Food

Just a nice short blog about my food.  For breakfast it's typically a brødskive (bread slice) with pålegg (toppings).  I  must say that my all time favorite is bread and butter with very thin sliced gouda on it, but I haven't found gouda here yet.  So, lately it's been bread, butter, sliced cheese (I think swiss?) and a salami slice; it's really good.  I was told that about the most Norwegian (modern?) pålegg is this mackerall with some sort of sauce in it.  Here's my breakfast from this morning:

I also made my whale today.  It was basically like steak, but it tasted like whale.  And whale tastes like steak, but a little fishy.  It's not really fish, but there's no other way to describe whale.  At anyrate, it was a flavor (and smell) I'm sure I'll never forget.  There're some foods that are great until you get to the aftertaste... whale is not like that, at least what I had.  It hits you, and then you're like... oh, not soo bad.  So, tonight it was hval, kokte poteter (boiled potatoes), sopp (mushrooms), and sauce (don't know the Norwegian for that, failure I know).  

Some furiously boiling potatoes.

And finally the end result:

So, do I recommend it?  Well, whale can't be eaten in too many places, which was my motivating factor.  So if you're in Norway or Japan, I would say go for it.  It's pretty decent, and if you like distinct tasting meats, I'd say here ya go!

I also had my first (I think) uncooked fish last night.  There was both smoked (I think that means uncooked, it was soft at anyrate!) salmon wrapped in lefsa with cream cheese, and also pickled salmon.  I would have to eat more to evaluate it, but it certainly wasn't repulsive.  I think I could probably get to like pickled salmon, it was pretty strong tasting, which was definitely a good thing.

So I think I'm going to continue my food experiments; if all else fails, I still have spaghetti and frozen pizzas that I can buy here...