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[UdeLakeTom]

Pickled eggs and beer...A gourmet supper in a small town bar!!!

[Iambjm]

I can't keep up with all the avatar changes.....no fair!

[FishNovice101]

I don't know Teresa - I don't think Lisa would EVER submit to peer pressure.

Lisa ~ sorry to hear about your moms upcoming surgery. Gotta get it done though - I'll be thinking of her and you.

[Iambjm]

On a more serious note girls, my mom is looking at some possible eye surgery next month. I'll keep you posted on if she gets scheduled or not. I may have to bow out of this gtg if she is.

I hope things go well for her, and I can't imagine a GTG without Lisa!

[DeeDee]

Pickled eggs and beer...A gourmet supper in a small town bar!!!

After a gourmet supper like that I bet you'll be sleeping alone!

lambjm - Love you avitar!

[glenn57]

and i thought that was only considered a gourmet supper in stearns county? i guess up north too.

[reelemin]

Lisa - good luck with your Mom. Hope you can still make it, won't be the same without you. -

[glenn57]

lisa, im sure your mom will turn out just fine, especially if shes as strong willed as her daughter, and i mean that in a good way. i wish her and you well.

[UdeLakeTom]

Re: The Girls' avatars [Re: dude Lake Tom]

DeeDee

Sr FishingMN Family

Registered: 05/13/07

Posts: 629

Loc: DELTONA, FL Originally Posted By: dude Lake Tom

Pickled eggs and beer...A gourmet supper in a small town bar!!!

After a gourmet supper like that I bet you'll be sleeping alone!

lambjm - Love you avitar!

No wonder I was still single at the time!!

[Lisa Almquist]

Thanks for the positive vibes friends! My mom is one tough cookie.

[Gary Crichton]

Good luck with your Mom Lisa,

G.C.

[Sandmannd]

Wow Lisa, just read that. Hope you Mom does OK. I'm pulling for her.

[hopeforfish]

Hey Lisa,

I hope you can make it, but I understand that Mom comes first. I hope everything turns out ok.

Hope

[Iambjm]

and i thought that was only considered a gourmet supper in stearns county? i guess up north too.

Up North gourmet dinner= Lutefisk and ginger ale

[upnorth]

Originally Posted By: glenn57

and i thought that was only considered a gourmet supper in stearns county? i guess up north too.

Up North gourmet dinner= Lutefisk and ginger ale

Hey Hey....let's not equate Lutefisk with upnorth

[DeeDee]

OK Now I feel dumb - What is Lutefisk? It sounds like a rapper.

[upnorth]

It is a Scandinavian dish that was fish at one time, that is before it was dried, then soaked in lye to reconstitute it(they do rinse off the lye). Basically it is smelly gelatinous mess. They serve in many parts of MN around Xmas time.

[DeeDee]

Eww, how did they ever come up with a recipe like that???

[upnorth]

This was actually from waaaayyyyy back, not sure how far back, but it came across with the Scandinavian immigrants before the 1900s. They did it to preserve the fish. Not sure how it came to become considered a delicacy There are Churches around here that serve community meals of that stuff for their members around Xmas and you can smell the stuff from a heck of a long ways away.

I wouldn't be surprised to have someone chime in and tell us just how great it is There are some who wait all year for a reason to eat Lutefisk.

[DeeDee]

HA, Have you even taken the plung into this stinky delicacy?

[upnorth]

Not me....can't get myself to put something that smells that bad into my mouth

[Lisa Almquist]

I've tried it.....once....icky

Of course it was at my Scandinavian grandparents house at Christmastime.

[DeeDee]

Boy that kinda ruins Christmas Dinner doesnt it?

[Lisa Almquist]

Only for the little kids who HAVE to give it a taste. Lots of people go ga-ga for this stuff though!

[DeeDee]

Our Christmas tradition is home made Cavateli (Frank if your reading this you cant make fun of my spelling) on Christmas Eve the then Christmas Day the usual feast but not before my sister make some crazy contraption for an appetizer.