BS: Holiday Eating

Subject: BS: Holiday Eating
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 11:58 AM

What the heck, it's only once a year, and I have th rest of the year to work it off.

Smoked sausages, cheese (my favoarites: CHeddar, Edam, Gouda, Swiss, Gruyere) with crackers and really good mustard.

Nuts: almonds, walnuts, pecans, filberts - in the shell. No brazil nuts, which were always in the mixture when I was a kid, and which I always thought tasted like dirt.

petit-fours - which I swear are smaller these days.


Booze - wine from local wineries, a bottle each of grape, blueberry, cranberry and raspberry. A bottle each of B&B and Bailey's Irish Cream.

A ham, to be baked with cloves and pineapple; cranberry sauce; baked potatoes, and biscuits.

A variety of pickled things: watermelon rind, olives (black and green), sweet gherkins, cauliflower, onions, mushrooms, peppers.

Blueberry cobbler for dessert.

Popcorn and pretzels for later at night.

Oh, yeah, gourmet English muffins from Wolfermans's for breakfast.

I hope the rest of you have as much fun as I will.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 12:16 PM

Got Tums? Rolaids? Zantac? Immodium?

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: skarpi
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 12:19 PM

just drink a lot of water along this and you ´ll be fine
like you said it´s only once a year.


All the best Skarpi Iceland.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 01:00 PM

Budget doesn't allow for much fancy stuff this year, but just getting together with friends over well-prepared "ordinary" food is nice also. Had a couple of roast chickens, a salad, nice appetizers of deviled eggs, olives, nuts, (all kid favorites) yesterday, augmented with each diner's usual potluck offerings (we always hope Barbie will bring her green beans, and I usually make my dinner rolls with Italian seasoning added). We topped it off with christmas cookies and herbal tea. Okay, it wasn't fancy, but we're both waiting on the next child support check.

I did pick up a big jar of pickled herring wine snacks for a holiday treat. We'll be careful not to overdo, that fish is rich.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Emma B
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 01:36 PM

Just taking a quick break from preparing Xmas Eve dinner-

Glass of chilled Manzanilla sherry with stuffed olives
Hot breaded Camenbert served with cranberry sauce, wild rocket and fresh home-made granary bread
Griddled strips of sea bass with slices of portobello mushrooms lightly fried in garlic butter served with hot salad potatoes and asparagus tips tossed in olive oil

A bottle of Hunter Valley Estate Reserve Semillon

Profiteroles with "tiruisu" filling covered with melted chocolate.

and.........if there's any room a little local cheese with a tawny port

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: nutty
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 02:12 PM

My Christmas Eve meal, in preparation for the day ahead was Beans on Toast.

But.........

I am making a very fattening Sherry trifle and cooking a joint of gammon in the pressure cooker, ready for tomorrow's teatime.

Dinner will be traditional but only for two - so no problems with that in the morning.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Peace
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 02:21 PM

Pasta with walnuts, pecans, cashews, Monterey Jack, sharp cheddar, black pepper, 10% cream, bit of salt and the interior 'nut' of the shell from wich mace is procured--the name of which escapes me now.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: mack/misophist
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 02:43 PM

Dinner tonight will be black-eyed peas and onions. Tomorrow, I plan on sauer kraut and hot dogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Peace
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 02:45 PM

NUTMEG.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:13 PM

Have already had a meal of Roast Beef, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, green beans, salad,,,etc...with dessert of Chocolate Rum(Goslings) pie and a couple other luscious desserts....washed down with wine from several sources.

One more big meal tomorrow, then dieting for weeks!

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:20 PM

Warm garlic ciabatta, smoked ham, feta, new potato salad and chives, cheesey coleslaw, heaps of watercress and rocket salad.

Bowls of walnuts, filberts, almonds and brazils. Satumas and clementines. Seedless grapes and fresh blueberries.

Hot mince pies and double cream. Chocolate truffles. Advocaat and lemonade snowballs.

Greek yoghurt. Honey. Big pot of english breakfast tea.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: open mike
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:42 PM

fondue--gruyere, ementhaller, & swiss cheeses with a dry white wine and
kirsch...with three types of breads cubed...sour dough, whole wheat,
and baguette...dip twist and slurp!@ i have used a crock pot to melt
the cheese mix.

and TOFURKY--which has wheat gluten, soy and rice. see www.tofurky.com

with mamma stamberg's cranberry sauce recipe as found on NPR
cranberries, horseradish, sourcream, very pink (like pepto bismol)

the citrus growers around here have roadside stands selling their
oranges -- mandarins (easy to peel, make grat snacks) and navel
(you know -- the ones with the belly buttons..)

also am planning on baking some cookies...
sugar cookies and ginger snaps..
my fave cutter is a moose.

oh and i have fashioned a couple candle holders a la menorah
with moose antlers holding the candles..
one of clay and one of tin....hannukah moose...

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: number 6
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:54 PM

a bottle of Drambuie.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: bobad
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:02 PM

I try to keep up at least a semblance of my ancestral Christmas tradition. Being of Polish heritage the main celebratory day is tonight, Christmas eve. The traditional meal was meatless but as the Catholic church eased it's dietary restrictions the menu included more and more meat dishes. Tonight we will be starting with a course of marinated herring then plates of polish sausage and Christmas ham served with rye bread and horseradish then a course of bigos, also known as hunter's stew, which is sauerkraut simmered with various smoked meats and sausage. For dessert we will have poppy seed strudel washed down with coffee and liquers.

Tomorrow we go to my sister's for a traditional North American dinner of turkey and trimmings. Enjoying the best of two worlds.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: gnu
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:38 PM

This is the best Christmas Eve in a long time. Just finishing a good sweat shovelling, yes, shovelling rather than snowblowing, the driveway. Colts at Seahawks coming on the TV and I have a fridge full of beer (hence the shovelling to work up a good thirst - otherwise, that would have been exercise... ewwww!!!) If I hadn't put off wrapping Kissmeass presents, I'd be in heaven.

My culinary delight ce soir? Another. Go Colts.

PS... If you read this Sev, man, did the Skins play an excellent game today or what!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Janie
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:47 PM

We will have prime rib beef roast,(I can smell it roasting now,) turkey, brussel sprouts in mustard sauce, "missy" potatoes, sweet potato cassarole, Waldorf salad, broccoli salad, cranberry salad and sourdough rolls, followed by choice of pumpkin or pecan pie and/or fruit salad. Mom is the chef and I am the cook.

Tommorrow morning we will have a scrambled egg cassarole with mushrooms, ham, green onions and cheese, as well as what is left of the fruit salad.

Sister just pulled in from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, my husband is on his way up from our home in North Carolina, and will stop and pick up his 94 year old father to bring to Mom & Dad's for Christmas Eve supper. My deceased sister's crystal, Granny's relish bowl, and Nannie's silver are all on the table, and we will use Pawpaw's blessing over the feast before we begin. In some way or another all the family I hold dear will be with us tonight.

Peace and mercy on the world and all who are in it.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Micca
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 05:06 PM

Janie, thanks for sharing that , we are with you too, replete with Smoked salmon pate and Pork loin cooked in white wine and served with good Chablis( French) or Burgundy, followed by good Port and Cheese!! Stilton to die for.. smoked Brie, soemthing made from Buffalo Milk and Sage Derby... Wonderful, if you MUST share Christnmas Eve with in-laws at least let they be Wine Loverss!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Janie
Date: 24 Dec 05 - 06:38 PM

Yum! Next year at Micca's everybody.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:35 AM

For Christmas dinner we chose Cornish game hens, roasted and basted with a little olive oil. Baked potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, broccoli, and sparkling apple cider (Martinelli's). Simple but nice.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:51 AM

Well kids had chocolate for breakfast and lunch! We did get as far as roast turkey, pork, stuffing and all the trimmings for dinner but noone seemed interested in the pudding. Drank all the sherry so trifle is tee total this year. Same can't be said of the cake which has been regularly fed. We will have some with some cheese later.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: GUEST,Guest in Kansas
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 06:40 PM

I was fine. Till the Lutefisk. I saw it, and then I went totally berserk. I demanded to know who could possibly be so cruel as to place that obscene jar of, . . . fish crud . . .in the fridge next to the turkey. The nasty stuff had permeated the turkey and dressing with its vile odour. No one would confess, so I obliterated them all. Got out my trusty smythe & oil of wesson, and fried them. It was not pretty. Now I'm locked up in this place they call Kansas. It's so flat, there's no escape. Wheat and sunflower fields in all directions. If you get past them, there's the hideous prairies planted with winter wheat, just waiting for spring. I'm doomed to a life of plainness.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:29 AM

Mallard,         er it's a bit ducky.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 04:57 AM

Christmas is not much different to any other time to me, just a few pressies to open & PRAWNS with my meals. My usual meat & salad sandwich becomes prawn & salad, dinner of steamed or stirfry vegs is accompanied by prawns rather than chicken/beef/tofu, morning & afternoon tea fruit is replaced with crackers/oatcakes & prawns. Yum. I also buy a few slices of ham off the bone from the butcher or deli. More yum.

Some years back our office used to go to an international hotel for our Christmas lunch, where the buffet meals was fantastic - good quality house wine for the wine drinkers & lots of tasty food - hot, cold, vegetarian, seafood, desserts. etc. As I'm not a cake or dessert eater I always finished my meals with more prawns (yum)

A great time was had by all until they decided all guests were subsidised by their corporations (who told 'em that?), so they more than doubled the price to $100 per head. Naturally a bunch of lowly-ranked public servants could not afford that & we went to other venues.

But I missed my prawns, so each year I head to the fishmonger & buy 1 kg of prawns & for a few days I eat them with lunch, morning & afternoon tea & dinner. I finished the first half kilo batch yesterday & will buy the rest tomorrow.

Then it's back to ordinary but delicious food for another 12 months.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Mo the caller
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 01:58 PM

Back to the top of the thread. Where have all the Brazil nuts gone?
Pulled out to plant coffee maybe? (theres an aweful lot of it).
Not seen any for years.
I hate nuts, they leave little bits in your teeth and have no taste.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 09:40 AM

Brazil nuts were always more for looks than eating in our holiday nut bowl. Every so often an adventurous snacker would try one (usually when their favorite variety had run out) and one was usually all it took to convince them they are better for looks. I wonder if they can be used in cooking? Sometimes the crunch is nice even if there isn't a strong flavor with it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: MMario
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 09:55 AM

Started on the Eve with Totellini in Brodo, salad and flaky biscuits...followed by chocolate bread pudding w/brandy butter.

Christmas morning is OJ, cheesy eggs, sausage and kuchen

Christmas Dinner was pork loin, cranberry bread stuffing, roast asparugus and beets.

The rest of the weekend was leftovers.

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:29 AM

I had stilton and cranberry pie with all the trimmings! Except parsnips, cos I don't like parsnips. I also browsed on crisps, chocolate and nibbles from my SS package (thanks open mike! You're right, Tofurky is gorgeous!). I've now got a big tub of popcorn to munch during the New Year films but it's nearly half gone already...

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Metchosin
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 02:26 PM

well I got gout for Christmas.......stopped eating cashews and mince tarts and put down the single malt yesterday and today is the first day, pain free, since 2 days before Christmas...BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Beer
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:25 PM

Only put on half a pound. Could have put on 10 in my case. However I didn't pig out and felt a lot better for it. 31 sat at a make shift table at my in laws and the main course was none other than turkey. Deseart was pies and more pies (sweets as well). About 10 years ago for the celebration of birthdays we have pie parties. Every type of pie under the sun is brought forward and we have continues this into Christmas as well. Then about 15 of the youngsters went outside and played football. It was really warm. Plus 3 or 4

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: bobad
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 08:53 PM

Sounds like you had a nice family gathering Beer, were you out there tossing the pigskin too, you youngster ?

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: Beer
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:32 PM

Wish I could have. Still having bone problems. However not all was lost. I played and sang for about 4 hours. My fingers were sore but the voice held not to badly. It was my first test since the throat thing.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Holiday Eating
From: bobad
Date: 29 Dec 05 - 09:53 PM

Good on ya Beer.