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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 20, 2020, 02:22:35 pm ---I'll go with the candle -- if I'm up at 2:04 a.m. Monday.
Personally, I prefer what I've heard is the Swedish way of celebrating the summer solstice (though I may be corrected! :)) -- ice cold vodka and crawfish!
Or at least that's what they told me years ago, when I wrote about China's takeover of the crawfish industry, stealing Swedish customers from Louisiana by undercutting their prices.
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Neither, actually.
Alcoholic beverages yes, but no tradition for specifically vodka. Although I guess some ppl may drink it.
But NOT crawfish. That's for August. Back in the day they weren't legal until August, although now you can buy then frozen all year round.
The big thing for Midsummer is herring and new potatoes.
Front-Ranger:
Happy Solstice! For some odd reason, I woke up right before the solstice. I went outside and looked at the Christmas Star (conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter), came back inside, lit the candle that I obtained on the Isle of Lewis in 2010 for the summer solstice, fired up the fireplace, lit a couple more candles on the hearth, and enjoyed watching the dance of the flames.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 20, 2020, 03:44:12 pm ---Neither, actually.
Alcoholic beverages yes, but no tradition for specifically vodka. Although I guess some ppl may drink it.
But NOT crawfish. That's for August. Back in the day they weren't legal until August, although now you can buy then frozen all year round.
The big thing for Midsummer is herring and new potatoes.
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Well, that sounds (and looks) good, too!
I can't remember the exact months of crawfish season in New Orleans, but it started in the spring. But do you, as I was told back then, eat them cold? In New Orleans, we ate them hot, cooked in spicy water with potatoes and corn and maybe a few other things.
"Pinch the tails and suck the heads" is what they say there about how to eat crawfish. You pull them apart, squeeze the tail out of its shell and suck the top part to get the tasty juice in there, which is ... well, I'm not exactly sure and don't really want to know.
CellarDweller:
Happy Solstice everyone! Lee, I love that picture of the fireplace!
Sason:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on December 21, 2020, 12:20:14 pm ---
Well, that sounds (and looks) good, too!
I can't remember the exact months of crawfish season in New Orleans, but it started in the spring. But do you, as I was told back then, eat them cold? In New Orleans, we ate them hot, cooked in spicy water with potatoes and corn and maybe a few other things.
"Pinch the tails and suck the heads" is what they say there about how to eat crawfish. You pull them apart, squeeze the tail out of its shell and suck the top part to get the tasty juice in there, which is ... well, I'm not exactly sure and don't really want to know.
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I know there is a specific way to eat them, and yes, cold. However I've only had them once many years ago, so can't tell you how it's done here.
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