We didn’t celebrate Midsummer on Friday since we were going to a concert, so on Saturday we went up to a store in Midtown where they have Scandinavian stuff to get herring and other fresh vegetables (cause the store by us only has spongy old things). They were out of herring, but we got a lot of other good things. I also bought white daisy’s on the way home.
In the evening I made a potato salad with slightly overcooked potatoes, I boiled eggs and made a creamy mayo sauce and with this I served Swedish hard bread, some Danish cheese, Norwegian smoked salmon, chopped radishes and carrots. Jim made us very good mojito that gave us the feeling of summer. We had strawberries for dessert but we were too full so we had it for breakfast on Sunday instead. In the evening we watched a Steven King movie. Not so much Midsummer feeling but the darkness outside the window didn’t make it feel like celebration of light anyway (which Midsummer is).
Since it rained a little bit during the day it really felt like a perfect Midsummer celebration. We did the best we could and I think we succeeded. We’ll see what year we can celebrate it in Sweden. I would really love for Jim to experience it.
Vi firade inte Midsommar i fredags eftersom vi var pa konsert, sa pa lordag akte vi upp till en affar i Midtown dar de har skandinaviska grejer for att kopa sill och andra farska gronsaker (efterso butiken vid oss bara har spongy gamla grejer). De hade slut pa sill, men vi kopte en massa andra goda grejer. Jag kopte aven vita prastkragar pavag hem.
Pa kvallen gjorde jag en potatis sallad med nagot overkokta potatisar, jag kokade agg och gjorde en kramig majonas sas och med detta serverade jag svenskt knackebrod, nagon dansk ost, norsk rokt lax, hackade radisor och morotter. Jim gjorde en valdigt god mojito som gav oss en kansla av sommar. Vi hade aven jordgubbar till efterratt men vi var sa matta sa det fick bli till frukost pa sondagen istallet. Pa kvallen kollade vi pa en Steven King film. Inte sa mycket Midsommar kansla men morkret utanfor fonstret gav inte direkt kanslan av ett firande av ljuset iaf (som Midsommar ar for).
Eftersom det regnade lite under dagen kandes det som ett perfekt Midsommar firande. Vi gjorde vart basta och jag tror vi lyckades. Vi far se vilket ar som vi kan fira i Sverige. Jag skulle garna vilja att Jim far uppleva det.