Comment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Touch2Touch
Yes and no, Mary. A lot of thinking and planning, a lot of shopping, a lot of somewhat finicky garnish prep. But if you have willing handmaidens, the actual doing goes quickly, and then your whole meal...
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Touch2Touch
It’s a whole new profession for you, Pru! ;-)
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Tales and Travels of the Tin Man
The one who cannot be skoaled is the first person to do the toast, because, alas, their glass is empty. This sounds like delightful fun! We must give this a whirl sometime!
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Touch2Touch
Good try, but no cigars — Glasses of both aquavit and beer can be refilled all evening if so desired, and usually are.
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Lucid Gypsy
It’s really attractive food, I’d struggle with a veggies version. Your evening sounds great fun, is the virgin the one that can’t be skoaled?
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Nature on the Edge
Love this post! My family has Scandinavian roots and we know this fare; and those aquavit toasts! I go mad for Ski-queen gjetost on dark rye bread :)
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Touch2Touch
There’s egg and tomato — what else? Scrambled eggs, if you do eggs, with or without mushrooms. And whatever else you could make up – No, it’s not the virgin, I mean — who could tell? There might be...
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Touch2Touch
If memory serves me, long ago I tried gjetost cheese. It was darkish brown, yes? and tasted unlike anything I’d ever had. A true taste of childhood — but not my childhood! I’m glad the post awakened...
View ArticleComment on Dinner of the Cold Maidens — by Nature on the Edge
:) oh yes gjetost piques those childhood memories and the taste was less savoury in flavour and more like caramel.
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by firstandfabulous
That’s why you go to someone else’s house and be ‘the guest’. ;-)
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Touch2Touch
Another practical point of view! ;-)
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Patti Kuche
My head is throbbing at the thought!
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Touch2Touch
You get the picture, Patti! Somebody’s got to be in charge here — ;-)
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by colderweather
Skål! The rules are rather similar in my country … and b.t.w., Max von Sydow is a Swede too :) When there’s a skål all around the table, all look one another in the eyes, and nobody puts the glass down...
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Lucid Gypsy
I hope that doesn’t put too many off of having dinner parties!
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by mrscarmichael
Love it! Want to attend but NOT as the hostess.
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Touch2Touch
Rats! I meant to check on whether MvS was Swedish and a skaller, not a skoaler, but lazily decided just to claim him for Denmark. Mea culpa. I don’t know what they do in Finland, but I’ll bet it’s...
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Touch2Touch
What, the skoaling or the not-skoaling? ;-) (I think Danish hostesses are really cool, whatever happens.)
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by Touch2Touch
But look how many invitations you collect in return for one temperate evening! ;-) (Maybe not so temperate, no etiquette about what and how she drinks of her own volition. It’s just the obligatory...
View ArticleComment on Cold Maidens, Smorrebrod, and the “No-Skoal Zone” by mrscarmichael
Oh well that’s ok then :)
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