Christmas the Norwegian Way
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Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:01 pm
Us Norwegians celebrate Christmas Eve. The church bells toll at 17.00 which marks the beginning of the celebration. We seat ourselves at the table and start to dig in. Here's what we usually eat:
Rutabega mash, white sauerkraut and pork ribs with the crispy side up:
Sheep rips, steamed on top of birch twigs, spicy pork sausages and potatoes:
Red sauerkraut and fat rendered from the pan where the sheep's ribs were steaming:
For afters we had rice porridge cream and red sauce with an almond hidden in it. I never managed to photograph it since the bowl was nearly empty when it reached me. Whoever gets the almond wins a marzipan pig.
Then it's off to open the presents. This year we had so many presents they didn't fit under the tree:
We piled them high all around the tree:
I'll spare you the images of the carnage after having opened the presents. But the face of Lord says it all:
"Can't understand what all this is about, really!"
In between opening presents we fortify ourselves with coffee and cookies, of course. Can't risk going hungry, can we?
Tomorrow it's boiled halibut with sour cream sauce, potatoes and cucumber salad with lemon-and-sugar dressing, with cloudberry cream and special cookies for dessert.
I'm looking forward to that, and will probably have to be rolled into bed.
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