Apolyton Cuisine: your meals throughout the HOLIDAYS

[Solly]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I had steak last night

But I have steak every night

I thought you lot just ate nan and chapattis

[aneeshm]

Usually, the celebration of Christmas in my house is restricted to wishing each other and taking the day off (Jesus rocks even if for no other reason than the time of his birthday, which effectively means we get one week off, because the new year is so close). Christmas is a happy day everywhere in India.

But because I'm now living as a student in another city, I can't afford to splurge on fine dining.

There many are holidays where food is festively prepared in the family, such as Navratri. I loved eating off the huge silver plates on which the prasad food is offered to God and sanctified. I miss those days.

And I and the people in my family (except my grandfather) are vegetarians, so no meat for us, and specially not on holy days like Christmas (in case we were not vegetarians).

But this being Christmas, and a time to be happy, happy I am!

[GePap]

Lets see, mt family had:

A pork roast seasoned maily with pepper and garlic
Mashed Butternut squash
Spaghetti squash
Carrot salad
Roasted asparagus
coconut rice with pigeon peas
glazed potatoes

with red wine and for me a nice Belgium tripple

[Imran Siddiqui]

The "Holiday" I celebrated was Thanksgiving . And there I cooked up a nice 8 lb turkey breast which had been brined for over 12 hours (mmm, brined turkey) and cooked to 160 degrees, allowed to rest until 165 degrees. I also made stuffing (or dressing, since it wasn't put in the bird) with celery, onions, carrots, and apples using Williams Sonoma croutons.

Other people brought the mashed potatoes, green beans, wine, and pecan pie & chocolate pecan pie (the last one was to die for!)

[Harovan]

Goose like traditionally every year.

[Ecthy]

The rabbit came with dumplings, the northern kind from potatoes though, not the southern kind from bread.

potatoes:

[Ecthy]

from bread:

[Solly]

Eh? Dumnplings are meant to be made with suet, flour, and water!

[Solly]

[Ecthy]

Chasing Rainbows, I think those are similar to the ones made from bread in Austria, Bavaria and Bohemia.

In Franconia, the Sudets and Saxony, they east those made from potatoes - "griene Kleeß"

[Addled Platypus]

chicken marsala and beer

later on....egg nogg with nutmeg and brandy

[Harovan]

Franconia
Potato dumplings

[Ecthy]

Kartoffelklöße >>> Semmelknödel

[Datajack Franit]

We had roasted pork and home made lasagna, with floods of champagne

[Will9]

I had: Turkey (I usally don't like to much, but this year it was great)
Ham
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy (which I must have an extra serving of every Thansgiving and Christmas)
and rolls.