How delightful - Friday Five on Festive Foods. Seems very appropriate as most of the gifts under my tree so far are edible - cookies and candies and petit fours and cheeses and TWO hams . . .
1. Favorite cookie/candy/baked good without which, it's just not Christmas.
Mincemeat pie - For as long as I can remember, my family had mince pie for breakfast on Christmas morning. When I introduced The Husband to this tradition he was delighted!! It's his favorite holiday baked thing too.
2. Do you do a fancy dinner on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, both, or neither? (Optional: with whom will you gather around the table this year?)
Actually, neither. It's just the two of us and our families are scattered very far away. So our tradition on Christmas Day is to feed the homeless. We were thrilled when we came to this church to learn that the congregation prepares dinner plus a sack lunch for the next day at the Cold Weather Shelter nearby every Christmas!
3. Evaluate one or more of the holiday beverage trifecta: hot chocolate, wassail, egg nog.
I LOVE hot chocolate! Especially with those little marshmallows or whippted cream on it.
The Husband is an Egg Nog Lover and thinks it should be available all year - he'd drink it by the gallon if we could afford it! He even puts it in his coffee. I haven't caught him putting it on cereal yet. (Note: we drink the store bought kind straight from the bottle - no alcohol added)
4. Candy canes: do you like all the new-fangled flavors or are you a peppermint purist?
I keep trying the other flavors, but I really like the peppermint best
5. Have you ever actually had figgy pudding? And is it really so good that people will refuse to leave until they are served it?
Is figgy pudding like plum pudding? We used to have brandy-laced flaming plum pudding with hard sauce at one aunt's house when I was growing up. I suppose people might insist on staying for it if there was enough brandy. :-)
About Fruitcake - the original object of "re-gifting" One was passed around my family for about 6 years until the original recipient finally got it back and broke the chain. :-)
And one other "without which it is not Christmas" food - Tangerines! My mother used to put a tangerine in the toe of our Christmas Stockings and I keep up the tradition. To this day the smell of a tangerine makes me think of Christmas.
Have a very Merry Christmas of eating and cooking and May God Bless Us Every One!
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We always get an orange in the toe of our sock - it was always a good distraction when the boys wanted to dive right into the gifts under the tree. Once the oranges were eaten, we could start with the gifts - slowly, and one at a time, just to make the fun last a bit longer.
Oh.. Tangeriens in the stockings. Wasn't it oranges in the Little House books they used?
I, as your husbane, am a big nog fan! Can't ait for it to come out each year.
I will be out of twon for sometime. Melech has someone to feed him, but is always up for a little cuddle!
Check out his latest photo on frog blog! He has a new Christmas outfit! :)~
Hope family and all are well.
Merry Christmas rev marie.
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