Food you only eat at Christmas

[tashasmum]

Pringles

Chocolate orange

 

[PoppyAnna]

I agree about the Trifle, I thought of that earlier.

Oh, and theres always the DISers favourite.........










Baileys......

 

[wilma-bride]

Peppermint bark

Not mine I hope

 

[tennisfan]

We have nothing different at Xmas that we don't have sometime else during the year, except brussels with pancetta

 

[Chilly]

What are Sausage & carrot rolls?

 

[Dimplenose]

We eat a lot of turkey all year round but I like to find and interesting stuffing at Christmas - last year it was sausage meat and apricots (never, ever, anything with sage in it as I hate the stuff!)

Also just for Christmas - mince pies (although Christmas is rather elastic with these starting near the beginning of December), Christmas cake, brandy butter, Bailey's ice cream, and those rather nice Lindt chocolate balls.

And a Boxing day only treat is cold turkey and mashed potatoes with Branston pickle.

 

[tony64]

Not mine I hope

We need to get it to you before xmas or it might be.

 

[wilma-bride]

We need to get it to you before xmas or it might be.

What are you doing this weekend

Seriously, have you guys decided what's happening on the 27th yet?

 

[Goofyish]

I think for me it's only Christmas pudding, Christmas cake and mince pies.

We quite often have turkey breast portions because they are cheaper than chicken

 

[Lizzybear]

Mince pies, Christmas pudding, stollen, nuts you have to crack open with a nutcracker, bread sauce (YUM!) and those packs of biscuits for cheese.

I want to try making peppermint bark this year, i've seen a few recipes for it on American blogs I read

 

[strawberry blonde]

Brandy cream. Just been to Tesco for the weekly shop and found Baileys cream


DH's the Baileys nut but when it's in the house, he forgets that you can actually put milk in coffee.....it does not have to be Baileys!!!

 

[Pinky166]

Baileys, Celebrations, quality street, mint matchmakers, after eights, marzipan fruits, nuts (in shells), orange & lemon slices, pigs in blankets, clotted cream, pate..... that's all I can think of at the moment but i'm sure more will come to mind.

Ohhhhh and of course (even though it's not food) it just wouldn't be christmas without the double issue christmas TV & Satelite magazine.

 

[darthtatty]

we usually have

after 8's
matchmakers
choc oranges
heros/celebrations
nuts
wholegrain mustard
husband has christmas pudding and brandy butter.

 

[natalielongstaff]

Ohhhhh and of course (even though it's not food) it just wouldn't be christmas without the double issue christmas TV & Satelite magazine.

i must be the only person who doesn't buy that either !

 

[sasywtch]

I always read but never post and live in the US. My mom was from London and came here in 1944-war bride. I was wondering if something she always made sounds familiar to you all? It was a fruitcake without those green,yellow, red things. Pretty much boiled brown sugar, lemon extract, raisins and nuts (poured into a flour mixture) and put into a bundt type pan for baking. My mom (sorry she has passed) wasn't much of a cook but that was her one thing and we still have to have every Christmas. I didn't know if she made it up or something she brought over.

 

[Dimplenose]

Not sure what green things would go into a Christmas cake.

There are lots of ways of making a Christmas cake which is basically a rich fruit cake. Some recipes boil the dried fruit before adding it to the flour and butter mixture, some soak the fruit over night in brandy or orange juice some do neither.

The cakes are usually made 2 months before Christmas and brandy can be dripped into the cake over the weeks before it is decorated.

Most cakes are covered with marzipan and then iced with Royal Icing (which becomes quite hard over time). Similar cake recipes are traditionally used as wedding cakes.

 

[MinnieMouse73]

That does sound like a Christmas cake - ours has sulatanas, currants, glace cherries, mixed citrus peel and nuts mixed into a flour/egg/brown sugar mix, with a bit of treacle to make it darker. Then covered with marzipan and icing. It was my mum's recipe, which she probably got from her mum!

 

[CustardTart]

I always read but never post and live in the US. My mom was from London and came here in 1944-war bride. I was wondering if something she always made sounds familiar to you all? It was a fruitcake without those green,yellow, red things. Pretty much boiled brown sugar, lemon extract, raisins and nuts (poured into a flour mixture) and put into a bundt type pan for baking. My mom (sorry she has passed) wasn't much of a cook but that was her one thing and we still have to have every Christmas. I didn't know if she made it up or something she brought over.

Those sound like the different colours of glace cherries...

 

[CustardTart]

There are the usual things like warm mince pies and cream, Christmas pud, pigs in blankets and cranberry sauce. Then we have all the sweet and savoury M&S party food in the freezer for scoffing on Christmas Eve... But this year the big difference is the Christmas love affair we are having with Thornton's Continental chocolates. I got a box for free when I ordered gifts for the rellies and OMG they are sooo goood. So I ordered another 3 - including a box of the Christmassy version!!

In the interest of our waistlines, they have to be an exclusively festive food!

 

[natalielongstaff]

In the interest of our waistlines, they have to be an exclusively festive food!