Boom-Day
I’m not too familiar with this whole ‘leading up to lent’-thing, but I do know that there are three ‘special’ days that precede it: 1) Cream-Puff Monday (aka Bolludagur), 2) Boom-Day (aka Sprengidagur), and 3) Ash Wednesday (aka Öskudagur).
On Boom-Day (‘Explosion-Day’?, ‘Eat-Until-You-Burst-Day’?…) it is customary to eat salted meat in a bean-soup with veggies until you burst. So that’s what we did. Since it fell on a Tuesday, my mom and Bjarni came over for dinner which was good because Finnur made waaaay to much soup and we were happy to ship the leftovers away with our guests. The soup was excellent though, among the best I’ve ever had. 🙂
Bjarni getting some food. Since it was Fish-Tuesday, we'd also gotten some fish for those that didn't want too much salt. Also, the images are bit weird because the white-balance was on a weird setting, and the zoom lens still on.
Mom working on the salted meat.
Bjarki eating his first bits of meat.