Ukrainian Christmas Eve is not only rich in traditional foods prepared freshly that day (in today’s busy lifestyle, most of us prepare many food items ahead of time), but also shared by the family during the Christmas Eve 12-course meatless dinner. Additionally, numerous traditions are practiced before and after the meal.
I have been maintaining my blog for several years now and have prepared, photographed, and posted over 750 of my favorite true-and-tried recipes.
I created special posts with groups of similar types of recipes, pictures, and links so my readers can conveniently and quickly locate their favorite one to try.
Saint Nicholas was the “gift-giver” I was familiar with as a child. He had a white beard, was dressed in bishop’s garbs, carried a crozier, and arrived on a white horse. On December 6th, he visited well-behaved children and placed candy and cookies under their pillows. If you were really good, then he would drop off more goodies on Christmas Eve. You were expected to know your Catechism, in case he decided to quiz you, before leaving you a gift. We recited prayers and songs dedicated to St. Nicholas, rather than leaving milk and cookies for him.
HAPPY NEW YEAR……to all my friends who are celebrating Rosh Hashanah!!!
May your New Year be filled with good health, love, and prosperity.
My thoughts and prayers are with all the people left behind, and the souls of the ones perished on that sad day of September 11th, 2001.
My heart is aching for my second cousin and his family, as they lost their oldest son that day, Scott Daniel Bart, who was working in the North Tower.