Holiday food traditions vary from house to house, family to family, restaurant to restaurant. We've got a few of our favorites, and we've already started on the tradition of enjoying them. I'd say the "Winter Holiday" is the best season for enjoying food - although it is hard to beat a summer of crabs and corn and watermelon! Our cold weather traditions probably start with the mixed hardshell nuts that sit in a wooden bowl on the side table with a couple nutcrackers and another bowl for the shells. We get going on that in November and continue cracking and munching through the New Year. A box of Florida grapefruit and oranges is also a sure thing - we order one just for us, at least once every winter. The other hard and fast winter foodstuff - Lewes Dairy Eggnog. Is it the best - aside from Roy's HomeMade - or what? As fattening as anything else in the world, I drink it out of this teeny, tiny Christmas Kitty Kat glass, in order to keep consumption at a minimum, but to keep consuming!
We have moved around, year to year, with some of our other traditions, although Fran's chocolates, out of Seattle are a definite (especially the salted caramels and the GoldBars), and Eggs Benedict for Christmas Breakfast is written in stone. We've done the Seafood Extravaganza on Christmas Eve; we've had everything from Squab to Pork Roast to Prime Rib for Christmas Dinner. The last few years have found us dipping into Cheese Fondue the night before Christmas Day, which is a fun way to "eat together". Champagne is the usual beverage for both Eve and Day, the more the merrier, eh? No Scrooges are found in this family, when it come to food tradition, no gruel or underdone potato to give us bad dreams, just cooking and feasting and enjoying the Time of the Season with our family and our friends. Hope you are doing the same, whatever your traditions may be.
Cheers!
Cheers!
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