Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
Interested in a signed copy? I can also personalize it for you or for a friend. The bookstore ships anywhere in the country.
Signed books make great Christmas gifts!
http://www.greatlakesbook.com/…/one-amber-bead-rebecca-thad…
Signed books make great Christmas gifts!
http://www.greatlakesbook.com/…/one-amber-bead-rebecca-thad…
Friday, November 20, 2015
Christmas will be here before we know it. I'll be hosting another Wigilia fundraiser next month, and thought some of you might be interested in preparing a Wigilia yourself.
Wigilia is the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. It can have seven, nine, or eleven courses. Christmas Eve was a day of abstinence for Poles, so no meat was served on that evening. I have memories (not among the favorite of my childhood memories!) of the carp that would be the main course of the dinner swimming in my grandmother's bathtub until it was time for grandpa to do his part of the dinner preparation. The Wigilia dinner I do would have to be called modified, as I include Polish sausage as well as a meat soup in the menu, something most non-Poles would expect to see in a Polish dinner.
I've already included most of my grandmother's Wigilia recipes on my recipe page. Next week I'll post my menu and some of the traditions that went with my family's celebration.
My apologies to any who will find anything in my postings inauthentic. I'm the second generation of my Polish-American family born in the United States, and most of my memories go back to about the time when I was eight years old. If you have any memories of or information about your family's celebration of Wigelia, I'd be very pleased if you'd share them.
Wigilia is the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. It can have seven, nine, or eleven courses. Christmas Eve was a day of abstinence for Poles, so no meat was served on that evening. I have memories (not among the favorite of my childhood memories!) of the carp that would be the main course of the dinner swimming in my grandmother's bathtub until it was time for grandpa to do his part of the dinner preparation. The Wigilia dinner I do would have to be called modified, as I include Polish sausage as well as a meat soup in the menu, something most non-Poles would expect to see in a Polish dinner.
I've already included most of my grandmother's Wigilia recipes on my recipe page. Next week I'll post my menu and some of the traditions that went with my family's celebration.
My apologies to any who will find anything in my postings inauthentic. I'm the second generation of my Polish-American family born in the United States, and most of my memories go back to about the time when I was eight years old. If you have any memories of or information about your family's celebration of Wigelia, I'd be very pleased if you'd share them.
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