Let's hear your Voice! Part 2

That all sounds lovely, Cat! But I think I’d need to sleep in quite late the next day to fully digest all the food! 😂

It is pretty insane! I grew up with these dishes being made:
Whole roasted duck with apple and prune stuffing, pork roast, Jule medister, browned potatoes, normal potatoes, red cabbage salad, homemade jams and ribs gele, looooots of gravy.

(It is also traditional to make a whole goose! With stuffing.. and then all the other things, just not the duck 😅 usually you are either a goose or a duck family)

Dessert : ris a la mande. Or in the capital area - some people eat ice-cream!

And the marcipan pig, never forget that one! 😂

Then the dance around the tree.. Singing carols.

Just to sit down and eat unholy amounts of homemade biscuits, marcipan and nougat. 🤦🏼‍♀️🙈

While people opening one gift at a time.. admiring and thanking the giver.. (that usually takes at least an hour or two.. 🫠🎄)

Our juleaften is.. stuffed with food and sweets, and the most usual reason to go to the emergency room? Indigestion!!! It is truly no joke, people eat way, way too much and too fatty food tonight. 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Juleaften, a night made for celebrating the returning of the light and.. eating too much food! 🎄
 

We also visit the family graves! - decorating them with branches of pine tree. It is a very lovely tradition, and we always end it with hot chocolate or gløgg in a cafe nearby. ❤️

And we do the short visits to friends and family members who we are not celebrating the evening with before noon - serving homemade biscuits and gløgg (but mercy on those who do the short Jule visits in the afternoon... 😂 That is when the hosts are getting dressed up for the evening traditions.
Yes, it is a crazy long day, juleaften.)

Glædelig jul dear Shane! 😙🎄✨
 
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