What is your favorite Holiday Dish?

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Posted: 11/24/2014 12:46:34 AM EDT

Just sitting here thinking how crazy it is that Thanksgiving is right around the corner.. Man this year has flown by..

What is your favorite food during the holiday feast?

I really enjoy Cornbread dressing w/ cranberry sauce and fried chicken legs.. Those two thinks take up the most space on my plate.

I know, some of you will say "Fried Chicken during the Holidays???"

I live in the south, It's a staple here.

Anyways, whats your favorite food of the holidays?

Posted: 11/24/2014 12:50:56 AM EDT

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Pie.

Posted: 11/24/2014 12:51:27 AM EDT

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My sister makes this really good bourbon pecan sweet potatoes side dish.

Posted: 11/24/2014 12:53:59 AM EDT

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That sounds great.

Posted: 11/24/2014 12:55:48 AM EDT

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My sister makes this really good bourbon pecan sweet potatoes side dish.

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Recipe please.

Posted: 11/24/2014 1:03:17 AM EDT

[#5]

My mother's green congealed salad.

It doesn't matter how many other great dishes we have (and we have plenty!), it just isn't Thanksgiving or Christmas in earnest until I've had some of that green stuff that Mom has made since I was a kid.

Ditto the hot wassail my wife makes for me throughout the holidays, but that's a much more recent tradition - just the last ten years or so.

Posted: 11/24/2014 1:06:17 AM EDT

[#6]

Green bean casserole topped with crunchy fried onions

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Posted: 11/24/2014 1:08:23 AM EDT

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Stuffing. Because of work schedules I became the cook in the family and do it all.
Got my stuffing down. No one complains about anything I make, and it is all real food - not Hamburger Helper.

Posted: 11/24/2014 1:09:03 AM EDT

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I'm Italian, so we still do fish on Christmas Eve. Squid, squid, shrimp, clams, oysters, shrimp, mussels, scallops. Not too fond of the salt cod and the smelts, but they are traditional.

Easter it's minestre (?), a soup made with greens and a variety of pork products: knuckles, pepperoni, other sausages I can't identify. Basically peasant food - its the first of the greens combined with the absolute last of the meat from last year. I could eat a gallon.

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Posted: 11/24/2014 1:10:43 AM EDT

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I'm Italian, so we still do fish on Christmas Eve. Squid, squid, shrimp, clams, oysters, shrimp, mussels, scallops. Not too fond of the salt cod and the smelts, but they are traditional.

Easter it's minestre (?), a soup made with greens and a variety of pork products: knuckles, pepperoni, other sausages I can't identify. Basically peasant food - its the first of the greens combined with the absolute last of the meat from last year. I could eat a gallon.

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Mind one more person at the table?

Posted: 11/24/2014 9:57:45 PM EDT

[#10]

I'm looking forward to some pecan pie..

Posted: 11/24/2014 9:58:13 PM EDT

[#11]

Lobster with warm drawn butter

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:02:55 PM EDT

[#12]

Eggs Benedict. Family tradition.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:03:08 PM EDT

[#13]

Creamy mashed potatoes and homemade gravy

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:07:35 PM EDT

[#14]

homemade cranberry relish

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:07:49 PM EDT

[#15]

This is a Christmas thing, but Nuremburg cookies. My mom make them when I was a kid. You have to make them now and then store them in tins with cut apples to soften them up. They are rock hard when first baked. After a month they are tits!

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:08:01 PM EDT

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When I was a kid, my mom would always make us Hanky Panky's for watching the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving.

It was pretty common for her to make a second batch in the afternoon, and I would eat those and stuffing for dinner, since we'd be eating turkey for the next week anyway.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:10:34 PM EDT

[#17]

the wings of a roasted store bought turkey. that's the only thing I miss when we eat a wild turkey instead of store bought on thanksgiving
stuffing covered in gravy

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:11:23 PM EDT

[#18]

Everything I eat during the holidays I also make and eat during the year - except eggnog.

I only drink eggnog during the holidays, mainly because it's like ingesting an entire years worth of calories in one sitting....

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:11:25 PM EDT

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My mother is German/Swedish and so our Christmas Eve dinners have always been a lot of traditional Swedish dishes from her family. Herring, rye bread, meatballs, rice pudding, ham, baked beans, that sort of stuff. From her mom's German side she bakes Stollen and these phenomenal Christmas cookies like pfeffernusse and others. It's a bit odd compared to what most folks down here have for Christmas dinner, but the smell of the food cooking at their house always brings back tons of good memories.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:14:16 PM EDT

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homemade cranberry relish

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Recipe? That looks awesome!

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:16:20 PM EDT

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I fucking love green bean casserole.
I go for a Thanksgiving dinner and get weird looks when half my plate is covered with the stuff.

ETA a pic. I could eat this shit for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. NOM NOM NOM

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:17:12 PM EDT

[#22]

candied yams..

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:19:08 PM EDT

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For Christmas it's home made ravioli with leg of lamb.

For Easter it's Kishka with beet horseradish and ham

New years it's Saurkraut with Pork and Kielbasa

Thanksgiving is the usual stuff. Turkey, Stuffing, Sweet taters, etc. etc.

Every holiday also has it's own deserts….. to many to list.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:19:10 PM EDT

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My mother's green congealed salad.

It doesn't matter how many other great dishes we have (and we have plenty!), it just isn't Thanksgiving or Christmas in earnest until I've had some of that green stuff that Mom has made since I was a kid.

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The "Green Stuff" is where it's at. Christmas and Thanksgiving.

I am wondering if your "Green Salad" is the same as my "Green Salad" considering you are the only person outside of my family that I have heard talk about it.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:22:47 PM EDT

[#25]

hands down - stuffing.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:23:18 PM EDT

[#26]

Oyster stuffing

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:23:29 PM EDT

[#27]

Mirlitons stuffed with ground sausage. My aunt also does some nice collards and cracklin' bread.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:24:11 PM EDT

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Green bean casserole topped with crunchy fried onions

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This. I absolutely forbid myself from having this except around Thanksgiving and Christmas so I don't wear it out..

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:28:03 PM EDT

[#29]

Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn/peas, cranberry sauce/jelly and a dinner roll, sourdough preferably.

I like it just like that.

Chris

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:36:58 PM EDT

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My mother's green congealed salad.

It doesn't matter how many other great dishes we have (and we have plenty!), it just isn't Thanksgiving or Christmas in earnest until I've had some of that green stuff that Mom has made since I was a kid.

Ditto the hot wassail my wife makes for me throughout the holidays, but that's a much more recent tradition - just the last ten years or so.

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Get your mom's recipe while you can. My mother used to make a tomato aspic that I used to hate as a kid but grew thru the years to really like. Unfortunately, she never wrote the recipe down and the dementia has progressed to a point that its lost. I tried a couple on-line recipes, and they just were not the same.

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:44:10 PM EDT

[#31]

Turkey & Ham with all the fixings

Posted: 11/24/2014 10:52:23 PM EDT

[#32]

I usually get Prime Rib for Christmas so Thanksgiving is the only time I get Turkey and I love the whole thing

Turkey

Ham

Mashed taters

gravy

stuffing from inside the bird and cooked separate

cranberry sauce - I like the jellied crap the can,Im weird but my wife always gets me a can

homemade cranberry sauce

homemade rolls

im going to eat until I have to call off sick friday

oh yeah the Pecan Pies my wife makes

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:39:28 PM EDT

[#33]

Tomorrow is gonna go by so slow!

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:41:41 PM EDT

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Recipe please.

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My sister makes this really good bourbon pecan sweet potatoes side dish.

Recipe please.

I don't have it. I should call her up tonight to get it, she's coming to the dinner I'm going to. But anything she makes is great.

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:46:10 PM EDT

[#35]

My Grandma's coconut ambrosia salad.

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:52:42 PM EDT

[#36]

Dark Turkey meat smothered in dark gravy...with a little stuffing and cranberry sauce.

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:53:03 PM EDT

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Just sitting here thinking how crazy it is that Thanksgiving is right around the corner.. Man this year has flown by..

What is your favorite food during the holiday feast?

I really enjoy Cornbread dressing w/ cranberry sauce and fried chicken legs.. Those two thinks take up the most space on my plate.

I know, some of you will say "Fried Chicken during the Holidays???"

I live in the south, It's a staple here.

Anyways, whats your favorite food of the holidays?

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LOL--my dressing is already prepped and aging in a bag in the refrigerator. I feel sorry for Yankees who eat stuffing instead.

Posted: 11/25/2014 10:56:11 PM EDT

[#38]

Duck dressing.

Salt cured home smoked ham with homemade honey mustard.

Sweet Potato pie.

Posted: 11/25/2014 11:17:03 PM EDT

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LOL--my dressing is already prepped and aging in a bag in the refrigerator. I feel sorry for Yankees who eat stuffing instead.

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Just sitting here thinking how crazy it is that Thanksgiving is right around the corner.. Man this year has flown by..

What is your favorite food during the holiday feast?

I really enjoy Cornbread dressing w/ cranberry sauce and fried chicken legs.. Those two thinks take up the most space on my plate.

I know, some of you will say "Fried Chicken during the Holidays???"

I live in the south, It's a staple here.

Anyways, whats your favorite food of the holidays?

LOL--my dressing is already prepped and aging in a bag in the refrigerator. I feel sorry for Yankees who eat stuffing instead.

Haha.. I hear you there..

Posted: 11/25/2014 11:20:56 PM EDT

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Ham and turkey, but it's the combination of all the stuff I really like.

Posted: 11/25/2014 11:32:37 PM EDT

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Recipe? That looks awesome!

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homemade cranberry relish

http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cranberry-pear-relish-closeup.jpg

Recipe? That looks awesome!

Looks pretty much like what we make, take a bag of cranberries and a whole navel orange, run everything through the food grinder, yes, peel and all. Add honey/sugar to taste. Maybe a splash of Gran Marnier. Looks like his might have walnuts or a few additional items mixed in. Let the flavors blend a few hours before serving. Even better when you make it the day ahead. Way better than the jellied stuff that slides out of the can... I like puttingit on my turkey sandwiches, too.

Posted: 11/25/2014 11:37:17 PM EDT

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My mother is German/Swedish and so our Christmas Eve dinners have always been a lot of traditional Swedish dishes from her family. Herring, rye bread, meatballs, rice pudding, ham, baked beans, that sort of stuff. From her mom's German side she bakes Stollen and these phenomenal Christmas cookies like pfeffernusse and others. It's a bit odd compared to what most folks down here have for Christmas dinner, but the smell of the food cooking at their house always brings back tons of good memories.

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/images/2012/11/20121121-230908-hotbread-stollen.jpg

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My wife is 1/2 German and 1/2 Italian, she makes Stollen every year and tops it with a streusel glaze.