A Hero in an Apron and a Red Baseball Cap

The big news of the day was dinner....once again Kasper came through as the hero.  He said once that food is his passion.  He is right.  He did everything tonight with relish.  He seems to enjoy it - and he is very good at it.  

While SK went to get snow tires put on the car (just in case we ever have snow - it actually got up to a balmy 45 degrees today!), I was at the center getting things ready for this evening.  Kasper showed up at 4 with large bags full of supplies.  He set about like a team of 5 men.  

I sat at the table peeling 30 pounds of potatoes.  Meanwhile he made frikadeller.  He used the largest mixing bowl we have and filled it up.  And it is BIG.  He put about 8 pounds of veal and pork in, added eggs, grated onion (he stood grating onion for about 10 minutes, while we both sniffled), flour, milk, a ton of salt and pepper, and then let it rest in the refrigerator while he worked on other things.  We had Rødkål  which is a very danish Christmas dish...red cabbage....I can't even begin to describe it but it is waaaay good. 

I must tell you here that the frikadeller were out of this world delicious.  He fried them in butter....very Danish and wickedly good.

He fixed what they call brown sauce (we call it gravy) and it was fun just to stand back and watch.  Once you have had tasted that gravy, you'll never be happy again with American gravy.  This has rich thick cream in it, among other things.  Towards the time the meal was to be served, he was rushing around the kitchen like a mad man....and his brother Joakim had come in to get a firewall up on the internet...so he was helping too.

At one point, the gravy boiled over and then burned!!!! It was five minutes from time to serve, and Kasper said it was ruined and threw it down the drain.  He started on a second batch....and had it ready in 10 minutes and it was outstanding.  How does he do that?  

It was a magnificent meal.  We fed over 30 people....probably about 35.

After everything was cleared up, three final games of CRUD were played.....the very last in the center.  Yes, tomorrow the CRUD table (by popular vote) will be taken apart and disposed of.  It was too big and too noisy.

The kitchen was somewhat of a disaster, but several YSAs pitched in to help clean it.

After fixing a meal on Thursdays I go home completely worn out. 

For several hours, he worked hard, but after it was all over, Kasper put on his coat and laughingly went out the door with a few other young men to chill out and have a soft drink.

Wow...watching him make everything tonight was fun.  Our son-in-law cooks like that.  It takes someone special to be able to do that, and I have always been so happy that he is willing to share that gift with us. 

And I am so happy that Kasper is too!!!