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Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: fc2821 on December 12, 2009, 12:43:02 PM
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Since we have direrse an international group, wondered what food or foods to look forward to eating at Christmas time. Of course I am aware it might be something you can' t eat now. So I don't mean to torture you with a longing for it. Hope you will share that which makes this time of year a plesant one for ypu, or has in the past. It might a traditional food, or one your family prefered or you.
Mine is green bean casarole.
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My ex-wife was the only one of four children born in America. Her siblings were all born in Italy. She turned me on to the Italian tradition of seafood on Christmas eve. We always tried to have lobster or some sort of crab Christmas eve.
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I think my favorite food is my turkey dinner with all the trimmings on Christmas day!! I also love fruitcake at Christmas time!!! Yum!! I am not Italian but the traditional food at our house on Christmas eve when I was growing up was salted dried cod fish, It was always soaked in water before it was cooked and sweet raisin bread. I often will still have it on Christmas eve.
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As a kid we always had boiled (freshly murdered pig) ham in gobs of garlic and cloves. Then the other dish would be something totally non Christmas (appropriate for the day before a big rich Christmas dinner) like beef stew of chili con carne and cornbread or oysters (I didn't eat them) or shrimp. One year the big hit was hot dogs and champagne. (My mom was a little nuts) But it is the boiled ham I want now. Maybe I'll try it but nobody here has ever heard of it. Makes sandwiches for days. yum... and a little eggnot with Crown Royal and a lot of Manhattans with Crown Royal. (Guess that part is out this year)
Christmas Day was sort of a repeat of Thanksgiving and not nearly so exciting. Basical turkey or prime rib. There was a spanish salad that I really like always server in the same dish. Still have the dish. I may go through Christmas recipes.
Oh and sticky pudding for desert.
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I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and a traditional food for us was scalloped oysters. I continued to make it for years, but Carl doesn't care for them and they are too rich for me to eat by myself. Sure miss them though.
Maybe I'll make some while we are in Massachusetts! :2thumbsup;
I wonder if my SIL likes oysters. He grew up not far from we I did...
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For Christmas we would always pick from the hat at Thanksgiving.... We made up different dinners from around the world ... like Mexican or Spanish or polish or something and then we would find receipts for that type of food and give it a try.... Some years are better than others..... but the drinks are always fun.....
This year we picked Australia and so we will be trying to find receipts for that country.... we don't nor can we get kangaroo..... so I hope they eat something close to normal......LOL
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Turkey and Ham with Roast Potatoes, Carrots and sprouts, followed by Christmas pudding and cream for dinner...
Was NEVER keen on turkey, or Christmas pudding... Mum misses the ham dreadfully!...
So this year we're having a Beef Wellington, and we've a desert of Orange Trifle... The Wellington is in the freezer since this time last year... Yep, it was last year's Christmas Dinner, but as I was on my own, I didn't cook, and put it in the freezer... Spoke to a good chef, and he tells me it'll be fine for this Christmas!...
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Christmas Day was always at my grandmother's and she made turkey and potatoes. Since she's been gone we don't have a routine for dinner, trying different things as the kids grew up.
I like to make breakfast on Christmas Day. We have french toast with cinammon/sugar sprinkled on top. Served with warm syrup and melted butter. MMmmm...
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Family tradition is lobster tail and new york strip. Sounds extravagant, but it goes back to the first year my parents bought our family restaurant. It's in a seasonal tourist town, so it was closed all winter. The first winter, we were surviving on what my part time winter job provided for groceries. When all the family was going to show at our house for the traditional huge dinner we always served, I couldn't figure out how to stretch the budget far enough to cover all the ham and turkey and fixings we were going need. Dad dug thru the freezers at the restaurant to see what was left at the end of the season. No ham, no turkey, but plenty of high end items that don't get ordered very often at our family style restaurant. We threw out the traditional menu and went with what we had!
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The cocoa/coconut drop cookies.
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YES!!!! The green bean casserole, I love it, but no one in my family will eat it but me, however, this year we are haveing 6 people over ( so far ) who are new to my table. Maybe I can convert them!!
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tyefly, let me reassure you that not many Aussies eat kangaroo for Christmas dinner, even though roo steaks and sausages 'kanga bangers' (true) are becoming quite popular at other times. A very low fat meat.
But at Christmas, the traditional meal for many years has been the roast (baked) dinner of either turkey or chicken with baked vegetables (potatos, pumpkin, sweet potatos, carrots etc) and greens- either peas or beans, smothered in lovely hot gravy. We follow this with a Christmas (plum) pudding, also hot, served with either custard, brandy sauce, cream and icecream or maybe all of them. Other stuff like mince pies, Christmas cake, nuts and so on follow on. This is served in the early afternoon, when the temperature can reach 40 degrees celcius or 104 fahrenheit. Lashings of grog (beer, wine, whisky etc.) have been known to be consumed during the meal. The heat and booze often bring long-held grudges to the fore and a doonybrook can break out!
More recently, many families have turned to seafood. Australian waters are blessed with wonderful seafood. So the Christmas table may be laden with prawns (shrimps), oysters, lobsters, calamari, etc. etc.
So, yeah, I guess you'd regard it as close to normal. To horrify your guests, you could claim that the mince pies, or the stuffing has been made from Koala legs or Kangaroo entails. Best to tell them this after they have eaten.
Whatever you have, I hope it is delicious. And may I wsh you and yours a very Merry Christmas from Australia.
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My Mum used to get sent a box of marzipan candy at Christmas time and it wasn't available otherwise in Jamaica at that time. I'd beg for some but just get tiny bites here and there. Then one year she decided to try making some herself at home. It was great stuff, even nicer than the bought stuff but not as beautiful to look at.
We used to have traditional British plum pudding with hard cognac flavoured sauce for dessert but I would still prefer a bit of marzipan.
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I just got the word from my daughter that I can make some scalloped oysters for our holiday dinner! :2thumbsup; :2thumbsup;
My taste buds are going into hyper-drive already!
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Stollen. It's originally a German Christmas bread, but is spreading over Europe nowadays.
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Stollen is just delicious!!!
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This year we are having Roast Pork-loin! I love it!! :cheer:
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Sliced Turkey Spam and Strawberry Kool Aid
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Candied sweet potato's
Homemade cornbread stuffing
and Eggnog. Without booze in it.
Why do they only sell eggnog from Thanksgiving till new years??
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Candied sweet potato's
Homemade cornbread stuffing
and Eggnog. Without booze in it.
Why do they only sell eggnog from Thanksgiving till new years??
Homemade cornbread stuffing, yum!
Good question about eggnog. I have often wondered that myself.
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Candy canes!
And since I live in the south (Arkansas), we usually eat BBQ ribs around Christmas.
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Gingerbread People. They used to be GingerBrad Men, but, now, inorder to be PC. they are all people. Soooo good when warm out of the oven.
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inorder to be PC. they are all people
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Person! :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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Ham. It's the only time of the year I get to eat ham.
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Aleta, you are cute and warm, but, do you have frosting on you???
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:ukflag; :santahat; :wine; ;musicalnote; John and I just love our traditional Christmas dinner. Turkey, ham, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Brussell sprouts, brocolli, cabage and nice gravy, followed by Christmas pudding and thick cream. If I don't have to cook it I will enjoy it even more.
(we are hoping to go to the kids for Christmas) :santahat; :snowman; :christmastree;
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Chirstmas cookies....thats all I need :snowman;
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My very favorite Christmas food is stuffing. I use my grandmother's recipe. We always have turley and stuffing on Christmas day and ham
sandwiches and oyster stew on Christmas Eve.
We usually have pumkin pie, pecan pie, and red velvet cake. Yummmmmmmmmmm!!!
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For Christmas we would always pick from the hat at Thanksgiving.... We made up different dinners from around the world ... like Mexican or Spanish or polish or something and then we would find receipts for that type of food and give it a try.... Some years are better than others..... but the drinks are always fun.....
This year we picked Australia and so we will be trying to find receipts for that country.... we don't nor can we get kangaroo..... so I hope they eat something close to normal......LOL
Hi,
Kangaroo is nice, must be served almost 'blue' (rarer than rare) else it gets really tough, but it isn't that popular except in restaurants. for me growing up in Australia xmas was always more of an English/Irish syle day with mum making the steamed pudding days/weeks before and hanging it. the day itself was boiling bacon, double smoked ham, baked ham, roast pork with crackiling and roast chickens (hot or cold). So have you noticed one huge theme..... PORK and lots of it with a side of roast veg and homemade gravy.
But i guess if you want an Aussie Theme go seafood...... i'm trying to get my family away from the traditional hot christmas lunch (it's so stupid out here considering it's at the peak of summer, normally in Sydney it's at least 38-40 deg celcius on xmas day and you burn to a crisp in a matter of minutes). But i've failed so far this year.
Aussies are absolutely huge on BBQ's. Marinade everything........
Or Baked whole trout with scampi, prawns, bugs (or other lobster type things)... served with salads and or roasted veg.
Well iSince 'm hosting Christmas lunch this year and we are having:
Double smoked ham sliced fresh from bone
Roast Pork with crackling
Roast Chicken with stuffing (also with marinade on outside, mught try bbq roast chicken this year)
Prawns (shrimp), normal red prawns and going to bbq some fresh green prawns (garlic and chilli)
Balmain Bugs or Moreton bay bugs.
Home made gravy
Roast Veg or Mashed potato bake (fry off diced bacon till caramelises. thingly slice onoin and tomato. scatter bacon on bottom of tray, place layer of tomato and layer of onion. sprinkle a light layer of grated cheese and then a dessert spoon of dried bread crumbs. reapet 2-3 times. cover top in mashed potato and bake till crisp on top).
Salads- garden, potato (made with whole egg mayo, english mustard, eggs and worstershire sauce), cabbage asain salad.
dessert:
Tiramissu
Steamed Pudding (homemade)
custard/icecream
Pavlova
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Honey Baked Ham and Twice Baked Potatoes! I'm one of those Rare Indivduals, who also Likes, Fruitcake, but it seems, no one else does. There's a whole New Forum Topic - " Fruitcake? Yay or Nay "
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Fruitcake is extra yummy!!
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I don't look forward to any food anymore. Thanks ever so much, Kidney Failure. :sarcasm;
Growing up, my family always had an exact replica of Thanksgiving dinner for Christmas. I am a vegetarian and appreciate almost none of the Thanksgiving foods, so I finally snapped this year and told my husband I've had enough, I am officially boycotting all of those foods for the rest of my life, and I'll just be eating whatever catches my fancy that day. My favorite Christmas dinners are the ones served at upscale restaurants, preferably in another country, and I am counting the years until we can start traveling with the kids and going out to nice restaurants again.
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Fruitcake from the Colin St. Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. I get one each Thanksgiving ... had a slice today. Baked fruitcake for celebraties like Will Rodgers, Enrico Caruso and the Ringling Bros. Circus. Try it.
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tyefly, let me reassure you that not many Aussies eat kangaroo for Christmas dinner, even though roo steaks and sausages 'kanga bangers' (true) are becoming quite popular at other times. A very low fat meat.
But at Christmas, the traditional meal for many years has been the roast (baked) dinner of either turkey or chicken with baked vegetables (potatos, pumpkin, sweet potatos, carrots etc) and greens- either peas or beans, smothered in lovely hot gravy. We follow this with a Christmas (plum) pudding, also hot, served with either custard, brandy sauce, cream and icecream or maybe all of them. Other stuff like mince pies, Christmas cake, nuts and so on follow on. This is served in the early afternoon, when the temperature can reach 40 degrees celcius or 104 fahrenheit. Lashings of grog (beer, wine, whisky etc.) have been known to be consumed during the meal. The heat and booze often bring long-held grudges to the fore and a doonybrook can break out!
More recently, many families have turned to seafood. Australian waters are blessed with wonderful seafood. So the Christmas table may be laden with prawns (shrimps), oysters, lobsters, calamari, etc. etc.
So, yeah, I guess you'd regard it as close to normal. To horrify your guests, you could claim that the mince pies, or the stuffing has been made from Koala legs or Kangaroo entails. Best to tell them this after they have eaten.
Whatever you have, I hope it is delicious. And may I wsh you and yours a very Merry Christmas from Australia.
I have alot of salmon in the freezer..... I am thinking seafood... with prawns and roo salad..... not sure what type of salad that will be but I am still doing some research..... ths for the pointers....
Hope your Holidays are wonderfull........kathy
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Fruitcake from the Colin St. Bakery in Corsicana, Texas. I get one each Thanksgiving ... had a slice today. Baked fruitcake for celebraties like Will Rodgers, Enrico Caruso and the Ringling Bros. Circus. Try it.
Honey Baked Ham and Twice Baked Potatoes! I'm one of those Rare Indivduals, who also Likes, Fruitcake, but it seems, no one else does. There's a whole New Forum Topic - " Fruitcake? Yay or Nay "
I like fruit cake, and it appears that you are not alone Mizar.
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A Neighbor dropped off a Tin of Christmas Cookies, for us this Morning. In it were Fruitcake Cookies, from the same Bakery, that Dan, mentioned, in an Earlier Post. That's a Coincidence, since We don't live anywhere near Texas!
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Oh my, interesting. They do ship all over the world. I hope you enjoy them.
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My favorite Christmas food has to be all the homemade candy...fudge, cream candy, divinity, peanut brittle, sugar roasted pecans, truffles....
Mizar: I thought I was the only person left on earth that liked fruitcake! Love the stuff.
Our tradition: pizza and movies on Christmas day. Everyone is tired of turkey and ham by then. Christmas Eve is always here at the farm and I fix some type of soup (this year it is going to be Mexicali Soup) and we also have a sandwich bar and lots of desserts and other goodies.
This thread is making me HUNGRY!
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steamed fruit pudding.... yummy with custard (especially when it's been hung and aged). SOOOOO good. mum used to put silver shillings in ours, each time you got one she'd swap it for 20c.
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Spiked Egg Nog and plenty of it! Gotta make the day go as fast as possible or just in a I don't care state.
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Roast turkey. :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P
I cannot wait for lunch on Christmas Day, bring it on. ;D
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fruitcake!!!!
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Clementines!
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Roast duck (stuffed with oranges).
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Here they only sell clementines by like a ten pound back or box. I tried to give some away last year but noone would eat them.
Question to all you foodies: What do you do if you dialysis dietician just say eat anything and everything (low phos, pot, pro, etc.) and nothing sounds good to you...and I've been on dialysis a few months now. Should have a healthy appetite back.
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Here they only sell clementines by like a ten pound back or box. I tried to give some away last year but noone would eat them.
Question to all you foodies: What do you do if you dialysis dietician just say eat anything and everything (low phos, pot, pro, etc.) and nothing sounds good to you...and I've been on dialysis a few months now. Should have a healthy appetite back.
I don't consider myself a foodie, but I have been in this position a few times. If you have the time/money/mobility then I would go to a market and just buy anything that you might be able to picture yourself eating. If you like clementines, buy the box, grab what you think you can eat, and ask a friend to drop the remainder at a food pantry. I don't know about Texas, but here a food pantry would be very grateful to take your extra fruit. The farms and markets around here all donate their surplus to the local food bank.
The only other tip I have is one I have not tried, but it makes sense. Make eating into a consistent routine. This is the same strategy that insomniacs are supposed to use for sleep. Pick three (or more) times a day, and whether you are hungry or not, sit down to eat something at those same times every day. I think this is meant to train your system, so that you will eventually be hungry at those times, and feel like you are missing something if you don't have something to eat.
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Winter Steelhead........
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Turkey with lashings of stuffing, gravy, brussel sprouts, roasties and pigs in blankets. Yummy! (This year I will be having chicken and chips on Christmas Day itself, which isn't quite the same but as it's only myself and Blokey there's little point in going overboard.)
I am now exceedingly hungry and my belly is being very noisy ...
;D
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My moms home made trifle. :)
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My moms home made trifle. :)
I have always wondered what it is like. Must be good.
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A trifle, beautiful, delicious and easy!!!! An angel food cake, cut into chunks, fruit, pudding, whipped cream, all in layers.
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The woman in line in front of me at the store the other day was buying 3 big boxes of those crunchy, cheap chocolate chip cookies. While the cashier was ringing them up, she explained the trifle recipe she used them for. Dip each cookie into Irish cream liquor until it soaks up enough to make the cookie soft. Chop roughly, then layer with chocolate pudding and whipped cream in a trifle dish. Adults only! She said the best part was having to make a tiny "test batch" to make sure the cookies were soaked long enough. . .
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The woman in line in front of me at the store the other day was buying 3 big boxes of those crunchy, cheap chocolate chip cookies. While the cashier was ringing them up, she explained the trifle recipe she used them for. Dip each cookie into Irish cream liquor until it soaks up enough to make the cookie soft. Chop roughly, then layer with chocolate pudding and whipped cream in a trifle dish. Adults only! She said the best part was having to make a tiny "test batch" to make sure the cookies were soaked long enough. . .
:rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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I'm off to the Store now, to buy, Cheap, Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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Hickory Farms beef sausage snack sticks. To bad there is only 4 to a pack.
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Oddly enough when I inquired about triffle here, while at dialysis today, my wife was getting a receipe for it from one of ladies she works with who is from England :ukflag; . Told me about iwen she picked me up. :bandance; So, I guess I'll get to fnd out how good it is.
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The woman in line in front of me at the store the other day was buying 3 big boxes of those crunchy, cheap chocolate chip cookies. While the cashier was ringing them up, she explained the trifle recipe she used them for. Dip each cookie into Irish cream liquor until it soaks up enough to make the cookie soft. Chop roughly, then layer with chocolate pudding and whipped cream in a trifle dish. Adults only! She said the best part was having to make a tiny "test batch" to make sure the cookies were soaked long enough. . .
That sounds like the most amazing thing EVER! I must make that!
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there are 3 times a year i don't pay any attention to what i should or shouldn't eat...thanksgiving, christmas and my birthday. the doctor's comment was "go for it".
our big thing when i was growing up was christmas breakfast. we always had stollen, fruit compote and bangers. oh for a good banger! my dad used to buy them at a specialty meat market. i can still get them but have to order them special and they just don't seem as good. i'm surprised us "heathans" in the americas even know what they are. we would also have clam chowder on christmas eve. of course daddy spent hours making it and it was yummy. my dad is an excellent cook and we used to tease him that if he didn't cook on the weekends, mom wouldn't feed him during the week. this thread isn't making me hungry, but kinda sad. my parents now live in an assisted living center, and while the place is very nice, daddy hasn't cooked in quite a while and it's rather sad. still the memories are nice. :rudolph; :rudolph;