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BARGOO! You would make my ex-sister in law very happy! She is called the Lefse Diva around here. She makes it for the holidays and also makes it and.... demonstrates how to make it for 2 days...each year at the Viking Festival, for the Sons of Norway, that my ex-wife belongs to. Angie and I do a lot of the BBQ'ing at the festival.

Haven't been to the FISH CLUB for a while...sure miss those shots of Aquavit! WHAMMO!

You are right. Bill and there is an art to making it. I have never tried it. My cousin in Norway starts making it in September for Christmas.

Gary, your ex SIL and you might be intersted in a interesting also very funny web page started by some LA lawyers who are half-Norwegian on the mother's side. www.lawzone.com/half-nor/

Bill, your wife is right about oranges not being "ready" until mid-November. While we don't have an orange tree, we do have a Mandarin tangerine and we never pick them until Thanksgiving.

For those who are interested--my flank steak marinade. I found it on the internet years ago, thought it was from Lawry's, but when I go back there, it isn't to be found. So I have no idea who to credit for this.

In a large zip lock bag, combine the following:

1/2 tsp pepper
1 T parsley
3 T garlic
1 tsp lemon pepper
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp basil
1/2 tsp salt
1 T cilantro
2 T soy sauce
4 T vegetable oil
1 large flank steak

Marinate for at least 2 hours. Drain and discard marinade. Grill stead on medium for about 5 minutes per side (depending on thickness) and slice against grain into 1/4 inch slices to serve.

This goes really good with Hot Crash Potatoes.http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151504

HA! Thanks BARGOO

I love the Fish Club...although as I said Angie and I haven't been in about 6 months...but nothing like hanging out eating awesome fish dishes, bread, potatoes and veggies....having a few beers and shots of aquavit while watching club members do their "viking skits"

Thanks Allison...Angie makes her potatoes just like that (except she just cuts them up...no mashing) or bakes them with Lipton's onion soup mix when we do flank steak.

When in Norway my cousin invited us to dinner, she served reindeer, and a cloudberry dessert, both delicous! No lefse, though.

Those potatoes look really good.

I will definetly make those.

Hey, Bill!!! If you didn't want the job of Research Administrator, you shouldn't have applied here!!!

:p

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Originally Posted by bargoo (Post 2472659)

When in Norway my cousin invited us to dinner, she served reindeer, and a cloudberry dessert, both delicous! No lefse, though.

For a picture of a cloudberry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudberry, and here's a snipit of their text:

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Cloudberry
The cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus), also called bakeapple in Newfoundland and Labrador, Cape Breton Island and southern Nova Scotia, is a slow-growing alpine or sub-Arctic species of Rubus, producing amber-colored edible fruit. The botanical name (chamæmorus) derives from the Greek khamai ("on the ground") and moros ("mulberry"). Cloudberry is the name for both the plant and the fruit. Cloudberry should not be confused with salmonberry, although the fruit looks similar.

The cloudberry grows to 10-25 cm high. The leaves alternate between having 5 and 7 soft, handlike lobes on straight, branchless stalks. After pollination, the white (sometimes reddish-tipped) flowers form raspberry-sized berries. Encapsulating between 5 and 25 drupelets, each fruit is initially pale red, ripening into an amber colour in early autumn.

Distribution and ecology

Cloudberries occur naturally throughout the Northern Hemisphere from 78°N, south to about 55°N, and very scattered south to 44°N mainly in mountainous areas. In Europe and Asia, they grow in the Nordic countries, especially in Finland and much in the Baltic states; sometimes in the moorlands of Britain and Ireland, and across northern Russia east to the Pacific Ocean. Small populations are also found further south, as a botanical vestige of the Ice Ages; it is found in Germany's Weser and Elbe valleys, where it is under legal protection. In North America, cloudberries grow wild across most of Canada / Alaska, and in the lower 48 states of the United States in northern Minnesota, New Hampshire, Maine, and a small population on Long Island, New York.

[Note to self: Not only do I have to do all the work around here, I must patiently listen to the background noise. Patiently. Without comment.]

I'm going to a Santa Claus parade!

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Originally Posted by SusanB (Post 2472959)

I'm going to a Santa Claus parade!

:sssh: don't tell BILL....he may make us write a report on it :sssh:

Bill what would we do without you?

He's making his list ...

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He's making a list
He's checking it twice
He's gonna find out
Who's naughty or nice

Santa Claus is comin' to town . . .

He sees you when you are sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows if you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake

Don't for one minute Gary think that you aren't on his list.

And you too, Operator, and Bargoo. Anyway, I'm telling.

But all you nice posters are on the other list and will all get Wii's for Christmas and Taza stone ground organic chocolate.