Christmas Tradition

[katicabogar]

Hello, All,

I like to wish Everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

As some of you know, I am from Europe and we have these special holiday food and pastry. I was just wondering, what is yours?
Right now, I am cooking stuffed cabbage...can't have Christmas without these. Also, I am baking cheese sticks. My daughter is baking nut rolls and poppy seed rolls.
Tomorrow morning everyone opens presents and for lunch we have chicken soop and the stuffed cabbage and pastry.
For the evening dinner, we will have goose...that one my son in-law is baking.
We definetly have white Christmas this year...last night started snowing again, we have about two feet of snow already on ground.
Very unusual for the Seattle area, but the kids like it. They can sled downhill on almost every street, as most cars are stuck and people starying home.

Again wishing you All Happy Holidays.

Kat

[RNvic]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years.

Please share your reciepe for stuffed cabbage.

[tpm]

Merry Christmas

We are from New York. Every year my wife will make a homemade sausage bread. I get a pizza dough from the pizza parlor and then my wife does her magic (pepperoni, provolone cheese, sausage, ham, and whatever else she mixes in). This is an appetizer but as far as I'm concerned it is the only thing I'm looking forward to eating.

[Tuffy]

Here at my home homemade oyster stew with crackers was a family thing, with whatever anyone wanted to bring. I hate oysters........ then gifts with my parents and family, and off to candle light services. Christmas day was spent and still is with our own familys. No more oyster stew sinse dad passed.

[red1030]

We did something that we have not done since our kids were young. We made Mexican food. Our son in law is mexican and he shares a lot of receipes with us. However, we can't eat it as HOT as he does but even so it is still very hot. For appetitzers, I made a lot of different chip dips, such as 7 layer bean dip, quacamole dip, salsa, and queso dip. I fried the chips from corn totilas, then Brandi and i together made as finger foods or appetizers such as taco roll ups, Empanadas, chicken and beef flautas, stuffed jalapenos and mushrooms, and vegetables with a hot dip and fruit with a fruit dip. I also made some mini mexican quiches which were the hit of the day.

Then for our meal we made chicken enchalutas, flour taco salads, homemade chili and a mexican salad. We really over made. We all stuffed our freezers with left overs. Brandi and I went overboard this year with the food for some reason. We would want to try this and that..and the menu kept getting added too... for desserts, we fried flour totilas and then covered them in sugar and cinnamon and brownied with ice cream. We had the old standard of pumpkin pie also for my husband. We had quite a day and I am still not wanting to eat due to eating too much on Monday.

This is interesting...thanks for asking the question...love Red

[Bummer Knees]

Growing up, on Christmas Eve one of my parents would drive my sisters and I around to look at Christmas lights while the other parent placed the gifts under the tree.

When we returned we were always amazed that Santa would come while we were away.

I took my youngest son and my friend, the injured nurse's son out for piazza tonight then we drove around and looked at Christmas lights.

[halftrak]

My Daughters were over today and we just had lots of snacks, I let their daughters and my son open one of their presents, Been doing some last minute stuff this evening.I made some potato salad earlier, am cooking a ham tomorrow with all the fixing. Will Start it early all the kids will be here in the morning to open their gifts. Then we will all pig out.Merry christmas everyone.

[jayne]

our tradition is a bit embarrassing(for me)..we have never had alot of money so I start christmas shopping in june or july a bit every payday and hide it thru the house...the problem is I am always forgetting where every batch is hid and we are still finding and having christmas in march and april.The kids are always teasing me that they are used to finding their christmas in July......