Mmmmm holiday food

[Autumnchik 6]

I was reading a thread on the Canada forum about having 2 Thanksgivings, which led to discussion of traditional foods.

I'm curious (and hungry right now )

What are traditional foods in your family for various holidays?

For me:

Thanksgiving: turkey, stuffing (a New Englandy stuffing with roasted chestnuts and sausage) and all the trimmings

Christmas: Christmas Eve - an Italian feast of various seafood dishes and pastas, pastries (mmm cannoli)

Christmas Day - turkey or beef rib roast

Easter: morning - kielbasa and horseradish (courtesy of my Ukrainian grandfather) and rice/ricotta pie ( Italian grandma)!!!

dinner - ham, asparagus, mashed potatoes

[Emancipation 2]

Plum Pudding with Rum sauce for Christmas Dinner.. HAVE to have that.. mmmmmmmmmm

Other than that.. we usually have chicken not turkey, mum liked chicken better.. and Ham at thanksgiving always!

[sereia 0]

christmas for our family is a full traditional danish style dinner and lunch. xmas eve is roast goose, roast pork loin (with the layer of fat/skin on top), braised red cabbage, potatoes, gravy, and this weird pudding dessert made with whipped cream, almonds, and strawberries. you hide a whole almond inside and whoever gets it in their portion gets a prize! (usually a pig shaped marizan bar. who knows why we were always excited about having this growing up.lol)

then christmas day is a full smorrebrod lunch. three hours of a hundred dishes of cheeses, cured and smoked fish, meats, salads, herrings, leftovers from the dinner before, and tons of aquavit and danish beer.

thanksgiving we usually do the normal turkey, gravy, potatoes, stuffing (usually southern style with cornbread and nuts), mac and cheese, etc. we switch it around but its been southern style a lot.

and passover we always had brisket, potatoes, veggies, etc. depends on who's house we went to. i come from a mixed cultural background but neither side is religious. the holidays were always about eating and getting together for fun.

Edited June 1, 2007 by abdounjen

[homesick_american 1]

Since my grandmother was Polish, we celebrate Wigilia in my family on Christmas Eve. It's a meatless feast with an odd number of dishes where a prayer is said and opłatek is passed around the table as we wish each other good fortune for the year ahead. When a close family member dies, at the following Wigilia we set an empty place at the table. It's a tradition that we cherish in my family and we plan to continue it even though my babcia died last December.

Christmas Day, we have a traditional Christmas dinner that's almost an exact replica of Thanksgiving with turkey, stuffing, potatos, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, etc....but with more desserts. NO brussel sprouts in our family, though. They're stinky little fart nuggets.

I've continued to celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK and I cook a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, but I've added Yorkshire puddings to the menu. I plan to continue that this coming Thanksgiving, which will be my first back in the USA since 2000 and my husband's first ever in the USA.

New Year's Day is all about ham and black-eyed-peas.

Easter is also a ham holiday in my family, though my mother's side usually had a black feast for Easter (meatless) since they're Catholic. We always celebrated Easter with my father's parents, who were Protestants. I guess Protestants eat ham at Easter?

Fourth of July is all about grilling. Mmmmm, dead cow.

[Emancipation 2]

I've continued to celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK and I cook a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner, but I've added Yorkshire puddings to the menu. I plan to continue that this coming Thanksgiving, which will be my first back in the USA since 2000 and my husband's first ever in the USA.

MMMMMM Yorkshire Pudding... I'm going to have to learn that one.. sooooo good...

[Cassie 8]

Christmas Eve -- after coming home from Christmas Eve service at church, we put the Christmas presents under the tree, and then have "bubble ring" -- sweet rolls dipped in butter, rolled in cinnamon sugar, and put in an angel food cake pan, sprinkled with nuts and candied cherries, and baked. You pull off a roll and enjoy.....so good!

Christmas Day -- Canada: full turkey dinner with the trimmings, and plum pudding with hard sauce (YUM).

New Year's Eve -- my family started a tradition of getting take out Chinese food. Nothing special, just fried rice and egg rolls and sweet and sour chicken and some token vegetable dish to make my mom happy.

New Year's Day -- turkey!

Canadian Thanksgiving -- turkey!

American Thanksgiving -- ham, brisket, and maybe turkey! Oh, and a good family friend sends me a cranberry pudding (it's a cake) every Christmas that I freeze and unthaw for dessert a year later.

Edited June 1, 2007 by Cassie

[Saddle Bronc 124]

• Thanksgiving, Canuck: ideal would be chicken biryani, matar-paneer, chapatis
  
• Thanksgiving, US: ideally turkey (ok, we'll cheat and use the ground-up stuff) biryani, chhole, chapatis
  
• Christmas: masala-dosai with cauliflower-broccoli-onion saambaar and peanut chutney
  
• New Years Day: lamb biryani, blackeye-peas curry
  
• Easter: chicken chasseur over rice, with side of hardboil-egg (since we will usually be at LEF Easter retreat) after Sunday service in Novi
  

Edited June 1, 2007 by CherryXS

[pedroh 21]

oh oh..

for Thxgiving my MIl makes turkey, sweet potato pie, potato salad, gravy, and the basic southern side orders

in my house for Xmas (yea no thxgiving in Mexico lol) mom makes a Pavo Enchilado (spicy turkey in red sauce), Bacalao a la Vizcaina (Basque Cod fish), my grandma makes 'frijoles puercos' (beans with chorizo, jalapenos, olives and cheese, and lots of oil)