In case you haven't noticed, I am
fanatical about sandwiches, which is why I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I came across the pictures that
FinnLover posted in
Twinkle's Kitchen Goddess group of
smørbrød: Scandinavian open-faced sandwiches.
Norwegian for "butter bread," these smørbrød sandwiches are everywhere in her current home of Bergen, Norway. "People eat them for breakfast, lunch, and at night before going to bed," she says.
Depending on how much you like seafood, fresh-fish markets can be near paradise or unpleasantly stinky. Since I love just about any kind of ocean bounty, especially when it's fresh, I'm drooling over the photos of the
Bergen, Norway, fish market that
FinnLover recently posted in my
Savory Sights group.
This was FinnLover's first visit to her new hometown fish market, which features live fish, high-end seafood dishes, and everything in between.
On Saturday night I had an amazing dinner with my family for my aunt's 50th birthday. The party was a traveling one, we started with drinks at one house, dinner at a restaurant, and finished with dessert at another house. By far the best part of the night, was the final chapter, the dessert.
Every country has its own set of traditional holiday food. Here in America we pig out on turkey, ham, sugar cookies, gingerbread houses and the beloved (or not so beloved) fruitcake. But what about the rest of the world?
