Happy Syttende Mai!

May 17th, for all of you who didn't know, is Norwegian Independence/Constitution Day!
And luckily my running buddy, Ingrid, happens to be half-Norwegian. Her nationality is so convenient because my husband also considers himself to be partially Norwegian (he spent a year of high school there), but I had no clue May 17th was such an important day!
So, as Ingrid and I were jogging along we devised a plan. I would collect a few odds and ends, she'd make a trip to the grocery store, and then we'd meet up to create a traditional Norwegian Independence Day extravaganza.

Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of our extreme cooking session (my hands were too covered in flour and potatoes to touch the camera), but the end results are shown below:
As we listened to traditional Norwegian Folk music, we enjoyed (from the top left, proceeding clockwise):

• Fruit salad (which we were actually too full to eat)
• Lefse (tortilla-like potato cakes made from SCRATCH)
• Scrambled eggs
  
• Brown bread
  
• Sausage (a poor, English subsitute for pølse)
• Emmantel cheese with fenelar (smoked/cured meat)
• Smoked salmon w/ cucumbers and dill.

Det var deilig!