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24 Dec 07 - 10:59 AM (#2221910) Subject: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Deckman I just treated myself to a breakfast that was a tradition from the Finnish side of my family. I served myself: pickled herring on Russian black sourdough toast ... and vodka of course. A few items were mssing: the goat cheese to slather on the toast, a large mug of Villia (villi to some), and of course my grandmother and my father. What are your family traditional meals? Houskaa Joula Paivaa! Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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24 Dec 07 - 11:04 AM (#2221915) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work It's Christmas - Sprouts with everything!!! For myself, my traditional meals consist of sprout sandwiches, Christmas pudding sandwiches and not eating mince pies if I can help it. LTS |
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24 Dec 07 - 11:17 AM (#2221921) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: wysiwyg We cycle new traditions in all the time. A recent one was Cream of Gorgonzola Soup with Prime Rib. No Prime Rib tomorrow, but Roast Beast with concentrated, ex-pot-roast wine gravy. We'll marinate the thawed beast when he comes home shortly. (He likes his own cooking best, so I'll let him marinate.) One of Hardi's Christmas Eve traditions was Oyster Stew, but I have a milk intolerance so I'm weaning him over to P-Vine's Excellent Egg Gravy. (Less milk, easier to tolerate with the Lactaid.) Another recent one is Indian food for an Advent break, and tonight we will repeat last year's between-services picnic in the Parish Hall so he can eat before going over to a neighboring, clergy-lacking church for the second of three evening services and have some energy left for the BIG one-- the Midnight Mass. ~S~ |
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24 Dec 07 - 11:23 AM (#2221922) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Beer All the best home cooking that there possibly could be. But the part I like the best is the pies, pies and more pies of all flavors. Lemon, butterscotch, mince meat, blueberry , strawberry, apple,raisin and on and on. I can hardly wait. Makes me feel like a kid waiting for Christmas morn. Beer (adrien) |
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24 Dec 07 - 11:36 AM (#2221932) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: GUEST I like the traditional turkey with cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, dressing, frozen peas (not so traditional!) and my favourite dessert NANAIMO BARS! When all is said and done I could easily get by with the turkey, dressing and dessert.And wine is always a welcome accompaniment. |
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24 Dec 07 - 11:38 AM (#2221933) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: GUEST Sorry. I'm on another computer and not logged in. This is Topical Tom. |
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24 Dec 07 - 12:29 PM (#2221958) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: bobad Bigos |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:01 PM (#2222031) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: DougR Baked Ham, Smoked Turkey Breast, Tamales, Scalloped Potatoes, Green Salad, Baked Beans, Texas Pinto Beans, Jello Salad, Green Bean Casserole, Potato Salad, homemade bread, and Artisan Bread. Pies for dessert. That's about it for dinner tonight for our twenty family guests at our house. Red and White Wine, too, of course. DougR |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:09 PM (#2222035) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Amos Bob: Vodka with breakfast was a favorite of my mother's in her declining years. Also with lunch and dinner. Sipped daintily from a teacup in order to disguise a bad regrettable case of late-life alcoholism. But it had nothing to do with holidays!! Our family gravitates around a baked turkey with stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, fine bread and good wine, whether we need it or not. A |
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24 Dec 07 - 03:30 PM (#2222044) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Deckman Amos ... SO ... your Mother was Finnish? |
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24 Dec 07 - 04:23 PM (#2222065) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Rasener Bloody hell Deckman, I thought for a minute you had a mug of me :-) For us its 2 ducks which I shot and dressed tonight. I hope Mrs Sooz doesn't miss them from the duck pond next to her house. With the ducks, we will be having sprouts, roast turnips, sausages wrapped in bacon, roast potatoes, carrots and mashed potatoes served with Gravy. We will be having panacotta for pudding. Intertwined with lashings of beer, wine and anything else alcoholic that manages to find its way onto the table. |
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24 Dec 07 - 04:41 PM (#2222079) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Sorcha If I had a goose, I'd roast a goose, but I don't have one. So, it's stew, home made bread, smoked turkey, and LOTS of pick up nibbles. Chocolate whipped cream torte for pud. |
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24 Dec 07 - 04:48 PM (#2222082) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Bobert Homemade Brunswich Stew (with chicken) with lots of goodies we grew this past summer in our garden and... ...cornbread and of course... ...don't forget the Iron City Beer... None better... And cheap... Ho, ho, ho... B~ |
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24 Dec 07 - 04:58 PM (#2222086) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Emma B Just finished Christmas Eve dinner, traditional fish with a 'modern' Mediterranean touch. Rather indulgent cranachan with whiskey and heather honey for pud. |
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24 Dec 07 - 05:33 PM (#2222101) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Deckman Cranachan sounds, and looks delicious. I think I'll do it for breakfast! Bob |
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24 Dec 07 - 06:14 PM (#2222120) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Emma B Whisky for breakfast Bob? There's decadent :) |
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24 Dec 07 - 07:07 PM (#2222144) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Anne Lister Christmas Eve ...it just has to be fish and chips for lunch, so we found some of the good stuff in Abergavenny. I'm just back to eating properly again after a stomach bug, so I avoided the batter! Christmas Day - champagne mid morning with the presents, then a fishy starter (having smoked salmon this year) followed by roast fowl (this year, only having the older end of the family, we're branching out with a Marks & Spencer "ballotine" of turkey, duck and chicken). I'm happy to avoid sprouts myself so the veg will be roast spuds, roast parsnips, carrots, cabbage and runner beans. Trio of desserts as listed under the home baking thread - trifle, mince pies and Queen Charlotte's Tart (think orange and lemon meringue pie). Then we sit and groan over tea, coffee and whatever else we can eat (probably not a lot) before driving the 20 miles to see my sister who has plans to feed us turkey sandwiches .... Normally Boxing Day is cold cuts, baked spuds and salads but this year I suspect it's roast beef, this time cooked by my Mum. I'm beginning to regret the quantity of food I have in the fridge. You're all welcome for New Year's Eve, by the way! Anne |
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24 Dec 07 - 07:08 PM (#2222146) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Sorcha Emma! It's Whisky Before Breakfast! LOL |
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24 Dec 07 - 07:30 PM (#2222150) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Alice Oyster stew for Christmas Eve! See thread last year. Alice |
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24 Dec 07 - 07:48 PM (#2222155) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Sorcha Bllleeeecccccckkkkkk! Oysters! Arsters in ANY form are nasssstttyyy. And arster stew is the WORST!. (sorry, oyster lovers) |
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24 Dec 07 - 08:54 PM (#2222175) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Jim Dixon My wife's ancestry is ¾ Swedish, ¼ Norwegian, so when I have Christmas Eve supper at my mother-in-law's, we traditionally have baked Swedish sausage (made from meat and potatoes), lefse with butter, and rice pudding. Some Scandinavians eat lutefisk around Christmas, but we're not THAT ethnic. However, since my mother-in-law has been feeling poorly lately, my wife advised her not to cook, and instead, we brought lasagna from home and baked it at my mother-in-law's. I bought a bottle of Akvavit, but forgot to bring it with me! It's still cooling in my freezer at home. (No need to worry that it will freeze.) So I'll probably drink it around new-years. |
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24 Dec 07 - 09:15 PM (#2222187) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Deckman I like my oysters raw, preferably eaten right on the beach at low tide. And they are VERY economical ... you swallow it, it comes back up, you swallow it again, it comes up again, and by the time you get it down for keeps, you feel like you've eaten a dozen. TRUE! Bob |
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24 Dec 07 - 09:56 PM (#2222198) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Sorcha Bob...don't make me come up there......... |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:49 AM (#2222272) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: gnu Traditional...... well, ever since my Bro and SiL moved "back home" for his last post in the RCAF in the mid-80's, we have had the Christmas feast at their house. Each and every year, SiL begins to prepare in early December. She burns well over 50 dozen cookies and a whack of fruit cakes and makes dessert squares from combinations of stuff that you'd think would explode if mixed. The meal proper is quite a spread! Not just cold dry turkey. There is cold dry ham and cold dry beef. Just about every veggie you can think of crowds the table, soaking sopping wet in margerine with some laced with honey, spiced mustard, runny Cheese Whiz, whatever seems an appropriate adulteration. There's aspic, and macaroni salads festively displayed with seasonal food colourings, and coleslaw with enough yellow onion in it to make the cheap wine almost drinkable. Then, the piece de resistance de throat. SiL is modest when she calls it a cheesecake becasue it is much more than that. Imagine a regular cheesecake with a whipped filling mixed in to make it yield five times more volume and enough spice to try to compensate for the lack of cheese taste. This is laid in the mold on top of a graham cracker crust with enough margerine and sugar mixed in to yield a superior strength concrete capable of withstanding all but the finest of heavy duty silverware. Like I said, it is indeed quite a spread. The only thing missing is something I have come to take as a personal tradition... a 75mg Zantac a half hour before the meal so I can manage to eat a bit of the wonderous fare. It's not polite to just choke on the wine. |
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25 Dec 07 - 12:06 PM (#2222382) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Phot The prep is done, roast potatos, parsnips, carrots, baby sweetcorn, mange tout, a blinding stuffing, the bird(Duck) is ready to go. But Fiona has a tummy bug, and tommorrow is another day! I wonder if the Kebab shop is open? Wassail!! Chris |
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25 Dec 07 - 01:38 PM (#2222409) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Mrs.Duck Well this year the kids got up at around five - nothing unusual about that except that they weren't opening presents they were baking!!!! They made Christmas buns, iced and decorated and then came in to us around out with tea and of course a bun each. I made my usualy sausage rolls which we ate while opening presents at midday and then the turkey, roast pork, stuffing, bread sauce sprouts, chestnuts and other veg for dinner. All to full for pudding so will have that later - proper christmas pudding with brandy sauce with a chocolate alternative for littlies who don't like dried fruit. All liberally washed down with various beverages - most alcoholic. Later we'll have turkey sandwiches and sherry trifle. Merry Christmas everyone. |
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25 Dec 07 - 02:14 PM (#2222428) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Backwoodsman "We will be having panacotta for pudding." You're a real philistine, Les. There is one dessert, and one only, for Christmas Day - Christmas Pudding. Panacotta indeed - almost as bad as those crappy chips fried in oil instead of beef dripping! LOL! |
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25 Dec 07 - 02:44 PM (#2222437) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: gnu Yo Phot! Wassail buddy! |
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25 Dec 07 - 04:50 PM (#2222471) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: GUEST,Jim Dixon SONG TO OYSTERS Roy Blount, Jr. I like to eat an uncooked oyster. Nothing's slicker, nothing's moister. Nothing's easier on your gorge Or when the time comes, to dischorge. But not to let it too long rest Within your mouth is always best. For if your mind dwells on an oyster. . . Nothing's slicker. Nothing's moister. I prefer my oyster fried. Then I'm sure my oyster's died. |
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25 Dec 07 - 05:57 PM (#2222493) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Rasener Now then John, the panacotta was delicious, especially after what we ate. :-) As for Christmas Pud, well I just hate it. All my life I have hated it. My old man used to make me eat it, and I had great diffulty not throwing up all over him :-) Anyway, I hope you and your missus had a very good day BWM. Plenty of greasy chips and huge massive pickled onions :-) |
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25 Dec 07 - 06:05 PM (#2222495) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Emma B I love christmas pud but after the mallard and all the trimmings couldn't face the prospect and made a traditional syllabub but with mulled wine - lovely and light! |
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25 Dec 07 - 06:52 PM (#2222507) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: maire-aine I made fruitcake on Friday. Took 4 loaves around to my neighbors and friends. Had a piece of Stollen for breakfast. Since I've been a "grown up" and can decide these things for myself, I choose beef for Christmas (not turkey). When I have a group for Christmas, I'll have a standing rib roast, but this year I was just planning to have steak. But, my temporary filling came out on Saturday, so I made a quick change in plans. I decided to go with Beef Stroganoff instead. I was afraid I'd damage my tooth more. I've been trying to watch my calories/carbs, so my dessert was chocolate pudding (the sugar-free kind). All and all, I was quite satisfied. |
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26 Dec 07 - 11:19 AM (#2222724) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meal?s From: Anne Lister In our family, the tradition always used to be that the Christmas pudding was eaten on Boxing Day, after a meal of cold meats, baked spuds, salads and pickles. Its traditional accompaniment wasn't brandy butter but orange or tangerine jelly. It's far too heavy a pud for Christmas Day, for us at least, so on the day itself we've always had trifle or something light and fluffy. This year however we've also had a family gathering today and my Mum has cooked roast pork with all the trimmings, so it's doubtful if we'll have a Christmas pud at any stage. We're not complaining. Anne |
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27 Dec 07 - 08:14 AM (#2223129) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: GUEST,LTS pretending to work My Christmas Pudding was a bit of a disappointment this year... it only burned for 10 minutes and I forgot to put the sixpence in. It did look nice though... very blue. I'll get the photo sorted as soon as I get home and find the data cable. It tasted even better than last years' though.. I suspect it's the combination of dried diced apple, papaya, black cherries, pine nuts, almonds, golden raisins and hazelnuts that did it. Last year there was mango in it and it wasn't half so light. However, no cats caught fire and no-one was sick so that's a result. LTS |
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27 Dec 07 - 09:43 AM (#2223170) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: mack/misophist The only special thing was a very nice 18 yo Glenrothes scotch on xmas eve, eaten with Chinese take away. Xmas day was oprouts and onions. |
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27 Dec 07 - 11:24 AM (#2223229) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: GUEST,Neil D We hosted my wife's families annual party on Christmas Eve. We made 10 lbs. of sloppy Joes,10 lbs. of scalloped potatoes, a 10 lb. honey baked ham and baked beans. Others brought lasagna, mac and cheese, chicken wings, veggie trays, sausage and cheese trays, chips, pretzels, dips, cheesecakes, doughnuts, cookies, candy and pecan caramel pumpkin pie. I have developed a theory that if twenty people are having a party and everyone brings something and each thinks they need to feed twenty people you actually end up with enough food to feed 400 people. For Christmas dinner we always have roast beef and Yorkshire pudding. Turkey is for Thanksgiving and ham is for sndwiches. This years sides included an onion soup made with chicken broth instead of the more common beef broth. It was a huge hit with everyone, even our 18 month old grandson who kept smacking his lips and saying mo mommy. We also featured my wife's super smashed potatoes (I think she got it from Rachel Ray). She mashes them with cream cheese, sour cream, butter and chives. I glazed some carrots, baked homemade biscuits and the Yorkshire pudding in a muffin tin for individual servings. Dessert was Mom's fruitcake as well as all the ones left over from the night before. |
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27 Dec 07 - 05:46 PM (#2223410) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: Liz the Squeak My pudding... It still tastes bloody lovely. LTS |
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28 Dec 07 - 01:22 PM (#2223791) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: Linda Kelly I went swedish this year-a tin of ginger biscuits from IKEA - had flu so left dinner to boxing day- cooked roast duck stuffed with apricots -the unburnt bits not being too bad-butternut squash, roasties sprouts. got fed up by Thursday and back on shepherd's pie -havent even touched the chocs yet-roll on next year! |
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28 Dec 07 - 02:19 PM (#2223828) Subject: RE: BS: Traditional holiday meals From: PoppaGator "a Marks & Spencer "ballotine" of turkey, duck and chicken" In the US, we call that a "Turducken" ~ TURkey/DUCK/hEN. All three birds are de-boned and the chicken is stuffed inside the duck, which is then inserted into the turkey. I believe the concept and the name come from south-central Louisiana (Cajun country), but football personality and turducken enthusiast John Madden has popularized it nationwide. Like most New Orleanians, our Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners always feature OYSTER DRESSING ~ essentially "stuffing," except that it is not customarily stuffed inside the turkey, but rather baked in its own casserole dish. We omitted candied yams this year for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long. With the kids grown up, and two out of three far away from home, we ate at a friend's house, bringing a few "pot luck" dishes: broccoli-and-cheddar casserole, cloverleaf dinner rolls, and a pumpkin-and-poached-pear pie. (I was kinda surprised that no one showed up with any kind of sweet-potato dish.) The pumpkin/pear pie has become traditional, even mandatory, since Peggy found the recipe a few years ago. Regular pastry crust, regular pumpkin filling, with an extra bonus "top crust" of poached-pear slices. You peel the skin off the pears, submerge them whole in a saucepan of spiced red wine, and cook until they turn a maroon color. Then core and slice the pears, and arrange the slices on top of the pumpkin custard before popping the pie into the oven. The slices look great because they're two-toned: reddish/brown along the outer edge, pale yellow-white elsewhere. If you can manage a nice neat pinwheel arrangement, so much the better, but even a messy and irregular double layer of slices (which was the best we could do this year) looks extremely appetizing, and tastes even better. |