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Lutefisk season is here again.
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I have tasted lutefisk twice; once on the way down, then once again on the way back up. 
Lutefisk - Yust say no!
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I miss them.
Marsh -- you really know how to hurt some one. I may use air miles just to get 5 church suppers in one night. Or order it frozen from Florida at about $30 per pound. In Augusta, it is still too hot to make lefse. Why are you wasting space on the plate with meatballs? Lutefisk and potatoes with a side of lefse.
Oh, the envy hurts.
Oh, the envy hurts.
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Marshwheeling
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I used to think of lutefisk as the dues you have to pay to get to the meatballs. My taste has changed in that regard; I took seconds on both. The meatballs were really good this year, as was the cole slaw. Lefse, flatbread,krumkake, and of course rommegrot.
I take my fisk with drawn butter, salt, pepper. That’s Norwegian style. Swedes traditionally prefer the white cream sauce. I do like the hot mustard some Swedes like to bring, but we didn’t have any this year.
I’m not really Norwegian (maybe 10% per ancestry.com). The lutefisk is just something my motorcycle club has been doing for about 25 years, after the riding season peters out.
mr-mom
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I’m with you Marsh. We enjoyed the annual lutefisk feed at the Lutheran Church near our home a couple of weeks ago. Heaping pile of good fish, mashed potatoes, meatballs, coleslaw, drawn butter, and all of the traditional dessert specialties. YUM!!
Dave
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Dave
SWCA#2778
Born and raised in Texas, I was exposed to lutefisk by my wife's extended family. Her antecedents were Swedes and seasonally enjoyed that "food."
As a gourmand rather than a gourmet, my thought on lutefisk was that it cried out for the application of copious quantities of Tabasco sauce.
It has not become a part of our family traditions.
As a gourmand rather than a gourmet, my thought on lutefisk was that it cried out for the application of copious quantities of Tabasco sauce.
It has not become a part of our family traditions.
Absalom
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bigolddave
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I am a Swede to the bone, all grandparents born in Sweden, and married a girl whose parents came from Sweden (although she is one quarter Norsk) and would take a whipping before I ate lutefisk! Kropkakkor, pipperkokar, lingonberries on pancakes, flesk korv, potatis korv, grin korv, but no fish of any kind, and especially not cod cured in lye! Remember going to grandma's for the big lutefisk feed and filling up on potatoes and homemade rye bread!
Take away my Swede card if you must, but do not make me eat lutefisk!
Take away my Swede card if you must, but do not make me eat lutefisk!
Pickled herring in sour cream is even better lol
500SNW
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Never eaten lutefisk...but I have seen Gefilte fish in jars at the store. It looks like a furry, moldy dead fish that you picked up off of the lake bottom. Anyone ever eaten that stuff?
S&WIowegan
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My grandfather emigrated from Sweden in the 1890s and married a first generation Swedish-American. They had three sons including my father. All in that family refused to ever eat lutefisk. We observed a Swedish Christmas eve dinner every year and had various Swedish dishes but NEVER lutefisk.
Absalom
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Absolutely. Back in the old country we eat that as a main dish with fried or boiled herbed potatoes. (Sorry, stock photos off the web)
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Loves me some pickled herring.
Never tried that other stuff.
Now Barbacoa aka the meat from the head of a cow is some good stuff
Corn tortillas and good salsa verdes some onion and cilantro hard to beat on a Sunday morning.
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Never tried that other stuff.
Now Barbacoa aka the meat from the head of a cow is some good stuff
Corn tortillas and good salsa verdes some onion and cilantro hard to beat on a Sunday morning.
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italiansport
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Being of Italian descent I'll stick with dried cod that's soaked in water to remove the salt and made into Bacala. This was a Christmas evening tradition with plenty of crusty Italian bread at my home when I was growing up!
Jim
Jim
What a great thread.
Reminds me how much I like homemade angel hair pasta and sauce with spicy Italian sausage.
Reminds me how much I like homemade angel hair pasta and sauce with spicy Italian sausage.
