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Easy Danish Christmas Eve Rice Porridge (Risengrød) Recipe

For Christmas Eve dinner, families in Denmark start the meal by giving everyone at the table a small bowl of warm porridge topped with a mixture of cinnamon and sugar and a pat of butter on top called Risengrød (pronounced risen-groo with a hint of a d sound at the end.)  One lucky person at the table will find a whole almond in the bottom of their empty bowl and will win the almond gift – usually candy, marzipan, or other small treat.   Save this recipe to your Pinterest Boards for later! Share it with your friends!

8 Days of Pumpkin

I did it! My pumpkin dog treat project was more budget than lazy, and it took eight days to do it, but I turned our three Halloween pumpkins into dried pumpkin dog treats and pumpkin powder to mix into Lacey's food.


Three Pumpkins Before


Three Pumpkins After



It is hard to believe that three big pumpkins dehydrated to four mason jars. Although it is nice to not to have a ton of jars to store since I don't have a lot of storage space in my kitchen.

This project took so long because I had to do it bit by bit. I spent a Saturday baking the pumpkins and let them cool overnight. I went to town for four hours chopping the baked pumpkins the following day and loaded my dehydrator with the first batch of pumpkin to dehydrate overnight. The following day and every day after, I unloaded dehydrated pumpkin from the dehydrator in the morning and loaded it with fresh pumpkin later in the day to dehydrate overnight. Rinse. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

Lacey sat by my side every day while I worked. I know it is because she loves me and had nothing to do with Lacey hoping pumpkin will fall onto the kitchen floor.


 Actually, it has EVERYTHING to do with hoping pumpkin falls onto the floor!

I'm keeping two jars of dried pumpkin flakes to use as pumpkin dog treats. The rest of the dried pumpkin I ran through the blender. That way I can mix the powder into Lacey's kibble as a training aid. 

If I want to bake Lacey treats with pumpkin puree, I can rehydrate the dehydrated pumpkin by adding two cups of water to a half a cup of dried pumpkin to make 2 cups of pumpkin puree.

While all of this work was for Lacey, Husband and I got to enjoy a bit of fresh pumpkin too. I used the seeds to make baked pumpkin seed snacks.


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