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Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Christmas

My wife's family has a traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner and last night was no exception.

Three generations sat around three tables at Aunt Irene's and Uncle Mike's and enjoyed roast beef, ham, mashed potatoes, string beans, cucumber salad, mushroom gravy and corn.

Desserts were fabulous and included a fabulous tiramisu made by my wife and a bowl full of those miniature liquor bottles made of chocolate and filled with different flavors of booze.

Later we shared the "oplatek":

The Polish family breaks the Oplatek (Wafer) (Oh-pwah-tek) on Christmas Eve (Wigilia) as their ancestors before them have done. The sacred white wafers, much like those used for Holy Communion, are shared with each person present. During the exchange, good wishes are expressed.

And now, some pictures!!

1 Comments:

  • At 9:09 PM , Blogger Jasra/Lisa said...

    I'm so glad you got all of those pictures. :) I miss Christmas eve at Aunt Irene's place.

     

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