Which Holiday Foods do You Love/Hate?

My mother used to make both mince meat pies AND Christmas pudding! Both are pretty vile in my mind. God, christmas pudding is steamed in a tin. It really doesn’t get any grosser. Oh, and she tries to make us eat stollen on christmas morning. Double gross. The actual meal is delicious though. Standing rib roast for the win!

Hmm I love homemade salted caramels, peach cobbler or homemade mac and cheese. Those are defintely my favorites around the holidays. Cranberry sauces or stuffing are my least favorites!

-Kyarra Keele

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I love salted caramel and peppermint chocolate! I would really like to try chocolate oranges some time :) I’m not a huge fan of ginger or eggnog :( -Audrey | Brunch at Audrey’s

I hate fruitcake with the weird artificial-looking green and red fruit bits. So much so, it’s become a running joke in my family to include some form of it in my Christmas presents. They’ve gotten really creative about how they incorporate it so it always catches me off guard!

People are aware that mince pies these days are not actually made of meat, right? It’s just basically raisins, brandy and oranges or some kind of fruit in a delicious pastry morsel with sugar on top – how is that not delicious?! you can use beef suet but definitely not required! (potters off to kitchen for midnight snack…)

My mother used to make both mince meat pies AND Christmas pudding! Both are pretty vile in my mind. God, christmas pudding is steamed in a tin. It really doesn’t get any grosser. Oh, and she tries to make us eat stollen on christmas morning. Double gross. The actual meal is delicious though. Standing rib roast for the win!

Oh my gosh, pfeffernusse is the bomb! How could it be on the hate list??? LOVE those cookies!

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My mom does tangerines in our stockings too! That’s her tradition from growing up in Wisconsin, where fresh produce in winter was a special treat. Now she lives in southern California where, on Christmas Eve, she goes out and picks her own tangerines from her garden. But the tradition remains!

There is no holiday food I don’t love, it’s a problem for my belly! And then I married into Jewish holidays and there is even more amazing food tradition!

I love coffee, caramel, eggnog, cheesecake, chocolate, candy canes and anything peppermint!

Love: latkes, bimuelos with chocolate sauce, Mexican pot roast from Chuck’s Southern Comfort Cafe, Triple Ginger Brew and the dark chocolate caramel marshmallows from Trader Joes. Hate: pumpkin pie, turkey, green bean casserole and stuffing.

Lotsa latkes! I’m always trying to concoct some sort of low-fat version–ridiculous! I make cupcakes with with frosting and stick a wrapped chocolate gelt coin in the frosting. Kids love ’em.

Love Pfeffernusse! And pumpkin pie :) Hate all things choc-orange. Can’t stand it.

Has anyone mentioned sausage balls? YUM. Sausage, cheese, and biscuit mix… baked. I think it’s a southern thang. I’m from MS. My grandmothers recipe refers to them as COON BALLS. I eat about 6 at a time.

Yes to tangerines, mandarines, clementines for Christmas; they all bring childhood holiday memories, and I still love them all to this day.

Love: Homemade Panettone with loads of candied orange and golden raisins. Homemade Tamales (sweet and savory). Homemade flour tortillas. Brazo Gitano (a Spanish version of Buche de Noel). All sort of nuts. All cheeses except the ones with fungus/mold, ie, all “blue” cheeses – gross! Wine, though I’m an infamous lightweight.

Hate: Eggnogg. Peppermint-y chocolate anything (sorry, but to me it’s like ingesting chocolate and toothpaste together). Over-salted cured meats.

But my absolute favorite, which is a combo you cannot beat: Mexican hot chocolate with lots and homemade Churros.

Love love love: Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup, pumpkin soy anything, squash soup, spaghetti squash, roasted veggies, peppermint patties, Chestnut praline or Gingerbread soy lattes, peppermint hot chocolate, peppermint schnapps or rum IN hot chocolate, chocolate covered popcorn
Hate hate hate: Eggnog, MAKING eggnog lattes at work (eww the smell), molasses anything, actual gingerbread, and holiday roast.
Great post!
~ Samantha

My favorite is pumpkin pie with extra nutmeg too! What still makes me cringe is fruitcake. I just don’t get it. My husband loves the stuff so I still buy him a mini panetone cake every year.

Love love love: Pumpkin, pumpkin pie, pumpkin soy anything, pumpkin soup, Chestnut praline soy lattes roasted spaghetti squash, roasted veggies, peppermint hot chocolate, peppermint rum or schnapps IN hot chocolate, and holiday wine <3
Hate hate hate: Eggnog, MAKING Eggnog lattes at work (eww the smell), molasses anything, and lard noodles. Ick.
Loved the post!
~ Samantha

Love pumpkin pie and hello dollies (layered bars of graham cracker crumbs, chocolate chips, coconut, walnuts, and condensed milk)

Hate fruit cake…

I’m normally a homemade kind of girl, but the Trader Joe’s chocolate covered candy cane Jo-Jos are a HUGE weakness of mine. I lose control.

I don’t understand those assorted shortbread cookies that come in the tins that businesses give out. They are horrible!

Turkey is just gross….

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My husband’s family does tangerines in stockings too! That must be a British thing (they’re Scottish).

(Also, I actually like mince pies. I do not care for brandied fruit.)

I love once pies, Christmas fruit cake, plum pudding and trifle! Also love eating prawns, smoked salmon and oysters on Christmas Day.

Being Australian we are in Summer so enjoy the seafood with a glass of crisp white wine ! We also still love the English traditional food.