What food or beverage says "the holidays" to you?
What food or beverage do you have that is special for this time of year so that you only eat or drink it then?
Would you have it year round if you could?
Do you make it or buy it?
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Apple cider and pumpkin pie. Both made from scratch. Mmm
Athol brose [way better than egg nog]
see recipe and background here
Stuffing! And apple cider, too.
Egg Nog. Full fat, hold the alcohol.
I will finish off a 2 full quarts over the holiday season. Then I’m good for another year.
Mom’s turkey and stuffing. As much as we all love it, having it once a year on Thanksgiving is good enough. The day’s theme song.
Yorkshire pudding says it all.
The Glug we make every Xmas Eve is a ancient Swedish Family recipe handed down since the Big Bang. It is a glorious tradition. The link is a close proximity to the family one.
Mince pies. I buy them (because I’m hopeless at making pastry), and I get them all through December, not just for Christmas day. They’re harder to find at other times of the year but I would have them all year if I could.
Mulled wine is another thing we tend to have only at Christmas.
Turkey is the traditional Christmas meat here but my family prefers duck, so that’s what we’re having this year.
I can’t think of any other Christmas food that I wouldn’t have all year round. We don’t normally have so much of it at other times of the year though.
@Dog I have yorkshire pudding with just about every sunday roast. And sometimes in the week too, big dish-shaped ones filled with sausage and mashed potato and lots of onion gravy.
Mmmm now am currently craving some laufabrauðð – “leaf bread”. In Denmark moving back home to Iceland where we eat this every Christmas and its actually my favourite holiday food^^
@Thesexier I looked up a recipe for that. It sounds delicious. I have had krumkake at a Norwegian friend’s house. is it similar?
8 parts eggnog mixed with 1 part cognac.
@Brian1946 Are you sure you did not get the measurements reversed? ~
@Dog
Whoops, I guess the Carrie Nation in me must have momentarily surfaced. ;-o
Nothing says “the holidays” for me like chatting with someone who’s channeling WC Fields and Dean Martin. ~
@Dog not at all. Yorkshire pud is easy as anything to make.
One egg, equal parts (by volume) of flour* and milk. Beat it all together in a large bowl, leave the batter in the fridge for about half an hour. Heat up a muffin tray with a drop of vegetable oil in each section. Oven must be hot (220C, no idea how much in F). When the oil is smoking hot, pour a little batter into the bottom of each section of the muffin tray. Cook for about 15–20 minutes. If you have a fan oven you MUST turn the fan off when you’re cooking yorkshire puds, or you’ll end up with pancakes. This quantity will make 4 puds.
*Some people insist it has to be self raising flour but it doesn’t. I always make mine with plain flour and they come out fine. The secret’s in the whisking.
I went to The Loving Cup in SF with Tim and Cameron from Fluther.
I think I could eat their homemade vanilla rice pudding (with fresh nutmeg on top) every day.
coquito, (Puerto Rican coconut egg nog with barcardi)
yum!
Yes, I make it and no I would not have it all year long. I’m sure I would grow tired of it if I could have it all the time and become an alcoholic. Not to mention the calories would make me look like Chris Kringle (red cheeks and very plump), if I don’t poison my liver or die of a heart attack first.
Plus its a pain in the butt to make.
Super Mario energy drinks!
What?
Definitely Egg Nog. And hot cocoa.
Real peppermint ice cream (the pink one with candy cane bits)! I have no idea why it isn’t sold in stores year round, it’s my absolute favorite.
Oh and peppermint flavored RediWhip in the can. So, so good on cocoa.
Eggnog with a sprinkle of Cardamom (instead of nutmeg) but of course you might have guessed that. Ha Ha.
Rum cake, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie and gingerbread. I like to eat these things only at the holidays, because it makes them stay special. But gingerbread is the one thing out of this group that I would like to eat more often. I just love it (both the cake style and the flat ginerbread man, chewy kind). I actually like fruit cake too. Or more specifically, I loved the fruitcake that my step-grandma used to make before she passed away, not sure what other people’s fruit cakes are like. Oh, and port wine cheese balls rolled in nuts. I LOVE those!
@marinelife tjaa.. krumkake looks more like pancakes…
I have never seen or tested krumkake so am not sure :/
@Blueroses I am also ecstatic when the peppermint ice cream comes back, and said when I search the case after the holidays and can’t find it.
@Kardamom Love cheese balls—almost any kind, but port wine is very good.
One more person added to the egg nog group. That stuff is so awesome :)
@Thesexier Krumkake is pretty good actually. I actually have a funny story about it. We were having it one time, and this guy I know was there. He’s big into the army and tanks and guns and all that, and he’s 13. So we’re eating the krumkake, and he’s like “This is good, but if it didn’t have a flower design on it it’d be better. It’d be better with a tank on it.” Lol this guy is interesting…
here’s one I never tried:
At Christmas in old England, the well to do households filled their
Wassail bowls with a brew called “lambswool”. It was a hot ale with
added sugar, eggs and spices with toast and roast apples floating on
top!
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