lutefisk and lefse hmmmmm yum yum. Well....maybe the lefse with butter on it.
Well, you know how it is with anyone’s *soul food*. I am Jewish and my husband will not eat gefilte fish or chopped chicken liver. Too bad. More for me.
You know the following, but I include it for the non-locals:
Not any publicly served lutefisk. Some churches do hold lutefisk dinners, but they always offer meatballs, too.
Lefse is good if it is homemade and fresh with butter and sugar.
Meatballs with ginger and nutmeg. Very good.
Rommegrot. Sort of a Norsk sweet cream gravy. Not to my taste, but some folks like it. Better with salt and no sugar or cinnamon, IMO.
Bakery. Lots of wonderful, sugary, buttery cookies and fried cakes. Excellent.
My non-Norwegian MIL used to prepare my FIL’s Sytennde Mai lutefisk dinner on a separate stove in the basement, with all doors to the upstairs closed. We would be served beef roast, while he would have his lutefisk, complete w/a little paper Norwegian flag stuck in it. It just became a family tradition and sort of a joke. We all tasted it. Dunked in enough butter, it tastes better than it smells.
Grandma’s sandbaakles (almond cookies; better if made w/butter)could be used to pack bearings. They literally dripped lard. The kids used to have sandbaakle fights until they were stopped because the grease marks were difficult to remove.