We celebrate different feasts in December. The most popular are Saint Nicolas
Day on 6th December, Christmas on 25 th of December and New Year. For every
feast we eat various food and what we enjoy most are our dinners.
24th December is a special day and everybody is a bit nervous because in the
morning there are still some things to be done like final shopping of the goods
we forgot about on previous days, some cooking still has to be done and then
everybody is waiting for the Christmas dinner.
Christmas dinner:
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As the starter Slovenians usually have beef
soup with noodles or smoked ham. |
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As the main dish we have roast pork, boiled
beef, roast potatoes, horse radish sauce and green salad |
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As the dessert we have »potica«-
the so called German cake which could be filled with: walnuts, cinnamon
and rarely with tarragon and different home made fancy biscuits. |
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We drink some good wine
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New year’s eve dinner:
We usually have smoked, dry ham and home made sausages or home made salami with
horse radish or French salad, cold roast pork, and different other salads. We
usually drink good quality Slovenian wines but we usually toast to the new year
with champagne- called Radgonska penina and we eat a lot of »potica« and other
biscuits.
New
year dinner:
The new year dinner is something special in our country as we spend all the
previous night toasting to the new coming year and eating different delicious
specialities and therefore we need a dish to sober us up and help us to get over
the hangover.
We usually eat »sarma«, which is actually roll made from sour kraut leaves
filled with rice and minced meat cooked in tomato sauce, with mashed potatoes or
boiled potatoes.
