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Christmas eats...
This is a lament...I'm traveling this holiday,so,I'm gonna miss a lot of my traditional fare...she say's I can do it for New Years...but we're going to her folks...nothing wrong with ham or turkey...it's just not celebratory enough to me...what really say's Christmas to you on your menu?
Antipasto Cheese Flat bread Olives,pickled artickokes and eggplant Bacala Shrimp Cocktail Tomato,onion salad Prosciutto and melon Lomo adobado (Breaded pork) Figs,dates,almonds White bean and chorizo soup Calamares fritos (Fried eel/squid) Tira Misu
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We do a big traditional Polish thing Christmas Eve. No meat, but plenty of goods.
Pierogis- both potato and saurkraut Mashed potatoes Saurkraut w/ beans Cottage cheese Prunes Whatever fish concoction my cousin comes up with Fried mushrooms and onions probably my most favorite meal of the year. everything is home made, which makes it all the better
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^i think its meant to be sort of a soup, but its sort of just a side the way we end up having it.
but basically you simmer the kraut with some sort of white/yellow bean for hours and that's about it. leave all the brine with the kraut, and it is pretty soupy. usually when we toss it on the plate though, its with a fork so the liquid gets left behind. served warm.
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I go to the future Italian in-laws house for christmas eve and they do the traditional 9-13 non-meat dishes for that meal.
pretty much all of the non-meat dishes you mentioned above Moot are part of the spread. plus some seafood pasta, a rapini dish, some sort of dish that uses this type of bean I haven,t never seen anywhere else, italian rice balls/patties with cheese, peas, sun dried tomatoes, or herbs (I pass on the ones with anchoves inside!), ridiculous huge fruit platter, ridiculous amounts of home-baked goods bacala then at my parents on Christmas day we have traditional fare with an Ukrainian twist: turkey home made cranberry sauce stuffing garlicy brussel sprouts sweet potatoes cabbage rolls with mushroom cream sauce perogiessss pickled beets, pickles, olives and home made paska bread fuck presents, just give me food at Christmas.
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Por que...
really?...I've never had such a thing...I want to try it! oui,oui se oui!...
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Heiress's hairy inlaws to be remind that I forgot panettone......especially when done with brown sugar and brandy...and no candied fruit in it!...oh and crepes suzette...I used to have a connection to Jamaican rumballs that I do miss...
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i've never eaten bacala, and i always feel the need to try it around the holiday season here. but the mixed reviews always seem to hold me back....
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^even if you don't like fish...particularily salt cod,I'll bet you'd dig ours...it's all in the marinara...also the cod itself and how you rehydrate it...change that water!...and I don't use sherry just a sharp rioja...perdoneme la abuela...
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I will be working the holiday this year, so Christmas will be December 27 for me. My mom and I usually go out for dinner on Christmas Eve...then she usually makes a lasagna for Christmas dinner. The thing I most look forward to this time of year is my mom's cookies. She makes about 20 different varieties and they only last a few days at my house!
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we never have gravy with our turkey dinners, ever!
cream sauce: saute mushrooms and onions in a pan until mushrooms cooked and onions go translucent add in tons of cream and then add salt and pepper to taste. sometimes you need to add some cornstarch mixed in cold water to thicken it, depends each time. it is to die for poured over both cabbage rolls AND turkey! I could drink my fiance's moms red sauce from a glass, it's that good. There is just something about any form of salted or dried fish that gives me the eebie jeebies. I dont even like shrimp flakes skattered over my food if I'm at a sushi joint. I am all over all forms of meat jerky though, so Im not sure what's up with that. the texture I guess...
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it's not that I don't eat it! I mean cmon, I'm usually up for anything after 5ish glasses of home-brew Italian red wine...
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^Is that a chianti then?...do they use the empty’s as candle holders?...do they have a red checkered table cloth and garlic and pepper bundles hanging in the kitchen?...cause we do…except the table cloth is always’s basque blue…
*I really want a ceramic italian lucky rooster,that holds toothpicks,to set it all off*
Last edited by MC Moot : 12-01-2009 at 03:05 PM. Reason: LUCKY ROOSTER |
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beans on toast
scrambled egg on toast ravioli on toast spaghetti hoops on toast cups of tea
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Do you have a box of Quality Street for pudding?
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Spam on toast
Deviled ham on toast Chips on toast Marmalade on toast Mint jelly on toast Chutney on toast When Paul Jones meets Paddington Bear Holiday Special…
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nope.just 20 Benson and Hedges
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we always get 2 huge plates full of most types of cheese and meat slices
lots of bread types cucumbers corn tomatoes etc.. that actually sounds quite ghetto
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I totally forgot about potato with pancetta croquettes and aioli…soooooooooo good...
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oh...and patatas bravas…
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we have goose nowadays. it is delicious. with all the normal trimmings. red cabbage with beetroot and apple, stuffing, brussel sprouts with bacon and cream, PIGS IN BLANKETS <3, roast potatoes, more veg, cranberry sauce, yadda yadda yadda.
i am pretty fed up with turkey. it's just a big bastard chicken. my mother can't let it go though so she cooks a separate turkey on christmas eve and makes a pie in the days after christmas. for boxing day we have some of the leftover goose wrapped in chinese pancakes.. it's amazing!
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