My mother's family is Russian Orthodox from Slovakia- I am 2nd generation American. (My father was Croatian, so he and us children were Roman Catholic but celebrated both Christmases and Easters). Mom did a strict fast on Christmas Eve - no dairy or meat products, so we had plain pea and potato soup. We had bread with green onion instead of with garlic, sourkraut with mushrooms, stewed fruit, dumplings with honey and walnuts.We would put small amounts of each food into a common dish to signify having enough food for the following year. I'm now in my 60s, single and all my immediate family have died, but I try to continue the family traditions to remember my childhood.
Thank you for sharing your memories of family traditions. I am third generation American and spent years searching for info on the old ways they celebrated Christmas in our ancient home town in the old country. My great grandmother was from Slovakia and my grandmother died from cancer before she could share her recipes and Christmas traditions with my mom and her siblings. Every story is treasured when your history is lost to war, sickness and the passage of time.
@@catherinechase5858 which town did your great grandmother come from? There are mountains in northern Slovakia that they called the Ore Mt. My mother's parents came from a small village there.
@@catherinechase5858 I just found a video about pre-Christian customs and starts out with Slovak customs. It is on Fortress of Lugh channel "Christmas before Christ."
@@monicaluketich6913 Thank you for the tips, it feels like such a small world when you are looking at maps over such vast oceans of time. My Family is from a small village also in Northern Slovakia called Spišské Bystré, formerly known as Kubachy before WW2. It is a tourist trap today with many english speakers and lots of hiking and ski resorts. I plan to visit there to see the cemetary and read the local census records and hike the mountain paths that my ancestors made and have been maintained to this very day. The oldest info I have found on the Simonoviic's only goes back to the 15th century but from DNA testing I know they were there from the 13th century or earlier. My grandmother had many traditions and remedies that baffled my mom to this day. She is 64 now and she is only now remembering some of the finer details from her early childhood like her mothers deep love of horticulture, sewing, potato pancakes, blood sausage and the use of curing sour kraut in the bedroom of any family memeber with acid reflux to aid in probiotic gut health.
Me gustó mucho este video. Me gusta la Navidad de Eslovaquia.❤️ Gracias Zanka for sharing this video with me, it's very cute and nice. 🙃 Merry Christmas Eslovaquia! 🎄 Greetings from Ecuador, Latin America 🌎
I am half Czech (and a little Slovak) after my father, but from Romania and I find that although we have been here for several hundred years, the traditions have remained unchanged, we have completely preserved our identity. PS. The Hungarians (the other half of me), but also the Romanians have about the same culinary habits and traditions.
Glad we have changed most of the Christmas dinner! We always had pierogi that are delicious! Best thing I took from this is that the presents come from Jesus instead of Santa! Blessings to you all !
Some families do not have " kapustnica" but instead they have creamy mushroom soup ( it's because some families eat read meat on Christmas Eve , and some don't ), and also most families don't do all these traditions( for example , first we get some money on the table, then we pray , then we eat creamy mushroom soup and then we have fish with potato salad, then we have Slovakian wafers with honey, then we go to the balcony and call Jesus to bring the gifts and lastly we open them ).
My mother's family is Russian Orthodox from Slovakia- I am 2nd generation American. (My father was Croatian, so he and us children were Roman Catholic but celebrated both Christmases and Easters). Mom did a strict fast on Christmas Eve - no dairy or meat products, so we had plain pea and potato soup. We had bread with green onion instead of with garlic, sourkraut with mushrooms, stewed fruit, dumplings with honey and walnuts.We would put small amounts of each food into a common dish to signify having enough food for the following year. I'm now in my 60s, single and all my immediate family have died, but I try to continue the family traditions to remember my childhood.
Thank you for sharing your memories of family traditions. I am third generation American and spent years searching for info on the old ways they celebrated Christmas in our ancient home town in the old country. My great grandmother was from Slovakia and my grandmother died from cancer before she could share her recipes and Christmas traditions with my mom and her siblings. Every story is treasured when your history is lost to war, sickness and the passage of time.
@@catherinechase5858 which town did your great grandmother come from? There are mountains in northern Slovakia that they called the Ore Mt. My mother's parents came from a small village there.
@@catherinechase5858 I just found a video about pre-Christian customs and starts out with Slovak customs. It is on Fortress of Lugh channel "Christmas before Christ."
@@monicaluketich6913 Thank you for the tips, it feels like such a small world when you are looking at maps over such vast oceans of time. My Family is from a small village also in Northern Slovakia called Spišské Bystré, formerly known as Kubachy before WW2. It is a tourist trap today with many english speakers and lots of hiking and ski resorts. I plan to visit there to see the cemetary and read the local census records and hike the mountain paths that my ancestors made and have been maintained to this very day. The oldest info I have found on the Simonoviic's only goes back to the 15th century but from DNA testing I know they were there from the 13th century or earlier. My grandmother had many traditions and remedies that baffled my mom to this day. She is 64 now and she is only now remembering some of the finer details from her early childhood like her mothers deep love of horticulture, sewing, potato pancakes, blood sausage and the use of curing sour kraut in the bedroom of any family memeber with acid reflux to aid in probiotic gut health.
Me gustó mucho este video. Me gusta la Navidad de Eslovaquia.❤️
Gracias Zanka for sharing this video with me, it's very cute and nice. 🙃
Merry Christmas Eslovaquia! 🎄
Greetings from Ecuador, Latin America 🌎
I am half Czech (and a little Slovak) after my father, but from Romania and I find that although we have been here for several hundred years, the traditions have remained unchanged, we have completely preserved our identity.
PS. The Hungarians (the other half of me), but also the Romanians have about the same culinary habits and traditions.
Well explained!
Awesome!
Merry Christmas!!! 🎄 😍 🐟 😮 🍯
I agree as a Slovak Woman
woooooooooooooooooo Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a happy new year!
Glad we have changed most of the Christmas dinner! We always had pierogi that are delicious! Best thing I took from this is that the presents come from Jesus instead of Santa! Blessings to you all !
Stastne a vesele :)
Hi im from slovakia love you video
Some families do not have " kapustnica" but instead they have creamy mushroom soup ( it's because some families eat read meat on Christmas Eve , and some don't ), and also most families don't do all these traditions( for example , first we get some money on the table, then we pray , then we eat creamy mushroom soup and then we have fish with potato salad, then we have Slovakian wafers with honey, then we go to the balcony and call Jesus to bring the gifts and lastly we open them ).
ten zemiakový šalát vyzerá chutne
Nenávidim zemiakový šalát
Im from Slovakia