Another year another Polish christmas gone. After spending the last week elbow deep in chopped onions and cabbage the dishes turned out a treat and i once again ate myself into a coma. Here a few pics of some of the food for your jealous eyes to glare at.
Check out mum's baby jesus in the manger on the Greek Fish in the next shot. The star is lemon peel and baby Jesus is an egg and a cucumber. The dish beside it is sweet herring salad with lemon. My crappy decoration was meant to be a tree but mum just dumped a whole lot of capsicum on it n killed it.
The roulladen you can see in the bottom left hand corner are pancakes with mushoom filling which were served with borsch. Mum's nifty polish hands also managed to create a lobster out of the avocados for the smoked salad plate in the top left corner..it even had the spring onion antennae! And the greatest dish of all is top centre...Russian salad. For those unaware this is a potato salad with beans, apples, cooked carrots, dill cucumber and peas. I had to sneak some of this out the door in order to get some home after the festivities.
This next shot is a close up of the egg and tomato toadstool that always sits atop the russian salad. And to ensure the christmas feel there is mistletoe of salad and frozen berries. genius.
This one is only a fraction of the desserts. I was a fraction too slow and some of the poppyseed cake had already been devoured. I made gingerbread cake but it was a wee bit burnt..no one seemed to notice though.
This is the last of the dessert photos however it excludes the pannetone, choc chip cookies and plates and plates of gingerbread biscuits.
