Hei hei! Since folks were interested in the follow up, here’s some pics from the Norweigan festival at a local “Sons of Norway” lodge here in the U.S. for your judging 😅 Thanks for your tips on what to buy!
This is a very small event the group hosts once a year to open up the lodge to guests and sell imported Norweigan or other Scandinavian goods and homemade treats. “Lodges” in the U.S. are an interchangeable term both for a cultural group run by 2nd+ gen immigrants and expats, and the houses or buildings they’re run out of that are usually renovated with cultural flourishes. This one is a renovated house in a random neighborhood. There is no major Scandinavian population here but this is outside of Washington, DC, where there are expats and small pockets of ancestry from everywhere.
Of course this is not going to be completely authentic because…this isn’t in Norway 😂 Yes, the almond cakes were there again but I didn’t get to ask anybody what they’re about since y’all said they’re not a thing in Norway! You learn something new everyday.
Anyway — bought for home: – Kransekake cookies – Fattimann – Solo sodas – Nuggati – Nora lingonberry jam – Toro Rømme Grøt – Gudbrand brown cheese – 2 giant bars of Freida milk chocolate 😃😃😃
Ate there:
– Waffles with lingonberry jam (no brown cheese at the cafe this year!)
– Lefse with butter and cinnamon
– Hot dog in lefse
– Cardamom hot chocolate
– Norweigan coffee
The highlight of this festival are the things for kids: rides with a Fjord horse and petting the lundehunds and forest cats.
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Posted by Murky_Dragonfly_942
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Hope the horse tasted good
lefes
So cool to see the Lundehund! Such neat little dogs 🥰🐶🤩
Finally, a place where Freia chocolate costs EVEN more than in Norway (11.50$ = 116 NOK)!
All jokes aside, looks like a good haul
Please don’t sit on the flag
Impressive! Looks like you had a good time.
What’s Norwegian coffee?
Hm.. i really dont understand what those almond cakes are.. and the kransekake cookies, doesnt look like there is any kransekake there.. they look kind of like “berlinerkrans” i guess, but its a completely different thing.
Not bad, not bad!
You don’t usually use tyttebærsyltetøy on vafler (if that’s what I see in the second picture?). Try butter and brunost instead! And make it a double decker! Or just do the traditional sourcream and jam topping. Tyttebærsyltetøy is usually used for dinner plates like kjøttkaker or stirred into brown sauce, either when making it or on-plate. But do whatever you like 🙂
Also, fattigmann is the correct spelling (means poor man).
Looks like I need to come over there to correct a few misunderstandings. Would be a decent reason to visit the US I guess!
Nice! Did you put tyttebærsyltetøy on waffles? It’s usually used more like cranberry sauce would be used in the US.
The christmas cookie is called FattiGmann btw, misspelled on the box. Means poor man. The kransekake cookies is probably not something any Norwegian born granny would make, but they probably taste good. Just look up what traditional kransekake looks like 🤤😋
Why is everyone so wrong about brown cheese? Norwegians too. Ok they make good rauost in Gudbrandsdalen, but the Tine one is nothing like that and does not deserve the throne. The blue goat cheese pack does, it is way closer to the real thing.