This year, it was dinner for two for Christmas. It was both wonderful and hard all at once. It was fun in that we met up with friends for drinks, a Candlelight Christmas eve service and a boxing day dinner. And while it was good to have our own celebration in our own home after so many years of traveling for the holidays, I also missed having family around. It felt a bit lonely and even though we called and Skyped our families in the US and Australia, it wasn’t the same as being there with them.
Robert and I made the best of it and cooked amazingly good meals for Christmas eve and Christmas day. For Christmas eve, we made reindeer with lingon berries and roasted potatoes and parsnips. Very Swedish. And we had Swedish style appetizers as well with herring and hard bread. Christmas day was more American/English and we had Cornish hens with stuffing, sweet potatoes and green beans with mushrooms. I was so full that I could not move.
Hanging out at Peppar with Zanne and Micke.
We kicked the holiday weekend off with drinks and friends on Friday night at Peppar, a restaurant and bar in Vasastan. This place is as close as you can get to an American dive bar and serves up margaritas and Tex-Mex style food. It was also completely decked out for Christmas. White cotton batting and candy canes lined the entryway. A tree and ornaments hung from the ceiling. A snowman sat on the bar and Santa was in the toilet. Lights and decorations filled every inch of this place and it was so tacky that it was cool.
At just a few minutes before midnight, the Peppar bar staff handed out glasses of glögg and sparklers. Precisely at midnight, John Lennon’s Happy Christmas was played and the entire crowd in the packed bar sang along. Everyone wished us god jul/Merry Christmas. And that was all good fun.
The start of the holiday.
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