As the sun climbs to the highest point in the sky, we begin the midsummer celebration on June 21st. Be you Wicca, Druid, Native American, or Swedish it is a time for wild flowers, passion, bond fires, magic, and the maypole. Lake San Antonio saw 49 dancers on the maypole.
*recipe is on the blog
Friday dinner
*crab pizza
*spinach dip
*hobbit (diced chilis/salami)
*traditional salad bar
steak
garlic bread – purchase
*mud slides
Saturday brunch
*Florence Moore coffee cake
*bagels
*ham and broccoli strata
Saturday dinner smorgasbord (mostly purchased except as noted)
Open bar
Fish/bread table
Hard tack/flat bread/crackers/limpa/bullas (frozen bread dough rolls sprinkled with cardamom)
herring/sour cream
herring/tomato
pickled herring
shrimp
sardines/smoked oysters/anchovy/kippered snacks
liver pate
sliced ham
sliced summer sausage
assorted cheeses – Havarti, Gorgonzola, smoked Gouda,
grav lax (or smoked salmon) – *creamy mustard sauce
Salad table
*poached salmon
*Scandinavian potato salad
*fruit salad
*Walldorf salad
*asparagus and shrimp
your favorite deviled eggs
*Swedish sour cream cucumbers
*Scandinavian cucumber salad
pickled pig’s feet
relishes
Meat table
Ham
grilled sausage
*easy Swedish meat balls/*dill sauce
*potatis korv (potato sausage)
boiled potatoes/dill
*brown beans
Dessert
Strawberries
*almond tarts
*St. Louie Ooey-Gooey Berry Butter Cake
Sunday brunch
*puff pastry braid
*omelet bar
hash browns
*biscuits
Sunday dinner
*Teddy’s brie
*lemonade chicken skewers (use chicken tenders or sliced chicken breasts)
*Margie’s marinated lamb
*grilled vegetables
*Greek salad
pilaf box + sliced mushrooms sautéed in butter
*cobbler
Monday brunch
*sticky buns
*waffles (yes, we brought waffle irons on a camp out – we had electricity.
Fruit compote