Lodge 205 St. Urho’s Day celebration Sunday, March 19, 2017
It had been decided at our January meeting that in honor of "Finland 100 centenary celebrations," the St. Urho's Day potluck dinner meeting entrees would focus on Finnish & Swedish traditional foods, such as: Finnish coffee cake (Kaarina) Finnish blueberry pie (Sandy) Swedish Rice Pudding with boysenberries (Dottie) Chocolate chip cookies (Dottie) Jannen's frestelse (Liisa) Rye bread with reindeer (Liisa) Beef salad (Kirsti) Cucumber salad (Kirsti) Black current jam (Kirsti) Finnish mint-chocolate buttons (Kirsti) Karjalan paisti (Inke) Salmon loaf (Cindy) Pulla(Cindy) Karelien pies, eggbutter (Tuula) Carrot caserole (Brenda) Beef stew (Brenda)
What an exceptional potluck dinner! You mighy even say we "lucked-out" with this ""potluck" dinner!! Some pictures below
Gathering at the serving table. L-R: Kirsti, Tuula, Cindy, Doug
Finnish blueberry pie
Finnish coffee cake
Left: Rye bread with reindeer Right: Karelien pies, eggbutter
Front: Salmon loaf Rear: Chocolate chip cookies
Pulla photo by Inke
Swedish Rice Pudding with loganberries
After the potluck dinner, members celebrated Finnish & Swedish-Speaking Finnish Culture & Traditions and shared in comradeship, as shown in pictures below
L-R: Dottie. Tuula, Liisa, Doug photo by Inke
L-R: Sandy, Glenn, Kirsti
Gathering at the serving table L-R: Tuula, Cindy, Doug, Inke, Brenda
L-R: Sandy, Kirsti photo by Inke
Reciting "The Ode to St Urho". L-R: Klas, Cindy, Sandy, Glenn. Glenn is leading, so note the hat, with grasshopper on top.
Our Lodge 205 St Urho grasshopper. In addition to it's green lights, it is motorized - the motor moves the wings up & down. The grasshopper comes out every St Urho's Day and is placed on the front lawn, or entryway, of the St Urho's Day celebration host's home. The grasshopper was donated to our lodge by the Britt family many years ago. Photo by Inke.
