Philip insisted I must make at least one batch of pierogi home-made. But I ended up making 3 batches, because I did not want to slight anyone by home-making a flavor that was not their favorite.
We love to shop at the Kurowski Sausage Shop deli (2976 North Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60618-7345 (773) 645-1692.) I go there to buy fried grass from Poland for the manger and the Wigilia table, and also for Oplatki.. They make great kapusta pierogi, and pretty good potato-cheese pierogi. But their cheese pierogi are sweet. So I felt i had to make those myself, and leave out the sugar. I thought Philip's favorite was kapusta-mushroom. But he said it was actually potato. My mother's recipe called for 3 lb of potatoes. Makes a huge batch. Midway through making the last batch my pasta mchine broke. Bummer!! I had to finish making the dough with a rolling pin. I was up until 1:30 a.m. Next morning of course I overslept.
The menu was glogg, Trader Joe's gingerbread coffee, herring, smoked carp and smoked salmon, kasha, 12 fruuit comppote, 3 kinds of pierogi, cauliflower casserolle in cheese sauce, beets in orange sauce, sauerkraut, noodles with poppy seeds, zurek with mushrooms, sauerkraut, candy cane pie from Bakers Square, julekake from the Swedish Bakery, spinach dip with corn chips, pretzels with 3 dips, deviled eggs, and probably other things I have forgotten.
We attended midnight mass at St. John Cantius church. Got home at 2:45 a.m. I prepared the breakfast casserole for Christmas morning. and cleaned up a bit from dinner. By then it was 4:00 a.m. By the time I got to bed it was 4:30 a.m. Ray had to go to work at 3:30 a.m. to plow the lots. He got home arounnd 7:30 a.m. I overslept until 11:04 a.m. next morning, oh no!! because i had planned to get up early and make the sweet-sour stirfried red cabbage for dinner at Diane's house. We rushed out of the house without opening our presents. At least we had our traditional Christmas breakfast: mimosas, breakfast casserole, and 12 fruit compote, with gingerbread coffee.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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