Norwegian Night

One thing I'm trying to do this year is have an ethnic meal night once a month. A close as possible to the real thing meal and a bit of education along the way. Since my mother was here this month and she is 100% Norwegian naturally we had Norwegian night. 

The Menu:

Lefse

Mashed Potatoes

Norwegian Meatballs with Spiced Cream Sauce

Kringla

Mashed potatoes (we were going to make clube but we forgot to get a ham hock so this was a substitute) Clube is a poor mans dumpling that is made with flour and riced potatoes made into balls the size of a snowball and boiled in water with a ham hock. This is our Christmas tradition.

Lefse:

6 cups riced or mashed russet potatoes 1 tsp. salt 3 T. margarine or butter 1 T. sugar 2 T. heavy cream or evaporated milk 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Combine all ingredients except flour; refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.  Add flour; mix well.  Heat lefse or other griddle to 400 degrees.  Form dough into long roll and cut into 12 sections.  Form each section into a small ball.  Roll out very thin with cloth-covered lefse or regular rolling pin  on cloth-covered lefse board or other surface.  Dust board with flour when turning lefse dough.  Bake on ungreased griddle until brown spots appear.  Turn and bake other side.  Stack lefse between 2 towels to cool.  Store in refrigerator in plastic bags. Can be frozen. Norwegian Meatballs with spiced cream sauce:  http://www.fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=175713 Kringla: my mom ate this cookie with her grandmother http://www.fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=144692 A Bit of Education:

Lord's Prayer in Norwegian
Fader vår, du som er i himmelen! La ditt navn holdes hellig. La ditt rike komme. La din vilje skje på jorden som i himmelen Gi oss i dag vårt daglige brød. Forlat oss vår skyld, som vi og forlater våre skyldnere. Led oss ikke inn i fristelse, men frels oss fra det onde For riket er ditt, og makten og æren i evighet.