On the Christmas table – meat jelly
As well as the other excellent dishes which we prepare for Christmas Eve supper, I cannot imagine the Christmas table without meat in jelly. Every year either my daddy or I prepare pork foot jelly. I like a lot of meat in the jelly. I always boil pork foot to make a strong jelly and pork knee to have a lot of meat. I spice it traditionally with ...On the Christmas table – łazanki - noodles with cabbage and mushrooms
Traditionally, during the Polish Christmas Eve supper we don't eat any meat. Instead we have twelve dishes with fish, mushrooms, vegetables and cabbage. In my home everybody waits for their favourite meal: my husband and daughter for the herring dishes and vegetable salad, my son for the fried fish, while I wait for dumplings and jellied carp....On the Christmas table: Christmas Eve mushroom soup
According to tradition, on the Christmas Eve table there should be lenten soup: red borscht with ravioli or kalduny, mushroom- or fish soup. Although fasting during the Christmas Eve supper has for some time been tradition only, I can't imagine serving baked pork knuckle or sour rye soup with white sausage on this day. The master of fish soup ...