Celebrating our Heritage

We had an international dinner at 42 East Main Street on Sunday. What fun!

Rob and I belong to a little Supper Club here in town which meets about four times a year. When we all make it we are about 30 people and 28 of those folks came to celebrate each others heritage yesterday. People are divided up to bring either a appetizer, salad, main dish or dessert, and we usually have an abundance of food.

Most everyone had Irish ancestors, that was interesting. But there was a smattering of Italians, Germans, Scottish, one Newfoundlander and the resident Scandanavians; Swedish and Norwegian. And we had great food. For the appetizers; outside of Rob, I only had one taker for the pickled herring but my Norwegian Gjost cheese (dark, sweet goats cheese) was sort of a hit, at least several people tried it. There was shrimp, English cheese fondue, Italian and Irish cheese, and German sausage.

We had Scottish Bonnie Price Charlie Chicken, yummy, Italian Eggplant Parmagiania, Norwegian meatballs, Irish Creamy Crunchy White Fish Salad, Irish Beet Salad, Italian Rigatoni, Italian Antipasta Salad, German Ragout, and for dessert; English Trifle, German Rum Cake, and Swedish Laggtarta,(a light pan cake layered with puree fruit and served with fresh fruit and whipped cream. The Scandavanians can't find enough things to put butter and heavy cream with; the meatballs are even baked in heavy cream)

We had a great time together. Three ladies even wore their "family" plaid kilts. It was surprising that it all came together because we just had 16-18 inches of snow on Saturday night, necessitating the arrival of two bobcats to plow our driveway so all could get in and out. We north country people are a hardy bred though - wouldn't think of letting two feet of snow get in the way of a get together!!