Swedish Meatballs

[infrogmation]

My mother made "Sweedish meatballs" for Xmas eve, a recipie she got from her grandmother (who is the one I posted the pics of her kissing her fiance 100 + years ago), who probably got them from her mother, who came over from Sweden. This was originally only half of the holiday culinary tradition that side of my ancestors brought to this country. They would also traditionally have lutefisk for Christmas. I have never had any lutefisk, but I gather it is a pickled fish dish which stinks terribly. A relative told me that they were glad when the last of the family who came from the old country finally passed away, so that they didn't have to have lutefisk at Christmas any more.

The meatballs have a holsome blandness. My ma froze some of the meatballs for me to take home. I wondered if they would work with spagetti. I can now answer: Yup.

Comments

Lutefisk

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

It just so happens that Dad, Betty, and I were watching a Travel Channel program with a lutefisk segment. The interviewee described lutefisk as "fish Jello". The program later went to describe the "delicacy" as, essentially, fish soaked in Drano.

Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to breadcrumbs and black olives and all sorts of other Italian stuff.