Holiday Feasting
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Holiday Feasting
So, in the wake of the big Thanksgiving Gorge-fest, Caz and I got to talking about celebratory foods. Specifically, how when I was growing up, we didn't necessarily have turkey every Thanksgiving on my mom's side of the family (the Italian side). A few years we had lasagne, and I know one year we had home made ravioli. But then, as my aunts and uncles (being much younger than my mom) got more and more interested in being "just like their friends", our holiday celebrations became much more Americanized. Eventually, even Christmas dinner was indistinguishable from any other Christmas dinner in the U.S. And I've realized that this year, I'm mad nostalgic for all the "old times".
So then we started talking about how cool it would be, to be able to fold space and time and have unlimited fundage, to be able to get all the Bulldrekkers in one place at the same time for a big ol' holiday dinner. Whatever holidays you celebrate, this is generally the season for them.
So I ask you: If I were crazy-wealthy/powerful and made it work so we could all meet up someplace and have a big holiday feast, but charged as admission one pot-luck style dish from each attendee - what would you bring?
So then we started talking about how cool it would be, to be able to fold space and time and have unlimited fundage, to be able to get all the Bulldrekkers in one place at the same time for a big ol' holiday dinner. Whatever holidays you celebrate, this is generally the season for them.
So I ask you: If I were crazy-wealthy/powerful and made it work so we could all meet up someplace and have a big holiday feast, but charged as admission one pot-luck style dish from each attendee - what would you bring?
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Beef Stroganoff and Kielbasa and Saurkraut.
I'd have to bring both, really. Although they don't really go together, some people don't like saurkraut...
Evan
I'd have to bring both, really. Although they don't really go together, some people don't like saurkraut...
Evan
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Chips with nacho dip, and a vegetable tray with ranch dip.
Although speaking of holiday traditions, my mother-in-law does soup every year for Christmas. Cuz really, who wants to work their ass off on Christmas? She does up a big ol pot of chili and then another one of like clam chowder or broccoli cheese. Then everyone serves up when they feel like it. Good stuff.
Although speaking of holiday traditions, my mother-in-law does soup every year for Christmas. Cuz really, who wants to work their ass off on Christmas? She does up a big ol pot of chili and then another one of like clam chowder or broccoli cheese. Then everyone serves up when they feel like it. Good stuff.
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Whups. I forgot to say what I'd bring:
/kroo-stls/ Also known as sfrappole. That Italian dessert fritter thing that my grandfather always made that I still don't know how to spell the name of. But I found a recipe, after years of searching, and they called it sfrappole. It apparently changes names depending on the region it's in, but the basic recipe stays the same. It's crispy with a slight anise flavor and dusted in powdered sugar. Really really good. I'd bring trays and trays of it.
/kroo-stls/ Also known as sfrappole. That Italian dessert fritter thing that my grandfather always made that I still don't know how to spell the name of. But I found a recipe, after years of searching, and they called it sfrappole. It apparently changes names depending on the region it's in, but the basic recipe stays the same. It's crispy with a slight anise flavor and dusted in powdered sugar. Really really good. I'd bring trays and trays of it.
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My family used to have a big pot of chili on Christmas eve when all the various families of my brothers and sisters would bring their children to my parent's house. It took my dad a whole 24 hours to prepare the chili to his exacting standards.
My sisters usually brought pies an cookies and salads and such, but the chili was the highlight of the evening.
I miss those family times....
Toward the later years, my high-school years, I began to make spiced cidar--wassail--which is now more the tradition at my wife's home while they serve ham and/or turkey.
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My sisters usually brought pies an cookies and salads and such, but the chili was the highlight of the evening.
I miss those family times....
Toward the later years, my high-school years, I began to make spiced cidar--wassail--which is now more the tradition at my wife's home while they serve ham and/or turkey.
Evan
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Eli that sounds like what we do have every year. And oysters, yum!
I'd bring oysters, and a big lemon cheesecake, because I rock at making lemon cheesecakes.
I'd bring oysters, and a big lemon cheesecake, because I rock at making lemon cheesecakes.
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Probably three big dishes of meat lasagna, which would take about three days to make, and some cannolli (probably spelled wrong,) which we could whip up in maybe twenty minutes if you bought the shells pre-fab.
While thanksgiving's pretty traditional American for my family, Christmas is always Italian - lasagna, ravioli (prefab, unfortunatly), spaghetti, tiramisu, cannolli.
While thanksgiving's pretty traditional American for my family, Christmas is always Italian - lasagna, ravioli (prefab, unfortunatly), spaghetti, tiramisu, cannolli.
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I'm Norwegian, and we have a holiday tradition of eating candied lingonberries. I'd bring those, and my apple pie a la mode. mmmm. Breyer's vanilla only, thanks.
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I'm impressed with your ice-cream of choice. Breyer's is, indeed, the only decent ice-cream on the market.Patience wrote:Breyer's vanilla only, thanks.
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Just my luck, we don't even get that over here to try it out!EvanMoore wrote:I'm impressed with your ice-cream of choice. Breyer's is, indeed, the only decent ice-cream on the market.Patience wrote:Breyer's vanilla only, thanks.
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I'd bring my family recipe of Cajun steaks (thick marbled pieces of beef simmered for 2hrs in sauteed onions, garlic, special blend of cajun seasonings, beef stock and crushed beef bullion(sp?) for a little extra beefy punch). these things come out so tender that you can eat them with chopsticks. no knife needed unless you want to pull off any fatty pieces.
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Nex', I love you, that's a family special that my mom makes for my birthday, I've got the wine covered w/ #3...
Eva, Tiramisu is the shiz-mack-daddy of all desserts, I have it every time I eat at the sushi bar in Key West... Speaking of, If I could supply a couple of condo's in Key West in about 2 years for a gathering, would all'y'all attend?
I'd bring:
1. the fondue pot, w/ cheeze, steak, chicken, mushrooms, broccolli, and coliflower
2. Homeade Tom & Jerry's... Mmmmm... Yummy
3. A case of my family label's '98 Eiswien... Mmmmm... Yummy
4. Homeade Lefse, Family recipe... Mmmmm... Yummy
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Eva, Tiramisu is the shiz-mack-daddy of all desserts, I have it every time I eat at the sushi bar in Key West... Speaking of, If I could supply a couple of condo's in Key West in about 2 years for a gathering, would all'y'all attend?
I'd bring:
1. the fondue pot, w/ cheeze, steak, chicken, mushrooms, broccolli, and coliflower
2. Homeade Tom & Jerry's... Mmmmm... Yummy
3. A case of my family label's '98 Eiswien... Mmmmm... Yummy
4. Homeade Lefse, Family recipe... Mmmmm... Yummy
5. 3 bottles of Hot Sex, simply because it'd be crazed at a BD Holiday...
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Hell Yeah! We make about a gross of it or more every Oct. Dec. and Apr.
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Brisbane is (almost) always warm. Of course whenever I venture up to QLD, it always rains.
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Yep, the Queensland weather conspires against me. Can one thing conspire against you? I don't know.
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I guess it can, because it's the cold-rain & the sunny-hottness that get together and scheme against me.
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