Favorite Holiday Foods

[cashmoney]

With GC being so diverse, I wanted to know what are some favorite holiday foods people eat other than the traditional things.


For me, my grandmother makes me REAL German Sauerkraut and Bratwurst with caraway seeds and beer. She also makes me a HUGE German Chocolate cake. It has 3, 3 inch layers in it. There's 1 inch of frosting seperating the layers and then a 2 inch layer of frosting on the outside of the cake. Both items just came in yesterday.

[MoonStar17]

yummyyy that sounds amazing!!!

my mom makes what i call "traditional" americanized food for the holidays (we are hispanic-Puerto Rican) but i like just about everything
christmas is ususally a ham, sweet potato's, baked mashed potatos, peas, green bean casserole, rice and candules (puerto rican dish) maccaroni and cheese (from scratch..ohhh so yummy), dinner rolls, stuffing, and sometimes different things like salad, rosted mushrooms etc.

when i go to my grandmothers though (on christmas eve or buena noche) it is always hispanic foods
lechon (roasted pork)
ham (honey baked)
sometimes a turkey too
MY FAMILY IS HUGE.. belive me we eat it all!
pastelles ( a puerto rican thing made of mashed plantains and meats and vegi's its like a PR kind of tamale-KINDA)
arroz con candules (rice with beans the little brown ones not the black ones)
platanos (fried plantains)
frijoles rojo (red beans with sausage and potato cooked in it
then we add the traditional
mashed potatoes
bread
sweet potatoes
salad
etc.

I LOVE THE HOLIDAYS!!! oh so yummy foods

[aurora_borealis]

They are all Jul foods, as Jul is just Yule in Norwegian, ya! We usually do our meal Christmas Eve after our candlelight service at church.

Fattigman - cookies that are very flat diamond shaped and deep fried, with flavors of cognac, cinnamon and cardamom.

gingerbread reindeers - we roll the gingerbread and fold it over itself, and it makes antlers and we add a small cinnamon candy for a nose, and others for the eyes.

rosettes - we have these various shaped irons that screw onto wood handles with metal threading and you dip the iron into batter then into hot oil. It fries into really pretty shapes, snowflakes, stars, roses, and then we cover them with powdered sugar.

Julekake - Norwegian Christmas bread, has various dried fruits in it, and cardamom

lutefisk - It is dried cod soaked in LYE. It is then served with melted butter and I cannot choke that mess down. Some people top it with bacon, mustard, white sauce, or something else. I'll eat open faced sandwiches or meat & cheese on flat rye bread instead of lutefisk. (luckily we don't eat this, though many people do)

fruit soup - It would be apples, raisins, dried apricots, and perhaps prunes, cooked in water, spices, and WINE.

Jul Glögg - one liter red wine, one liter Aquavit, and spices wrapped in cheesecloth (cinnamon, cardamom, raisins, orange peels, sugar, cloves, ginger, almonds, nutmeg, figs) heat slowly, DO NOT let it boil. Kind of like mulled wine, very very tasty times.

[aephi alum]

yum! ya'll are making me hungry

We don't really do any non-traditional foods for Thanksgiving/Hanukkah/Christmas (although this year my father-in-law made rack of lamb for T-day ).

I get creative on Passover, though. I always make an Indian curry, in addition to the "stuff you have to have" (matzo, bitter herbs, etc) and the "stuff you have to have otherwise your mother-in-law has a fit" (matzo ball soup, bird, veggies, really awful desserts). The bird appeases the in-laws; I eat the curry.

[KSigkid]

My Nonnie's (Italian for grandmother) stuffing is absolutely amazing. Some of the best stuff on earth. She usually makes it for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[AChiOAlumna]

For me, it's my mother's Hanukkah meal!

Potato latkes (aka potato pancakes)
Noodle kugle
Baked chicken

My mom will make latkes for both Hanukkah and Passover....we look forward to those meals!! YUM!

[hottytoddy]

cream taters

[AOIIsilver]

My mom makes saurbraten (sp?) for Mr. Silver.

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