Post by Ella.
Before leaving for this trip, I found a short kindle book, “How to have an Adventure in Scandinavia”, by a 30 year old guy named Rafael Coronelli. It is not a guide, exactly, but seemed to be a compendium of his journals or blog posts. I wondered how useful it would be for us old foggies. This guy was passionate about Black Metal (Norwegian style heavy metal) and finding all the local dives and sampling beer and aquavit. The book was cheap so I got it anyway.
The book was surprisingly useful. One place Rafael ate in Oslo is Kaffistova, serving home style Norwegian food since 1901. We decided to try in out tonight after a day of island hopping and hiking.
Even though the restaurant looks moderately fancy, you order at the counter, choose your table and your food is brought to you. There is only one menu and it’s taped to the counter.
The food was delicious. I also tried a shot of aquavit. I’m not a vodka fan so I’ll probably never be an aquavit fan but it wasn’t bad.
Reindeer patties with a mushroom sauce and lingonberry jam, sautéed onions, mushrooms, zucchini, carrots, and new potatoes.
I would imagine that the reindeer patties would be rather dry. Reindeer sounds like it should be a very lean meat. Hence the mushroom sauce.
Iexpected dry also but even without sauce, they were moist.
You ATE Rudolph? Don’t tell the grandkids.
Oops!