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Post by Jaga on Apr 4, 2015 10:37:20 GMT -7
Happy Easter. Szczesliwych Swiat Wielkanocnych!
Today, Saturday, children and their families are bringing baskets with eggs and food to the church for a blessing. Tomorrow is a big day.
I am preparing Polish potato salad, horseradish soup, red beets horseradish salad, babka, mazurek and.....not sure what else. We will spend tomorrow with our Polish and American friends!
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Post by pieter on Apr 4, 2015 11:56:35 GMT -7
Happy Easter to you too Jaga! I will spend my Easter with my parents and the husbant of my sister and his son, my nephew. They are in Europe. We are having a nice cosy time together.
Happy Easter, fellow Forum members!
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Post by karl on Apr 4, 2015 12:25:28 GMT -7
Jaga
May also for you and family a Happy Easter. The supper you are having sounds very delicious and should be double enjoyment with close friends. It is nice there are other Polish families in your close area, to then visit and keep close contact with one an another.
I lose track of time and days, with this, for your reminder of Easter was a reminder of this emportent day.
Karl
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Post by JustJohn or JJ on Apr 4, 2015 13:29:20 GMT -7
May you all have a very "Happy Easter" !!!!
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Post by jeanne on Apr 4, 2015 19:51:58 GMT -7
Happy Easter to all!
My family traditionally has a brunch on Easter after Mass. This year I will have two daughters, one son-in-law, one husband, two friends of my daughter, and one dog to celebrate with. I'm serving ham and cheese strata, fruit salad, bacon, roasted asparagus, and sticky buns. We started this tradition of brunch when my daughters were still in college and couldn't wait around for dinner later in the day because they had to return to their schools. Unless the college is a Catholic one, there is no extra time off at Easter...
Enjoy your celebrations! Easter is my favorite holiday!
Jeanne
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Post by pieter on Apr 6, 2015 4:31:13 GMT -7
Dear Jeanne,
How wonderful to hear how you celebrate Easter with your family Jeanne. Yesterday I went to Antwerp in Belgium with my family. Today we are staying in Zeeland, in what is called 'The Second Easter day' in the Netherlands, a free day. Tomorrow I will return to my own town. Today in the Afternoon we will visit Middelburg and Veere, two old towns on the Walcheren Peninsula of the Province of Zeeland. I had a nice couple of days in Vlissingen with my parents and South-African familymembers.
My nephew plays soccer for the South-African soccer club Ajax Cape Town. They are visiting Europe to see how youth departments (teams of the European competition; Premiere Leage) play soccer. My nephew played with FC Utrecht last week, visited Arsenal in Englang (UK) before that, and coming week they will visit Barcelona. It's quite a sport minded family, my South-African family. They like Soccer, Rugby, cricket, cycling, running, and Field hockey. There is the influence of being a former English colony (English sports) and the strength of the Afrikaander people. They are half Afrikaander and half Anglo African people.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by jeanne on Apr 6, 2015 12:22:12 GMT -7
Hi Pieter, It sounds like you had a lovely Easter holiday with your family! I hope you had some nice spring weather for your travels. And, my goodness, your South African relatives do sound very sports-minded! Were you/are you also sports inclined? I've never read in your posts that you are, but you never know what someone may be doing on the side in their spare time. Jeanne
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Post by Jaga on Apr 6, 2015 14:22:52 GMT -7
Jeanne, we also eat brunch for Easter. I think that Polish customs celebrated brunch forever without calling it "brunch". We usually eat soup (white borscht), ham and potato salad + lots of sweet stuff. Your lunch does not look that far away from what we have. I like the buns, our English friend started this habit! Ham, bacon and cheese are also in our cuisine, asparagus may be new Happy Easter to all! My family traditionally has a brunch on Easter after Mass. This year I will have two daughters, one son-in-law, one husband, two friends of my daughter, and one dog to celebrate with. I'm serving ham and cheese strata, fruit salad, bacon, roasted asparagus, and sticky buns. We started this tradition of brunch when my daughters were still in college and couldn't wait around for dinner later in the day because they had to return to their schools. Unless the college is a Catholic one, there is no extra time off at Easter... Enjoy your celebrations! Easter is my favorite holiday! Jeanne
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Post by jeanne on Apr 6, 2015 15:22:48 GMT -7
Jeanne, we also eat brunch for Easter. I think that Polish customs celebrated brunch forever without calling it "brunch". We usually eat soup (white borscht), ham and potato salad + lots of sweet stuff. Your lunch does not look that far away from what we have. I like the buns, our English friend started this habit! Ham, bacon and cheese are also in our cuisine, asparagus may be new Jaga, I'm happy to learn from you that I am following Polish customs without even knowing it! One thing I forgot to mention...and I know this is a Polish tradition...I always bake a Lamb Cake using a mold! It wouldn't seem like Easter without it! Jeanne p.s. And of course, we had dyed hard-boiled Easter eggs!
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Post by Jaga on Apr 6, 2015 21:46:28 GMT -7
Jeanne,
we ate lamb with our American friends... but I guess, the lamb cake has a shape of lamb but it is not a lamb. Still, my Easter basket from my mom had a lamb in it.
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Post by jeanne on Apr 7, 2015 15:10:37 GMT -7
Happy Easter. Szczesliwych Swiat Wielkanocnych! Today, Saturday, children and their families are bringing baskets with eggs and food to the church for a blessing. Tomorrow is a big day. I am preparing Polish potato salad, horseradish soup, red beets horseradish salad, babka, mazurek and.....not sure what else. We will spend tomorrow with our Polish and American friends! Jaga, What makes your potato salad "Polish"? How do you make it? I've heard of German Potato Salad, but I'm not familiar with Polish Potato Salad. Jeanne
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Post by pieter on Apr 7, 2015 15:45:57 GMT -7
Hi Pieter, It sounds like you had a lovely Easter holiday with your family! I hope you had some nice spring weather for your travels. And, my goodness, your South African relatives do sound very sports-minded! Were you/are you also sports inclined? I've never read in your posts that you are, but you never know what someone may be doing on the side in their spare time. Jeanne Dear Jeanne, I had a lovely holiday with my Dutch and South-African family in Zeeland, Vlissingen. I am slightly less sport inclined, but I did played soccer, field hockey and tennis in my youth next to the water sports swimming, windsurfing and rowing. I was more into the latter (water sports) than into soccer, tennis and football. Stil cycle every day to my work and back home, and in my spare time in the woods sometimes. I also like long walks and jogging (running) every now and then. In the gym I did Pilates, Body Ballance and Fitness last years. I think I love cycling most and next to that walking for hours in the woods or parks (walking with some speed.) If the weather is hot and the temperature of the sea water is nice I always go swimming in the sea when I am in Zeeland or in the town of a girlfriend of mine, Castricum, in the province of North-Holland. She lives near a lovely dune area and beach over there. So swimming in the sea and lakes nearby is also one of my favorite activities during the year. I am not a professional sporter like my cousin. Cheers, Pieter
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Post by Jaga on Apr 8, 2015 13:41:19 GMT -7
Jeanne,
I guess, Polish salad means that it has vegetables which grow in Poland and people use in Poland - potatoes, carrot, parsnip (people do not use parsnip here that much), green pea, eggs, majonaise... I am trying to think what did I forgot about.... It can have also cooked sliced egg on the top and green parsley.
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Post by jeanne on Apr 11, 2015 13:52:16 GMT -7
Dear Jeanne, I had a lovely holiday with my Dutch and South-African family in Zeeland, Vlissingen. I am slightly less sport inclined, but I did played soccer, field hockey and tennis in my youth next to the water sports swimming, windsurfing and rowing. I was more into the latter (water sports) than into soccer, tennis and football. Stil cycle every day to my work and back home, and in my spare time in the woods sometimes. I also like long walks and jogging (running) every now and then. In the gym I did Pilates, Body Ballance and Fitness last years. I think I love cycling most and next to that walking for hours in the woods or parks (walking with some speed.) If the weather is hot and the temperature of the sea water is nice I always go swimming in the sea when I am in Zeeland or in the town of a girlfriend of mine, Castricum, in the province of North-Holland. She lives near a lovely dune area and beach over there. So swimming in the sea and lakes nearby is also one of my favorite activities during the year. I am not a professional sporter like my cousin. Cheers, Pieter Hello Pieter, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed your holiday with your family! You say you are "slightly less sport inclined", but, my goodness, you are certainly active with varied activities, so it sounds like you are taking good care of your body/health/fitness! Good for you! I myself enjoy mainly walking/hiking. Last summer I was able to do quite a bit of hiking in the state of West Virginia while visiting my daughter, and in that state, most of the hikes involved mountains! I really had a workout there! Also, we toured some caverns, and going in was fine, we walked down, down, down, but then coming out we had to climb and climb and climb back up! Lots of fun, though! Jeanne
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Post by jeanne on Apr 11, 2015 13:57:47 GMT -7
Jeanne, I guess, Polish salad means that it has vegetables which grow in Poland and people use in Poland - potatoes, carrot, parsnip (people do not use parsnip here that much), green pea, eggs, majonaise... I am trying to think what did I forgot about.... It can have also cooked sliced egg on the top and green parsley. Jaga, Sounds good...maybe I'll trying making my potato salad more interesting by adding some carrots and peas to it! You're right about the parsnip...I don't think I've ever had it! I usually only put potatoes, chopped celery, grated onion, and mayonaise in mine, but I do top it with sliced hard-boiled eggs! Jeanne
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