
"Kalifornia Group" Concert a Huge Success!!
Sold out the 150 seat hall with about another 50 or more being turned away. We have another concert in Raahe on the 23rd of Feb.
Sold out the 150 seat hall with about another 50 or more being turned away. We have another concert in Raahe on the 23rd of Feb.
This is the link to the article in the paper Jan 31st:
http://yrttis.pyhajoki.fi/~charlie/Raahelainen-31012007.htm
Cooking - Jutta (Admin), put together a 'cookbook' for me with some favorite & traditional Finnish recipes. She translated them and left some pages for me to find other recipes that I like. I will try to translate them and let her check them for accuracy. I especially want the recipe for their blueberry pie - uhmm-uhmm good! I also baked a sweet potatoe pie last week. Turned out pretty good. Now I will do another to share. I gave Jutta some chopped pork "North Carolina" style BBQ to try. Also made broccoli salad. They all turned out pretty good. They have a product here called "Anna Manna". It's just like our "Grits" in the U.S., but the grain itself seems to be a little finer. It has the same consistency. The preparation and eating is a little different. In the states, we mostly boil salted water, put in the grits, cook, then add lots of butter when we serve and maybe even cheese. That's how my family likes it. They even have grits made out of yellow corn meal. My sister loves the yellow grits. The Finns cook the Manna in milk and when it's served, they top it with a strawberry sauce made of strawberries, liquid, and a little sugar. I have had them both ways. It was just neat to find a product like that here. It has been wonderful discovering the varieties of food and seeing how many of them are really familiar or similar to those in my family. Another surprise was the rutabagas (lantu). It's a traditional Christmas dish for the Finns.
Weather - still cold, like -30 degrees C. Ohio is having a cold spell this week - school closed today because of the wimd chill of -27 degrees F (about -35 C)
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