The most important day of Holy Week, it was always at my house on Thursday. And it was by the "seven dishes."
What is it? For the meeting to the table at noon on Holy Thursday to share a lunch that should be served at least seven different preparations between sweet and savory. Simply an inheritance from my deep Andean roots.
fasting on the eve of Good Friday to commemorate the Last Supper was the practice in the nineteenth century held in the homes of more affluent families seven banquet dishes.
Throughout Thursday and Good Friday, because the Catholic ban on eating meat, in Tachira, especially in border areas, as in the department of Norte de Santander, in Colombia, it is customary to eat a series of preparations to commemorate the seven words spoken by Jesus before his death.
These "seven dishes', as they are called, consist of soup, rice, fish, pasta, salad (Carrot, onion, lettuce, beets), cake and sweet. Both
wealthier families as the most humble prepared in accordance with their capabilities, succulent feasts in as: meats, pigs, turkeys, lambs, chickens, fish, pickles, quesadillas and plenty of sweets. All these delicacies, called "seven dishes, in most cases consisted mainly of trout with salt canned pea soup served with rice, salad, boiled green bananas, fruit juice and fresh pumpkin.
Traditionally, eating seven dishes sure to have food and prosperity for all year.
Holy Thursday eaten seven beef dishes, chicken, turkey, goat, pig, duck and turtle eaten on Good Friday, seven dishes of fish, prawns and seafood.
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