On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:54:24 +0000, D wrote:
I had christmas dinner with my business partners. We started (just 2 of
us) lightly with a tiny beer at 16:00 and we finished around 00:30 (I
had
a class to teach early next day).
Loads of beer, schnapps, cognac, coffee, but what might interest you
guys
here is the classic swedish dish Gubbröra (our starter):
Gubbröra is a dish usually consisting of chopped anchovies (with or
without spade), boiled egg, chives and dill that are mixed together.[1]
It
can be served cold or hot (fried).
Variants may include red onion, caviar, sardines[clarify], böckling,
mayonnaise or matjessir. Common accompaniments to gubbröra can be
crispbread, toast (traditionally kavring), baked potatoes, schnapps and
beer.[2][3]
The origin of the name gubbröra is unknown.[4] Gubbröra has been in the
Swedish language since 1923.[5]
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gubbr%C3%B6ra
Gubbröra means "Old mans hash". Very tasty and we had it with dark
bread.
It sounds like a pretty good dinner. Certainly, it was better than mine.
We had an office party at an Olive Garden restaurant. The boss wanted to
eat at the Cheesecake Factory but I dreaded having to go into Waikiki.
There's certainly a lot of better restaurants in Hawaii but the guy is
Vietnamese/Canadian so his eating habits are foreign to me. It sounds
like you had a heck of a time. We had a so-so time. I would rather have
had a traditional Japanese Christmas dinner.
