thanksgiving in denmark
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 4:49PM I have so much to be thankful for in my life and most importantly is all the love that surrounds me by friends and family.
My little Danish thanksgiving was fantastic! We had an amazing dinner with great company and delicious food. Most credits for the food go to Claus, our chef. He had fun making new food and I had fun drinking wine in the kitchen saying yes we put marshmallows on our sweet potatoes and no it’s not the wine talking, hahaha.
Our menu included:
- 11lb Turkey
- Mashed potatoes (with lumps in honor of my dad and mom-mom and the rest of the Curley crew)
- Stuffing with apples, cranberries and chorizo
- Sweet potato mash with pineapples and marshmallows
- Cranberry sauce
- Creamed Spinach
- Green beans with rum soaked plums
- Pumpkin Pie (Chr and I made this)
- Pumpkin Bread (Chr & made this too)
Holy cow was it delicousss! I have converted the Danes – they also agree that Thanksgiving is the best American holiday by far! We are making it a tradition every year! I am waiting on better pictures from Jeanette's camera - will post them when I can. Until now - bear with the iphone pics! :)
There was no NFL to watch put I put on a little “Alice’s Restaurant” and then Christmas music that was Thanksgiving enough for me.
Only bummer thing is that Denmark doesn’t give us the Friday after Thanksgiving off so we chose to do it on Friday so that food comas and hangovers could linger into the weekend rather than the last of the work week.
We need to find a way to expand Thanksgiving dinner next year – get more people on board. Just need to find more seating and big enough kitchens. Maybe we could make it the Jilly version of Julefrokost (a very Danish tradition)… hmmm. I have a year to think about it.
The countdown continues to come home. I am so excited to 1)be on home soil so close to my family and friends 2) have a few days off from work (though, not enough).
We’ve also started some small Christmas traditions. This past Sunday was the first Sunday of advent – we lit our first candle. Normally on the first day of December Farmor makes risengrød, a very traditional Danish Christmas dish. It is unsweetened, warm rice pudding served with butter and cinnamon. I like it, but not as much as Christian does. Anyway we did the tradition last night because little Farmor is in Sweden the next two days. Yum.
Hoping we can get our lottery advent calendars to start tomorrow as well but everywhere is sold out lately.
By the way, we also received maybe 18 inches of snow over the weekend. Was not paying attention as there was a little snow here and there all week. I don’t think I realized until Saturday that we had over a foot of snow and it was still coming down. Winter is here!
Should have broke this post up a bit – had so much to say! Too busy these days, that is for sure. I know it won’t calm down any time soon, unfortunately. But it’s Christmas time – lots to be thankful for and lots to look forward to!
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