Can I Post All my Xmas Stuff by February? - Wygilia
Wygilia is the Christmas Eve Polish feast, which is, as I understand it, very important and more important than the Christmas day (although, this might be changing in modern Poland due to general international influence on customs?).
Maybe I'll just do pictures with identifying captions? Basically, we made some food and then ate it... :D
Firstly, the table setting. One is supposed to use a white table cloth, so we do. I assume the white table cloth is so that it shows up the stains from any spilt beetroot soup better...
We also have Polish bison grass vodka, and red wine in crystal glasses here. Matching table mats and plates too! Very pretty and nice.
Barszcz (beetroot soup) with giant mushroom uszki (filled dumpling things) in it. We have these handy pierogi maker things (you put the circle of pastry on, put the filling on, then fold it in half and it folds it and crimps the edges for you) and we use the smallest for the uszki, but this makes them about 3 times bigger than when we did them by hand.
The rollmops, pickled mushrooms and tomato salad course. This is where the vodka comes in, with the rollmops, cos they're gross. I mean, great, and sort of rubbery and slimey just like a pickled fish piece should be.
Roasted salmon with olives, beans, cherry tomatoes. This is in the first Jamie Oliver book, and is not Polish, but is the only fish we can really get. This is, by the way, an immense amount of salmon, and so good...
The fish comes with the giant salad of doom, which may or may not be Polish - the recipe is in a vegetarian cookbook written by a Polish lady. My sister usually makes and decorates the salad of doom.
Compote, I love compote. This is fruit cooked in some sugary water with some spices, probably cinnamon and cloves. I had some for breakfast the next morning too.
Pierogi - they always look ugly. These are dumplings with cherries inside, and are yummy, but terribly un-photogenic. They're trying to look good here with a sprinkling of icing sugar. You can see the fancy crimping from the fancy pierogi makers. We had leftovers of these for breakfast too, fried.
Christmas bread, kind of like a fruit bread-cake thing. This was really good - I should get the recipe and make some more! It's got lemon icing on it here because we felt it needed something more. All Polish cakes pictured in cookbooks seem to have a thin, white, partly transparent icing either drizzled over or all over, so it seemed the right thing to do.
Parting candlelit shot. Featuring the massive pile of a zillion pierogi. They're less frightening in the dark.
Maybe I'll just do pictures with identifying captions? Basically, we made some food and then ate it... :D
Firstly, the table setting. One is supposed to use a white table cloth, so we do. I assume the white table cloth is so that it shows up the stains from any spilt beetroot soup better...
We also have Polish bison grass vodka, and red wine in crystal glasses here. Matching table mats and plates too! Very pretty and nice.
Barszcz (beetroot soup) with giant mushroom uszki (filled dumpling things) in it. We have these handy pierogi maker things (you put the circle of pastry on, put the filling on, then fold it in half and it folds it and crimps the edges for you) and we use the smallest for the uszki, but this makes them about 3 times bigger than when we did them by hand.
The rollmops, pickled mushrooms and tomato salad course. This is where the vodka comes in, with the rollmops, cos they're gross. I mean, great, and sort of rubbery and slimey just like a pickled fish piece should be.
Roasted salmon with olives, beans, cherry tomatoes. This is in the first Jamie Oliver book, and is not Polish, but is the only fish we can really get. This is, by the way, an immense amount of salmon, and so good...
The fish comes with the giant salad of doom, which may or may not be Polish - the recipe is in a vegetarian cookbook written by a Polish lady. My sister usually makes and decorates the salad of doom.
Compote, I love compote. This is fruit cooked in some sugary water with some spices, probably cinnamon and cloves. I had some for breakfast the next morning too.
Pierogi - they always look ugly. These are dumplings with cherries inside, and are yummy, but terribly un-photogenic. They're trying to look good here with a sprinkling of icing sugar. You can see the fancy crimping from the fancy pierogi makers. We had leftovers of these for breakfast too, fried.
Christmas bread, kind of like a fruit bread-cake thing. This was really good - I should get the recipe and make some more! It's got lemon icing on it here because we felt it needed something more. All Polish cakes pictured in cookbooks seem to have a thin, white, partly transparent icing either drizzled over or all over, so it seemed the right thing to do.
Parting candlelit shot. Featuring the massive pile of a zillion pierogi. They're less frightening in the dark.
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