Thanksgiving - not in Norway, but you can buy turkey...
a "marinert kalkun bryst" & what is it marinated in?
Didn't know & so cooked it as "if" there would be a taste to it...
there was "not" any taste to it - so next one will know to "really"
marinate it in anything that resembles a taste?! Plus--
Cranberries, pumpkin, stuffing, etc. to be found in the stores as well...
Skip - 2 Week holiday to Southern Spain, following Thanksgiving...
Stavanger - Malaga - Alora (side trip to Antequera, El Chorro, El Torcal...)
- Marbella - Ronda - San Luis Sabinillas - Malaga - Stavanger
via Norwegian Air...Note: see pics posted on Facebook
Christmas - Yes, they do that in Norway...
only you rarely see colored lights, just lots of white lights in the trees, bushes,
windows, porches - plus arched candle holders in the windows with or without real
candles in them, the without have pretend candle lights...
or lighted paper stars in the windows, kind of like the moravian star shapes...
Check out these links to see how they may celebrate/what they eat, etc...
Note: here there are photos of plates of Christmas foods from the different parts of Norway...
though this blog guy only did North, East, West? hmmm...was wondering where the South went?! (which is where we are in Stavanger...)
And this link includes New Year's Eve & New Year's...
Called Julebukk, Nyttarsbukk, Drammebukk...
The kids dress up as I'm told like small Santa's to sing Christmas songs & ask at the door for candy or Clementines (oranges) or nuts...while the adults come back out later to ask for drinks?! (I'm told anything with alcohol in it that is, which can include Glogg - aka mulled winde...)
Here is how to make Glogg...which I will be trying tomorrow, we have a concentrate - that looks
oddly like an old fashion brown whisky flask, only it's plastic & has a picture of Santa on the front?! hmmm...(though you can make a non-alcoholic version of Glogg)
oddly like an old fashion brown whisky flask, only it's plastic & has a picture of Santa on the front?! hmmm...(though you can make a non-alcoholic version of Glogg)
And oddly enough from someone who's named his blog--drunkenblog--comes a rather interesting Glogg recipes...try it instead, you may like it?! As he says he's spreading the "werd of Glogg?!" Cheers!
And our Christmas tradition--
it's not Christmas until Chevy Chase falls off the roof?!
Ho, Ho, Ho! Jingle, Jingle, Jingle...
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
God Jul og Godt Nytt Ar!
