Holiday Food

[yeti585]

Every year around my house we bake Christmas cookies. Usually a cache of them. All different kinds, too. Most of the time you'll see sugar, chocolate chip, peanutbutter, chocolate chip and walnut, and chocolate peanutbutter chip (a chocolate cookie with peanutbutter chips).

This year we are also making a Christmas lasagna. It's usually tradition in the US to make a Christmas ham (isn't it?), but we have never done that.

So what special food do you guys make for your winter holiday of choice?

 

[Rose and Thorn]

My family has Turkey for everything. Canadian thanksgiving, chrismukkah and new years. I am a pescetarian so I don't eat turkey.

For me I love to have broccoli, cauliflower and potatoes covered in cheese or veggie based gravy. Honestly I am more interested in drinking alchohol, rather than a big meal. I eat only enough to be satisfied, sometimes have a nice apple pie, but most of the holidays I am more interested in having baileys in the morning, sampling the wines before and during dinner and finishing the night off with a nice whiskey in my hand.

 

[Rawne1980]

Nothing special really.

My missus loves to make a Trifle for Christmas day.

I stick with the basics on Christmas day food wise, Turkeand the like, because we go out on Christmas Eve to my grans and my family like to drink. Christmas day i'm usually still a bit drunk so can't go overboard or i'll burn the house down.

Plus I carry on drinking.

 

[lRookiel]

Well me and my vegetarian family will be having some lovely Quorn roast on Christmas eve. This as well as Yorkshire puddings, gravy, veg INCLUDING sprouts (they are yummy shut up) and stuffing etc.

My mum does make a big batch of mince pies.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

We always make at least a ten pound Pot-Roast which we Dry Age for at least a week. Heaven on a plate my friends, Heaven on a plate.

 

[Risingblade]

We're doing turkey and ham this year, obviously thanksgiving wasn't enough for us :3

 

[Dags90]

I stick with the basics on Christmas day food wise, Turkeand the like, because we go out on Christmas Eve to my grans and my family like to drink. Christmas day i'm usually still a bit drunk so can't go overboard or i'll burn the house down.

Plus I carry on drinking.

Do you bother with making seasonal drinks like eggnog or mulled wine?

My grandma used to make spaghetti with squid for Christmas Eve, but she's not up for it anymore. There's usually ham at my nana's on Christmas say. We also used to have eggs, bacon (cut more like British bacon), and Cinnabons for Christmas breakfast.

 

[yeti585]

So, we made the cookies today and made way too much peanut butter batter. We ended up with a metric ton of cookies and an experiment of "peanut butter bars" (which were surprisingly good for being made of the same cookie dough).

 

[Harley Q]

I'm making a four bird roast this year, with veg from the garden, oh yeah I feel good about myself now. It's been a few years since I got to spend Christmas with my family and my mum and I have been baking for about 4 days making various baked christmas treats, including scottish macaroons, hell yeah.

We avoid turkey most of the time. This year I decided that I wanted several of the birds. 4 of them. yum. My brother is a coeliac, so we make a lot of gluten free treats without worrying about killing him or whatever the gluten demon does. I think the only constant at our holiday dinners are roast potatoes. I really love potatoes.

 

[Rawne1980]

I stick with the basics on Christmas day food wise, Turkeand the like, because we go out on Christmas Eve to my grans and my family like to drink. Christmas day i'm usually still a bit drunk so can't go overboard or i'll burn the house down.

Plus I carry on drinking.

Do you bother with making seasonal drinks like eggnog or mulled wine?

Mulled wine we make, and Snowball (Dutch Advocatt alcohol and lemonade, it's nicer than it sounds) but we've never had eggnog.

To be honest I never knew what eggnog was but just looked it up, it sounds quite nice.

 

[Starik20X6]

In Australia it's traditional to have seafood on Christmas Day. To which my family says "not a chance" and we have a proper roast for lunch. Then it's the hot pudding with custard, whipped cream and ice cream. After that epic display at lunch, dinner usually ends up being a piece of toast or something else small.

 

[Dags90]

Mulled wine we make, and Snowball (Dutch Advocatt alcohol and lemonade, it's nicer than it sounds) but we've never had eggnog.

To be honest I never knew what eggnog was but just looked it up, it sounds quite nice.

Apparently eggnog is as American as mulled wine is European. I hadn't really ever heard of mulled drinks until Harry Potter, and it was something I had to look up. I've actually never had eggnog myself.

Then again, my family is depressingly sober.

 

[YuberNeclord]

In Australia it's traditional to have seafood on Christmas Day.

Whaaa...?

I'm from Australia and I've never heard that before. Unless it's a Queensland or South Australian thing or something. I'm Victorian btw.

Anyway, my mum's always been big on having the big Christmas thing, so growing up we always had a Christmas lunch which was roast chicken, roast pork, roast vegetables(potato, pumpkin) and some other steamed vegetables(usually cauliflower, carrots and corn on the cob). Mum also makes up a cheese sauce to go with it and we have apple sauce too.

She'd bake up some gingerbread men(sometimes plain, sometimes with icing and chopped up lollies for eyes and buttons). She'd also make up a fruit salad(bananas,apples,oranges,cherries,strawberries and usually a few other things). They'd also be a leg of ham and a bunch of snack foods(nuts, pretzels, chips, etc). Oh and there was usually a christmas pudding and a fruit cake.

So yeah, she kinda goes full out.

This year to save money most of my family is going out for a christmas meal(much to my mum's dismay). I won't be there this year for the first time ever, I'm going to be in South Australia with my sister and her husbands family. So I have no idea what I'll be eating this Christmas. It better not be seafood.

 

[game-lover]

About two years ago, my mother decided to switch the dinner from Christmas Day to Christmas Eve. And have a nice seafood dinner... with lasagna for the daughter in law who doesn't eat seafood. And something small such as a bunch of cornish hens or duck.

We're having money issues though so I only know lasagna is gonna be there. No idea what else.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Well me and my vegetarian family will be having some lovely Quorn roast on Christmas eve. This as well as Yorkshire puddings, gravy, veg INCLUDING sprouts (they are yummy shut up) and stuffing etc.

My mum does make a big batch of mince pies.

Your whole family is vegetarian? Lucky, only three people in my family don't eat meat and we have about 20 people around the holiday.

Sounds like a really tasty meal by the way.

 

[Starik20X6]

In Australia it's traditional to have seafood on Christmas Day.

Whaaa...?

I'm from Australia and I've never heard that before. Unless it's a Queensland or South Australian thing or something. I'm Victorian btw.

That's strange... I'm in NSW, and I'm just about the only person I know who has a normal roast on Christmas. Everyone else has all this seafood rubbish. Must be more provincial than I thought.

This requires further study! Maybe I just happen to have a large number of strange friends.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I do love stuffing. And special pates. And oven-baked chipolatas.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

Alas, my family has no care for tradition and don't cook for christmas anymore. But back when we did we made the traditional swedish julbord: Ham, sausages, meatballs, rice pudding, whatever the hell Janssons frestelse is called in english and all that other good stuff.
Now I'll probably eat a sandwich or something. Stupid family. Even seafood sounds good right now.

 

[Dimitriov]

Well rum and eggnog of course!

Tend to buy a lot of shortbread this time of year too.

For Christmas dinner turkey is the usual around here. This year however I am also going to have a tortierre for one of the Christmas meals I am having...

God this time of year is deliciously fattening.

 

[Angie7F]

For some unknown but very obviously comrcial reasons, KFC for Christmas seems to be getting "traditional" in Japan.
That, or fried chicken. Not turkey.

But Xmas is not really our holiday. New years is more of a big deal.
New years has its own set of special food called osechi, which is a box full of lucky food.
That, plus rice cakes in soup.