What are your favorite foods for the Holidays? Let's also share our Holiday Recipes!

1. Chicken and Noodles
2. Mashed Potatoes
3. Cranberry Salad
4. Cookies, Cookies, Cookies
5. Candy (Santa, I have been a good girl this year!!!!)
6. Green Bean Casserole

This one of my favorites for every holiday.

Cranberry Salad

1 Large box Cherry jello
1 can bing cherries
1 can Cranberry sauce
1/2 cup chopped apples
1/2 cup chopped nuts ( I like pecans)
1/2 cup chopped celery

Use the juice from the drained cherries and enough water to make 2 cups liquid heat to a boiling and disolve Jello

Add Chopped apples, nuts and celery then chill.
I mix it up before serving.

a very good topping for it is.
1/2 block cream cheese
5 heaping tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons sour cream
mix well and top salad.

Here is a very good cake recipe and perfect for this time of year.

Pumpkin Cake

2 cups sugar
1 1/4 cup veg oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups pumpkin canned or fresh
4 eggs beaten
2 cups all purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup walnuts ( optional)

pre heat oven to 350
grease and flour your pan or pans
sift dry and set aside
in a large bowl combine
sugar
oil
vanilla
add pumpkin and eggs then gradually add flour and mix well.

bake tilla toothpick inserted in center comes out clean about 30 minutes.

top with a crean cheese glaze or serve with vanilla ice cream.

Well I have to say my ALL-Time favorite dish is good ole GREEN BEAN casserole. LOL

I could just eat that for the holidays and be happy. We also have a really good Orange candy bread that we make. I would have to dig out the recipe.

guessing this topic will be moved to the RECIPES section so will wait to find it there before I post.

Well, I guess you already did what you said you were NOT going to do .... you already posted!

Question?
Holidays? as in Christmas?
or any festive family get together ... as in Thanksgiving (for Canada, that's October!), Easter, etc.




For Christmas ... it'd be Christmas Cake (qualified by the fact that yes, some are not the best, though mine's a sure fired favourite.

For Any and all ...
Turkey and Stuffing
Cranberry Sauce
Grammy's Creamed Onions

All the side dishes. Wouldn't even have to serve the meat.

Both my friend COOKIE MONSTER and I would agree
...............COOKIES!!!!
June in Cincinnati

any Holidays!

The standard meal -
Turkey or ham or prime rib
Dressing
Mashed Spuds
Candied Yams..
Jello Salad..
Rolls...
Pumpkin pies/pumpkin cheese cake/Kahlua cheese cake.

One thing I started to do several years back is that I serve ONE brand new recipe Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. It's been funm keeps the cook from getting bored and now the family looks for it.

Off to work.. will post a recipe later.

Mine are:
Broccoli Casserole
Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Lima Beans
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Pie

Thanksgiving

Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, sauerkraut,coleslaw, deviled eggs, rolls, pumpkin cream cheese roll, pumpkin pie

Turkey
Turkey the day of
Turkey bone soup the next day
Turkey sandwiches the day after
Turkey casserole the day after the day after
are you picking up the progression?

did you say T u r k e y

Turkey and more turkey. dressing, mince meat pie, pecan pie, chess pie, cranberry sauce, greenbean casserole, macaroni salad, fruit salad, and so much more. I am so ready for the holidays. Bring them on.

I think I am gaining weight just reading this!!Here it's turkey, w/ dressing, Ham
mashed potatoes w/ gravy
candied sweet potatoes
green salad, olives ,pickles,
jello salad, cranberry sauce
corn casserole
yeast rolls
pumpkin, pecan & blueberry pie
cheese cake and best of all, a family 30+ strong all in my none to large house.
I will be 70 this year so not sure how much longer I will be able to physically handle the work load.

My favorite foods for the holidays are:
Chicken fried rice,
Vegetables fried rice,
Fruits and vegetables salads,
Fried fish,
Pizza,
and Green beans casserole.

I absolutely adore fruit cake. But not regular fruit cake (that I just like) but my grandmother's recipe for white fruit cake, filled with dates, golden raisins and nuts! Not that fake colored candied stuff. Except a few candies cherries.

I like most american /german/amish/pennsylvania dutch foods. American chinese and sone mexican. Not too picky-as lognas it is basically homemade and not out of a can. lol

Any comment?

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