Thursday, March 16, 2006
Happy St. Urho's Day
I want to wish everyone a very happy St. Urho's Day. Everyone is expected to wear green and purple today to honor St. Urho, the legendary patron saint of Finland. Eat lots of mojakka (beef and vegetable soup)--or kalamojakka (fish stew)--and nisu (cardamom sweet-bread) as part of your celebration! To those not familiar with this holiday, you can read more here.
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ReplyDeleteIt sure helps to be Finnish-American when it comes to knowing about a (made-up) patron saint of Finland! :)
ReplyDeleteWhew! Glad to know that patron was made up. The fish thing, yuck.LOL
ReplyDeleteMy father ALWAYS told my mother that the proper way to make kalamojakka was to include the fish HEADS! She, also, is pure Finn, but she believed everything he told her. I don't believe it is true--at least, I HOPE it isn't! (I only had kalamojakka once or twice in my life--at a very early age when you were required to eat what was in front of you.) This is not one of my favorite Finnish foods.
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