If you could have anything to eat right now, what would it be? Bonus: 1) Assume price is no object. 2) If you could eat this food with anyone alive or who has ever lived, who would it be? 3) Find and share a photo of what you'd like to eat or the person from #2. #postaday2011

Without the "bonus" prompts this was a difficult one to write a response. I can't say that I want to eat lutefisk and lesfe right now. The food isn't something that I crave. The price isn't really something that prevents me from eating this either - although I've never purchased lutefisk, I'm pretty sure it is affordable, although perhaps a seasonal food. Lefse is something my parents make every winter, something that I've been taught to make but haven't ever attempted making it without Mom there. It is the second part of the bonus that was the catalyst for my response and the food. I would love to eat lutefisk and lefse with Grandma Lucy right now. Grandma Lucy always had Christmas Eve dinner at her place with my family. The adults ate oyster stew and the kids had frozen pizza. It was always happy, safe, and loving at Grandma Lucy's. Grandpa had passed away when I was just turning 10 years old and we spent a lot of time with Grandma Lucy, living just four blocks away. One Christmas when I was in my early teens I requested that Grandma make lutefisk for Christmas Eve dinner. I had heard so much about it growing up, but had never tasted it. She was so excited! I can't say that lutefish tastes good - particularly with the smell that goes along with cooking the fish - but the memories that lutefisk and lefse bring back about Grandma Lucy, the love, the acceptance, the care.....are so sweet! [I don't have a picture of Grandma Lucy scanned, I will add this soon.]