Food
It wouldn’t be my site without a mention of the food. I’m loving the dairy products here, which is a good thing because they’re everywhere. The butter (don’t worry, Stephenie) is soooooooo fresh and creamy. We made butter-cream filling for the lefse with powdered sugar and a hint of cinnamon — I managed to stop at one quarter-sandwich, but I could easily have gone on and on.
Today, as yesterday, we had catered lunches at our meetings with the locals. My favorite is the open-faced shrimp sandwich, which has an unabashed dollap of fresh mayo and a heap of teeny fresh shrimp. I’ve been reading that the thing to do in Bergen is to get a batch of freshly-boiled shrimp and peel them and eat them, but frankly I don’t need to peel them myself. I’m quite happy to have someone else do it, if they’re this small. Instant gratification.
The only thing about the open-faces is that we’re eating them in front of community leaders, and it’s pretty challenging to look dignified with shrimp falling from your face when biting. But at least the locals seem to have as much trouble.
And now Randi and I made chocolate chip cookie dough, sort of. We used baking powder instead of soda, and some rock-hard brown sugar crystals. And there aren’t any English measuring cups, so I had to fake the amount of butter (quarter-kilo?) and flour and sugar. Vanilla sugar instead extract. We’ll have an interesting concoction, but it’ll have chocolate and butter and sugar — what could go wrong?
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