New Year's Eve In Norway New Year's Eve ("Nyttårsaften") is the second biggest celebration of the year, after Christmas Eve. While Christmas Eve is a family celebration, New Year's Eve is an opportunity to celebrate with friends. Traditionally, there is first a feast, commonly consisting of stuffed, roast turkey with potatoes, sprouts, gravy and Waldorf salad. The accompanying beverage is traditionally beer (commonly either Christmas beer or lager beer). Dessert will often be vanilla pudding or rice cream, and there will be cakes and coffee later in the evening - commonly accompanied by a glass of cognac. Then, at close to 12 am
Twelve-dish Christmas Eve supper or "кисла капуста", "kváshena kapústa" or "kisla kapústa") with wild mushrooms or peas, red borsch, mushroom or fish soups are served in Poland and Ukraine. Boiled or deep fried dumplings (Polish: "pierogi", Russian/Ukrainian: вареники, "vareniki" or "varenyky", Lithuanian: "auselės") with a wide variety of fillings (including cabbage or sauerkraut, mushrooms and crushed poppy seeds), are among the most popular dishes. Doughnuts filled with jam (Polish:"pączki", Ukrainian: пампушки, "pampushky") are served for dessert in Poland and Ukraine, but in Lithuania sweet dishes are not common, as they are believed to be inappropriate for the solemn atmosphere of the evening. As for