Christmas Eve supper

On this date they cut pigs for the Christmas eve supper.

When everything is ready, it's time for Christmas Eve supper.

Everyone in a family makes a special effort to come home for the Christmas Eve supper, even from great distances.

His Christmas Eve supper party has become a tradition.

The main celebrations were the midnight mass, the Christmas eve supper and the crib building competition.

Poles traditionally serve two types of pierogi for Christmas Eve supper.

There are twelve courses in the Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper.

It was the enmie for Christmas Eve supper.

Quiet, dim-lighting, and a somewhat mystical atmosphere is characteristic for Christmas Eve supper.

The Christmas Eve supper is usually held under candlelight and starts in the evening after the first star appears in the sky.

"My mother always wanted to have Christmas Eve supper again in a free Lithuania," says Giedre, her voice trailing off.

Wigilia, the Christmas Eve supper

Although available all year around, Schäufele with potato salad is the typical Christmas Eve supper in the southern half of Baden.

The traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper has twelve courses, and each course is dedicated to one of Christ's apostles.

Kutia is often the first dish in the traditional twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper (also known as Svyatah Vecherya).

Nowadays, opłatek is mostly shared with members of the family and immediate neighbors before the Christmas Eve supper (Wigilia in the Polish language).

Poppy milk (aguonų pienas) is a traditional Lithuanian drink or soup, one of the 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper Kūčios.

Moreover, often the Christmas Eve Supper is more important than the Christmas Dinner, because the Holy Mass is celebrated at midnight.

In Italy, the Christmas Eve supper, La Vigilia, consists of a prescribed number of dishes that varies from region to region.

Uzvar is a traditional Christmas Eve supper drink in Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Russia (where it is known as ошав (oshav)) and some other countries of Eastern Europe.

Holiday meals, Traditional Christmas Eve supper called Wigilia, Fat Thursday "Tłusty Czwartek" is a Catholic feast celebrated on the last Thursday before the Lent.

A twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper is traditionally prepared in many Eastern European cultures, including Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian (cultures of regions that were formally part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth).

In some parts of Central and Eastern Europe such as Russia, Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania, a traditional meatless 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper is served on Christmas Eve before opening gifts.

Later raisins, suet, sugar and spices were added, and it seems likely that this dish (still served for Christmas Eve supper in Yorkshire country towns in the 20th century) was the ancestor of plum pottage or porridge.

It is also common to put a "shared part" into the envelope while you're sending a Christmas card to someone close to you so that during Christmas Eve supper someone could share it with you as well as those personally present.