Shrove Tuesday

@brittarnhild

 

In Norway we call today feittirsdag, fat Tuesday. In America I think you call it Shrove Tuesday, in Great Britain Pancake Tuesday. Whatever you call it, in Christian tradition today is the last day before the long fast which leands up to Easter.

There are several feittirsdags traditions in Norway. The one I am used to, is to eat a salted, boiled leg of pork.

Traditions, both local and global, are important to me.

That´s why I started the blog Vandring gjennom året, A Walk Through the Year.

 And that´s why I wrote the book about Lent 10 years ago.

 

 

When I worked on the book, I spent some time with my dear friend Dagmar in Austria. I was on her farm on Shrove Tuesday, and Dagmar made their traditional Shrove Tuesday food, a herring salad.

Dagmar´s Herring Salad

 

Make a cream of:

2 eggs

1 tsp salt

pepper

1 tablsp mustard

olive oil

vinegar

3 tblsp majonaise

3 tbsp creme fraiche

 

Dice and mix in the cream:

4 hardboiled eggs

1 apple

4 spiced herrings

4 potatoes

 

Make the salad a few hours before you plan to eat it, to make it more juicy.

I had problems with my camera when I spent Shrove Tuesday with Dagmar, so the photos are of a salad I made another year.

 

Today I got a message on WhatsApp from Dagmar:

 

 

My mouth started to water.......

 

 

How do you celebrate Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Tuesday, feittirsdag?

 

 

 

In Norway we call today feittirsdag, fat Tuesday. In America I think you call it Shrove Tuesday, in Great Britain Pancake Tuesday. Whatever you call it, in Christian tradition today is the last day before the long fast which leands up to Easter.

There are several feittirsdags traditions in Norway. The one I am used to, is to eat a salted, boiled leg of pork.

Traditions, both local and global, are important to me.

That´s why I started the blog Vandring gjennom året, A Walk Through the Year.

 And that´s why I wrote the book about Lent 10 years ago.

 

 

When I worked on the book, I spent some time with my dear friend Dagmar in Austria. I was on her farm on Shrove Tuesday, and Dagmar made their traditional Shrove Tuesday food, a herring salad.

Dagmar´s Herring Salad

 

Make a cream of:

2 eggs

1 tsp salt

pepper

1 tablsp mustard

olive oil

vinegar

3 tblsp majonaise

3 tbsp creme fraiche

 

Dice and mix in the cream:

4 hardboiled eggs

1 apple

4 spiced herrings

4 potatoes

 

Make the salad a few hours before you plan to eat it, to make it more juicy.

I had problems with my camera when I spent Shrove Tuesday with Dagmar, so the photos are of a salad I made another year.

 

Today I got a message on WhatsApp from Dagmar:

 

 

My mouth started to water.......

 

 

How do you celebrate Shrove Tuesday, Mardi Gras, Pancake Tuesday, feittirsdag?