on the Frasier side is always an interesting experience. : )
We do the traditional Swedish meal. It is served in several courses and takes a long time.
I think its fun to watch the three year-old to see how she does in a 2 hour dinner.
But this year, I thought I would document what we were eating in pictures. So here you go!
Step 1. Cookie decorating.
Meet Katie. She ate all the sprinkles before we could use them on the cookies. : )
I made a horse with a star on it.
Step 2. Salad. These banana salads represent the candles that used to be used at each place setting in the old days. The cherry on top is the light.
Step 3. Pickled and creamed herring. I won't eat the pickled kind it smells nasty, but the creamed kind really isn't too bad.
Step 4. Caraway cheese served by the cheese mouse.
Step 5. Lutefisk (re-hydrated white fish) on potatoes in a creamy gravy. This time was better than the first. Mark made the gravy, this time it had yummy flavor that kind of drowned out the fishy taste. :)
Step 6. Brown beans with molasses and other goodness, pot roast, potato sausage and brocolli. I liked everything in this round!
Step 7. Otsakaka. It means cheese cake-like dessert topped with lingonberries. For some reason I didn't take a picture of that...maybe because I don't eat it. I am a texture eater and ostakaka is kind of like bread pudding and I can't eat that either. I think its the wet bready texture. Can't handle it. : )
And there you go. A traditional Swedish dinner. Some parts are so yummy. Some parts are not exactly yummy, but a neat tradition nonetheless. Thanks Grams for putting it all together.
On Chistmas Day we get to do one of my favorite things! Fondu! I look forward to that everytime we go out to Colorado!