Comments on: Top 5 of the Month: Favorite Holiday Food/Drink

By: mary

mary — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:19 +0000

i also loved the sloppy joes story, how cute!
1)i make cookies:tollhouse, shortbread, spritz, candycanes,peanut butter blossoms
2)mulled wine or cider
3)pirogies
4)plum pudding with hard and soft sauces
5)bowls of unshelled nuts with a nutcracker nearby, reminds me of my dad who always had one at home…

By: CK

CK — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:22:13 +0000

My top 5 you-can-only-eat-them at christmas dishes are:
1. Cheese Logs/Balls with almonds. The regular kind only, because the Port ones are extra nasty.
2. Beer Cheese Soup
3. Mulled Wine
4. The little molded holiday chocolates my mother used to make – the kind where you buy the “chocolate” in a brick, bake until liquid and pour into the little reindeer, santa, etc. plastic molds. Gross, but really really fantastic.
5. Hominy served with butter. Yum.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:19:26 +0000

Woah, Sloppy Joe’s are a great comfort food meal during the Christmas season…but I’m more of a finger food type girl.
1. Artichoke Dip
2. Deviled Oysters
3. Deviled Eggs
4. Brie en Croute
5. Egg Nog Daiquiri or as we call it in N’Awlins Santa Sauce

By: Jude

Jude — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:54:40 +0000

Mmmm chestnuts.. That’s definitely on my list as well. I also have a big ball of queso de bola in my list

By: chefectomy

chefectomy — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:47:22 +0000

I love sloppy joes…

1. Stollen – German pastry with chocolate and nuts
2. Eggs Bocuse (scrambled eggs, with sauteed onions and crumbled bacon
3. Egg Nog
4. Champagne
5. Prime Rib Roast

Cute Story..I had a wonderful christmas and boxing day in London one year, I can understand how Jonny missed all that.

By: courtney

courtney — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:00:41 +0000

Dark Fruit cake( Yes I like it)
Egg Nog
Bourbon Balls
Glogg or Gluwhein
Goose

Love you romatic first Christmas story.

By: Lick My Spoon

Lick My Spoon — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:35:16 +0000

my family has a similar tradition….xmas eve is the biggie…we do it up for eve dinner, head to midnight mass, head home and immediately change into pjs…open presents! (b/c technically…it is xmas now) and have DESSERT we like to change up our dishes…so i can’t really think of 5 staples…although pecan pie is a favorite…oh and the next day is devoted to eating swiss colony toffee chocolates…or any other gifted chocolates that are within reach.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:34:13 +0000

Great post guys! My 5 would be, Homemade cookies that we only make at Christmas time, Timpano, for Chrismas day, Beer battered shrimp that we sinfully fry up and gorge on, Pannetone french toast for breakfast, and Captain Morgan with eggnog!!!

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:33:16 +0000

1.) Yorkshire Pudding – we try and do as close to an English Christmas dinner as we can due to the fact that my Dad is from across the pond. This dish can make or break our yuletide cheer. I have had my hand whacked with really hard metal spatulas as I mistakenly reach for the oven door I think hides the brussel sprouts, seen my mother weep as the pudding slowly collapses in on itself as she pulls it from the oven and have seen her drink one too many glasses of wine in celebration when it remains light and airy all they way to the dinner table and our ultimately our plates.

2) Fried Turkey – this one came along with my Brother-in-Law who I secretly hated the shrmip curry my Mom has made on Christmas Eve for as long as I have been on this earth. He is a bit of a redneck and I say that in the best way possible. I mean how could I not love someone who introduced me to the most juicest, flavorful cuts of turkey I have ever had. Let’s not even go into the crispy bits of skin I risk picky off as my Dad takes to carving.

3) Bloody Mary’s – this is a Christmas morn tradition. Which can do one of two things – it works like the Hair of the Dog and attempts to turn around the nasty effects of too much wine from the night before. Or, with a few glasses it can help make those socks you’ve been getting from Aunt Trudie for the past 30 years seem like just the thing you needed this time around.

4.) Roast Beef – the smell of it filling the house as it cooks on Christmas day is something I will always cherish. It means home to me. It’s warming, inviting, and let’s me know that even when the presents are unwrapped, I still have one more gift coming my way.

5) English Summer Trifle – Summer trifle in December, you say? Heck yeah in our house. This is the Pumpkin Pie of this family. My Mom didn’t make it one year and let’s just say it wasn’t pretty. A perfect yorkshire pudding would have done nothing to save her. Because we make this out of season, I’m pretty sure that it costs more than that piece of Roast Beef sitting in the oven, but I don’t care. I will give up all my presents for a bite, which after filling myself on appetizers and dinner Christmas Day is usually all I can stomach. Lady fingers drenched in sherry, strawberries, red raspberries, blueberries layered with vanilla custard and almond whipped cream and then it is all topped off with slivered toasted almonds. I eat it for breakfast. Seriously. December 26th I scoop out a bowl and eat what couldn’t be taken in the night before.

Happy Holidays everyone!

By: maryann

maryann — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:46:35 +0000

I have a bloke that traveled across the ocean to be with me too! Oh, poor Jonny! My bloke’s family starts making plans for Christmas in July! My MIL bakes this christmas cake you could use as a door stop and which no one ever eats, but we must have it every year. Of course, my bloke has a different problem. He doesn’t quite understand the Italian way which involves sitting at the table all day eating course after course. (lasagna on christmas???!!)
Loved your post! haha

my5—->
homemade hot chocolate, shortbread cookies, roast turkey and stuffing, lasagna, and a mixed vegetable hot or cold antipasti!

Merry Christmas to both of you!