best husband ever, part #2.

My Birthday!

Thank you, Sean! You managed to surprise me again. I thought my birthday gift was our trip to Gran Canaria, but you still wanted me to feel special on my actual day and I sure did. Thanks for a great weekend. Now I know why you were asking me to clean up the apartment, but I didn't, and you had no choice but to get things tidied up before my surprise dinner guests arrived.

When I walked in the door I almost fell over as I never expect Sean to take away the mess, also called cleaning up, but he almost always adds to it. There were balloons everywhere (thanks to Darius and Ilza) and I wasn't quiet sure what was going on. However, once I noticed a pair of woman's shoes and a purse that's when I knew I was on to something. Someone must be here? For a moment, my heart speed up thinking that someone, a friend or a family member, had flown over to Denmark for my birthday. Almost as exciting, our friends Ilza and Darius came over to celebrate. They even got me a beautiful present, a salad bowl and Danish design.

Sean went all out and cooked a 5 course meal of all of my favourite things:
1. Titled: Steven's Salad - with pomegranate and walnuts
2. Spinach Gommai
3. Mashed Yams
4. Sushi
5. Peanut Sauce smothered over Kartoffler

Dessert was simple - dates and Rittersport chocolate. If you have never tried this chocolate - I suggest the Butter Biscuit.

I love getting older with you babe!

Vegetarianizing Denmark

It occurred to me a couple weeks ago that, as proud as the Danes are of their national butter industry, and as delicious as the derivative "small cakes" (i.e., cookies) are, they don't quite constitute a balanced diet on their own. So, I set it upon myself to find some other delicious, veg-friendly, traditional Danish food with which to diversify our diet. So, as Andrea mentioned the other day, we've been eating a lot of potatoes.

But, at least within Denmark, Danish cuisine is known for a few other specialities. One that a fellow sees pretty well everywhere is smørrebrød, an open-faced sandwich with some sort of rustic (and dry!) bread, butter, meat (such as liver pate), a slice of Danish cheese, and perhaps a token vegetable or two. Supposedly it's quite filling, but I've never tried it myself.

Instead, I've designed a new and improved version, one that's probably even kosher. I won't describe exactly how it is created until the patent is approved, but you could probably reconstruct it from the picture to the right. The key insight is to replace the meat (uck!) with delicious little red lentils. And then, presto!, you have vegetarian, traditional Danish food!

Fortunately, we don't have any Danish readers, because I gather from my research colleagues that my claims here are kind of similar to inventing a new improved version of ice hockey that doesn't use sticks.  But at least now on some nights we eat more than just potatoes for dinner and cookies for dessert!

Evidence

Dinner last night wasn't the healthiest we've had