Do you have traditional food which you cook only(but not exclusively) at specific holidays?!
i'll go first.
from the philippines. it's called suman (pronounced as sooman). it's basically glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk(reduced) and a liberal amount of brown sugar... cooked during all saints'/souls' day
Answers: please tell me about it and where you are from.
i'll go first.
from the philippines. it's called suman (pronounced as sooman). it's basically glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk(reduced) and a liberal amount of brown sugar... cooked during all saints'/souls' day
NJ/NY area. Mine is rather boring but I look forward every year to my mom's homemade turkey stuffing. Nothing grand but no matter how hard I try it just never tastes like moms! It's just white bread broken up, lots of browned onions in butter, a few eggs, chicken/turkey broth, salt and pepper and lot's of thyme. Oh, and her turkey gravy is the best! Both are so simple and plain but taste so good! She has never altered these in my 41 years!
And when I was a kid it was tradition with my grandma that we make these easter breads and anisette toast cookies. Not sure what they are called but it was a kind of yeasty tasting blah bread with dyed eggs that sat in the braids of the bread.
I know, boring. ha ha ha
In in Texas and i usually fry a turkey on Thanksgiving
Deffinatly in an Italian House Hold Holiday's are a reason to cook ethnic food and alot of it. If you ate like this all the time you would weigh 500lbs.
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From the good ole US of A. Family has deep roots in Texas. (6 generations) We always make 5-Cup Salad.
marshmallows, pecans, pineapple, coconut, mandrine oranges, red grapes, sour cream, marachino cherries on top. My grandmother always made this at Christmas and Thanksgiving. It's now a tradition, I make it at both holidays now too....sometimes at Easter and 4th of July as well.
I am in the US and Jewish. Most of our holidays have very specific traditional foods, though they vary between Jews of different parts of the world.
For Passover, which is coming up soon, we will have chicken soup with matzo balls. Potato kugel, which is a casserole of shredded potatoes. Beef brisket. Gefilte fish which is various white fish ground with vegetables, seasoning, and cooked. Charoset which is a mixture of apples, honey, walnuts, cinnamon, wine. And of course matzo which is a very symbolic food for this holiday. There are other traditional foods that are part of the Seder ceremony, but these are some of the basics. Some of these I make only for the holiday, and some elsewhere in the year.
i am from the central united states.
traditionally at christmas time, our family cooks a dish we simply call chicken and dumplings. a whole chicken is simmered in a large pot of salted water with a few carrots and pieces of celery and onions. after the meat is cooked, the chicken is removed, the stock is skimmed and canned chicken broth is added to increase the amount of liquid in the pot, and then brought up to a boil. the chicken cools until the meat can be pulled from the bones and shredded or cut into pieces, then set aside. to make the dumplings, a few cups of all-purpose flour is seasoned with salt & pepper, then combined with one egg and enough of the broth to make a ball of dough suitable for rolling. roll out the dough to 1/8" thickness, then cut into 1" x 2" strips. drop the strips of dough into the now rapidly boiling broth. it usually takes 2 batches of dough to make enough dumplings for a crowd. after the dumplings are cooked (tender, yet still firm) add the chicken meat & serve. the broth will thicken to a gravy like consistency.
this is not a common holiday dish for other american families, we just like this and it became a holiday only dish for us when my mother decided it made too much of a mess in the kitchen to cook more often than once/year! :)
Here in the states we have the traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, green beans, corn pudding, broccoli and rice casserole, rolls for Thanksgiving.
We have the same for Christmas but add ham.
Easter we have ham, sweet potatoes, green beans and coconut cake.
For birthdays, usually the birthday person gets to pick their favorite dinner and that is what we have.
I am from Texas, and most Texans have a brisket or some other type of barbecue on the grill on the Fourth of July. We let it grill for a long time, so the meat is so tender it just falls off the bone.
That sounds sooooooooo good!
I always make homemade cinnamon/pecan rolls for Thanksgiving & Christmas Day morning. It's our tradition.