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Unofficial Christmas Eve Culinary Traditions Thread
12/24/11
| traderrob
Posted on 12/24/2011 12:03:05 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6
Christmas Eve tacos (Mexicali style, not Taco Bell kind). Tomorrow, roast goose.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:05:47 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
To: traderrob6
** PORK ROAST at the White House **
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:07:12 PM PST
by
EagleUSA
To: traderrob6
Swedish Tea Ring. Mom, bless her heart and rest in peace, made them for years every Christmas.
I doubt the authenticity of the recipe, having been to culinary school now, but when I told the sibs what I was making, this first year without Mom at Christmas, all I got was a choked up: "aww...sh..."
/johnny
To: traderrob6
Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:09:58 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: traderrob6
Kūčios.
I hate it. People started bringing me shrimp just so I could eat.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:10:22 PM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: COBOL2Java
Sis is doing tamales. 4th of July and Christmas. We're Texas WASPs, and have NO idea how that tradition got started, but I do it, too.
/johnny
To: JRandomFreeper
My first year without my Mother. Know the feeling brother.
To: traderrob6
Ha, chicken soup with rice. We have that Christmas Crud/ cold and bronchitis. I will eventually make Norwegian Christmas bread, however, with candied cherries and slivered almonds, like Mom used to make. And ham.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:12:14 PM PST
by
bboop
(Without justice, what else is the State but a great band of robbers? St. Augustine)
To: traderrob6
Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:13:05 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: traderrob6
Just got a gift package from Zabar’s Deli in New York. Bagels, rye bread, pastrami, salmon, cream cheese, salami, deli mustard, cinnamon something-or-others, and some kind of cookies. That’s today’s breakfast, lunch and dinner!
To: traderrob6
My husband’s Sicilian Christmas eve: Marinated calimari salad; shrimp scampi with spagettini.
Tomorrow my tradition: Turkey with mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, brussell sprouts and beets, mince pies, and British Christmas cake.
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:14:03 PM PST
by
miss marmelstein
(Still heartless after all these years...)
To: 1rudeboy
Did you have poppyseed milk too?
My Dad talked about (from his childhood) the special “Christmas Eve wafers” that some lady at church prepared, but we never had them ourselves.
To: JRandomFreeper
Actually, tamales sound good. Might have to head down to Armando’s in SW Detroit.
To: ExCTCitizen
Sorry for the double post!
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12/24/2011 12:16:30 PM PST
by
ExCTCitizen
(If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
To: traderrob6
Baked Red Snapper with red potatoes, carrots and peas plus spinach salad on Christmas Eve; Baked stuffed shells with sausage and meatballs plus layered salad on Christmas Day and finally, black beans, yellow rice, roast pork and plantains plus tossed salad on New Year’s Day.
January 2 starts the starvation diet.
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12/24/2011 12:23:22 PM PST
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
To: NTHockey
Baked Red Snapper with red potatoes, carrots and peas plus spinach salad on Christmas Eve; Baked stuffed shells with sausage and meatballs plus layered salad on Christmas Day and finally, black beans, yellow rice, roast pork and plantains plus tossed salad on New Years Day.I'm detecting a little island influence there. With some twists.
/johnny
To: traderrob6; JRandomFreeper
My first year without my Mother. Know the feeling brother.My thoughts and prayers are with you both. I lost my mother Christmas Eve, 1985.
Mark
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posted on
12/24/2011 12:25:45 PM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: traderrob6
Since in the old days we had to fast for half a day before receiving communion at midnight mass, there is no Christmas eve meal. However, the tradition was to have cold egg salad sandwiches on white bread after midnight mass as the first meal of Christmas Day. This is a very old tradition in the family that goes back into the mid 1800s and maybe further back with my European ancestors. Now that fasting is no longer an issue, the tradition has disappeared in much of the family, but I still keep it going because it brings back good memories of my aunts and uncles and cousins. Other than that, no one thing in particular stands out as a traditional food except maybe the koláče.
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12/24/2011 12:29:59 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: traderrob6
Traditional New Mexican Christmas food. Tamales, posole, red chile, empanaditas (fried pastry filled with sweet, spiced pork), chiles rellenos (not really rellenos, but roast beef cooked, ground in a meat grinder with roasted green chiles, dipped in egg batter and fried - delish.
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