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Hygge and the holidays

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Brandon Wenerd
December 27, 2023

Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

I sure did. I headed back to my folks place in Pennsylvania with my fiancée. We’ve basically been eating for four days straight.

On Christmas Eve, we stuffed our faces with Maryland crab dip, oysters, deer bologna, cheese ball, peel and eat shrimp, and Lil Smokies. On Christmas, my uncle roasted a mouthwatering beef tenderloin, topped with crimini mushrooms in a burgundy sauce. I learned how to make scalloped oysters, a dish that’s been a part of our family holiday meals, especially Christmas, for my entire life. It’s one of those celebratory dishes that feels like it’s from a bygone culinary era: You take two pints of freshly shucked oysters and neatly place the oysters in a row in casserole pan. Then you crumble saltines on top to form a layer of crackers, add a generous sliver of butter evenly as a layer, shake some black pepper on top, and pour a little heavy cream to dampen it. Then repeat with another layer of oysters on top of the crackers, topped by another layer of crushed saltines, butter, heavy cream, and black pepper. Then throw it in the oven for 25 minutes or so at 350 degrees. The result is a sort of oyster casserole - adding any other ingridents will diminish the flavor of the oysters, so I’d advise against it. We also did home made scalloped potatoes and harvard beets for Christmas dinner this year - a good option for anyone who passes on the dressed bivalve mollusks.

Day after Christmas, I put on my favorite pair of LL Bean duck boots and headed into the woods with my cousin. It was a cold, soggy day with a steady rain - perfect weather for trampling around in the woods. We scouted some family mountain land for a good spot to put a treestand next year for deer hunting. We found a spot that seems promising, right at the top of a ravine looking down towards a tiny trickle of a spring. Saw some deer scat, so hope it’s productive for him next year. His deer bologna sure was delicious.

Isn’t the week between Christmas and New Year’s wonderful? The older I get, the more I love it. Time doesn’t exist. The trivialities that you think are important in your everyday life can be so easily pushed aside, picked back up in the New Year. This year, at least for me, it’s all about good company, some merrymaking, getting lost in your hobbies, catching up with loved ones, and calm reflection before the year ahead. It’s a week for hygge - the Danish word for a kind of contentment that comes from something cozy, safe, and known. I saw that word on a popular Instagram account the other week (maybe Sunday Scaries?) and thought it was very appropriate.

This week is a hard reset. I don’t know about you, but I sure need one of those every now and then.

Anyway, here’s what you missed on BroBible recently. Sorry for the lack of photos in today’s newsletter - my parents have the slowest Internet on planet earth at the moment (long story), so we’ll just have to go without. Should be good for Friday’s newsletter.

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