Northern Light Gig and Pyttapannu

As usual with a midweek DJ gig the first hours are somewhat quiet and then around ten it improved. Place git buzzing. Punters started jiggling to the music, and the vibes improved. Had a free dinner as well, the famous Scandinavian fry up , known as Pyttipannu (Finnish) or Pyttapanna (Norway and Sweden).

It is a hodgepodge of food similar to bubble and squeak. The term is Swedish for "small pieces in pan". It is a popular dish in Sweden, Norway and Finland, and in Denmark, where it bears the name biksemad, meaning food which has been mixed together.

Traditionally consisting of potatoes, onions, and any kind of chopped or minced meat (or sausage), diced and then pan fried, it is often served with a fried egg, pickled beetroot, sour pickled gherkin, capers and sometimes ketchup or brown sauce. The dish was originally made from leftovers of past meals but now it is far more common to prepare pyttipanna from prime ingredients. Frozen pyttipanna of many varieties can be bought in almost every Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish supermarket. Many variants of the dish exist, including vegetarian and vegan versions.



Along with Swedish meatballs it is one of my favourite meals as well as the famous reindeer meat that the Northern Lights have around this time of the year.



I digress a bit, and was going to do the playlist from last night. I shall do that in a following post.

Maiden Voyage

One of the tracks i played last night was this vocal version of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage". The reason i mention it is that a couple who were smooching wanted to know what it was. So here is Kellee Patterson with Maiden Voyage.

Enjoy.

Brighton and Hove Finds

Another good day if mystery shopping and having a few beers at my old haunt, the Evening Star pub.

I first did a charity shop in Hove and then Brighton after my visit to my old pub haunt.

Found the following books in them -



Plus a few DVD's - Elizabeth, The Golden Age
                                 Stardust
                                 Pan's Labyrinth

and  a CD by British soul diva Beverley Knight.

From Julian at Fine Records i found a CD by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim called Aurora,

Also from the free bookshop section at Knowledge in North Street Brighton, i picked up this book -

Brighton and Hove Pics

Clicked away with the camera and here is what i snapped.


Best record shop in Hove.


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And finally, the best pint of beer i have had for a long time. A dark porter style beer infused with a chocolate and chilli flavour Magic Rock Punchline (5.0 % ABV) . The cholcolate flavour comes first and then that chill hits you and warms your mouth up. A great winter beer!