After Christmas
Disaster!
Seriously there must be some curse on me today.
My cheesecake looked perfect. We decided to try a piece so there wouldn’t be an embarrassment if something went wrong with it. Good we did that. Something went terribly wrong with my cake. It appears the cheese inside changed consistency to liquid. How fun! It’s very tasty but looks like shit so obviously I can’t show it to my-maybe-future mother in law. Can I? Anyway we will eat it with a spoon – how convenient.
My sallad…oh God. I unpacked by freshly bought box of mushrooms and what did I see…all fucking mushrooms are molded. Great! Any way I dealt with it. Then my rice had boiled over giving me another reason to clean up – again. Grrrrr…. Oh I just remembered I forgot to add cheese.
Oh and my lovely Christmas tree. It’s sooooooo crocked and curved at the top. Looks like shit and smells like cat’s pee – really. And I can’t find the Christmas lights and all that stuff and I will also have to fix a cake from a box since my cheesecake decided not to set. Geez…
Oh my...
there's no time!
Christmas on their way and I'm not even slightly prepared. Well this year it's easier for me because we're going to Radek's parents for Christmas. To city called Stalowa Wola :) It's about 5 hour long drive - which I actually like because I love longs car trips....maybe I'm weird. Anyway I was only told to prepare a sallad. Easy one, right? Well it turns out not that easy at all. I mean what sallad??? There are gazillion possible recipes and I only have one day and also have to bake a cheescake. I found some recipe on the net I may be using after all. Let's hope it will be edible :)
Oh and I totally forgot that indeed we will need a christmas tree. So I have to get dressed, go out, buy groceries, go to the cash machine and on to a search for a christmas tree patch.
And I'm being soooooooo lazy. Sitting here, drinking Gevalia (yes, I managed to find a store that has it ). I wish that for just one day I can do absolutely nothing...
Ah... Have a Merry Christmas y'all babes :* and let's hope this new year will bring me back to beautiful Sweden at last
have my weird face for Christmas :)
Everyday is like sunday...
Polish Christmas
Ok. so lately I’ve been talking to some of my Swedish friends and they were pretty shocked that in Poland we don’t eat any meat on Christmas eve. Well the explanation is pretty simple. In Poland we’re mostly Catholics so according to Bible (I guess…) we’re not suppose to eat meat on that day. Few years ago some important people in the church decided that in fact from now on were allowed to eat meat on Christmas eve. However I don’t know anyone who does. I mean it’s a tradition. It’s not hard to keep yourself from eating meat on that one day because you can eat it all year long.
So you probably wonder what do we actually eat and how the Christmas look in Poland? Here ya go.
I will tell you how does it look in my family. We meet in the afternoon at my uncle apartment. All of my family, well except of those who live at the seaside and in Sweden ;) And now the first tradition. We won’t sit at the table until there is a first star in the sky. That tradition mostly lives in families with small children – so they have something to do when adults are preparing the dinner J. When there is a first star in the end, whole family gathers around and everyone takes a piece of thin, waffle like thing called “opłatek”. And now with your piece you go to everybody, one by one and you’re wishing yourselves merry Christmas and so on and you take a piece of the person “opłatek” and that person takes a piece of yours and eat it (that sounds weird lol). When everybody are done you can finally start to eat.
We start off with fresh bread, butter, many kinds of salads and a lot varieties of herring. With onion, sour cream ,tomatoes and whatever you like. Herring is like our national fish – at every family gathering there has to be a herring. We also have a “barszcz z uszkami” which is a soup of beetroots with little dumplings stuffed with mushrooms. We also have “pierogi” – dumplings with sauerkraut and mushrooms. And there are no Christmas without carp. In my family we eat it fried – I hate it, it tastes like mud J Now let’s go on to the sweets. We have cakes: cheesecake and “makowiec” which is a cake with poppy seeds. And my grandfather cooks a thing called “makiełki” – it’s homemade pasta with honey, raisins and poppy seed cooked in milk. It’s extremely sweet but I totally love it. And we also have a Swedish accent – we always drink Glogg. It’s because I have family in nortern Sweden and they showed that to us years ago – and we liked it so it stayed.
Carp
Barszcz
Makowiec
Also about the presents – we open them in the middle of the dinner. If there are kids in the family it’s often earlier ;)
Geez that was a long post. If you want to know anything more about Poland – do not hesitate to ask. It’s good to write about something I actually know about
Take care my darlings
Puss och kram
