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Christmas Foods from around the world
Sad_cat89
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What will everyone be eating for Christmas?
I haven't really planned much yet, not that it would matter as the plans have changed anyway.
We usually have gammon, chicken, lamb, tongue and some or another pork. With random salads and vegetables.
Dessert is usually trifle, ice cream, custard and whatever decadent baked thing my sister dreamt up
This year I wanted to do less, and buy ingredients for sandwiches for the homeless. It was supposed to just be me, hubby and baby. But it seems all the Grans have decided to show up
I haven't really planned much yet, not that it would matter as the plans have changed anyway.
We usually have gammon, chicken, lamb, tongue and some or another pork. With random salads and vegetables.
Dessert is usually trifle, ice cream, custard and whatever decadent baked thing my sister dreamt up
This year I wanted to do less, and buy ingredients for sandwiches for the homeless. It was supposed to just be me, hubby and baby. But it seems all the Grans have decided to show up
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Edit: @PastelMermaid my in-laws always had spaghetti for Christmas dinner!
And then for pudding, we'll have a Christmas Pudding, or a Yule log
Usuals:
-Little smokeys
-Holiday punch
-Taco dip
-Baked beans
-Cheese/meat tray
-Other assorted appetizers (we usually have veggie pizza)
-Cookies and fudge
I requested a popcorn cake this year, which is something we haven't done before, but I had the holiday punch with popcorn at Thankgiving and thought it was really yummy.
@PastelMermaid - We also have the junk food snacks, well more so when I was a kid. My parents would give us an additional amount of money just for candies and crap!
@Idontrcall - It all sounds so fancy, also learned a new name for steak in pepper sauce (I had to google
@the_greenplumbob - Sounds incredible too, however, we don't really get great Turkey in South Africa. No matter who prepares it, it's always a dry mess.
@nani - That is a lot of Fish! It all sounds so light and fluffy
@CheesySimsLover - What is a popcorn cake and how can I get one of those? Now I want to take early leave and start making all the snacks!!
Salmon's expensive we can't have it often, the recipe is a tradition from our roots
I forgot : Many people also like having shrimps, lobster, scallops, oysters (ew).
HOW COULD I FORGET FOIE GRAS ?! lmao i'm such a bad french.
That's great when you have something like that! So lucky
I know so little about the French.
We like seafood in South Africa, but we don't really do that for Christmas unless you live near the ocean, I guess :P
Yeah, I don't know. The ingredients of Foie Gras sound gross to me as it is - I am not a fan of liver. hehe. Or kidneys or any Offal that my husband says is the BEST THING ever.
It's a lot of fun!
What is wrong with the pork or sheep? We just overindulge, I saw turkey and duck in the shops the other day, rabbit also. We rarely eat that any other time of the year. So you'll see a lot of families buying 1 chicken, 1 turkey, 1 duck, 1 rabbit, 1 rack of lamb, 1 gammon, 1 ham, 1 tongue and whatever else there is. Then we make all our vegetables and salads and multiple desserts, anything from a baked pudding with custard to trifle to ice cream and candy and chocolates. Most of the times we don't even know how to cook it properly
I've never had it, but now I love it too!
It’s pretty good. You can look it up online.
It's a lot of fun!
I will be adding this to my "nothing" gift for family list.
It's called Olivier (pronounced like Olivye) salad. It's very common, when people, especially the 40+ years old generation, cook lots of different salads for every big date, but this one is the most popular.
You need boiled chicken, eggs and potatoes, pickled cucumbers, and canned green peas. Other people add boiled carrot and onions, but I never do, I don't like them. The taste doesn't get worse though. So you need to slice chicken, eggs and potatoes to small pieces, add other ingredients and mix everything with mayonnaise. It's ready.
Oh, and you can use any kind of meat instead of/with chicken.
The dessert would be a birthday cake for my Mother and Father-in-law in past years, but they're gone now. Lately we've just been having apple pie with vanilla ice cream, cherry pie with whipped cream, Christmas sugar cookies and homemade fudge.
When I was growing up my Mother would always make a jelly roll cake, sugar cookies, and divinity fudge. My Dad would make peanut brittle and hard rock candy. We always got an orange and walnuts in our stockings too that my Mom would lay on the foot of our beds on Christmas Eve for my sister and I to discover in the morning. It kept us busy for awhile so they could sleep a little longer before the chaos of Christmas morning opening up presents.
My Mom always made homemade cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning breakfast. My sister and I would eat them with hot chocolate while my parents had coffee.
I miss them both so much...
Happy Holidays and Happy Simming everyone!
Aaaaw @Karababy52, your post is breaking my heart. I am very sorry for your losses.
You just described the type of Christmas I want to give my child! She saw her first ever Christmas tree last night and she cannot stop looking at it.
I will be trying this before Christmas even!!
"A big ole ham".
"A box of day old rolls."
"Two kinds of jam!"
--(Imogene and Gladys Herdman, the actors portraying them are Marina*, Hana, Olive, and Anna*
*names have been changed to keep their real names a secret*
Get the ole cookies out.
Well it's gross to me too, I can't eat offal, but on the other hand I've been used to eat Foie Gras for Christmas since before I even knew what that was and how it was made.
It looks like a salad we have here called "Piémontaise".