How do we celebrate Christmas in Luxemburg and at our home?
On the 1st of Advent i.e. 4 weeks before the 25th of December, elaborate light decorations are hung on the leafless, bare trees or on street posts. All over the place illuminated windows as well as pine trees decorated with lights in the front gardens of the houses delight us. The many lights help us to bridge over the dark winter and shorten the time till spring. On the house fronts and climbing up to the balconies you can see myriads of Santa clauses. In very many villages they hold traditional Christmas markets, making it easier for us to choose and buy presents. In the small log cabins they offer hand-made candles, balls for the Christmas trees, Advent wreaths and a lot of little presents and souvenirs. They make us feel good by offering us mulled wine, pepper cake and other things for our sweet tooth. For us the most important thing is the Christmas meal. On Christmas Eve we eat traditionally a mixed salad with pate, warm quail legs and roasted pine kernels which are served with a dry Mosel wine. On Christmas Day (Dec 25th) our family sits round a Chinese Fondue consisting of a broth which our grandmother made the day before. It is enriched with soya beans, Chinese cabbage, Chinese mushrooms and ginger. The raw meat and fish are dipped into the hot soup and cooked as you wish. It is a meal which is easy to digest and even our almost 5 year old grandson Simon was vary happy and laughed when his grandfather lost the fish in the soup. After our Christmas meal Simon can get the presents from under the richly decorated Christmas tree and distribute them to the convivial family members. A self baked Christmas stolen crowns this nice family festivity every year.
Maoussi (Luxembourg)
On the 1st of Advent i.e. 4 weeks before the 25th of December, elaborate light decorations are hung on the leafless, bare trees or on street posts. All over the place illuminated windows as well as pine trees decorated with lights in the front gardens of the houses delight us. The many lights help us to bridge over the dark winter and shorten the time till spring. On the house fronts and climbing up to the balconies you can see myriads of Santa clauses. In very many villages they hold traditional Christmas markets, making it easier for us to choose and buy presents. In the small log cabins they offer hand-made candles, balls for the Christmas trees, Advent wreaths and a lot of little presents and souvenirs. They make us feel good by offering us mulled wine, pepper cake and other things for our sweet tooth. For us the most important thing is the Christmas meal. On Christmas Eve we eat traditionally a mixed salad with pate, warm quail legs and roasted pine kernels which are served with a dry Mosel wine. On Christmas Day (Dec 25th) our family sits round a Chinese Fondue consisting of a broth which our grandmother made the day before. It is enriched with soya beans, Chinese cabbage, Chinese mushrooms and ginger. The raw meat and fish are dipped into the hot soup and cooked as you wish. It is a meal which is easy to digest and even our almost 5 year old grandson Simon was vary happy and laughed when his grandfather lost the fish in the soup. After our Christmas meal Simon can get the presents from under the richly decorated Christmas tree and distribute them to the convivial family members. A self baked Christmas stolen crowns this nice family festivity every year.
Maoussi (Luxembourg)
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