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In article , Janner
writes What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? All of it - Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, mince pies, all home-made with home-made mincemeat, brandy butter, sherry, cheesey sausage rolls, cold turkey and stuffing sandwiches, Stilton, port, trifle, mulled wine, Cadbury's Roses, and chocolate tree decorations, nuts in shells, and throwing the shells on the fire when you're done. I could gladly do Christmas without the gifts, but I'd find it hard to do without the food! -- Mel Rimmer |
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That's a nice story Alice. It's nice to hear you have the
vase this year. Taria AliceW wrote: Christmas brings back memories of a fruit tree my mom used to build. It had fresh tangerines (the only time we got them) and oranges and apples and bananas. And the bowl of mixed nuts and plates of pfernuise cookies - I'm still addicted to those, but only the ones from Entemann. We had a big dinner with a beautiful centerpiece made of celery and other edibles in a crystal vase that was my grandmothers. Didn't have a lot of money then, so my mother was very creative with decorations that could be eaten later. Nothing wasted. My sister and I used to fight over who got the center of the celery, you know, the "little trees". My mom gave me that crystal vase during my last visit to Florida. Guess what will be on my Christmas table this year! -- Alice in NJ, Royal Cybrarian www.ourcyberfamily.us "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot "Janner" wrote in message ... What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! -- Janner "Quite often lately I have the feeling I don't know what's going on..." --- Snoopy! "You have to have a Dream!" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 |
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I'll have to get the recipe from my mom, but my favorite Christmas food are
those little orange balls that have been rolled in coconut. I don't know what they are called, but I always eat too many of them. My favorite tradition is going to mom and dads house on Christmas eve, going to the midnight service at church, waiting till the kids go to sleep, stuff the stockings, and get up before dawn to open presents while we listen to moms Christmas tapes (I hated them as a kid, but now I love them). For brunch we have coffee cake and egg casserole. Every other year we make the trek on Christmas day to my aunts house to have the whole lot of us get together and open presents and have a feast, a feast that resembles our thanksgiving meal. Then we snooze in front of the TV while we try to keep our eyelids open while we watch a football game on TV. On the alternate years we still go to my aunts house, but not on Christmas day, normally a few days after, but we still have the feast, the presents, and the football game. Christmas is my favorite holiday, and our decorations normally go up within the first week of December, and don't come down until around the first weekend in January. Getting me to take the tree down is harder than getting me to go to the dentist, which I might add, is a battle in itself. Hugs Karlee in Kansas "Janner" wrote in message ... | What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? | | Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to | Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So | we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing | Day! | | -- | Janner | | "Quite often lately I have the feeling I don't know what's going on..." --- | Snoopy! | | "You have to have a Dream!" | | | --- | Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 | | |
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In article ,
"Janner" wrote: What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! When my DDs were very young, I joined a book club that sent out recipes and an Advent calendar from a different country every year. We did our best to recreate the traditional dinners from most of those book club selections, and it was wonderful! I no longer do that, but we have favorite recipes still from those dinners. Unfortunately, I no longer get to say what the menu will be or to help prepare it, so the memory will have to do. However, I still bake up a storm every year with several kinds of cookies and pastries, as well as some peanut brittle and fruitcake. Breakfast is still scrambled eggs with a Scandinavian-style cardomom bread with candied fruit and golden raisins in it. Yum! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~s-foster |
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Janner wrote:
What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! My favourite recipes are on my web page in the Christmas sections. -- Kate XXXXXX Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk Click on Kate's Pages and explore! |
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We only ever got oranges at Christmas. We didn't have a lot of money either
and in the middle of Canada in the '60s oranges were expensive! Must -have Xmas food? Fruitcake! We liked it so much we had it all year round in those days (in fact we called it "Oma's Cake" because my German grandmother was so fond of it) but now I tend to stick to Christmas time. Favourite tradition? Don't really have any family traditions... Just eating!!! Judy in UK -- Remove NOSPAM to reply "AliceW" wrote in message ... Christmas brings back memories of a fruit tree my mom used to build. It had fresh tangerines (the only time we got them) and oranges and apples and bananas. And the bowl of mixed nuts and plates of pfernuise cookies - I'm still addicted to those, but only the ones from Entemann. We had a big dinner with a beautiful centerpiece made of celery and other edibles in a crystal vase that was my grandmothers. Didn't have a lot of money then, so my mother was very creative with decorations that could be eaten later. Nothing wasted. My sister and I used to fight over who got the center of the celery, you know, the "little trees". My mom gave me that crystal vase during my last visit to Florida. Guess what will be on my Christmas table this year! -- Alice in NJ, Royal Cybrarian www.ourcyberfamily.us "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot "Janner" wrote in message ... What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! -- Janner "Quite often lately I have the feeling I don't know what's going on..." --- Snoopy! "You have to have a Dream!" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 |
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Cornbread dressing/stuffing.
-- Ruth in Happy Camp "Janner" wrote in message ... What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! -- Janner "Quite often lately I have the feeling I don't know what's going on..." --- Snoopy! "You have to have a Dream!" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.552 / Virus Database: 344 - Release Date: 15/12/2003 |
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Janner wrote:
What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Dh always gives me chocolate and cofee beans in my stocking...this my favorite food related tradition because no work on my part is required, unlike baking... lisae |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:32:39 -0000, "Janner"
wrote: What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! I love the old fashioned Christmas candies, which I can't find anywhere anymore. Candy like Chocolate Straws, Ribbon Candy, the hard candies that look like Fimo Dough cutouts, etc. I did find Chocolate Straws on the internet, but shipping is so high it doesn't make it practical to buy any. But...maybe I'll do it anyway! Then, there's always Chocolate Covered Cherries, the kind with the liquid centers. Yum! Mardi Real e-mail address spelled out to prevent spam. mardi at mardiweb dot com. ____________________ My Quilting page: http://www.mardiweb.com/quilts/MardiQuilts.html Paint Shop Pro tutorials: http://www.mardiweb.com/web Low-Fat Lifestyle Forum: http://www.mardiweb.com/lowfat |
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:32:39 -0000, "Janner"
wrote: What's your favourite Christmas food or recipe or tradition? Just thought that I'd ask, as we like to decorate the tree as close to Christmas as possible, stay up late, eat too much etc on Christmas Eve! So we've started before Christmas Day, mind you the turkey lasts beyond Boxing Day! Oh...I forgot. Stollen. I make stollen every Christmas season and still love it as much as I did when I was a kid. I had forgotten about making it this year. I'm having a hard time getting in the spirit of things. Maybe making stollen will help! Mardi Real e-mail address spelled out to prevent spam. mardi at mardiweb dot com. ____________________ My Quilting page: http://www.mardiweb.com/quilts/MardiQuilts.html Paint Shop Pro tutorials: http://www.mardiweb.com/web Low-Fat Lifestyle Forum: http://www.mardiweb.com/lowfat |
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