Ikea is awesome. But it’s not just awesome because of the inexpensive homegoods. The café, where you can get mounds of Swedish meatballs, complete with plenty of lingonberry sauce for just a couple bucks, now that’s where it’s at. It’s a favorite comfort food of mine, and lucky for me and my family, the folks at Ikea make it very easy to recreate the dish by selling sauce packets to make the exact same sauce that they make in the restaurant for just a couple bucks in the store. Grab a bag of frozen meatballs (my grocer even has frozen Swedish meatballs…SCORE), and you’re set!

But what really makes the dish for me is the Lingonberry sauce. Felix Brand makes the best, though I haven’t tried Ikea’s storebrand due to insane loyalty to this stuff. The way the flavor of the gravy melds with the lingonberries, it’s just indescribably perfect. It’s happy food, pure and simple.