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Posted 12/18/2013 3:20 PM (GMT 0)
We are doing our Christmas food shop tonight everyone comes so we can all pick our favorite thing.
I like so many so it will be hard but will get stuff to make snowballs as have to have that drink every Christmas
Not forgetting chestnuts and sprouts
Just love all Christmas food
Turkey coming Christmas eve from friends farm
Posted 12/18/2013 4:02 PM (GMT 0)
I love making rum raisin fudge. And stuffed celery---its just cream cheese, green olives and pecans mixed and stuffed in celery...soooo good.

None of that for me this year though.....
Posted 12/18/2013 4:04 PM (GMT 0)
Agnolotti, hands down. My grandma used to make this onle once a year for Xmas. No other meal will ever come close to this dish. Unfortunately she passed away 8.5 years ago, no one can touch her cooking. But the smell and taste and memories of it every Xmas will never leave my brain.
Posted 12/18/2013 4:09 PM (GMT 0)
Fudge. My mom has incredible recipes for peanut butter and chocolate fudge. The peanut butter has marshmallow creme, and the chocolate has marshmallows, so the texture is super silky -- not at all grainy like a lot of fudge can be.

I make it to give as gifts and everyone always raves about it!
Posted 12/18/2013 4:58 PM (GMT 0)
Mmmmm your all making my mouth water just love Christmas
Not having a big fry up for breakfast this year stomach wouldn't handle it
Daughter and I having strawberries dipped in melted chocolate instead I know not normal breakfast thing but it's Christmas
Boys having smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with bagels just something a bit different
Posted 12/18/2013 6:47 PM (GMT 0)
Shortbread cookies....and eggnog latte.
Posted 12/18/2013 8:34 PM (GMT 0)
cookies of all kinds, but especially venetians or 7 layer cookies. I only making a couple if batches of cookies this year since I am trying to eat less sugar.
Posted 12/18/2013 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
Sugar cookies! Especially the raw dough. Mmm. Like MikeSoCal, one of my favorite things was made by my grandmother. Nut Rolls. My aunt tried to make them many years ago while my Grandma was still alive and she couldn't get them right. They probably need grandma's special touch.
Posted 12/18/2013 10:02 PM (GMT 0)
Spritz cookie press cookies!
Posted 12/19/2013 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
All this talk of cookies...mexican wedding cookies and my moms thumbprint cookies!
Posted 12/19/2013 1:34 AM (GMT 0)
For a holiday party this weekend, I'm going to make Bobby Flay's sweet potato casserole with chipotle cream sauce. It's amazing. It's so simple but it's absolutely irresistible. The heat of the chipotle balances the sweetness of the sweet potatoes, rather than exaggerating it the way sweet toppings do. I don't make it very often because I would eat the entire thing by myself.

I also have a lovely recipe from Bon Appetit back in the early 90s for red potato gratin with Boursin cheese. Another one that is super easy and insanely delicious.

Seriously, other than salt & pepper, both of these recipes have three ingredients. That's so weird for me, usually my holiday foods are trickier....
Posted 12/19/2013 2:13 AM (GMT 0)
We lived in Texas for a long time, and picked up the custom from our Latino friends of tamales for Christmas. This year we managed to find a source here, so I'm looking forward to my Christmas tamales.
Posted 12/19/2013 2:26 AM (GMT 0)
Tamales! The green chili ones and the raisin ones! My DH family is Mexican and got the best ones in El Paso. Saw a Mexican grocery near here and wanted to see if they had any. Maybe next year hopefully. ( Can you guys tell I'm hungry lol!?)
Posted 12/19/2013 2:42 AM (GMT 0)
I just finished my Christmas cookies & fudge for round #1. All of these are going to Indiana.

Mexican wedding cakes are my absolute favorite. No matter what, I make them every year.

All of the citrus is great this time of year. The oranges are so awesome. Santa always left us big, juicy oranges.

I really like the old fashioned hard candy, but nobody else in my family does. Luckily there is a shop that sells ribbon candy here, so I can buy just a little for me.
Posted 12/19/2013 2:57 AM (GMT 0)
Stuffing. No question!
Posted 12/19/2013 5:00 AM (GMT 0)
My Midwest Christmas dinners have always been exactly the same as mybmidwest Thanksgiving dinners... just switch turkey for ham. Not very exciting.

But I'd have to say STUFFING... probably because I cant have any this year :(

For the 8 years my mom was married to my stepdad I got spoiled with homemade peppermint ice cream. Oh man... those were the days!

Maybe ill learn to make it myself. Start a new tradition. First Christmas in our First House! :) :)
Posted 12/19/2013 5:29 AM (GMT 0)
Don't really like cookies. Never had eggnog. How does it taste anyways? Peppermint bark was nice. Same with cherry candy cane.

But my favourite is corn with stuffing. >.>
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