Vor = Spring! Time to Celebrate! It’s time to allow yourself to Celebrate!* 

Are you eagerly thinking about planning food for gatherings, Weddings, Birthdays, Easter, and Mother’s Day like I am? This week the new Vinarterta Kitchen (I call her Vinkona) is cooking up Vinarterta, Kleinur, Icelandic Brown Bread, Rullupylsa, Hangikjot, (and Svid Sheep’s Heads 🙂 for Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto’s Thorrablot!

I’ve been working directly with one of my favourite Ontario Sheep farmers for months to provide exactly the right size and age of lamb meat to achieve our delectable custom preparations. Only high-quality small farm naturally raised lamb is used in our artisan custom cold-smoked Ontario Lamb Hangikjöt (Smoked Boneless Lamb Leg) and Rúllupylsa (Rolled Cured Boneless Lamb Shoulder).

Now they are available for your festivities too! (Sorry meat is allowable for shipping only to Canadian destinations.)

For Vinarterta Tribe Customers a loaf of our Icelandic Brown Bread is included with your Rulluplysa purchase. For all other orders over $100, a surprise treat valued at $6.99 or more will be included. If you are not a subscriber you can do so here or on the lower right of this page.

What is Thorrablot? It was a sacrificial midwinter festival offered to the gods in pagan Iceland of the past. It was abolished during the Christianization of Iceland but resurrected in the 19th century as a midwinter celebration that continues to be celebrated to this day.

The timing for the festival coincides with the month of Thorri, according to the old Icelandic calendar, which begins on the first Friday after January 19th (the 13th week of winter). In Toronto, we celebrate in Spring for the practical reason of avoiding unpredictable weather and ensuring a fun Feast. Over 20 of these feasts are celebrated in cities all over North America between January and April.

Check with your local Icelandic Club Chapter at: Icelandic National League of North America.

Origins of the name “Thorri” is most likely from Thor the God of Thunder in the old Nordic religion. The community gets together to eat, drink and be merry. The menu consists of food cooked and preserved in the traditional ways of smoking, curing with sugar, salt or whey and drying.

Toronto’s Thorrablot features traditional fare as well as our Smoked Lamb Boneless Leg (Hangikjöt), and Rolled Spiced Cured Lamb Shoulder (Rúllupylsa), (Brúnt Brauð) Icelandic Brown, Kleinur and of course, Vinarterta!

Remember our Eliza Reid, Secrets of the Sprakkar Book and Vinarterta Gift Packs available now. They include:

Our Vinur (Friend) Vinarterta Traditional Plum Icelandic Cake, or your choice of flavour and size, Secrets of the Sprakkar new book by Eliza Reid, and customized Gift Card.

Secrets of the Sprakkar + Vinarterta is your perfect combo for a cozy, energizing, inspiring read and a delicious taste of Iceland ready for your personal stash, sharing and gifting! Plan for Mother’s Day!

We’ll be at Kimber Valley Farms for their Spring Market in the Beaver Valley on April 9! More soon!

Sending love,
Arden

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*Vor is the Icelandic Word for Spring.