Friday, 22 April 2011
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Battle of the Holidays: Which is Best for Food and Sweets?
With Easter coming up in less than a week, I find myself craving ham, rolls, and Cadbury eggs more and more. Oh, how I can't wait for Sunday!
Being a serious foodie, holidays aren't just about the celebration of whatever the day is for, but also about the food we share with loved ones on those days. No matter the holiday, I find myself getting excited for the food every time. Now I find myself starting to think: Which holiday is the best for food and sweets?
The following just happens to be the holidays that I celebrate simply because they are the ones I know the best food-wise. If your favorite food holiday isn't listed, do share in the comments!!
Easter: My family's Easter dinners are always comprised of super juicy, tender ham, rolls, and an assortment of side vegetables. In addition, there's usually an apple pie or two accompanied by an endless amount of egg and bunny shaped chocolates! And let's face it - Cadbury creme/caramel eggs and Reese's peanut butter egg-shaped cups beat out all other holiday candies.
Fourth of July: Ahh, barbecue, beer, and warm summer air. What a great food day! The staples are burgers and hot dogs. We change up different alternatives from year to year, ranging from hot sausages to grilled barbecue chicken to grilled marinated shrimp. Fries, potato salad, pasta salad, regular salad, and cole slaw are typical side options. There's never really any specific dessert, but drinking (when you're of age of course!) with family members is always a treat enough.
Thanksgiving: What a great holiday, its whole reason for existence is because of food. Turkey, mashed potatoes, candied yams, stuffing, cranberry sauce, garlic-buttered brussel sprouts, turnips, rolls...yum!! My mouth is watering in anticipation for November as I write this. Dessert is great too, consisting of apple pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and usually some pumpkin bread.
Christmas Eve: Christmas dinner is good, but Christmas Eve is when my family has our all out food celebration. We have a buffet style set up of macaroni and cheese, baked clams, buffalo wings, sweet and sour meatballs and usually some salads, veggies and a main meat (like ham or turkey). Dessert is even more pies (similar to Thanksgiving), almond flavored candy cane shaped cookies, chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter bark, and an assortment of homemade chocolates.
Now that I've written this all out, I'm pretty hungry. But hunger aside - it's time for me to make my decision. Honestly, each one of these holidays is great for food, and I look forward to them all year after year. If I were to sit here and really think about which one is best, I'd go crazy and never come to a decision.
So I'm going to go with the holiday that my mouth watered the most as I typed out the foods (drum roll, please)...
Christmas Eve!
Which holiday is your favorite for food? What are the staple foods your family has in that meal?
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Comments (16)
Easter Dinner is always a juicy ham and a ton of side dishes and a cherry cheese cake for dessert
Yom Kippur for sure! After spending the entire day fasting, everything tastes delicious!
It's Thanksgiving for me. Usually in the beginning of November I tend to crave turkey and good pumpkin pie.
@Kate - What type of food do you eat for Yom Kippur? I can see the meal being very rewarding!
growing up in an Asian family with traditional parents, we don't celebrate anything but Chinese New Year, and the Moon Cake festival (though that's not really a holiday), so that's the only thing i look forward to. bbq pork, sweet and sour pork, Peking duck, stuffed chicken, vermicelli and bean sprout stir-fry as staple foods, tofu and fat choi (Chinese Hair vegetable) for soup, and sticky glutinous rice cake for dessert or as a snack.
Love the cadbury eggs.
Thanksgiving. Hands down.
Need. turkey. NOW!haha k bye.4TH OF JULYYYY
@Beb3Lika@xanga - We celebrated with the same foods!
@babybug329@xanga - aha :] great family minds think alike.
Dear OP:
Can I come to YOUR house for Holidays?!
My family is small and since the death of my mother in 2008 Holiday's just aren't the same. It's usually just my boyfriend and i as my family has segregated a lot.
the day before the day before Christmas we have steak for my mom's birthday.
@Beb3Lika@xanga - No steamed daikon rice cake? (Grandma made a taro version, as well) You know with the fermented black beans and Chinese sausage...sometimes the cake is cut into small rectangles and pan-fried?
@babybug329@xanga - unfortunately, no. i guess they decided to skip out on it this year, but i prefer the daikon rice cake over the sweet glutinous rice cake any day. instead, they made wok-fried wontons stuffed with white sugar and crushed peanuts, and then a salty version of it stuffed with meat, green peas, carrots, etc. and this circular dough the size of your palm or slightly smaller, mixed with brown sugar cane and wok-fried with a bit of sesame for decoration.
@Beb3Lika@xanga - I used to help Grandma make those dumplings! Too bad I don't have recipes...not that there is a recipe for them. Dough too wet? Add more rice flour. Too dry? More boiing water.
chinese new years! asian foods galore!