Saturday, December 23, 2006

Ham preparations

The day before the dipping day, i.e. the day before Christmas Eve. 23rd of December, also referred to as "small" Christmas Eve. All's weird, traditions of dipping stuff, especially since no-one (at least south of Haparanda), is dipping anything for Christmas anymore - but we still call it "dipping day", and referring to the 23rd as "small" Christmas Eve, what's that about? Ah well, traditions are supposed to be funny and strange. For swedish speakers/understanders, check out the new show Världens modernaste land on svt.se, the second episode there is lots about traditions, very funny.
Back to traditions. So today, 23rd, little Christmas Eve, it is time to prepare the ham. My mum, not a huge fan of meat, was disguisted while handling it, saying "yuck" a lot whilst peeling off the fat. Cute Cat, on the other hand, is a huge fan of the ham tradition!

Soon we'll go visit my often denied heritage, that is my Danish grandfather. We are supposed to eat some weird danish food, be sure to be updated on that afterwards. Time to prepare the chick peas now, and the chocolate chip cookies! I think Cute Cat will leave me alone now, he prefers the ham over chick peas any day. I don't.

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