Birthday Brunch at Litengard

We had a birthday brunch at Litengard today.

Janice was one of my first friends when we moved to Canton 23 years ago. We're the same age.

I was wanting to try out a couple of new breakfast recipes, and our "birthday friends" all like to eat and try new things, so I thought they would be game. Since it was a brunch I also included some Scandinavian specialties.... and some of the friends actually tried them.

Much to Georgia's surprise she actually liked pickled herring in sour cream sauce. What respectable smorgasbord would not include herring. Many also tried my favorite gjost cheese. It's a dark goats cheese, quite sweet with a creamy texture. I grew up on herring and gjost. Everyone liked the Bergonnost cheese. It's mild white cheese, not so different. I made Limpa, which is a tradional Swedish rye bread. It's a moist dark crusty bread made with molasass and anise seed. Wonderful with butter.

I should have taken a picture of the food but didn't. I prepared spinach stuffed tomatoes which were really yummy. I have sooooo many tomatoes, everyone had to take a couple home. But these Camp of Joy tomatoes were just perfect. They are relatively small and have a lot less water. The spinach, garlic, onion, whole wheat bread crumbs and cheese were the perfect topping. Every thing tastes good with enough garlic and onions!

Everyone loved the Breakfast Pizza which was so easy to make. The potato, cheese and egg skillet casserole was wonderful too but a lot of preparation. Would be wonderful breakfast before going out hiking or skiing.

Rob wants me to write a book now and include vignettes about opening an inn, recipes, decorating tips, and fun stories about the experiences with the guests. We've already met some wonderful, interesting people. I tell him, let me get some more recipes under my belt and a few more guests in the inn. I tell him he should write a book on the many funny stories and experiences he has had during his practice. Like when a prison guard escorted a prisoner in his orange jumpsuit and chains into the extremely crowded waiting room and a octogenarian exclaimed in a very loud voice, which Rob heard all the way down the hall in an examining room, " There's a prisoner in the room, there's a prisoner in the room!!! Everyone guard your purse!"
Another funny one was when someone told Rob that they should be legally dead. I think they they were thinking of a different word.

Anyway, we had a lot of fun today. And yes, I am going to post recipes shortly.