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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 12, 2012 20:25:11 GMT -5
I know you guys probably eat all the American and English Christmas foods, but I thought we could share here anyway! You may not know, but 'down under' we actually eat Seafood and cold meats... Sometimes they can be hot actually, but most of our meals are cold. My family has: Cold or warm chicken; Lots of prawns (shrimp); Morton Bay Bugs (actually like a lobster); Cold Ham off the bone; Cold stuffing (it's amazing); Cold potato salad; Roast potatoes and pumpkin; and some other secret family recipes We don't do dessert, as we are too full! We also have a Christmas lunch, though I think that varies from family to family. Oh, we have Christmas breakfast too, which is eggs, cold ham, and cheese toast (which they serve at Sizzler... no idea if any of you know what I mean!) and flavoured milk.
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Post by candykane on Nov 12, 2012 20:51:43 GMT -5
When I was growing up, my mom would make several different cold salads for the family celebration we had Christmas Eve - pasta salad, potato salad, and taco salad. She also made fudge and cutout sugar cookies with frosting and sprinkles. My grandma would make some kind of sausage, usually Polish sausage with sauerkraut (not my fave, so I'd just skip it and eat the salads!).
Now that we have family Christmas at my house I've been doing different things each year. One year I just got a party platter of sub sandwiches, last year I set up a taco bar. I cooked all the meat ahead and then kept it warm in the crock pot, and set out a bunch of shells and toppings. I also made a ton of rice and beans. I might do tacos again for this year because it was so easy and everyone liked it.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 16, 2012 8:39:54 GMT -5
Sounds yum! That's something we do all the time though, haha.
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Post by sarish on Nov 16, 2012 12:18:42 GMT -5
Every Christmas Eve my family and I do a get together and for as long as I can remember the menu has been the same! Pork with black beans and rice. Cuban sandwiches. Salad. Turkey. Cheese and crackers and salami. Mexican Wedding Cookies. And various other desserts that typically change every year.
Then on Christmas day my dad usually makes some sort of egg dish for breakfast/brunch for the family with toast. Then we have Christmas dinner with turkey and stuffing and mashed potatoes, gravy, corn casserole, green beans or broccoli, yams, and whatever else my mother fancies.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 16, 2012 16:32:57 GMT -5
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. All of this talk about food is making me SOOO HUNGRY!
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Post by candykane on Nov 16, 2012 17:42:47 GMT -5
^ Virgo, what are some of your favorites? Are there any traditional foods for Christmas in Canada? Jason's 94-year-old great-grandma, who was born in and grew up in Manitoba, said she wants to have a "Canadian Christmas" this year with roast goose and plum pudding. We both thought that sounded very old-fashioned, but hey, she's 94. Of course she's old-school!
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Post by wiggir13 on Nov 16, 2012 18:38:56 GMT -5
Christmas Eve my mom would have our friends over and make homemade soup and sandwiches, it was delicious!
Christmas morning was always cinnamon rolls and they were soooo good!
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 16, 2012 18:56:15 GMT -5
^My mom always makes cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning too We always have tamales and pan de polvo (shortbread cookies) during the holidays, and yup this thread is making me hungry too!
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Post by u4me on Nov 16, 2012 19:05:35 GMT -5
I was just looking up recipes for fun Christmas desserts! We don't do anything super major - just ham and some sides. Sometimes just appetizer-type foods. We usually make a ton of cookies, though!
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Nov 17, 2012 0:12:00 GMT -5
Are there any traditional foods for Christmas in Canada? I think the French Canadians have some traditional Christmas foods like Toutiere (meat pie) and donuts. I'm not sure if Anglo Canadians have any unique Christmas food. I'll have to think about it.
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Post by starrynight on Nov 17, 2012 15:07:25 GMT -5
My mom does cinnamon rolls and cranberry/cran-grape juice on Christmas morning. Christmas Eve is when my extended family celebrates, and the menu varies depending on what we do, how many people come, etc. Other than the cinnamon rolls, we just kind of nibble on Christmas Day.
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Post by candykane on Nov 26, 2012 20:29:43 GMT -5
I've decided my Christmas menu for this year will be: Pulled BBQ pork sandwiches Homemade mac and cheese Crock pot baked beans Salad Chocolate chip cookies Pie (probably a key lime pie and maybe a pumpkin pie) I can't wait.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 27, 2012 0:45:28 GMT -5
Growing up, our Christmas dinner was practically the same as our Thanksgiving dinner. But in Canada, we celebrate Thanksgiving at the beginning on October so there's always a good space in between that dinner and Christmas dinner. I never get tired of turkey and stuffing. On Christmas Eve, we always had our neighbours over to exchange gifts and munch on sausage rolls, white gingerbread cookies, meatballs, pumpernickel bread with spinach dip, and other goodies.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 28, 2012 20:16:18 GMT -5
No one eats Turkey here! It's so expensive I love it though! What do you guys consider sausage rolls? I wonder whether they are the same as ours.
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Post by oldhickory on Nov 28, 2012 23:29:44 GMT -5
my mom's family mixes traditional christmas foods with filipino foods. we'll always have things like adobo (pork or chicken with this really great sauce), or lumpia (spring rolls pretty much) or pancit (which is just noodles), along with a turkey. on my dad's side my grandma does all the cooking, and she makes the most delicious mac and cheese and homemade rolls and mashed potatoes. i can't wait for christmas! i am tired of cooking
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