Smorgasboard

We had a mini smorgasboard last friday to celebrate Waichin's birthday. She plays such an important role in our job scope, primarily to keep us on our toes with our expenditure by her maternal instinct; nagging. Anyway, Waichin has an aptly appetite to try something different but never had the opportunity to do so, therefore we decided to give her a surprise in a true scanadavian style. Something that she has never tried before, and would never ever imagined. Luckily, our dear emily has a danish husband, so we've managed to keep this particular smorgasboard as authentic as possible.

Let's start with the main course, Emily has cooked some rather delicious meatballs using her mother in law's recipe for the first time. Her herb sauce went very well with the meatballs. Of course, a traditional smorgasboard has to have herrings in some weird sauces such as curry sauce and mustard, honestly, I can't stomach herrings, it's pretty gross to me and I can't hide my grimace. Not to offend any scanadavians (since I'm a big fan of scanadavian's design), I guess I should say it's an acquired taste. As for my contribution to the feast, I made crabmeat canape and potato salad.



Food served:
meatballs with herb sauce
dark bread
herrings in sauces
crabmeat canape
potato salad
smoked salmon
apple, peach and strawberry strudel
cake and cookies baked by audrey

We were supposed to have schnapps but no one was game enough to drink during lunch time because there were lots of work to catch up after the celebration. And waichin deals with figures. Important figures. Anyway, I think it's okay to get drunk in the presence of friends but not colleagues.

Well after almost 2 weeks of deep searching for crabmeat, I'm glad I've managed to cook something different for waichin, a very lovely colleague. She was quite speechless and could only utter,"I'm so touched" in cantonese which most of the colleagues couldn't understand, but I guess there is not a word better than her smile.