what is your favorite christmas related food?

[Yvonne]

       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) 

[tubes]

Chirstmas cookies....thats all I need 

[Mimi]

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!!!

[jennyc]

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

[Mizar]

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 "

[galvo]

Fruitcake is extra yummy!!

[cariad]

I don't look forward to any food anymore. Thanks ever so much, Kidney Failure. 

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.

[dwcrawford]

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.

[tyefly]

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

[fc2821]

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. 

[Mizar]

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!

[dwcrawford]

Oh my, interesting.  They do ship all over the world.  I hope you enjoy them.

[looneytunes]

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! 

[jennyc]

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.

[Chris]

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.

[sico]

Roast turkey.

I cannot wait for lunch on Christmas Day, bring it on.

[Des]

fruitcake!!!!

[karen547]

Clementines!

[galvo]

Roast duck (stuffed with oranges).

[dwcrawford]

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. 

[cariad]

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. 

[tyefly]

   Winter  Steelhead........       

[Poppylicious]

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 ...

 

[draven]

My moms home made trifle. 

[fc2821]

My moms home made trifle. 

I have always wondered what it is like. Must be good.