Christmas Eve!

Oh, the food!

Today is Christmas Eve, the day that Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Sweden. So we had planned to have a great Christmas Eve dinner tonight, as traditionally Swedish as we could make it.

There were pepparkakor, baked in shapes by Inger (pigs, hearts, stars, men and women; I like the pigs best). There were meatballs, with Lingonberry jam from Orjan (he handed me the jar at the Hogswatch meet and it took me ten minutes to work out who he was and why he was handing me a jar of jam). There were two Canadian / Quebecois pies. There was shortbread, baked by Janice too (obviously she baked the pies, the rest of us are Yurpeens). There was rice pudding, and potatos, and vegetables.

There was mulled wine. There were leftovers. There were Christmas crackers and party hats. There were decongestants for those of us with bad headcolds.