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bec_87rb

Thanksgiving Eats, and What to Cook for Christmas

Nov 28, 2006 17:26

Ah yes, another Christmas where my family invades for week or so, piling in the house to eat and nap Dagwood Bumstead style on the couch while my husband hides in his office upstairs. He actually proposed getting a hotel room until the Vikings pulled up oars on the shore below the charred ruins of the homestead and set sail. The idea was that I ( Read more... )

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trek_chick November 28 2006, 23:44:13 UTC

Hmm, an Italian Christmas? Sounds good to me, though I dont observe the holiday. I would think, being of German decent myself, a meal of Sausage and Struedal (spe?) would be good too. Then that's not very Christmas-y is it?

Sausage and Struedel!!! bec_87rb November 29 2006, 14:46:10 UTC

You'd think that'd be all German-ish, wouldn't ya? I didn't know struedel was German until I was in high school. I guess the branch of germans I was in didn't do streudel? I recall Christmas ham or turkey, a macaroni & cheese dish that resembled an unsweetened kugel or a gratin (not the trad American bechemel cheese sauce), taters and gravy, apple sauce black walnut cake, pecan pie. Anything with apples and salted pigs.

...mmm.... There was some of that crumbled sausage with pepper gravy over biscuits for breakfasts around the holidays, but that sounds southern American, doesn't it, not southern German.

Do you also skip the eating a festive meal part? One can always do the Jewish thing and eat out at Chinese restaurant, which sounds nice. While most things are closed, that would be cozy.

Re: Sausage and Struedel!!! trek_chick November 29 2006, 15:34:50 UTC

lol, well I'm not Jewish either. I dont celebrate any holidays. :)

Uhm what does 'bechemel' mean?

sauces bec_87rb November 29 2006, 17:40:47 UTC

I spelled it wrong, now that I checked, it's "bechamel." Doh!
It's one of those sauces you make with a roux in a flying pan, like how you start gravy? You add milk and slowly cook it until it's thicker, but not gravy-thick. For plain old mac-n-cheese, you add cheese to make the cheese sauce part. There is some technical term for bechamel once you fancy it up with cheese, but, naturally, I can never remember it.

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merryharper November 29 2006, 06:30:31 UTC

Hey, a carefully thought-out menu could be the key to repelling the Viking invaders.

"I've been on the internet, and I've heard that the new Christmas menu is Tofurkey soaked in violets and rosewater, garnished with some alfalfa (I know just the Farmer's Market!) and parsimmons."

(Well, it would send me off to spend some time with a relative who wanted to dig into some turkey.) (I'd drop by to give you a gift, naturally, it's the season of giving; I just would dine elsewhere.)

M.

bec_87rb November 29 2006, 14:52:16 UTC

What an excellent Christmassy thought, amnesty for the turkey. "Whatsoever ye shall do unto the least of these, my farm animals, ye have done it unto me." :) *zzzzotz of lightening from on high* *voice booms* Jesus: "Hey, I can hear you up here, y'know."

In seriousness, the relatives are welcome, since I see them only a few times a year and miss their good fellowship in between. It just throws things into an uproar, and D has no hoards of relatives to join the fray, so he gets lost in a sea of my DNA bearers. Also, he's a true introvert, and too much good fellowship makes him exhausted!

What would you like for Christmas? I have no ideas. :)

merryharper November 30 2006, 22:08:23 UTC

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;-)

msge rcvd bec_87rb December 1 2006, 14:56:40 UTC

Ah, yes. My sister really enjoyed her plush microbes from there, I recall. Fun stuff.