Do you or your family make any special dishes for the holidays?

At our house my husband & I have started our own traditions. On Christmas Eve it’s all Scandinavian but on Christmas Day it’s all American.

Christmas Eve, we have the traditional herring & salmon with an open faced omelette. We have decided to forgo Pinnesjøtt as it’s Very salty & for me brings up unpleasant memories. Pinnesjøtt is dried, smoked cured lamb. But we end the meal by opening up a box of fancy chocolate for our dessert.

Christmas Day, is all about my husband’s traditions. We have pirogues with fried onions & ham. We also save presents from his parents & open it. The pirogues are homemade with cheese & potato. The whole pirogues are made from scratch.

Our house smells good from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day. We also bake cookies some Scandinavian & some American.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Name your top three pet peeves.

Liars, who talk smack about me or my family. Is my # 1 pet peeve. Or make up things that are just not true. It says more about them than it does about me. “Liars don’t believe anyone else” U2 sings in a song & it’s true.

People that ride the bus for one stop in the middle of the day. When it’s safe to walk where they’re going. They rush onto the bus as if they’re going to miss something. Pathetic really.

My third pet peeve is bricks in cafés that sit for more than 2 hours but only buy one beverage. When they have perfectly functioning WiFi at home or at school. I’m analog & write most of my thoughts on paper. Bricks really rub me the wrong way. I think they should be able to purchase a drink or food for each hour they’re there. Loitering with a laptop is so 15 years ago.

Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why?

I prefer the mountains as I grew up fishing for mountain trout as a child. Hiking from lake to lake in the mountains & finding the perfect fish.

I enjoy the mountains more because there’s more to see, like cloudberry picking in the Fall & skiing in the Winter.

I grew up going to the beach a ton as a kid but as an adult I find it boring & of course the sand gets into everything.

I like the mountains because of the view & that it’s not always an easy hike. But the altitude always makes it worth it.