swedish meatballs
crockpot teriyaki wings
shrimp cocktail
caviar with onion, chopped egg and frozen vodka
brandy slush

9/29/2008 9:50:31 PM

9/29/2008 10:01:39 PM

We eat the same thing every holiday

I'm really fuckin tired of it

9/29/2008 10:02:13 PM

then say something

wow do a lot of people do that?

we use at as a time to show off new recipes and stuff in the family

though we aren't Scandinavian we ARE from Wisconsin and serve a smorgasbord

9/29/2008 10:03:16 PM

those shortbread cookies with the red and green sprinkles.

9/29/2008 10:05:03 PM

^holy fuck yes

9/29/2008 10:05:32 PM

Stuffing.

9/29/2008 10:07:23 PM

also, did your families NOT drink around the holidays?

why is that? they got a problem with drinking?

9/29/2008 10:07:34 PM

my mom used to make these pecan balls w/ frosted sugar

9/29/2008 10:09:21 PM

my dad demands that some things stay the same
crescent rolls
fried oysters
my crab bisque
mom's orange spice ham glaze
poundcake that my childhood babysitter Mamie ( ) makes us every year, I love that woman
congealed salad that grandma likes
turkey stuffing and giblet gravy

9/29/2008 10:09:47 PM

SAUSAGE BALLS

9/29/2008 10:11:58 PM

Shut the fuck up. You did not have "caviar with onion, chopped egg and frozen vodka", growing up you pretentious douche.

9/29/2008 10:25:12 PM

hahahaha

9/29/2008 10:31:15 PM

Hey Snewf, where is that iconic picture of you snorting caviar?

9/29/2008 10:32:18 PM

Roasted duck from chinatown on xmas

I win!




Seriously. Xmas was the only day my parents had off from work back when they worked 2 (sometimes 3) jobs each trying to get out of the ghetto.
My parents, aunt, grandma, cousin, my sister, and I would pile into our 1981 toyota corolla and drive up to chinatown in washington dc to go to all the chinese shops and buy chinese food.

[Edited on September 29, 2008 at 11:26 PM. Reason : I miss that lil toyota. BTW, we finally got a piece of the pie ]

9/29/2008 11:20:11 PM

Quote :

"also, did your families NOT drink around the holidays?"

absolutely not, I drink my ass thanksgiving nights. a surprising number of bars are open and everyone at my house is in bed by 11.

9/29/2008 11:40:55 PM

we still eat pretty much the same stuff...
roasted turkey
ham
mashed potatoes
cranberry sauce !!!
crescent rolls (mom's side)
breakfast casserole on xmas morning
there's always green bean casserole or something but i don't eat it
congealed salad with fruit and fucking celery and nuts. when did celery become a fruit??
yeast rolls picked up from quincy's, back when it still existed !!! (dad's side)
homemade fudge
ginger crackles

9/30/2008 8:33:10 AM

filo pastry pockets filled with a mix of meat and/or potates
dried dates slow-cooked in milk
agar agar
rice pudding
vermicelli cooked in milk (with sugar)
carrot pudding

9/30/2008 8:38:49 AM

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"agar agar"

one of my favorites

9/30/2008 8:40:07 AM

agar??

9/30/2008 8:44:05 AM

which holiday?

Thanksgiving:

Pumpkin pie
sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top
homemade cranberry sauce
challah
whole wheat stuffing

9/30/2008 8:47:00 AM

the stuffing--i will always remember the stuffing.

how we fight over it, how my dad will hide a stash immediately to have to himself later, how the stuffing is and will always be better than the dressing (even if you smother it with gravy), how we started making extra to make sure everyone had a bit of leftovers, how it smells, the simplicity of it, helping prepare it, helping scrape it out of the turkey as we pick off pieces of turkey, and the crumpled, ink stained, hand written recipe by my Nana.

[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 8:53 AM. Reason : and we have it every year]

9/30/2008 8:53:03 AM

we always had stuffing too, pero no me gusta

9/30/2008 8:55:04 AM

i could list tons but i only care to mention the sausage balls.

9/30/2008 9:07:16 AM

Christmas Pudding


I hated that shit but my parents thought that me and my brother loved it for some reason so they had it every year. And every year we told them we hated it.

9/30/2008 9:13:07 AM

Quote :

"agar??"

click here:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=agar+agar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar_agar#Culinary

btw, you know what it is, right? it is just seaweed extract. it has no taste of it own. it comes as dry strips/sheets, which are boiled in water, then milk, sugar, flavourings, cut fruit, etc are added (can be made without milk, but it is far tastier with milk). then you can pour it into fancy molds if you desire, or just into one rectangular baking dish. then cut up into cubes and eat! (or invert out from the fancy molds) although it doesn't really have its own flavour, its texture does give it "taste". and yeah, people add food coloring to make it look attractive, but i don't. if you like jello, this is jello X 100!

talking of that, i need to make some soon!

oh, and it is good for you!

p.s. it has been used as a food ingredient for far far far longer than as a substrate in labs.


^ HOW CAN HATE IT??? THAT SHIT IS THE SHIT!


[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 9:15 AM. Reason : ]

9/30/2008 9:14:16 AM

Shoofly Pie

all my fellow Yankees will know what that is, and it is the BOMB

9/30/2008 9:16:47 AM

Quote :

"congealed salad that grandma likes"

Is that like this


but probably less appetizing because it's in a bunt mold?

9/30/2008 9:18:11 AM

Thanksgiving was always at my aunt and uncle's house, and everyone in the family had one specific thing to bring every year. But it was pretty standard stuff - turkey, rolls, stuffing, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, etc.

Christmas was always at our house, and I made it pretty much since I was ~12, and it was usually very different stuff from year to year, except my parents always got a honey baked ham and a few of their smoked turkey breasts. My mom went through a few years of a Waldorf salad kick. My uncle always brought a Waffle House chocolate pie, because he loves them.

9/30/2008 9:18:39 AM

Every Christmas, we eat baked ziti. Some kind of green--asparagus, broc, or green beans. And maybe some garlic bread. But it's normally all about the ziti and the homemade sauce. Christmas is the time of year we make all the stews and sauces to freeze and have through Winter.

9/30/2008 9:23:14 AM

Pun'kin pie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

9/30/2008 9:33:11 AM

congealed salad, like jello salad, like this:



oh, there's usually ambrosia salad too: marshmallows, coconut, mandarin oranges, pineapple, cherries

[Edited on September 30, 2008 at 10:45 AM. Reason : ]

9/30/2008 10:43:07 AM

christ congealed salads are awful

for the record, I do have fond memories of caviar and vodka

9/30/2008 11:39:56 AM

Pizza for lunch on Christmas Eve

Ham on Christmas Eve
with Corn, Peas and Butter Beans, Green Beans, fried squash and okra, and usually cornbread or yeast rolls.

Breakfast Casserole on Christmas Morning

Turkey on Christmas Day
with gravy, Cranberry Sauce, 7 layer salad, cider vinegar stuffing, deviled eggs, broccoli casserole, green beans, sweet potatoes, an olive and pickle tray, and yeast rolls.

And all of this with an assortment of Pumpkin Pies, 100 layer cake, pecan pie, chocolate pie, and red velvet cake.

9/30/2008 11:49:11 AM

Martha Washington Candies (sans pecans)

9/30/2008 11:52:30 AM

ah yeah homemade candies for sure

peanut butter balls and chocolate coated pretzels and peanut clusters

9/30/2008 11:54:13 AM

I see some similarities in here.

We usually get/cook pizza on Christmas Eve since we're all busy wrapping or putting presents under the tree. That might change this year since everybody is broke as hell.

Christmas day we have eggs, bacon, cinammon rolls, and danish orange rolls for breakfast. I forget but I think we do a sort of buffet style lunch with some nice party trays (fruit, meat, cheese, and a bunch of nice sandwich breads). Makes it easy.

Thanksgiving is usually pretty consistent:
Honey baked ham
Turkey
Stuffing
Rolls
Cranberry Sauce
Um, some other stuff...
My sis-in-law bakes pies for thanksgiving/holidays now too.
I also have recently added my whip-ass corn bread to the mix. Totally effin delicious.

9/30/2008 12:05:23 PM

Deviled eggs
Cranberry sauce
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Pumpkin pie

I guess all the normal stuff. For me, the big deal was where the holiday was being held. My mom's, my dad's, my grandparent's, my step-grandparent's. Someone make a thread on family dysfunction.

9/30/2008 12:32:13 PM

We always make an effort to have cheesecake on Thanksgiving (along with standards like turkey, pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce, etc), but I have no idea why.

Christmas with my dad's family is all about some green beans, ham, deviled eggs and homemade candy/sweets (peanut brittle, toffee, chocolate clusters, those ritz things with peanut butter and white chocolate).

9/30/2008 1:03:32 PM

Bagels and Lox every Christmas morning

huge prime rib every Christmas eve

rum balls

9/30/2008 1:05:10 PM

MOTHERFUCKING CHEESE STRAWS

spicy delicious

9/30/2008 1:11:17 PM

Green bean casserole with those durkee fried onion rings. that's the shit.

9/30/2008 1:33:43 PM