MMMmmm Lutfisk!
It's that time of year again when the Christensen's kick up their Norwegian herritage and break out their traditional Christmas dish.
Lutfisk and Lefse.
What is Lutfisk and Lefse? Well it's part good, and part well... lets just say most will either love it or hate it. I'm smack in the middle. Lutefisk is made from air-dried whitefish (normally cod, but ling is also used), 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.
Sounds Yummy?
It is said that the lutfisk was invented because some fumbly person happened to drop some lye on a piece of dried, soaked fish and thus discovered that the dry fish re-took its original shape and became white. Crazy Norwegiens! This is generally served wrapped like a burrito with butter, boiled potatoes and more butter inside a lefse, which is basically a potato tortilla shell.
Uf-Dah!
Maybe we should serve the Lutfisk and Lefse with Haggis next year?
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
"Do you know the name and address of the person responsible for the damage?"
"Mr. Tree...he was moving and he didn't leave a forwarding address"
What a wind storm! Our power was out Thursday night around 8:00 and came back on Saturday night at 6:30. Amazing how cold it gets when you don't have the heater on! We bundled up the kiddies and stuck it through with fondu pots, candles, and eventually we got our gas fireplace working. Thanks mom and Brad! and Thanks Kir for being so determined to get it to go!
We had several offers to have us stay at other houses and for that we all say thank you! We decided to stick it out because we just knew that the power had to come on sometime! If it would have been more than two nights we would have probably gone somewhere.
Kirsten's folks are still without power today! Everyone around their neighborhood has power. It's crazy! We've opened our doors to them since Saturday. It's like an impromptu sleep over! Maverick and Lainey are enjoying the extra Grammy and Pappy time, but I'm sure they would rather sleep in their own beds. Hopefully the folks with PSE will get their power up and running soon! I've heard so many reports with different time lines, it's rather crazy to try and figure it out. The worst of it is, there is a tree down on a powerline at a near by elementary school. It's still down today. Our guess this is a reason for their outage. You would think they would want to get the school up and running.
Besides a window that was smashed (and already replaced) we weathered the storm well. It was pretty crazy!
"Mr. Tree...he was moving and he didn't leave a forwarding address"
What a wind storm! Our power was out Thursday night around 8:00 and came back on Saturday night at 6:30. Amazing how cold it gets when you don't have the heater on! We bundled up the kiddies and stuck it through with fondu pots, candles, and eventually we got our gas fireplace working. Thanks mom and Brad! and Thanks Kir for being so determined to get it to go!
We had several offers to have us stay at other houses and for that we all say thank you! We decided to stick it out because we just knew that the power had to come on sometime! If it would have been more than two nights we would have probably gone somewhere.Kirsten's folks are still without power today! Everyone around their neighborhood has power. It's crazy! We've opened our doors to them since Saturday. It's like an impromptu sleep over! Maverick and Lainey are enjoying the extra Grammy and Pappy time, but I'm sure they would rather sleep in their own beds. Hopefully the folks with PSE will get their power up and running soon! I've heard so many reports with different time lines, it's rather crazy to try and figure it out. The worst of it is, there is a tree down on a powerline at a near by elementary school. It's still down today. Our guess this is a reason for their outage. You would think they would want to get the school up and running.
Besides a window that was smashed (and already replaced) we weathered the storm well. It was pretty crazy!
Monday, December 18, 2006
Santa's Surprise Cookies
Tomorrow is this year's big Christmas Program. Virtually the pinnacle of each year of work for Kirsten. She is supported by the rest of the McCarl and Christensen clans as the big production. One of our traditions we have is bringing Santa Surprises to the staff as a thank you for all the work they endured during the preparation for the big Christmas program. Each year we end up making a bigger and bigger batch! It's crazy! But they are SO TASTY! You should try em'!
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