herring salad

Associate Editor Jean Teller enjoys lentils but isn't so sure about herring salad. She does remembers eating black-eyed peas for good luck on New Year's Day.

Pickled herring salad with a sliced apple and boiled egg

Guests will be greeted with sparkling wine and hors d'oeuvres and then sit down to a plate of herring salad, followed by a bowl of Anna's liver dumpling soup.

But Norwegian cooks stir native passions with a mind-boggling array of recipes: There's chopped herring, pickled herring, herring in mustard sauce, herring in sour cream, herring in curried cream sauce, salted herring, herring salad with beetroot garnish, spicy herring, matjes herring (young herring cured for eight months in sugar, salt, vinegar, and spices), herring tidbits in wine sauce, herring with beets and sour cream, baby herring in tomato sauce, herring in a sweet marinade with carrots and onions, and old-fashioned marinated herring (gammeldags sursild).

Baked herring, grilled herring, herring with mustard and dill sauce, fennel-stuffed herring, herring fried in oatmeal, devilled herring, mushroom and herring salad, herring kebab, herring sushi.

After having successfully launched the VICI Surimi range in France, the UK, Germany and Belgium, Brugge-based Vichiunai Europe (Phone: +32 5039-7848) recently added herring salads to its assortment.