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Our Christmas Eve menu

23:08, Tuesday, December 25, 2007 .. Posted in Family doings .. 0 comments .. Link

We decided to go "ethnic" and chose Eastern Europe this time. I made pierogi, also known as vareniki (basically homemade noodles like ravioli, stuffed with a variety of things, but we used a mashed potato mixture). I had them for the first time in 1993 when I was in Kazakhstan adopting our first EE daughter and wow - they were SO good! They served them to me hot and dripping with butter. Heaven. (And let's me know that my attempts are not very authentic . . . . )

Greg made pilov (aka pilaf) as we had it in Kazakhstan. It's a traditional dish that it SO important in some EE cultures that a man is not considered ready to marry until he can make a great pilaf (which is very different than US "pilaf".) Greg had an oopsie making it - he was shaking cayenne pepper into it when the lid fell off! He scooped out as much as possible, but it was still VERY spicy. The kids all loved it anyway.

We then had traditional Norwegian rice pudding with an almond in it. The person who got the nut got to open a family present - "Scene It", the new Disney version. It's been a long-standing tradition in our family (but was tapioca) and it was only just recently (last year) that I learned that it came from our Scandinavian ancestry and is still a tradition there . . . cool.

For Christmas Day, we cooked a turkey and had other quick, snacky foods. I did make some bread again, with our fabulously easy recipe. That's it!
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