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All set for Christmas!
Dec. 22nd, 2002 11:38 amIn 4 1/2 hours I get to see TTT! yay! And this time around we´ll be seeing it *before* HP. Non-traditionalists!
Malin and I were really good girls yesterday. We did most of our shopping for the Yule bord along with candles and napkins etc. (In sweden we have a smorgasbord with specific Christmas-foods on it.) We first went to the local grocery store (a minute from our house) and then we went to the supermarket which is a fifteen minute walk from here (or two minutes with the bus) and bought the rest. They´ve changed so much since I used to work there, you can hardly find anything anymore. Then we went home, unpacked and started cleaning. Now the entire flat is squeaky clean. The tablecloths are all Christmasy and free from cat hair, and there are decorations and glitter and candle holders everywhere.
My brothers were here on Friday to celebrate my birthday and eat a new cake I'd made and I showed them the extended DVD of Fellowship. Well, not all of it. They gave me *lots* of Christmas presents (I gave them one each *hangs head in shame*) that are now beautifully arranged by Malin around the foot of the Christmas tree. (Which looks great too, I might add.) The tree is plastic, of course.
So now Christmas has arrived completely. If only it could snow! I could never understand those people who live in California and Florida, how can they stand their Christmases? It should be cold and there should be lots of snow so you can take long walks after dinner with that lovely sound under your boots, damnit!
I also called mum and got the last recipes from her. She insisted that I make the meatballs now and freeze them afterwards instead of freezing the minced meat and then make the meat balls the day before Christmas. So I did, and they turned out *just* like her Christmas meat balls! I´m going to take the ribs out of the freezer and marinate them tonight since they should be in the marinade 24 hours. I shall make the vegetable paté and the coleslaw-thingy and mom's orange/prune jam on the 23rd since Christmas in Sweden is on the 24th. Am quite domestic. :-)
As for the small sausages, the liver paste, the paté, the bore cole, the red cabbage and the wort bread, the pickled herring, the veal brawn, the herring salad etc, it´s all store bought! If you can buy certain things in the store with the same quality as if you would make them from scratch, why not?
The only thing left to buy is the big ham and it's Malin's job to boil it and to glaze it and to season the broth. "Sula" is when you dip rye wort bread in the ham broth and eat it with butter and sweet red cabbage. Yum! Am drooling already.
We've also bought a Gingerbread house which we will decorate and assemle on the eve of the 23rd when you´re supposed to stay up all night and do fun things and sample the Christmas food.. All the channels have their own programmes this night where celebrities sing Christmas songs and assemble things. It´s corny, I know. But it´s tradition.
I hope you are all fine and get a wonderful Christmas Holliday. Must now prepare for TTT and subsequent restaurant visit. Love you all.
Malin and I were really good girls yesterday. We did most of our shopping for the Yule bord along with candles and napkins etc. (In sweden we have a smorgasbord with specific Christmas-foods on it.) We first went to the local grocery store (a minute from our house) and then we went to the supermarket which is a fifteen minute walk from here (or two minutes with the bus) and bought the rest. They´ve changed so much since I used to work there, you can hardly find anything anymore. Then we went home, unpacked and started cleaning. Now the entire flat is squeaky clean. The tablecloths are all Christmasy and free from cat hair, and there are decorations and glitter and candle holders everywhere.
My brothers were here on Friday to celebrate my birthday and eat a new cake I'd made and I showed them the extended DVD of Fellowship. Well, not all of it.
So now Christmas has arrived completely. If only it could snow! I could never understand those people who live in California and Florida, how can they stand their Christmases? It should be cold and there should be lots of snow so you can take long walks after dinner with that lovely sound under your boots, damnit!
I also called mum and got the last recipes from her. She insisted that I make the meatballs now and freeze them afterwards instead of freezing the minced meat and then make the meat balls the day before Christmas. So I did, and they turned out *just* like her Christmas meat balls! I´m going to take the ribs out of the freezer and marinate them tonight since they should be in the marinade 24 hours. I shall make the vegetable paté and the coleslaw-thingy and mom's orange/prune jam on the 23rd since Christmas in Sweden is on the 24th. Am quite domestic. :-)
As for the small sausages, the liver paste, the paté, the bore cole, the red cabbage and the wort bread, the pickled herring, the veal brawn, the herring salad etc, it´s all store bought!
The only thing left to buy is the big ham and it's Malin's job to boil it and to glaze it and to season the broth. "Sula" is when you dip rye wort bread in the ham broth and eat it with butter and sweet red cabbage. Yum! Am drooling already.
We've also bought a Gingerbread house which we will decorate and assemle on the eve of the 23rd when you´re supposed to stay up all night and do fun things and sample the Christmas food.. All the channels have their own programmes this night where celebrities sing Christmas songs and assemble things. It´s corny, I know. But it´s tradition.
I hope you are all fine and get a wonderful Christmas Holliday. Must now prepare for TTT and subsequent restaurant visit. Love you all.
