[ SECRET POST #2561 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2561 ⌋

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[Breaking Bad]


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[The Hobbit]


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[Monster]


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[Hannibal]


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[Law and Order SVU]


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[GTA V]


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[Meitantei no Okite]


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Comments

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

A handful of the people who go to my parents' old church in Philly celebrate Old Christmas--or did; many of them have passed on since I was a little girl. We always celebrated on the 25th of December, but the church ladies would serve a Lenten meal with many of the traditional Holy Supper dishes on the eve of Theophany, before the blessing of the water. Yet sad to say, nothing even resembling kutia ever appeared on our tables--I'm sure I would have remembered anything as delicious as that sounds. (For many years, the cooking was done by a gentleman who thought himself more of a chef than he was. I have vivid memories of my mom crying out, with her spoon halfway to her mouth, "Oh my God, this soup is terrible! Nobody drink it--it's contaminated or something! My God, who made this terrible stuff?" There was dead silence--"Chef Willy" was sitting at our very table! For the record, the soup really was gross.)

Kutia actually sounds a little like a dish of boiled wheat, raisins, almonds and herbs that we eat at funerals, and on those Saturdays before Lent which are dedicated to the remembrance of the dead.

Re: What's for dinner?

[sootyowl]

I had to look up a lot of the church words that you used, as I'm not familiar with everything that takes place in Old Christmas/in church.

Sorry to hear that you never had kutia. It's fantastic. It's not to hard to make either, once you boil the wheat. That story with you mom sounds hilarious. Poor mom.

Kutia does sound like the sweeter version of your dish. I know not all kutia dishes call for cream, but my grandfather prepared it that way, so it became tradition.

Re: What's for dinner?

[(Anonymous)]

The ironic postscript to the soup story is that Chef Willy had had rotator cuff surgery that winter and his arm was in a sling; he was in no condition to be stirring soup pots, so we foolishly thought ourselves safe. Little did we guess, as he sat at our table, that he had just come from the kitchen, where he'd been giving directions to the church ladies! We heard, much later, that they kept telling him "It's not quite right"--and he kept replying "Just put some more oil in it, it'll be fine!"

The beloved recipes of grandparents and parents who have gone before us--those are a different story. Making their food is a way of keeping their memory fresh; that's how it is with my Aunt Mary's rice pudding recipe, which was also my Yiayia's recipe. Each time one of us makes it, my mom remembers how her mother used to have it ready for her and her siblings when they came home from school--hot off the stove, sprinkled with cinnamon.