Kurokiba Ryou

Alice x Ryo 

Iconic Trio

Shokugeki OTP Week 2018 - Nighttime ft. RyoAli

Raise your hand if you have (or are) that one friend who falls asleep during every movie.

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my part of an AT– so late i cant.

It may not look like much, but this 6,100-year-old pottery sherd and the ancient leftovers stuck on it are actually an archaeological treasure! Researchers at the University of York analyzed burnt food remains from clay cooking pots, like this one, that were found in Neolithic dwellings in Denmark and Germany. On the clay, along with deer fats or traces of fish, they found the distinct remains of ground-up garlic mustard seeds.

My mother’s side of the family is half Danish and my father’s side half Norwegian. But at Christmastime, we feel 100 percent Scandinavian. Largely ignoring the English and Scottish bits of our heritage, we fill our Christmas table with treats such as crumbly Danish cookies and piquant pickled herring.

My favorite of all the Danish desserts is smør bullar. Small spheres of butter, flour, powdered sugar and nuts, dusted with more powdered sugar for good measure, these cookies are the flavor of Christmas for everyone in my extended family.

Round, white and powdery — can it be a coincidence that the way my Scandinavian-American relatives pronounce (mis-pronounce, surely) the name, it even sounds like “snowball(er)?”

To me, their very shape evokes winter. I remember feeling confused as a kid, and even a little disappointed, when my mother explained that smør was Danish for butter and the literal translation was ‘butter balls’. Today, however, it seems logical to me that a Danish cookie would be called butter ball. Danes are famous farmers, with a history of dairy farming that dates back to the Viking days.

Smør Bullar: The Classic Danish Christmas Cookie No One Has Heard Of