
What do you eat at Christmas?
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
enterprikayak wrote:C'mon. It can't be that weird!We're an accepting bunch around here (unless you bring up guns or the like
) Xmas food shouldn't start a thread war or anything. So let's hear about a few regional Italian dishes...
A challenge?
OK!
Il timballo del gattopardo - Sicilian pie; pastry dough baked with a filling of penne rigata, Parmesan, and bound a sauce of ham, chicken, liver, onion, carrot, truffles, diced hard-boiled egg and seasoned with clove, cinnamon, salt and pepper. Gattopardo (the Serval) makes reference to the arms of the Lampedusa family and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s well-known novel Il Gattopardo.
Caponata - eggplants with tomatoes and olives

Eggs Caponata.
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
Hm... That Silcilian pie sounds like it has possibilities. Meat, meat and more meat. YES!


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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
I pretty much stick to potatoes and gravy since I'm not a fan of turkey or ham.
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
I believe many people could be interested by this dish, because...
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While bagna càuda is generally considered a regional specialty not much known outside Italy, the Babylon 5 episode "A Distant Star" featured as comic relief Michael Garibaldi's successful but protracted effort to smuggle the ingredients onto the station in defiance of doctor's orders.
Bagna càuda, (from the Piedmontese "hot sauce", bagna caôda, etymologically related to Italian bagno, meaning "bath") is a warm dip typical of Piedmont, Italy. The dish, which is served and consumed in a manner similar to fondue, is made with garlic, anchovies, walnut or olive oil, butter, and sometimes cream. The dish is eaten by dipping raw, boiled or roasted vegetables, especially cardoon, celery, cauliflower, artichokes, peppers and onions. It is traditionally eaten during the autumn and winter months and must be served hot, as the name suggests.
Originally, in Piedmont, the Bagna càuda was placed in a big pan (peila) in the center of the table for communal sharing. Now, it is usually served in individual pots (the fojòt, a type of fondue pot traditionally made of terra cotta).
Bagna càuda is also popular in Argentina with the name bañacauda; it was brought there by the many Piedmontese immigrants.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
While bagna càuda is generally considered a regional specialty not much known outside Italy, the Babylon 5 episode "A Distant Star" featured as comic relief Michael Garibaldi's successful but protracted effort to smuggle the ingredients onto the station in defiance of doctor's orders.
Bagna càuda, (from the Piedmontese "hot sauce", bagna caôda, etymologically related to Italian bagno, meaning "bath") is a warm dip typical of Piedmont, Italy. The dish, which is served and consumed in a manner similar to fondue, is made with garlic, anchovies, walnut or olive oil, butter, and sometimes cream. The dish is eaten by dipping raw, boiled or roasted vegetables, especially cardoon, celery, cauliflower, artichokes, peppers and onions. It is traditionally eaten during the autumn and winter months and must be served hot, as the name suggests.
Originally, in Piedmont, the Bagna càuda was placed in a big pan (peila) in the center of the table for communal sharing. Now, it is usually served in individual pots (the fojòt, a type of fondue pot traditionally made of terra cotta).
Bagna càuda is also popular in Argentina with the name bañacauda; it was brought there by the many Piedmontese immigrants.
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
Since I was just at two pot luck Christmas parties I have a lot of amazing foot to report on. I always bring phat Thai to the Christmas parties. That's not a very traditional dish (it's Thai) but it's become a tradition because about ten years ago, I invited a lot of people over for Christmas dinner before remembering MY OVEN WAS BROKEN!!! I called everyone at the last minute, apologized, and asked it we could do maybe do Thai food, since I could make in on the top of the stove. Guess what? It was a big success. Now every Christmas we MUST have Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravey, collard greens, cranberry sauce, AND phat Thai. Oh, and the "pretzel salad" which is acually a jello.
At the first party, there was pumpkin soup . .. . MMMM . . . . saugages in sweet sauce, fruit cake, homemade ice cream, cold scrimp, macaroni salad. I brought home leftover pie with a mixture of fruit--cranberries, rhubarb, strawberries, cherries? To tell you the truth I can't figure out what's in it.
Next party, we had lamb and potatoes in some kind of mint sauce, Sweetish meatballs, Chex Mix!!!! And lots of alcohol.
At the first party, there was pumpkin soup . .. . MMMM . . . . saugages in sweet sauce, fruit cake, homemade ice cream, cold scrimp, macaroni salad. I brought home leftover pie with a mixture of fruit--cranberries, rhubarb, strawberries, cherries? To tell you the truth I can't figure out what's in it.
Next party, we had lamb and potatoes in some kind of mint sauce, Sweetish meatballs, Chex Mix!!!! And lots of alcohol.
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
I'm still in bed recovering from a Christmas party I hosted on Friday. No alcohol was served, but we ate chicken and sausage gumbo over rice, homemade bread, honey baked ham, potato salad, raw vegetables with ranch dip, lots of ginger bread cookies, and the favorite... a chocolate fondue fountain in which everyone dipped bits of banana, and strawberries, and cherries, and marshmallows, and candies, and bits of brownies... and sometimes the ham.
After we ate so much we could barely move, we went out into the neighborhood and sang christmas carols. Then we came back and had hot cocoa with red velvet cake. Arg. I still can't move. 



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That sounds like fun! Yes we sang Christmas carols too and my oldest son arrived in the middle of the party--home from college! Very Christmas-y!
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
Chocolate-covered HAM??? I like to say that my favorite foods are chocolate and lobster, but not together. I didn't think people actually did meat-chocolate combinations.

Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
Gah. Y'all make me hungry for Christmas food. And I know I won't get any.

All the foods sound so
... well except for the ham I don't like ham.

I want chocolate.


All the foods sound so



I want chocolate.

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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
JadziaKathryn wrote:Chocolate-covered HAM??? I like to say that my favorite foods are chocolate and lobster, but not together. I didn't think people actually did meat-chocolate combinations.
Well, I already said it:
...it seems to me that, as far as... nutrition, human fantasy is without limits.

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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
What can I say? My daughter had friends over. Apparently teenagers think anything tastes better smothered in chocolate. 


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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
I am exhuasted from hosting a party, too! Its been nearly two years since we moved into our house and now that we have enough chairs, did an open house thing yesterday. It may be another two years before we entertain again, but it was fun! Friends from Jim and my work (university and state department of corrections), from the South Milwaukee Historical Society, from the Mitchell Gallery of Flight (aircraft museum in the airport that Jim is a director of), Robert Burns Club members (poetry society), Coast Guard Auxiliary and yacht club friends, from the New Year's Eve Pow wow committee, and people from the local Pagan group.
Well, I cleaned like a madwoman for three days, so there were no cobwebs or dust bunnies anywhere - the real bunny opted to hide under the couch all day. We put the parrot in the music room where he would be in a relatively quiet spot. A friend made a killer cheese cake which was practically black hole dense, and it disappeared like it was sucked down a black hole! My daughter's chilli with cream cheese went over big too. My grandson took care of the fireplace fire and took his job real seriously - the living room got so hot, people went out on the porch to socialize. The one-year-old and three-year-old grandkids made the rounds of various laps, entertaining grandparent types. It worked great in that people from the different groups interacted and made new friends! And everyone liked our beloved bungalow. Hey, it withstood fifty people crowded into it at any one time, and the roof, heavy with snow, did not fall in. Now all I want to do is hibernate for two months to recover. A Vulcan monestary would do nicely.
Well, I cleaned like a madwoman for three days, so there were no cobwebs or dust bunnies anywhere - the real bunny opted to hide under the couch all day. We put the parrot in the music room where he would be in a relatively quiet spot. A friend made a killer cheese cake which was practically black hole dense, and it disappeared like it was sucked down a black hole! My daughter's chilli with cream cheese went over big too. My grandson took care of the fireplace fire and took his job real seriously - the living room got so hot, people went out on the porch to socialize. The one-year-old and three-year-old grandkids made the rounds of various laps, entertaining grandparent types. It worked great in that people from the different groups interacted and made new friends! And everyone liked our beloved bungalow. Hey, it withstood fifty people crowded into it at any one time, and the roof, heavy with snow, did not fall in. Now all I want to do is hibernate for two months to recover. A Vulcan monestary would do nicely.
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Re: What do you eat at Christmas?
You're a brave woman to have so many disparate groups at one party! We had our SCA friends, the members of my choir at the Catholic church, and my husband's Baptist prayer group at our party... plus about 20 teenagers. Fortunately, no one discussed politics or religion! 


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Distracted wrote:You're a brave woman to have so many disparate groups at one party! We had our SCA friends, the members of my choir at the Catholic church, and my husband's Baptist prayer group at our party... plus about 20 teenagers. Fortunately, no one discussed politics or religion!
Well for you!
There could has been also another matter of discussion, In Italy : soccer!

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