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Ukrainian Christmas
The main Ukrainian Christmas celebrations are the night before, but this 40+ degree too-hot day in Canberra was Ukrainian Christmas.
The first picture shows the traditional extra table setting Ukrainians have for family members who have died.
Ukrainian Christmas Eve
It’s going to be a hot Christmas this year! The main Christmas meal is tonight.
Cooking for Ukrainian Christmas
Today we made (across both pictures, but please don’t count – I bet I’m wrong!) 90 potato varenyky (Ukrainian dumplings) for Ukrainian Christmas Eve tomorrow night. The traditional Christmas dinner is huge, with twelve foods served.
The varenyky took several hours to make. The second picture is of the gluten-free lot – my fault! They look different, but taste the same. The first picture is the normal stuff. They’re not obviously cooked in these photographs!
The borscht was made yesterday – it tastes better after sitting a day or two. There’s still a lot more to make!
Christmas Eve – 2015
It’s Christmas Eve again, so here – again – is one of our “pet” wild magpies hanging out on the back deck on Christmas Eve and enjoying the music from The Nutcracker.
Ukrainian Food for the Weekend
We spent a few hours today making dozens and dozens of varenyky (Ukrainian dumplings) for the weekend, along with borsch (which is actually a Ukrainian, not a Russian food, and has heaps of meat and vegetables in it, not the pink liquid people think it is).
