I'm wondering what foods you associate with Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever religious or cultural festivities you may have this time of year.
In recent years as I think I may have mentioned on this site before, we've started baking a Ukrainian Kalach style woven bread on Ukrainian Christmas, which is 2 weeks after regular Christmas.
We also do lobster on Xmas eve - and fortunately right after xmas last year we found some of the lobster frozen in water and bought it at a good price, so I don't have to buy it this year while unemployed :-)
And as I've mentioned before, for Xmas day we do a simple buffet meal and make the day all about the kids. Then on boxing day we do the big meal. Spreads it out over 2 days and makes both of those days less stressful rather than one big stressed out day with the kids having fun on Xmas and the adults trying to get a crazy amount of food together at the same time.
What foods do you all associate with this time of year? And are the of religious or cultural significance?
I suppose someone will end up pointing this at a previous thread but I'm too lazy to search at the moment :-)
zymurgist
I'm wondering what foods you associate with Christmas, Hanukkah, or whatever religious or cultural festivities you may have this time of year.
In recent years as I think I may have mentioned on this site before, we've started baking a Ukrainian Kalach style woven bread on Ukrainian Christmas, which is 2 weeks after regular Christmas.
We also do lobster on Xmas eve - and fortunately right after xmas last year we found some of the lobster frozen in water and bought it at a good price, so I don't have to buy it this year while unemployed :-)
And as I've mentioned before, for Xmas day we do a simple buffet meal and make the day all about the kids. Then on boxing day we do the big meal. Spreads it out over 2 days and makes both of those days less stressful rather than one big stressed out day with the kids having fun on Xmas and the adults trying to get a crazy amount of food together at the same time.
What foods do you all associate with this time of year? And are the of religious or cultural significance?
I suppose someone will end up pointing this at a previous thread but I'm too lazy to search at the moment :-)