Christmas Traditions
Hello everyone! Three days until Christmas! Can you believe it? Well lots of things will take place these days… many involve food. My humans made a menu for the Christmas feast. Oh and what a menu! Soup, sausages, sarmale (I’m going to tell you about them), stakes, French fries… oh boy, oh boy… salads… pickles. All kind of sweets…Carolers are everywhere: on the streets, at our door… and I’m barking all the time! :P Some carolers look really funny and act goofy too: they have drums and they sing and dance and one of them is dresses like a bear or a goat. There are a lot of kids and they sing nice songs about Christmas. And again I bark; my humans tell me to shut up, but I’m trying to sing too!
And now something about “sarmale”; they are traditionally prepared in Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine and other countries in Southeastern Europe. “Sarma” means wrapping or rolling, and it comes from Turkish. The most popular way to prepare sarmale is to use sour cabbage leaves. How can you make sarmale??? Simple!
You mince some meat - pork, veal – with rice, onions, spices, you mix them very well and you roll them into sour cabbage leaves. You put them to boil with water and some tomato juice for a few hours. And then you serve them to your family on X-mas Eve!! Yummie!
3 comments:
Ronin, you're looking sharp next to your tree, buddy! Chewing on the lights unplugged is one thing, but try not to when they are plugged in. Hehe! Happy holidays!!
Wow, did you put up that tree all by yourself? Good job, it looks great! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your humans!
Sarmale sound a little bit like tamales, which are very popular here.
They can have all different kinds of fillings, but basically it's a meat mixture with a corn meal coating wrapped in a corn husk.
Many families eat them for the holidays - we usually stay with baked ham, but tonight I hear it's steak and crab legs. Yuuuuum!
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