https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:55:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2160053 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 03:32:01 +0000 Sal 2160053@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Really interesting to see how the foods vary. I think next winter I should have a mid winter festive feast and make some of these favourites!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159948 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 18:37:34 +0000 anchie 2159948@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Sarma - sour cabbage stuffed with ground meat </p> <p><a href="https://www.worldfoodstory.co.uk/recipe/sarma-cabbage-rolls" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldfoodstory.co......bage-rolls</a></p> <p>French salad - diced potatos, carrots, peas, pickles and optional eggs in mayo</p> <p> <a href="https://food52.com/recipes/33198-french-salad-francuska-salata" rel="nofollow">https://food52.com/recipes/331.....ska-salata</a></p> <p>Turkey with mlinci<br /> <a href="https://www.worldfoodstory.co.uk/recipe/turkey-with-mlinci?cn-reloaded=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldfoodstory.co......reloaded=1</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159890 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:07:54 +0000 Janet 2159890@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Carla, that sounds delicious, thank you! </p> <p>I just ate breakfast but this thread still made me hungry! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159736 Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:01:44 +0000 JAileen 2159736@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>One Thanksgiving our oven in the rental house didn’t work. &nbsp;My FIL carved up the turkey and we barbequed it. &nbsp;It was one of the best ever. &nbsp;Pieces came off as they were done, so nothing was dry. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159713 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 23:00:58 +0000 Anonymous 2159713@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Roast beef with horseradish, the French galette des rois and Champagne. True winter holiday food that I would never have at any other time.</p> <p>Sal, next time try spatchcocking the turkey, requires an enormous roasting pan but it's much faster. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159705 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 22:45:50 +0000 Laura (rhubarbgirl) 2159705@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For Thanksgiving, we did some of the usual options: mashed potatoes (recipe with sour cream, cream cheese and butter), and dressing. In recent years my brother's fried the turkey and this year he also smoked one in his new smoker (it wasn't my favorite). I made pumpkin cheesecake for the first time and it was awesome, and I also made apple pie and creamed spinach.</p> <p>For Christmas we always do an egg-sausage bake for the morning, kinda an egg strata sort of thing. The lunch/dinner options for Christmas are often similar to Thanksgiving, maybe a ham instead of a turkey. My mom always makes a homemade cranberry punch which also lets you make cranberry relish as part of the process. Not sure if I'm going to try anything new this year; haven't had the time to think about it. There are always a lot of Christmas cookies - sugar, chocolate chip, buckeyes, and those quickie ones with rolos and pretzels. </p> <p>I used to love eggnog but I'm somewhat lactose intolerant now, so I can only do the soy or almond versions, which don't have the same silky texture.</p> <p>My top three picks would have to be cranberry punch, our special mashed potatoes, and... maybe on e of the desserts, but I'm having trouble picking just one!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159634 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 19:38:40 +0000 cindysmith 2159634@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Cornbread dressing<br /> Mama's fudge<br /> Red velvet cake with Italian cream cheese icing from Julianne's Bakery in Shreveport Louisiana </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159520 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 02:12:26 +0000 Carla 2159520@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@ Janet - if DH loves pears, make homemade apple sauce with pears. &nbsp;So easy, and so good! &nbsp;Just peel a couple of apples 2 big or 4 small, and add a pear or two. &nbsp;A squeeze of lemon to keep the sauce from getting too dark. &nbsp;No sugar needed. &nbsp;Simmer until it looks mushy. &nbsp;You might need to add a little water. &nbsp;Blend with a stick blender. &nbsp;Serve warm with pork chops or loin. &nbsp;I serve it with blintzes, too. &nbsp;Mmmmm! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159497 Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:23:44 +0000 Janet 2159497@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Barbara Diane, tell me about pear sauce. Hubs loves pears so I’d be curious to know more — I googled some recipes but do you serve it with anything else in particular? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159485 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:21:26 +0000 Laurie 2159485@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so hungry right now, and reading through this is making me even hungrier. And, sad. I'm not baking or cooking anything this year.</p> <p>Our traditional Christmas Eve meal is from my Italian heritage on my Mom's side. Spaghetti with calamari sauce, broccoli with lemon and olive oil, salad (Danny did an amazing scallop and blood orange salad last year to riff on a traditional green salad), and dessert - many traditional Christmas cookies, and a cranberry cheesecake.</p> <p>When my younger son was in first grade, he came home from school with his buddy from across the street while the calamari sauce was simmering. "Ew, what stinks?" he said. I started laughing and told them i was making sauce with, you know, octopus. I fished a piece out with the tentacles to show them, and the kid from across the street literally jumped back in horror!</p> <p>A few minutes later Danny, in 4th grade at the time, walked in and said, "Mmm, what smells so good?" He's now a gourmet cook!</p> <p>I am unspeakably sad about not having any reason to cook this year. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159483 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 21:16:45 +0000 Laurie 2159483@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am so hungry right now, and reading through this is making me even hungrier. And, sad. I'm not baking or cooking anything this year.</p> <p>Our traditional Christmas Eve meal is from my Italian heritage on my Mom's side. Spaghetti with calamari sauce, broccoli with lemon and olive oil, salad (Danny did an amazing scallop and blood orange salad last year to riff on a traditional green salad), and dessert - many traditional Christmas cookies, and a cranberry cheesecake.</p> <p>When my younger son was in first grade, he came home from school with his buddy from across the street while the calamari sauce was simmering. "Ew, what stinks?" he said. I started laughing and told them i was making sauce with, you know, octopus. I fished a piece out with the tentacles to show them, and the kid from across the street literally jumped back in horror!</p> <p>A few minutes later Danny, in 4th grade at the time, walked in and said, "Mmm, what smells so good?" He's now a gourmet cook!</p> <p>I am unspeakably sad about not having any reason to cook this year. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food/page/2#post-2159454 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 19:29:25 +0000 Sal 2159454@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks all! So many yummy ideas here - I am going to find some stollen!</p> <p>Devilled eggs - love them too! Bit tricky to make as I always struggle to nicely peel eggs.</p> <p>So interesting the different traditional and nostalgic foods. And probably more important than ever this year. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159431 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:54:23 +0000 Barbara Diane 2159431@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For Chanukah - latkes topped with both sour cream and homemade applesauce and shaped sugar cookies. Although this year I am also including more inventive ingredients for both the latkes and the toppings. I saved some of my cranberry sauce and made pear sauce too. More to come. Both latkes and shaped sugar cookies are stepped in nostalgia because, in reality, while comfort foods not truly in competition for foods I’d want for a last meal.<br /> I like eating brisket with it, but not necessarily my must have.</p> <p>For NYE sparkling wine and sugar cookies spelling out the year. 4 cookies for each of us. So, 2021 coming up. Sparkling wine is a fav, cookies a tradition I made up.</p> <p>Thanksgiving-cranberry sauce made with orange peel and brandy, and a new favorite- bundles of bacon wrapped green beans with a sweet salty sauce (I left off the hot part), and yams with both pecans and marshmallows. This year I cooked one large one, split it in half, mixed in butter and 1 crumbled pecan per side, 3 mini marshmallows on my side, and put my half in the microwave just long enough for the marshmallows to puff up, Might have added brown sugar but I can’t remember.</p> <p>I like Bud’s eggnog but my Not is the light version. 4 ounces of the real stuff is better than 16 ounces of the other. </p> <p>Fun question, thanks Sal. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159407 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 16:51:40 +0000 ChrisM 2159407@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Stollen, Swedish butter bars (shortbread cookies with raspberry jam in the middle) and Molasses cookies.</p> <p>I don’t make stollen, but we get it from Aldi’s which has a store nearby - I’m sure I would have no will-power to resist homemade stollen. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159367 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:54:45 +0000 Carla 2159367@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Back to say I’m down for devilled eggs too, but it’s an Easter thing - not Christmas! &nbsp;Easter isn’t complete without devilled eggs - a few with streaks of colour from dye that leaked through a minuscule crack in an egg! &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159311 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:26:50 +0000 rachylou 2159311@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Overrated: prime rib </p> <p>Don’t tell my cousins... that’s what they replaced the beef Wellington with... hahaha! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159310 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 03:24:25 +0000 rachylou 2159310@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have to winnow it to three? Oh man. Well, I’m gonna have to bump stollen for spritz cookies because while stollen says Christmas I get angry if I don’t get spritz cookies, Lolol! </p> <p>After that it’s Fondue and Beef Wellington. I’ve kicked off egg nog for beef Wellington because that also makes me angry when I don’t get it. Haha! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159308 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:50:24 +0000 Echo 2159308@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Janet, I am completely with you on the deviled eggs. My parents made them on holidays and I didn't understand how anyone could eat them, but tastes change over the years, and now I could each a dozen of them if I let myself. Those and green olives! I buy green olives for the relish trays and end up sneaking half of them late at night from the fridge! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159304 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 02:31:41 +0000 Carla 2159304@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>@ Angie - my German Dad living in Bellevue is a big fan of Kaffeeklsch in Lake City. &nbsp;Do you know of it?</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.kaffeeklatschseattle.com/">http://www.kaffeeklatschseattle.com/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159294 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 01:46:13 +0000 Carla 2159294@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>OMG! &nbsp;Don’t get me started! &nbsp;(I’m doing 4 because I don’t get #1 anymore.)</p> <p> <div><br /></div><div>#1 Christmas pudding with rum sauce (1 cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup rum heated through). Haven’t had it in&nbsp;<i>years. &nbsp;</i>MIL would send one every Christmas and I would eat it all by myself!&nbsp;<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>#2 Fruitcake. &nbsp;Another thing I don’t make (cause nobody in the family will eat it.) &nbsp;Last year DS#2 was working at a bakery as an industrial mixer and they made a variety of fruitcakes. &nbsp;He brought home a selection. &nbsp;10lbs worth. &nbsp;I ate it all over a 6 weeks. </p> <p>#3 Cinnamon rolls, warm from the oven, on Christmas morning. &nbsp; </p> <p>#4 Salt marsh grazed leg of lamb from Quebec. &nbsp;Special order from the butcher. &nbsp;Served with pear topped squash (for me) and mashed spuds (for everyone else) and green beans with almonds. Raspberry triffle for dessert. That’s our Christmas dinner!</p> <p>Not a fan - peppermint&nbsp;<i>anything!</i></p> <p><i><br /> </i></p> <p><i>*</i>I’m a mad baker, and deserts over the holidays is a mixed tray for serve yourself. &nbsp;I make Holiday Spice Cookies, traditional Sugar Cookies, Empire Cakes (DH’s favourite), Peanut Butter Balls, Chocolate Fruit Bark, Millionaire Shortbread and Gingerbread Cookies. &nbsp;I’ll add a few slices of fruit cake. &nbsp;The only thing I have off the tray is the fruit cake! &nbsp;Well, maybe the shortbread. &nbsp;Possibly a PB ball. &nbsp;;-)</p> <p> </div><div><br /></div><div>**I grew up with a lot of German traditions, but only have a recipe for Marmorkucken. &nbsp;There used to be 3 different breads/cakes baked in heavy cast iron molds at breakfast on Christmas Day. &nbsp;</div></p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159230 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 22:08:51 +0000 anne 2159230@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I like the particular stuffing I make, which may have some flavour similarities to Janet's. It has sage, cranberry and prosciutto flavoured breadcrumbs and onions. Lots of stuffing I don't like though.<br /> I also like gingerbread and pavlova.</p> <p>Not keen on the dried fruit Christmas treats, ie Christmas pudding, fruit cake or fruit mince pies.<br /> I had to look up peppermint bark which have not seen in Australia, but it reminds me of this <a href="https://www.donnahay.com.au/recipes/choc-peppermint-slice" rel="nofollow">https://www.donnahay.com.au/re.....mint-slice</a><br /> Which I like.<br /> I have never had alcoholic egg nog. Just what I think is actually egg flip, sweetened milk, egg mixture. Not at Christmas though. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159190 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:50:35 +0000 rebekahphoto 2159190@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>oh we always have lots of traditional goodies over the holidays!&nbsp;</p> <p>some my sweet favs are a lot of nordic classics:&nbsp; pfeffernusse (german gingerbread style cookies), kringle and lefse. I make a lovely cranberry chutney with spices and onion that is good on both meats and yogurts</p> <p>Also always have aquavit, deviled eggs &amp; smoked salmon, mexican wedding cookies and we make tamales. (the Mr is mexican so we have a nice mix!)</p> <p>ah well thats more than 3 !&nbsp;</p> <p>Angie have you tried Larsens Bakery's Stollen? they have so many good sweets!!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159187 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:40:38 +0000 MsMary 2159187@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For the past few years we have been really into Italian for Christmas: arancini, pasta aglio e olio, tiramisu, and so on. Traditionally we always have Cookie Day in our house and usually try something new every year -- I think this year it will be macarons.</p> <p>And I usually try my hand at latkes at Hanukkah even though we're not Jewish. This year I'm doing this one from Food &amp; Wine magazine:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/crispy-skillet-latke-with-kale">https://www.foodandwine.com/re.....-with-kale</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159162 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:53:53 +0000 Anonymous 2159162@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My favorite is frosted sugar cookies (which I can no longer eat). I love a good fruit cake and gingerbread cookies. I am not enthusiastic about lutefisk, a Swedish dried cod dish often served with lingonberries and cream, but it is what I can eat (except the lingonberries)<br /> (Lutefisk is dried whitefish. It is made from aged stockfish, or dried and salted cod, pickled in lye. It is gelatinous in texture after being rehydrated for days prior to eating. Lutefisk is prepared as a seafood dish of several Nordic countries. Wikipedia). I think hard candies are over rated. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159109 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:10:16 +0000 Kyle 2159109@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kuchen, for those of you who know what that is. My mom made it, and now my sister and I do, too. Great for Christmas morning with a cup of tea or coffee. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159108 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 15:09:38 +0000 Janet 2159108@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If we extend the holidays included into Thanksgiving, I’d have to include stuffing/dressing. I made my own this year from scratch, using all the customary ingredients, but improvising from a couple different recipes (used some slightly stale brioche bread, excellent sage sausage from a local farm store, and oyster mushrooms), and baking it in a casserole dish, not inside the turkey, and it got rave reviews from hubs and me. </p> <p>This one might sound odd to many of you, but deviled eggs were a huge holiday treat for my family. I never make them because hubs is not the hugest fan of them, and I would surely eat them all. But I just may need to make a little batch for myself this year, just because...2020. As my stepson’s wife says, “Treat yo’self!”</p> <p>And I’ll add baked goodies — I’m a fan of good old traditional tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. </p> <p>Most overrated: pumpkin spice everything, and fruitcake. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159077 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 13:38:39 +0000 kkards 2159077@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another peppermint bark fan!&nbsp;<br />And any chewy cookie...and add icing, and well, I’m all in.&nbsp;<br />Not a fan of potato latkes, but give me donut and I’m good.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159021 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 04:14:13 +0000 Echo 2159021@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dh always makes a grilled, rare roast beef for Christmas dinner, and I make twice baked potatoes and lobster. Hot buttered rum on the drink list (not an eggnog fan).</p> <p>Cookie cut-outs are a lot of work and far overrated, but Dh loves them so I make them anyway. With our low-carb practice, we will skip the potatoes this year (but still make them for the kids). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159004 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:49:08 +0000 slim cat 2159004@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Rum eggnog for sure, German mulled wine - Gluhwein ( not sure of the right spelling - white or red, cold or hot ), sugar glazed lebkuchen cookies .<br />Turkey works if somebody else is cooking .</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/favourite-holiday-food#post-2159002 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 02:34:39 +0000 DonnaF 2159002@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For New Year, I love (but rarely get) fresh pounded mochi (sweet rice cake) that is dipped in a thick slurry of sugar and soy sauce or is in zenzai, a sweet soup of sweetened azuki beans. Very Japanese.</p> <p>I also confess to liking Trader Joe’s peppermint Joe-Joes more than I should. I bought a box to stick in DD’s stocking, but now we won’t be seeing her until who knows when due to COVID. She lives within walking distance of a TJs so it doesn’t make sense to mail to her. But maybe it will be fun to have this summer? </p>