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What is your favorite holiday food or drink?

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Started 3 years ago by Jules
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Jules

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Besides Christmas cookies, and turkey stuffing mine has to be
1. Glogg. Swedish spiced wine, mmmm, good.
2. Hot buttered rum.
3. "Moose Milk", a rum drink we used to make in Alaska...most delicious, and better than Tom & Jerry or eggnog.

But, I must admit, having a pumpkin or peppermint latte this time of year is pretty satisfying.

Posted 3 years ago #
Nora Bell

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Oh, yeah. The pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks is fantastic. :-)
One of my favorite Christmas drinks is McNaughton's and ginger ale. And, of course, I'm a pumpkin pie addict.

That Moose Milk wasn't really made of moose milk, was it? I think I wanna hear more about that one, Jules. :-)

Posted 3 years ago #
Reba

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Jolly Roger, Jolly Roger, Jolly Roger.
(and various other winter ales, i could list them all, but that would be really beer geeky of me)

Posted 3 years ago #
kerala

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The avatar of Chef Wahoo - those cookies are my Christmas favorite that my mother made every year. Please post Chef Wahoo so everyone can see!

Posted 3 years ago #
Jules

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Moose Milk is made from boiling hot water, canned condensed milk, and rum. Top with nutmeg.

Yeah, I make cream wafera and they are delicious!

Posted 3 years ago #
wildernessbarbie

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I'm with Jules on #2, also like some hot mulled wine.

Food would be, for some odd reason, watermelon pickles. Family tradition during the holidays, not sure why since my family is from California, not the deep South. A home made Chex type mix (family recipe) is a big favorite as well. Also home made cranberry sauce, whole cranberries, and some spices, orange marmalade, and liquor.

Reminds me I need to go shopping tomorrow, thanks! I can't believe Thanksgiving is already almost here!

Posted 3 years ago #
Jules

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I'd post the cream wafer recipe, but then people would jump all over me because it uses butter and cream (see the grinch on the home page under "Ballard Food Bank") cost too much, and be too labor intensive.

Posted 3 years ago #
BlackSheep

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Hmmm...something tastes bitter.

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TumTum

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Mmmm... glogg. Does anyone else figure it's fair game to bust the stuff out as soon as it starts getting dark early? Are there any traditional rules binding the busting-out of glogg? Like, does it have to be December? If so, I will happily consider myself a rebel. Recipes, anyone? I do the old soak yer whole spices in a few fingers of aquavit for 24 hours, then strain and blend with a little sugar and a bottle of red wine, then heat gently til delicious.

Posted 3 years ago #
wally

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Spritz cookies. Specifically, Christmas trees and wreaths with red hots for holly berries. I inherited my grandmother's old style spritz maker, which makes them even better.

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Jules

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As far as I am concerned, you can break out the glogg at any point after Sept. 1st. I've never thought of soaking the spices in aquavit, though. Sometimes I cheat and use the bottled glogg mix that you get at Scandinavian Specialties. . boy, do I miss Olsen's Foods this year! I also believe you can drink glogg as long as it is ski season- say, into March.

I am making Spritz cookies today- using my mom's old spritz press. I don't put anything on them, usually...but I'll make a batch with red or green sugar sprinkles. Actually, they are quire fast and easy to make.

I make krumkake as well- with the new electric krumkake irons, they make them twice as fast and two at a time, unlike the old cast-iron irons on the stove. (although I think the old fashioned irons make them a bit crispier and thinner.) With the cast iron one, I'd have at least one grease fire and burns all over my hands. Last year I was electrocuted by my (30 year old) krumkake iron- flash of light, big boom, knocked off my feet, had a headache like a spnial tap for a week.

Krumkake are in fact pretty fast to make as well. Cream wafers (above) take all day, because they are so tiny. But worth it!

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Bamber

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Ooh Spritz cookies! Have to make them for dear hubby every year.

I do love a good Green bean casserole...and no one else in the family is with me on this. I have the flu - so our T-day plans have been cancelled - my dad is bringing us a turkey with all the trimmings - he asked if there was anything else I'd like, and I said "Yes! Green Bean Casserole!" He and my mom both said NO WAY - anything but that...!

Wildnerness Barbie - WHAT ON EARTH is a watermelon pickle?

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