On Christmas Eve we got to experience a traditional Danish Christmas meal. Brev’s team manager, Hanne, dropped off the ingredients and cooking directions (which were in Danish) early in the morning to be heated up and finished later that evening. Luckily, one of Brev’s teammates is engaged to a Danish woman, Cecilie, so she could read the directions and help us prepare the meal correctly.
A typical Danish Christmas meal consists of two types of roasted meat, pork and duck, along with boiled potatoes, red cabbage and gravy. Typically two types of boiled potatoes are served, one with a traditional gravy and one in butter and brown sugar. Cecilie insisted that we have potato chips and dip them in gravy as well.
Following dinner, we ate apples with jam and risalamande, which is rice pudding topped with cherry sauce, for dessert. Hiding in the pudding is one whole almond, and whoever gets the almond in their bowl gets special present. Brev found the almond and got a pair of headphones!
Unfortunately, at this point I was already losing my taste following Covid, but Brev ensured me that dinner was delicious. It was Brev’s first time trying duck and much to his surprise he really enjoyed it and even took quite a bit of it home to eat as leftovers.
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