The Holidays = Yummy Food + Yummy Drinks

I didn’t include too much talk of food in my previous Christmas vacation posts. I omitted the info not because food and drink didn’t play a big role in our enjoyment of the vacation, but because my posts were getting pretty long already. So I decided to lump all the food and drink together in one, gluttonous post. Buckle your seat belts, folks – and maybe get ready to unbuckle your belts – here we go!

We hit the ground running night one in Copenhagen with a fantastic dinner just steps away from our apartment:

The next day in Helsingor (Hamlet castle town), we followed up our castle visit with an awesome lunch at the cafe of a nearby art museum:

Another great thing about Copenhagen is that everywhere you turned there were outdoor cafes with heating lamps and blankets on the chairs. We stopped at one of these places (also on the street where we lived) and had some fantastic glogg (Danish mulled wine).

Our daily breakfast place in Copenhagen was an extremely adorable coffee shop with outstanding pastries, breads, yogurts, and jams.

Getting food at markets and outdoor stands in Copenhagen was also a big thing. Mom got her much coveted Polser (skinny hot dog with amazing toppings like pickles and crunchy onions), we shared an order of aebleskiver, and Dad and I split a huge yummy sausage at a Christmas market (there’s also a photo of us taking a bite of said sausage, a la presidential candidates with corn dogs at the Iowa state fair. For obvious reasons if you’ve ever seen those pictures, I will not be posting that one.)

Our evening at Tivoli also provided great opportunity for good food and beverage. More glogg, Tuborg Christmas brew, and a fantastic meal wrapped up our evening.

The Carlsberg brewery provided some more beverage excitement. In addition to the beer we consumed, they had a massive collection of over 20,000 bottles of beer from all over the world.

Back to the street our apartment was on, we tried out a pub right outside our door. Again, pretty fabulous stuff:

And you can’t leave Copenhagen without Smorrebrod and aquavit! Although the smorrebrod was WAY more intense than I thought – HUGE portions! Also, check out the Brooklyn Brewery glass the restaurant gave Dad for his beer! Small world.

On to Flensburg, the good eats (and drinks) kept coming. We kicked things off with Flensburger Pils and yummy soup!

Later, on the main walking street, we kept the mulled wine thing going with Flensburg’s version: Feuerzangenbowle.

Back at the hotel in Flensburg, we had some fabulous, hearty German food. Spoiler alert: there were a lot of potatoes.

Breakfast at the hotel proved to be equally exciting!

Then it was back to Copenhagen and one more aquavit at the airport hotel before jetting off to Africa!

The first food photo in Algiers comes from Mom and Dad’s trip to one of the markets nearish to the Embassy and my apartment:

Our first dinner out in Algiers was at a fancy, traditional Algerian food place called El Djenina – it’s hands down the best restaurant I’ve been to here.

We also had some great home cooking in Algeria. Dad somehow made a great concoction using overly frozen vegetables and turkey breast, we had a fantastic Christmas dinner at a colleague’s home, and then we hosted colleagues chez moi for a dinner of Dad’s fabulous lentil shepherd’s pie!

And then there was the food in Tipaza (fish with bones, so it was a meal AND and activity), and the Casbah, where we had some Algerian sweets and coffee!

And last, but not least, Mom’s birthday dinner at Tantra – lamb, huge shrimp, fish, veggies…yum! Plus pre-dinner birthday cava from my trip to Spain!

Well, that about does it – hungry yet?