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dkeat wrote:I hope you go away more often!

Umm, gee, thanks!??

sleepylady wrote:Seriously, what was for desert??? Something scrumptious?

Dessert consisted of: krumkake, pepperkake, rosettes, julekake, fattigman, smultringer, riskrem, rommegrøt, skillingsbolle and sandbakkels.

Since you're probably curious about what I had for dinner too (and how could you not be????), I had lutefisk, lefse, rutabagas, potatoes, gravy, melted butter and peas. To wash it all down: Aquavit.

In case you're wondering what lutefisk is (and unless you're also a full-blooded Norwegian, you must be), it is sometimes referred to as the fish you cure in Drano. From Wikipedia:Lutefisk is made from air-dried whitefish (normally cod), prepared with lye, in a sequence of particular treatments. The first treatment is to soak the stockfish in cold water for five to six days (changed daily). The saturated stockfish is then soaked in an unchanged solution of cold water and lye for an additional two days. The fish will swell during this soaking, regaining a size even bigger than the original (undried) fish, but the protein content paradoxically decreases by more than 50 percent, causing its famous jelly-like consistency. When this treatment is finished, the fish is full of lye, has a pH value of 11-12 and is poisonous. To make the fish edible, a final treatment of yet another four to six days (and nights) of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be used for cooking.

It is often remarked (well, at least amongst us Norwegians it is...) that lutefisk is what enabled the Vikings to discover America so long (500 years) before Columbus made his really-not-so-historic-after-all voyage. So this is something we're famous for. (That, and the requisite pillaging and plundering, of course.)

mikemoran wrote:Where's my burger?

We boobies do not, have not, and will not promote the consumption of our fellow boobies in any form.

Sleepless on LI wrote:Has someone been drinking dinner?

Ah, Lori, you know me well...

after reading such an appetizing description of lutefishk, I now understand when my dad was asked if he was norwegian he pleaded the "fifth' or was that what he had to first drink to eat it

mikemoran wrote:Where's my burger?

You all are great keep up the good work love all the laughs.