Meatless Wigilia gołąbki?

Polonius3Threads: 1,005 Posts: 4,833 Joined: Apr 11, 08 ♂	Dec 5, 10, 16:58 #1
Gołąbki stuffed with rice or barley and mushrooms and onions drenched in muishroom gravy are so good you will want enjoy them not only on Wigilia.

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Dec 5, 10, 17:07 #2
I see you are getting in to the spirit of the season. If I might offer a suggestion Polonius3, Post some photos with your food threads, to give people a better idea of what you are talking about.

lowfunk99Threads: 18 Posts: 435 Joined: Jan 7, 08 ♂	Dec 5, 10, 17:23 #3
When is dinner?

ShawnHThreads: 9 Posts: 3,056 Joined: Jul 2, 09 ♂	Dec 5, 10, 17:32 #4
lowfunk99: When is dinner? If I am not mistaken, it would be on the 24th....

Marynka11Threads: 8 Posts: 1,447 Joined: Nov 3, 10 ♀	Dec 5, 10, 20:29 #5
I've never had gołąbki for Wigilia. Never heard about anyone making them in my region. Is it common in some areas of Poland?

polkamaniacThreads: 1 Posts: 514 Joined: Aug 2, 09 ♂	Edited by: polkamaniac Dec 21, 10, 16:48 #6
We reserve the joy of having gołąbki with meat for Christmas day.Christmas Eve is when I have my fill of pierogi.I don't want to have too much of a good thing all in one day.

z_dariusThreads: 22 Posts: 5,091 Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂	Dec 22, 10, 17:16 #7
There are various traditions for the Chirstmas Eve Wigilia dinner. The traditionalists will abstain from meat and alcohol till midnight of Dec. 24. After midnight all bets are off. In fact, the entire day of Dec 24, in some regions, is on a fasting side, until it's time to sit at the table in the evening. Cooking golabki doesn't mean they have to be consumed on the same day.

polkamaniacThreads: 1 Posts: 514 Joined: Aug 2, 09 ♂	Dec 22, 10, 19:43 #8
you're right ---we keep up those traditions that were taught to us by our Polish parents and we in turn are showing our married daughters how to keep up those same traditions.

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Dec 22, 10, 20:06 #9

These traditions seem to be set in concrete by the religionists. It seems to be homicidal crime to eat meat on Christmas" Eve.
I remember the Episcopate telling some years ago that the Polish people "were allowed to eat meat on Christmas' Eve". I do not think some bishop has to tell me what to eat or not to eat?
Yes we also eat only fish Christmas Eve...mainly not to upset my mother-in-law.
I managed to introduce wine though...
In my native Flanders people put festive dishes on the table as well...but each family is doing as it feels to be right.
Traditions are nice, but should not be gun-enforced.

z_dariusThreads: 22 Posts: 5,091 Joined: Oct 18, 07 ♂	Dec 22, 10, 21:51 #10
sobieski: Traditions are nice, but should not be gun-enforced. I never saw a gun at or around Christmas Eve dinner. Except perhaps a few hours before when I happened to catch a glimpse of some Americans spreading "democracy" somewhere far from their homes. You belgiumites go ahead and keep or break all the traditions you want. Let Poles stick to theirs. In short, none of your business.

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Edited by: polkamaniac Dec 23, 10, 16:16 #11

I don't think it's too much of a big deal to abstain from eating meat on 2 days out of a year.Good Friday and Christmas Eve.Yes---there are people still doing this every Friday but the Church has eased up on this and it's not a requirement any more.I'm sure that most of us Christians have the will-power to hang on till midnight 'after midnight mass 'to get back to our kielbasa and cabbage rolls etc.It tastes so much better after not having meat all day.!!!!!!

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