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Does your family have any traditional holiday dishes?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on December 19, 2007
“Christmas cut-out sugar cookies, and we drink Santa Claus Coca-Cola while we drive around looking at Christmas lights.”
“Persimmon pudding. I’m originally from Arkansas where they grow, so it’s something we always made.”
“I would have to say barbecue. We always do the turkey thing for Thanksgiving, so we barbecue for a change of pace.”
“Just honey baked ham and the usual spread with lots of desserts.”
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Comments
jonas 5 years, 5 months ago
Brrrrrraaaaaaaiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnns!!!!!!!!!!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
I would call the spousal unit more semi-traditional, but still a dish...
trinity 5 years, 5 months ago
dammit blue ya stole my wit this morning! ;)
my bebe's cheezygoodness potato dish has somehow become a holiday mainstay dish. go figure, a bag of frozen hash browns& a few other things would turn in to such a tradition! :)
trinity 5 years, 5 months ago
lol, yup tob you got it! my babygirl just adores those things...and they go well with just about any main dish!
Ceallach 5 years, 5 months ago
My family pretty much tries to have one dish of every type of food known to mankind. We then go veg out at a movie, return to the house and do it all again. Of course, following the feeding frenzy, we declare that next year we are going to cut back on the amount of food we prepare:)
sgtwolverine 5 years, 5 months ago
Don't tell me no one noticed that Jim Henson answered today.
kneejerkreaction 5 years, 5 months ago
And with a persimmon pie, straight out of a Muppet skit.....
ms_canada 5 years, 5 months ago
My husband is of Ukrainian descent and their Christmas Eve tradition is a meal of 12 (for the 12 apostles) meatless dishes. So some sort of fish is the main item accompanied by the ubiquitous perogies and holubtsi, dumplings and cabbage rolls. This year I am going to barbeque a split whole coho salmon which I will marinate in soy sauce and garlic. I will make a big pot of mushrooms in gravy, a cornmeal casserole, a casserole of kasha, (buckwheat groats), carrot casserole, broccoli salad, pickled beets, cabbage salad, mince tarts and gingerbread cookies. I think that make 12 items, Lots of work and I think this is the last year I will do this. If the kids want to continue the tradition, they will have to take over the duty because I have to make the Christmas day dinner also. That is the usual goose and turkey, stuffing, mash pot. veg. salad, and two desserts, plum type carrot pudding and a Frozen Daiquire Souffle that is to die for. So, I need to cut out something here or I will be too exhausted to enjoy anything myself. One would think that Christmas is all about eating, :o) What about Jesus!!!!
kneejerkreaction 5 years, 5 months ago
This is bothering me. Wouldn't a persimmon pie have the consistency of fresh oysters? Once you bake a persimmon, there can't be much backbone left.
deskboy04 5 years, 5 months ago
It used to be Bucky's pork tenderloin sandwiches...
kneejerkreaction 5 years, 5 months ago
ahhhh rereading persimon pudding...now I get it....
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
Kneejerk, Ever eat pumpkin pie?
BorderRat 5 years, 5 months ago
tob, in my house we call them "favorite potatoes." Best stuff ever.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 years, 5 months ago
Christmas tree lights are terribly inefficient. How many carbon credits have you purchased to allow you to have Christmas lights displayed? Regular light bulbs are banned in the U.S in 2014, with phase out starting in 2012.
Here are the steps to clean up a Compact fluorescent lightbulb that has broken.
1.) Keep people and pets away from the breakage area so that the mercury in the powder inside the bulb is not accidentally tracked into other areas. 2.) Ventilate the area by opening windows. 3.) Wear appropriate personal protective equipment, such as rubber gloves, safety glasses, old clothing or coveralls, and a dust mask (if you have one) to keep bulb dust and glass from being inhaled. 4.) Carefully remove the larger pieces and place them in a secure closed container, preferably a glass container with a metal screw top and gasket seal like a canning jar. 5.) Next, begin collecting the smaller pieces and dust. You can use a disposable broom and dustpan or two stiff pieces of paper to scoop up pieces. 6.) Put all material into the glass container. Pat the area with the sticky side of duct, packing or masking tape. Wipe the area with a damp cloth or paper towels to pick up fine particles. 7.) Put all waste and materials used to clean up the bulb in the glass container and label it "Universal Waste - broken lamp". 8.) Take the container for recycling as universal waste.
Makes one rue the day fire was discovered...
ms_canada 5 years, 5 months ago
Can anyone supply the recipe for those cheesy favourite potatoes. I am not too big a fan of the humble tater, but that might change my mind.
ms_canada 5 years, 5 months ago
trinity - my friend Hazel always brings a potaoe casserole to pot luck dinners. It is made with hash browns and she calls it Swarty Potatoes. funny name but good taste.
GretchenJP 5 years, 5 months ago
egg nog
chapdaddy 5 years, 5 months ago
My wife likes my schweddy balls.......
Prime Rib, mashed taters, and corn. Loaded w/gravy.
Cheesy Potato Recipe: Hash browns. can o'cream of chicken soup, chopped onion, 1 tub of sour cream w/chives, shredded cheese, crushed corn flakes on top. Bake @ 350 for an hr. You can get greedy and add some butter or garlic to the mix if you like.
trinity 5 years, 5 months ago
well ms canada, i'll be happy to send you my recipe! :) i'll email thru the board.
trinity 5 years, 5 months ago
just sent, let me know if you don't get it! and enjoy, these things are tongue-slappin'-your mouth silly gooooooooood! :)
Crossfire 5 years, 5 months ago
Spinach pasta deep fried in a cone shape with maraschino cherries and confetti sprinkles. Eat a sweet greasy tree.
janeyb 5 years, 5 months ago
What makes me think Jimmie of the persimmon pudding is business in the front and party in the back?
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