Do you have a favorite Holiday Dish, cookie, so on and so forth?

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Made a batch of chocolate chip raisin cookies today. Making my favorite pre holiday dish: hog maw, tomorrow.

Not sure what the Christmas meal will be yet this year.

What are you guys planning for Christmas in the way of food?

These days people love grilled cheese sandwiches for Xmas. Hope you are trying something that the WHOLE FAMILY that is coming to the table loves!

And if it is just you at the table, I hope you invite someone, and share your favorite meal with them.

Waving at everyone.
 
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ziplock said:
What are you guys planning for Christmas in the way of food?
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Nothing. To me Xmas is just another day. A rather boring day as everything is closed.

Besides that, I do not like most of the food associated with a Xmas (or Thanksgiving) dinner. I do like Turkey, but I cannot stand turkey dressing, beats, yams, sweet potatoes, and a lot of the other stuff. I am not that picky of an eater, but most of the stuff I do not care for are common foods in the major holiday dinners.

Just the smell of sweet potatoes cooking will make me want to puke. I will have to get away from the smell.

I kinda stand out here in Auburn, as most of the houses here have a lot of Xmas decorations outside. I have nothing at all.

Bah Humbug!

-Don- Auburn, CA
 
Favorite cookie is something my mom called snowballs. Similar to russian tea cookies. Growing up the big tradition was amfrom eastern europe called wigilia and i carried on the tradition till today. There are probably thousands of little traditions and symbolic gestures that are part of wigilia and every family adopts the ones they like.

the ones we try to do are having at least 12 dishes as part of the meal, an open seat at the table to represent a place for jesus or an opening for anyone who is happening by and to symbolize all are welcome, hay or straw under the tablecloth to symbolize the manger, no meat, dinner starts at first star in the sky, trying to get a pic of everyone who attended in the same place every year and others.

There are always some dishes that we do every year including a cream of mushroom soup and pickled herring and we always start the meal with everyone having a piece of bread similar to a catholic communion wafer. You go around the room, break off a piece of each others wafer and eat it and do an individual welcome t everyone there.

i think i am the 3rd generation in my family to follow this one but it could easily go back a lot more than that. For my parents it was deeply religious. For me it was a cool way to entertain and get together with friends and family.

This will be the first time ever we dont observw this tradition but my wifw and i will do something to honor it. Between just having moved into this house, the family all far away, and our plans to travel at christmas this year it wasnt gonna work
 
Don't really have a favorite meal or dessert.
As volunteers we will all get together a few days before Christmas and celebrate, some have family in town and will be gone Christmas day so we might try do a dinner on Christmas day for those who are still here.
 
Cream Cheese Pie. The recipe is on the boxes of Philadelphia Cream Cheese. Just add extra lemon juice than what the recipe calls for.
 
Regardless of my favorite my wife always makes about twice as many of the christmas cookies she likes and that i dont. She is also attached to recipes that i consider too much hassle and time to make them worth it. It takes her at least 8 hrs to make a version of a basic butter cookie. I would use another family recipe that takes a fraction of that time esp when i cant taste much of a difference.
 
DonTom said:
Nothing. To me Xmas is just another day. A rather boring day as everything is closed.
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I was thinking that the atheist people on here must also really hate this time of year.

I certainly hope they don't give gifts and become hypocrites. Hahah

That rhymed.

My favorite day is January 2nd. It's all over and we can get back to normal, but while the season is here, I try to make the best of it, and I like to hear others way of doing things.

It's interesting to me.
 
ziplock said:
I was thinking that the atheist people on here must also really hate this time of year.
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Many here may not like this statement, but it's more a commercial holiday than it is religious, and even the religious part is based on a lot of erroneous information (encyclopedias will tell you it's a Saturnalia transfer, not a birth date; "wise men" were two years later than birth, etc. etc.), so why should an athiest (and I'm not one) "hate" it?
 
Larry N. said:
Many here may not like this statement,
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oh?

You just have to have faith...............:)

Every comment on this forum is to pull the negative comments out of every poster.
Or at least posters seem to think that is what it is all about. SHOO!
 
ziplock said:
I was thinking that the atheist people on here must also really hate this time of year.

I certainly hope they don't give gifts and become hypocrites. Hahah

That rhymed.

My favorite day is January 2nd. It's all over and we can get back to normal, but while the season is here, I try to make the best of it, and I like to hear others way of doing things.

It's interesting to me.
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I consider myself agnostic, not atheist. And I do not hate the Xmas season at all. And I do not bother with gifts, Xmas cards or any of that stuff. Easy for me because I do not know many people these days. All my closest friends & family have died off over the last 20 years.

FWIW, Oct until January is probably the best time for RVing. Most snowbirds and many others are waiting until they get Xmas over with before they go anywhere. Since I do not like to do reservations, this is a perfect time to be RVing before the crowds hit the road. A good time to be in southern AZ, where I came back from a few weeks ago.

However, I have VA appointments and other type things to do in Reno in early January. But I will be free for a couple of months after the first week of Jan. So I will probably go on another RV trip during the peak this year. Most likely to AZ again, but different areas this time. I will take my Class A this next time. I won't know for sure where I will go until I get there--as usual. I hope that can still work as well in January. One thing I have noticed is that at least some RV parks have a separate section for the snowbirds (or longer than a week, or whatever) and the rest of their spaces for the shorter stays. So perhaps it will still work without reservations-or reservation on the same day--as I did in Tehachapi, when I stopped for lunch in the Denny's there. When I went in, I had no idea that I was going to stay in Tehachapi. I never even thought about it until I was done with my meal, and I made the reservation right then. That is the way I normally travel. Decide as I go.

ziplock said:
My favorite day is January 2nd.
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My favorite day used to be Dec 26. That was the day Tom & I first met in 1974.

-Don- Auburn, CA
 
My favorite Christmas cookie. German Springerle cookies.
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What we’re going to have for Christmas dinner - splitting it.

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Twice baked potatoes and roasted fennel. Probably champagne. It’s just the two us this year. Kind of nice really.
 
Mathematicians and meteorologists agree the birth of Christ was on, or close to Sept 11. Not sure if that is on the Julian Calendar, or our current nonsensical Gregorian Calendar.
 
ziplock said:
Made a batch of chocolate chip raisin cookies today. Making my favorite pre holiday dish: hog maw, tomorrow.

Not sure what the Christmas meal will be yet this year.

What are you guys planning for Christmas in the way of food?

These days people love grilled cheese sandwiches for Xmas. Hope you are trying something that the WHOLE FAMILY that is coming to the table loves!

And if it is just you at the table, I hope you invite someone, and share your favorite meal with them.

Waving at everyone.
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Easy lasanga made with ravioli. For desert, coconut cream pie.
By the way, if you are not posting a food or recipe, why destroy this thread for the rest of us?
Have a merry christmas and happy new year!
 
It has been a zoo around here the past few days. Our 16 year grandson has been living with us for the past month or so during a remodel at home. Thursday he made Baclava and cinnamon rolls. Got a sample of the rolls and they are great.

Friday we swapped him for the two granddaughters, 12 and 9. Yesterday, my wife supervised as they made a fake meatballs that use a ton of cheese and walnuts with a tomato base sweet sauce as both aren't big meat eaters. Then a massive cheese ball.

The younger one was starting to get bored and the older one, again with supervision, made a Potica. Got a sample from the mini that wouldn't fit in the bundt pan. I think she surpassed my mom and oldest sister in making it.

The 19 year grandson is smoking fish and ribs. He really does a great job with the smoker. Our daughter has more planned from what I'm hearing.

I got the sleigh loaded with the gifts, going to work on the food -stuff today, then off to the daughter's for a couple days. Then off for a few days of peace and quite and celebrate our (doing the math) 48th anniversary. I'll make another post about that.
 
We don't have any holiday traditional foods. We burned out on Turkey and Ham years ago. For about the last 10 years, for Thanksgiving and Christmas we try something we've never done before, or stick with a simple no-frills meal. Usually it's just the wife and I now-a-days, so no need to plan anything big.

This year for Christmas meal we are doing quail. Yes, quail. Since we are in Louisiana and it seems folks eat some really unusual foods here that us "Northerners" don't do. Quail is available here. I got the idea from the Christmas cooking sampling they did at the Oakley Plantation, Jane Austin Christmas event. Turns out, quail is pretty easy to obtain here. In Indiana, I've never heard of eating quail before.

(Except for the former Vice Pres .... "Dan Quail".... who is originally from Indiana and ... who a lot of folks would just love to chew up and spit out!)...... ha! ha! ha!......
 
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