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The thread on our *least* favourite holiday foods is still going strong, so how about complimenting it with our *most* favourite holiday foods! What do you eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas?
I will start where I left off on the last thread:
I LOVE:
Eggnog, and as sweets I love Stollen, Panettone, and Kourambiedes!
On Christmas Eve we have no traditions, so since we started fasting from meat, I had to think of something the non-fasters would also find appetizing and satisfying before we head off for the evening's service...so our Christmas Eve family dinner is meatless Cheese Lasagna--homemade ofcourse...(with my husband not eating dairy this year, we might have to prepare something else as well...hmmm..)
On Christmas Day we vary alot..sometimes turkey, sometimes goose, sometimes roast beef, sometimes pheasant, sometimes fresh ham, etc...(but never lamb--that is for Easter)!
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My favorite is more typical to southern home cooking. I look forward to honey baked ham and mashed potatoes with delicious gravy.
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Lekvar Pirohy and Bobal'ky! MMMMMMMM!
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Bobalky! No doubt about it. Pirohi are also good. But I could make an entire meal out of just bobalki. Fried cabbage and honey poppyseed. A slice of heaven.
My mouth is watering already.
Tim
ps--what is the singular of bobalky? Bobalk?
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Okay guys, I know that I am a minority here, but could you please explain what all these foods are exactly--I am getting tired of going to Google all the time..(like when I looked up 'salo'! )
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ps--what is the singular of bobalky? Bobalk? bobalek.
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hryby - mushroom soup!
This one really isn't a food per se, but casnok s medom (garlic with honey).
Of course, you also need the rusyn poundcake (poundcake with cherries and walnuts).
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Thanks Rusyn, Alice  Who else likes the delicious Italian cake/bread called Panetone? I love it! I still remember Penelope Cruz (Pelaghia/Cephallonian Greek girl) telling Nicholas Gage (Captain Corelli/Italian occupier)in the movie 'Corelli's Mandolin': "...and you come here thinking you are so great with your opera and Panetonne"!!! LOL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panettone
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It was great growing up Rusyn and Italian. On Christmas Eve at 5:00 PM, we had our Rusyn Svjatyj Vecur with my Baba's pirohy (fried cabbage,dry cottage cheese,Lekvar), Bol'balky with walnuts and honey, Marchanka (mushroom & saurkraut soup), nut roll, etc. At 7:00 pm we would go to my Uncle Tony's restaurant for the Italian Christmas Eve dinner of the 7-12 fish dishes. I can handle the traditional Bacala (salted cod) main dish, but the squid(calamari)and other Calabrian delicacies I could not handle.
Christos Razhdajet'sja/Boun Natale!
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lordy, that sounds delish. Rusyn and Italian.
I think I shall include some lovely japanese sashimi in my holy supper this christmas... some roasted black cod with a sweet miso crust... squid would have to be barbecued with a bit of chilli and vinegar...
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Bobalky is one of the traditional twelve dishes served on Christmas Eve in Rusyn areas. It's basically a type of dumpling I guess. The way we made it at home was to make a sweet dough with lots of butter and some sugar and vanila, roll it out into a log and cut off or tear off small bits. Then we arranged them on pans so they were almost touching. Let them raise a bit and then bake until brown. Then they are poached either by putting them directly into boiling water or by simply pouring boiling water over them while they are in a colander. They absorb enough water to become soft, but not fall apart or become slimy. Then they can be combined with any number of things. My favorite is fried sweet cabbage and browned butter. Also good is honey, poppyseed and browned butter. They are out of this world! Any good Slovak or Rusyn cookbook will have a recipe for them.
Not a low calorie dish, by any means. But that's what happens when you are fasting and break that fast! Just like Easter.
If you are really interested, let me know and I can send you a good recipe. But not for a week or two, I'm having surgery in a few days.
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Sounds quite yummy, Tim... I hope that you will have some this year. Ofcourse, the secret ingredient to all these foods made by your mothers and grandmothers, which made them taste even more special, was love... By the way, dear Slavic friends, another question: is this twelve dish Christmas Eve supper a fasting meal, is it eaten before church or after Church?!? Enquiring minds want to know! Thanks, Alice
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Yes, it is a strict fast day. No meat or dairy products. By tradition, as soon as it becomes dark and the evening stars are visible, the meal begins. After the meal, in Eastern Europe, the families get ready to be visited by the Bethlehem Carolers, the Jaslichkari (Visitors to the Manger)that visit between 9:00 pm until the wee hours. If the family attends services on Christmas Eve, it is the Great Compline Service.
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Yes, it is a strict fast day. No meat or dairy products. By tradition, as soon as it becomes dark and the evening stars are visible, the meal begins. After the meal, in Eastern Europe, the families get ready to be visited by the Bethlehem Carolers, the Jaslichkari (Visitors to the Manger)that visit between 9:00 pm until the wee hours. If the family attends services on Christmas Eve, it is the Great Compline Service.
Ungcsertezs So the meal breaks the strict fast then?
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