"user314" (user314)
01/10/2015 at 22:55 • Filed to: Foodlopnik, traditions, Christmas
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"user314" (user314)
01/10/2015 at 22:55 • Filed to: Foodlopnik, traditions, Christmas | 3
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As far back as I can remember, my maternal grandmother would always prepare !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! round about the first week of January. As a little kid, having two Christmases kinda blew my mind, but Svjatyj Vecer was all about yummy foods instead of gifts, so it was cool. We've kinda fallen away from the tradition since her passing, what with my cousins all moved away and living their own lives now and all, but we still try to do it when we can. As such, I'm getting together with my mom, sister and her husband tomorrow for supper, albeit slightly truncated. We've been cooking most of today, and have a bit more to do tomorrow.
The meal traditionally contains twelve dishes (one for each Apostle), and while the exact make-up differs pretty much village to village, we've always done sauerkraut soup, creamed peas, stewed beans, bobalki (bread balls with honey and nuts), pierogi (potato/cheese, apricot, and lekvar (prune butter)), stewed dried fruits, and plenty of paska bread & wine.
The sauerkraut soup we actually did yesterday (the longer it ages, the better it gets!), but the bobalki and pierogi we did today. Previously we've tried frozen pierogi, but Mrs T's are a poor substitute for what the little old ladies of Ethnic Pierogi in Duquesne used to put out. Fortunately, we still have my great-grandmother's recipe:
These joined several more trays freezing out in the car (at least the bitter cold is good for something!).
So, anyone else still observing their grandparent's traditions?
ly2v8-Brian
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:06 |
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Pierogis are awesome
Birddog
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:09 |
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You had me at Pierogi. I've never had Saurkraut soup, usually it's Liver Dumpling for us.
itranthelasttimeiparkedit
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:14 |
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there is a polish grocery store in houston that has really good frozen perogis: http://www.poloniarestaurant.com/Store.htm
ClassicDatsunDebate
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:31 |
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Cabbage rolls ( holopchi) and perogies (pedehey) are a staple for our family at Christmas and Easter. Wouldn't be the holidays without them.
We get our prune jam delivered by way of vinartarter, an Islandic Christmas cake.
It's great to come from a diverse background because you can claim the best parts from all those cultures.
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:33 |
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Interesting. I've never had a sweet perogie before - just the usual potato/onion/cheese variety. It's been ages since I've made them by hand - probably not since I was a kid. The area I grew up in was settled by a lot of Ukrainian folk, so perogies were a fairly common thing growing up.
Svend
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:34 |
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Oh man I love pierogi. A Polish lass made some for me the other week. Lightly boiled them and some that I didn't eat straight away I lightly fried in some butter later that day.
PyramidHat
> user314
01/10/2015 at 23:41 |
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Pierogies! (not sure how to spell the plural of that). I was introduced to those when I was living in PA. Potatoes and cheese wrapped in pasta and covered with butter. I want to say that garlic was involved, but I'm Italian, so it could have just been residual garlic on the brain...
Not the healthiest food, but damn they are good...
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user314
> BaconSandwich is tasty.
01/11/2015 at 00:21 |
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There's a lot of symbolism in the meal, different items repenting the bitter and sweet of life. Eating raw garlic is traditional, but my grandfather requested its removal, and we've never seen the need the reintroduce it.
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user314
> PyramidHat
01/11/2015 at 00:24 |
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Not so much for Christmas, but when we'd do pierogi for Lent they were pan fried with butter and garlic salt.
JimmyGM
> user314
01/11/2015 at 03:04 |
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my family does the same thing, only the polish way meaning we fill the pee-doge-ease with babushka