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I'm an alien from another planet so I'm completely missing all of Christmas (though we had a great party on Solstice), but I know some of you earthlings are doing things with food today or yesterday. I did enjoy the fact that our houseates brought in a Christmas tree and gave it tasteful lights, and I privately thought about it as a converted Solstice ritual. Today's one of the first longer days of the year, the lights must have worked to bring back the sun.
What'd you serve for the holidays, anyway?
What'd you serve for the holidays, anyway?
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 10:30 AMnachos!
I don't celebrate Christmas either, and I really cracked myself up hanging out in my studio apartment all day in sweatpants, surfing the net & watching Family Guy, and making myself nachos for dinner.
Heh.
Anybody have anything more traditional to share? -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 4:18 PMWell, I usually celebrate Winter Solstice but celebrating Christmas is a habit. I am of Southern Italian descent and grew up having a big fish /seafood dinner on Christmas Eve. Seafood salad with shrimp, squid and scallops were my favorite part of the meal. Traditionally my family would eat eel as well. That tradition ended with my grandparents. No fish dinner this year though because I chose not to do the family thing. My partner is making cornish game hen with carrots and burdock, baked delicata squash and garlic collard greens as I type. -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 5:02 PMwas the seafood a family tradition or is that an Italian christmas tradition in general?
Sounds yummy. I had a great first encounter with New York Italians when I was a kid and got to go to someone's traditional Easter feast. Priorities are in the right place for that culture! -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, January 1, 2009 - 2:18 PMIt is a Southern Italian tradition.
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 11:38 AMThis morning we had sour cream coffecake for breakfast. We were going to have pulled pork for dinner, but with all the snow we're having we delayed Christmas dinner until Saturday when people can make it over. Tonight we'll have roast duck with chinese greens and risotto.
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 12:34 PMWe don't do xmas, either, but we're having some friends for dinner, so I've got some sourdough bread rising at the moment, and we're going to make mushroom barley soup and latkes and some greens. We also did a Solstice ritual the other night, along with lighting the Chanukah candles, and have seen 2 days of somewhat nice weather, too... we'll lather, rinse, and repeat this evening.
xoM -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 1:01 PMand... what food was involved during your solstice gettogether? -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Thu, December 25, 2008 - 1:33 PMSirloin tip roast , brown rice with mushrooms and shallots, Steamed broccoli. Cheesecake and eggnog.
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Fri, December 26, 2008 - 3:23 PMoh, it was just me an chris... i think we made leftovers -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Fri, December 26, 2008 - 7:06 PManother non-traditional, non celebratorian here. Roasted a nice piece of lamb, cooked some carrots in a little butter, a touch of raw honey and some egyptian spice ( a blend of mixed pepper, cloves, allspice, ginger, rosebuds, cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg), and also had some dried apricots, roasted nuts and some goat cheese.
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Sat, January 3, 2009 - 7:39 PM
for solstice we had a turkey dinner with glaceed apricots and Lebkuchen
For Christmas eve dinner we had Roast beef with root vegetables and fruitcake
we had game sausages deviled eggs and Danish for Christmas breakfast
Christmas Day Dinner at my daughter fiances moms house Ham green bean casserole sweet potatoes cherry pie and strawberry shortcake trifle(made with freeze dried strawberries)
Early New years eve a seafood medley with saffron and rice and fresh fruit
for midnight various nibbles cheeze plate crab some elements of a gift I got called the 12 ducks of Christmas baklava
New years day pheasant, stir fried vegetables, pears helene the Pheasant was also a gift
We are not usually so fancy but I had gotten some major food gifts this year I still have venison, Bison, and several game birds in the freezer
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 12:24 PMWell, the real Christmas being January 7th, as always, (the Pope lied - once again), the rest of my family was done with Christmas on the wrong day, so I had a few people in on the proper day. Most of them had been fasting for several weeks, (I'm not allowed to, since I'm diabetic), so I gave them ham and cream cheese rolls with green onion in the middle, pork buns, cheesecake, little sausages, crackers and cheese and mini bagels with lox, cream cheese and capers. -
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Mon, January 12, 2009 - 7:33 PMwhat are the traditional Eastern European and/or Greek Orthodox things to serve for breaking your dairy fast like that- I know we had this same conversation here about Easter once, but I'm not sure what's traditional for Christmas and many of the other holidays associated with breaking fast.
Obviously, several denominations of Christians celebrated 'Mardi Gras' , the last day before Lent fasting, by eating a lot of the soon-to-be forbidden foods- you're bringing up the opposite tradition, breaking the no-dairy no-meat fast with a major celebratory meal after a long fast. Do you know what was 'traditional' in other Orthodox cultures for these occasions? -
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Re: what'd you serve for Christmas?
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 10:56 PMI just know we always head to a certain coffee shop and fill up on meat, eggs, cheese, butter, etc. Whatever they couldn't have before. I always go for a French Dip; others go for the biggest, fattest breakfast they can get. Eggs! Cheese! Ham! Extra butter! Anything but tofu and greaseless potatoes! Some get steak. Our place is Russian Orthodox, but we have a lot of Romanians, a few Greeks, some Serbians, whoever wants to come. Many in our group are converts, including the priest.
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