Xmas Dinner

This year, i actually got to have a christmas dinner really early! Paul (a friend of Joco's introduced last summer as well)and his gf Michelle (shorter form of her name, there's another syllable in front i cant remember) invited me,alex and joco over for a christmas dinner at his place. It was a pretty damn long walk...........................but it was a pretty nice dinner :)

As far as i know for now, there are 3 types of Norwegian christmas dinners. There is :
1: Pinnekjott , or dried lamb meat thats boiled and then eaten with potatoes and other stuff
2: Lutefisk , or some icky jelly-like waterlogged fish. Eaten with melted butter. Its basically been soaked in stuff for days, which reduces the protein content to perhaps 50% which makes it turn jelly like. *has this idea norwegians keep mutilating their fresh fish*
3: *insert some norwegian name* Porkchops essentially, with VERY nice crispy skin on top! its abit like the roast pork we get in singapore at chicken rice stalls, but the skin is thicker and CRUNCHY! Its eaten with some sort of sour cabbage thing, berry thing, potatoes and sauce.Last night's dinner included sausages and some meat cakes as well as christmas soda (literally translated XD) . it was goooood. A very nice experience for me, because at alex's parent's, we eat Pinnekjott (no complaints there though, its nice*drool*). Now that i've sampled 2/3 of Norway's xmas dinners... i'm pretty much content. i dont think i want to eat waterlogged fish...

was nice to actually have a nice dinner with friends, sitting around a table all warm and cosy and having fun talking about funny things in our lives, christmas.... hmm.. as alex put it, it was nice to be away from screens and technology abit.

then some of us had coffee afterwards, some of us coke and cookies. me and alex got this nice chocolate chip twist thingy for dessert, its like long croissant with chocolate chips? YUM. i'm so gonna get more today, and michelle wants to get some too XD

very thankfully, we took the bus back home. its been raining quite abit lately, which i dont quite like although it actually seems warmer when it rains. good thing it isnt cold enough for the rain to freeze on the ground and become evil ice.

gonna have a Japanese dinner tmr with joco and simen *having abit of guilt for not inviting paul, but i planned this way early and have a dinner set for 4 only*. We'll be making our own maki rolls, onigiri and sushi! i'll take some pictures definitely, but whether they get posted up or not is another story. Perhaps we'll have time to make japanese curry and invite paul and michelle over in return for the yummy xmas dinner.

hope we do!