Her in Norway everything Yule celebration is today. So we slept in. Had a nice breakfast in front of the TV while watching "Three Gifts for Cinderella", a Czechoslovak/East German fairy-tale film from 1973 that has been dubbed to Norwegian with a single actor doing all the voices. We never dub TV here, but keep the original sound with texting, but for some reason, this is an exception, and anyone who dares to change it will probably be executed in front of the Royal Castle!
Just made dinner ready and put it on the stove to steam for 3-4 hours. It consist of around 3 kg of cured, salted and smoked lamb ribs. They are so salty that we have to leave them in water for 24 hours, but mostly that is to reintroduce moisture into the meat. It will be served with a token ammount of potatoes,a nd a healthy ammount of mashed "swede (Rutabaga, turnip or whatever you call it). When we have stuffed ourselves with that, we probably won't be able to get any dessert down our necks, so that will get potponed until late evening.
Meanwhile we tear into our presents as those are traditionally opened in the evning of the 24th her in Norway.
Else the day just consist of rotting in front of the TV, PC or android pods, whatever the kids fancy...
Oh yeah, our two Thai kids who grew partially up in their home lands have never taken to the stick meat, as the above mentioned dish is called, so they will be having duck. Luckilly the elder is in training to be a chef, so he's fixing that himself :-)