The Art of Sausage Zen

Sausage with mashed potatoes, camouflaged as sushi.

Every year around Christmas we prepare an orgy of sushi treats as a way of balancing all the very heavy traditional Danish Christmas meals. Our father, however, is notoriously afraid of anything remotely foreign or new, which means that this meal is by far the hardest part of Christmas for him.

One year our mother, who can be quite the trickster, thought up something ingenious: To roll the traditional (crappy, industrial, yet dad-beloved) red sausages in mashed potatoes wrapped in sea weed. Of course this was served with mustard, ketchup and fried onions. Need I say it was a tremendous success?