set up by Minna and Minna from Finland - both are highly educated childcare specialists and have worked with children for many, many years.  Nordic childcare and babysitting provides ad-hoc babysitting as well as planned ones - and they can also find bespoke Nannies and Aupairs who have the linguistic skills families may require.

All Minna and Minna's people are not only CRB vetted (police checked), they have strict reference checks and most are either studying towards childcare qualifications or already have them.  We have heard good stuff back about Nordic Childcare after passing on their detials to people who have enquired via us.

You can contact Nordic Childcare on the address below or pop along to the Mamma Evening this Thursday where they'll also be there.

Nordic Child Care Ltd, 235 Fulwell Park Avenue, Twickenham TW2 5HD

By email:       info@nordic-childcare.co.uk

By phone:      020 7221 7079 / 07833 761658 / 07779 290385

 

Mamma mia

Mother's get-togethers at Scandi Kitchen - a nice place to meet, chat and let the babies play

It can be hard as a new mother sometimes to find places to meet up with other mothers (especially one that allows prams, crying and breastfeeding all at once). At Scandi Kitchen, we have both Scandinavian Mother's meet-ups with babies during the day - and once a quarter we have Scandinavian Mother's evenings where we meet without the children (and sometimes drink a glass of wine or three).

Our space downstairs can hold around 8 prams/kids plus mums (any more and it gets too cramped). Let us know if you want to attend one of the groups we have already - or if you want to start arranging your own one.

Fancy running a Norwegian meet-up group? Perhaps you are a Swedish nanny or au-pair who wants a place to meet other like-minded colleagues for coffee with the babies you look after? Want to meet other Danish mums in London? A Finnish parent but have nobody else for your kids to practise their Finnish with? Let us know, we'll help you set up your group

Picture from the Danish Mother's group that meets on the 2nd Monday of

every month and last Friday of the month at Scandi Kitchen.

L to r: Alexander, Astrid, William and Johan.

Super Plonk wine evening

So, our wine evening ended up not being so much just for Scandi Mums but just a good bunch of people who got together to learn from our friend Ray the wine dude. And wowsa, did we learn stuff - from how and why to swivel the glass to how far to stick your tooter into the glass and what grapes are used for what.  It was really interesting and we're planning another evening for beginning of September.

More about Ray here

..and tom cruise is this tall...

everyone thinks they're a great "I'll get that artistic shot" photographer by the 7th glass of vino.... sadly, it's not so true. Note the greasy fingerprints.  Classy.

Scandi Mums wine tasting on 4th June - still spaces

We still have some spaces for our Scandi Mum's wine tasting event on the 4th June in the evening - if you are interested in coming along, mail bronte@scandikitchen.co.uk - you can read more about the event here and see a lovely picture of our wine expert, Ray, sitting in a crate of freshly pressed grapes. 

Danish mum groups at SK

Just to remind anyone interested:  there are 2 Danish language mum/dad groups that meet at SK - the first is every second Monday of the month at 10:30 am till after lunch and the other is last Friday of the month from 13:00 until around 16:00.

If you want to pop along with your child (most range from 0-2 years old), e-mail bronte@scandikitchen.co.uk as spaces are limited - first come, first served (we have 8 pram spaces only).

We still have a few spaces for our group tomorrow at 10:30

Anyone interested in setting up any other groups, just let us know and we'll help sort it out for you.

Scandi Mother's Group: Wine tasting 4th June

At SK we have a Scandi Mum's group that meets once in a while at SK for a glass of wine and a chit chat - and we also arrange a few special events.  Next event will be on the 4th June where a chap called Ray O Connor will grace up with his presence for a wine tasting session - actually teaching us how to taste wine and drinking some of it in the process.  Ray won the Young Wine Writer of the year last year and is not your stereotypical dusty, old wine expert.  Places are stirctly limited to 20 persons for the session, so please let us know if you want to join: iloveherring@scandikitchen.co.uk.  Please note there is a charge for wine at this event (between £10-15, direct to Ray himself, not us - he's just covering expenses).

You can read more about Ray here http://www.harpers.co.uk/news/4912/2007-Young-Wine-Writer-announc.ehtml