Christmas, in list form

[luzula]

Today I ate, among other things:

- meatballs made from elk
- chopped kale cooked with cream
- omelet with mushroom stew
- chopped carrots, parsnips and rutabagas (aka swedes, ha!) baked in the oven with ginger and honey and butter
- homemade cheese
- dark sourdough bread with dried fruit mixed in
- porridge cooked from rice and milk, with cinnamon on top
- homemade toffee
- chopped raisins and almonds soaked in whiskey and mixed with marzipan, and then rolled into balls and dipped in dark chocolate

All of this is traditional Christmas food in my family. Oof, I am full. I got the following presents (yes, in Sweden we give presents on the 24th):

- various Polish soup mixes (mostly żurek = sour rye soup, and barszcz = red beet soup) from my sister. I fell in love with these soups when I was in Poland a couple of years ago, and my sister lives in a town with lots of Polish immigrants (and Polish food stores).
- a gift of money to a charity of my choice, from my dad.
- Garner's Modern American Usage from my mom. secretlybronte recced this book a while ago, so I put it on my wish list. I hope it'll be useful in my writing, and it's also compulsively readable.
- a small wooden box from my best friend, for putting samples of mosses and lichens in. Heh, she knows me well.

Mostly, though, I'm happy to be with my family and friends.

Happy holidays, everyone! &hearts (And tomorrow, DSSS and Yuuuuuletide! \o/)

Comments

[isis]

YUM. Happy holidays!

[luzula]

Mmmmm. Today we get to eat leftovers. \o/

[jesse_the_k]

Those traditional foods sound delicious!

Is the kale cooked in the cream? (I have an abiding interest in kale, since I eat it at least twice a week.)

The last item on your list sounds intoxicating: what are they called? Are they Swedish? Polish? simply divine?

Will you have real candles on your tree? In any case, enjoy!

[luzula]

You fry some chopped onions, and then add chopped kale (actually, I mostly use the pre-chopped frozen packages) and boil it with bouillon until all the water is boiled out. Then it's fried in a little bit of butter, and you add some cream and a pinch of sugar. That's basically it. Mmmm, I love kale.

The last item is something my boyfriend and I made up once, when we had a bottle of whiskey and were trying to think of something to do with it. It turned out really well, and we've been making every year since for Christmas.

And we don't have a tree this year, partly because of laziness, but mostly because my parents have a puppy who would quickly demolish it.

I hope your holidays are good!

[the_antichris]

That kale dish sounds fantastic. I will be making it next winter!

I had two Christmas dinners, neither of which involved turkey. :/ But there was trifle, which is all that really matters.

[luzula]

Hmm, trifle, I have no idea what that is. *goes to Wikipedia*

Okay, that looks...really, it's hard to tell from the picture, but it might be good?

Oh, and would you rather be read at DW or LJ? Do you crosspost everything?

[the_antichris]

It's sponge cake II think it originated as a way to use up stale cake) spread with jam and soaked in sherry or other alcohol, with fruit on top, then custard poured over everything and whipped cream and possibly more fruit on top of that. It's DELICIOUS.

I crosspost everything and have no strong feelings, so whichever suits you better.

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Man, those soups sound fanTAStic.

Happy Holidays, you!

[luzula]

Oh, they are. My boyfriend tried making żurek once from scratch, but it was hard to get the sourness right (basically, you make sourdough and put it in the soup). So it'll be fun to see how the mixes work.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

We're taking almond tart and rosemary foccaccia to my Uncle's tonight, and tomorrow there will be ham and turkey and accoutrements at my sister's along with several kinds of smoked salmon and shrimp with red sauce appetizers.

Julia, good yule to you and your's.

[luzula]

Oh, it's always fun to hear about other people's traditional foods. And of course you'd eat salmon and shrimp in the Pacific Northwest. : )

God Jul!