Favorite holiday food

[GormanGhaste]

And yes Gorman, you can use soy ice cream if preferred

Indeed! I would probably be content with the sherry-soaked fruit, however

Ooh! I do love the Christmas hard candies, especially the raspberry hard candies filled with raspberry. I only really see them out during Christmas time.

!! I don't think I've had any of those since my childhood (and that was many, many years ago). Now have a mission to acquire some!

And I forgot to mention cranberry relish. I love it so, and make it multiple times every year without fail.

[Niabi]

3. And finally, my mother's lamb with those lemon soaked potatoes of delicious heavenliness. Basically, it's a leg of lamb that has been rubbed with all sorts of herbs and spices including cinnamon, stuffed to the brim with garlic and soaked in fantastic cold pressed olive oil and millions of lemons. Then she boils potatoes, fries them a little, throws them in the baking dish and they suck up the juices until they literally are saturated with the flavour of olive oil, lemon, herbs, spices and garlic. Just thinking about it makes me want to scream.

This sounds absolutely devine! I'll have to try my own version of this some day!

[Schwert]

Count Chocula.
Which I couldn't find this year...


Oh we're talking about Christmas?

[Wain]

3. And finally, my mother's lamb with those lemon soaked potatoes of delicious heavenliness. Basically, it's a leg of lamb that has been rubbed with all sorts of herbs and spices including cinnamon, stuffed to the brim with garlic and soaked in fantastic cold pressed olive oil and millions of lemons. Then she boils potatoes, fries them a little, throws them in the baking dish and they suck up the juices until they literally are saturated with the flavour of olive oil, lemon, herbs, spices and garlic. Just thinking about it makes me want to scream.

This sounds absolutely devine! I'll have to try my own version of this some day!

So many things in this thread have made me feel hungry, but this really wins for me, too. My stomach is groaning just thinking about how delicious it'd be. Followed by Spiritbinder's Christmas pudding ice cream.

[Silivren]

3. And finally, my mother's lamb with those lemon soaked potatoes of delicious heavenliness. Basically, it's a leg of lamb that has been rubbed with all sorts of herbs and spices including cinnamon, stuffed to the brim with garlic and soaked in fantastic cold pressed olive oil and millions of lemons. Then she boils potatoes, fries them a little, throws them in the baking dish and they suck up the juices until they literally are saturated with the flavour of olive oil, lemon, herbs, spices and garlic. Just thinking about it makes me want to scream.

This sounds absolutely devine! I'll have to try my own version of this some day!

So many things in this thread have made me feel hungry, but this really wins for me, too. My stomach is groaning just thinking about how delicious it'd be. Followed by Spiritbinder's Christmas pudding ice cream.

How did I miss this.. I.. Mozag learn and cook for me please? /puppy eyes. I'll give you all the Norn men you want.

[Qinni]

I always look forward to the peppermint ice cream every December. My aunt makes the best fruitcake ever, nothing like those stale slabs you find at the store. >.<

Also...*insert any holiday food here and I will most likely eat it*

[Mozag]

How did I miss this.. I.. Mozag learn and cook for me please? /puppy eyes. I'll give you all the Norn men you want.

I know how to make it, but it's never as special as my mother's. But for Norn men, ok...DEAL.

[nightblooming]

The MMOWood site posted the latest wallpapers of mmorpg ArcheBlade, and they are so cool and beautiful.

[Ana]

My favorit holiday food is defo

Ris a la mande (Rice a la mande/rice pudding)




and porkroast- the danish version - with normal white potatoes and white potatoes cooked on a pan in sugar and butter (no idea what the name for them is in English), brown gravy and warm red cabbage - preferable with something sour on the side like pickled gherkins or these which according to my dictionary is also called pickled gherkins but they defo taste different then the green one

[Sukurachi]

well, we're French Canadian, with a VERY long ancestry here... we have a traditional family recipe that's been passed down for generations since our ancestors arrived in New France in 1625.

It's something called "tourtière".

There's a bastardized version of it that nothing more than a ground-meat pie - thoroughly disgusting.

The REAL recipe is:

cubes of moose, deer, beef, lamb, duck, (normally pork, but we don't eat pork, so one minor adjustment) and cubes of potato.
in a turkey roaster (we use a gigantic restaurant-grade roaster), lined with like a pie dough, dump all ingredients, put dough across top, fill with water, then it bakes all day - around 9 hours.

We only eat this at Christmas because it IS rather expensive to make, and the wild meats are harder to come by at other times of the year (my mother-in-law goes hunting in the fall, which means we get enough meat for Christmas, and that doesn't last the rest of the year).

One year, my mom decided that making a tourtière was "too much trouble"... well, civil war was declared in the household, the proletariat rebelled, the natives revolted... and we ended up having tourtière for Christmas that year after all