Christmas Lunch @ the Kollegium

Yes, we're officially nuts.

2 months til christmas and its already time to start celebrating. Yesterday we held our Julefrokost (Christmas Lunch) at our kollegium. We did this in the ground floor's common area which we filled with tables for the 60 elegantly-dressed people who were to attend later on in the evening, because the Julefrokost actually starts in the afternoon. Each kitchen was meant to prepare one dish to contribute to the buffet, so we were in charge of the dessert: rice pudding. We cooked up a big pot of rice and milk with vanilla and chopped almonds, and another big pot of whipped cream. Unfortunately, we didn't have a spoon big enough to mix rice pudding for 60 people, so i had to dive in with bare hands to mix it. Its tradition to also hide one whole almond in the rice pudding, and the one who finds it received the grand fabulous prize of a bottle of snapps.

I also helped them set up the bar since we were going to do a disco party after. It was quite funny when i went downstairs to find that Jonas and Allan had connected the wrong beer keg to the tap and had to drink it all to make space for the new keg of christmas beer. They came running up to me to help finish the last few glasses, since they already had drank 3L each in a matter of 30mins!

So the party started around 6 with a few drinks of Tuborg's Julebryg (Christmas beer), and we immediately dived into the main course which consisted of many tradional dishes. These included lots of raw herring in vinegar or creamy mustard/curry sauce which you're meant to eat with some honey snapps - one of the most disgusting drinks i've ever tasted. Apart from the fish, there was also some very tasty pork, potatoes cooked in syrup, leverpostej med bacon (my favourite!), Danish version of Quiche, veggies, meatballs, and pickled red cabbage. We ate so much that we didn't even want to party after, everyone was soooo stuffed!

- pic - We decorated the place with Tuborg adverts
- pic - A drunken idiot at the bar (Jonas)