I can tell that window view is a reference. Buildings poking up in a forest is quite the impression you can get.
That's primarily a pine forest. Of the coniferous trees, there are mostly pine and spruce, but spruce forests are much darker. Where they are forests are relatively mixed, since it's roughly where the coniferous forests in the mid and north and the deciduous forests in the south meet.
You're not allowed to fell trees without permission, and camping is restricted to one day, outside the view of the houses and gardens.
Of course, meatballs with some jam on the side.
Moose meat is great. So's caribou/reindeer.
"They're like a replacement for rice."
They're a replacement for other root vegetables like turnips. We never had rice here to replace. It's better to say they're equivalent to rice, as it's a staple food.
Potatoes with lingonberry jam is starvation food, in the sense that you can eat only that and be reasonably well off for quite a while. But not in the sense of people only eating it if they have nothing else; it's quite popular, but with more stuff to the dishes, like meat.