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Food Vibes: Holiday Traditions (Patreon)

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2024-12-24 16:00:03
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Happy Christmas Eve to those who celebrate!

I can't believe in the year and a half since I started this Patreon, there's never been a post about holiday meal traditions?! Or am I mistaken?

In my family, every big family holiday seems to just be an excuse for turkey and stuffing, which...honestly I'm not mad about 😅 Even Easter, though, was a time for a turkey dinner, which admittedly seemed a bit over the top 🤷‍♀️

This past Thanksgiving I was away from home for the first time, and I'll be missing Christmas dinner this year, so I want to live vicariously through my own memories and yours!

At my family's holiday dinners, the spread usually includes: turkey, sliced ham (often with pineapple slices, so...none of that for me 😬), stuffing, mashed potatoes, salad, cream corn, and green beans and/or carrots. Oh, and of course, gravy! For me, honestly, I would be happy if all we had was just bowls and bowls of stuffing 🙈

Depending on who was hosting, we'd either have boxed stuffing or homemade, using pumpernickel bread. I gotta say, I always low-key preferred the boxed stuffing. But maybe that's because I grew up in the household that stuck with that instead of ever attempting to make it from scratch 😅 But let's be honest, boxed Stove Top brand stuffing SLAPS 💁‍♀️

I have now, in my adult life of friends-givings, had a homemade stuffing made from Costco ciabatta buns, and I will conceded that it may even beat out the boxed stuffing...that makes some VERY tasty stuffing 🤤

Which household our family dinners were hosted at also influenced the appetizers. In some cases they included charcuterie, pickles, and olives. In most cases they featured snack foods, i.e. chips, chocolates, nuts. But in every case, they included deviled eggs. My family loves deviled eggs. And when I'm left to cook for myself, I lowkey often make deviled eggs. And I know that's not a full meal, but...they're just so good!

I know a lot of people who make some weird and interesting casseroles during the holidays. At other people's houses, I've had some sort of squash casserole, and a green bean casserole (which was unbelievably delicious by the way). But the one I've never had, but know exists: sweet potato casserole...with marshmallows?? Will the Americans PLEASE EXPLAIN? 😅

What are the holiday staples you most look forward to? Are there certain foods you always have at holiday meals? Do your holiday meals vary much between different holidays, e.g. Thanksgiving/Christmas?

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waltermellin

Holiday food traditions 🤤😍 First off STOVE TOP BOX STUFFING IS THE BEST!!! its my fav thanksgiving food too. That being said, I have made stuffing from scratch and with my own sourdough that has been a hit ^^ As far as my family christmas traditions go, it’s evolved! When I grew up, the Taiwanese American family friends and communities were my extended family of sorts. So different families would take turns hosting big parties, but the food always involved a mix of American holiday fare and Taiwanese food. So we’d have potlucks of turkey for thanksgiving and ham for christmas, miefun (stirfried rice noodles), steamed buns, tea eggs, daikon cakes, alongside boxed stuffing, green bean casserole, and tuna casserole (story behind that is a family friend learned it while working at a soup kitchen and started making it on the regular because it was a hit!). And of course there was bubble tea and almond jelly in the punch bowl ^^ When i was in middle school I became responsible for the 7 layer tex mex dip that my family was known for (my mom’s specialty was the miefun and butter mochi, while my dad steamed buns!) Later as kids graduated/moved away, our families stopped having parties traditions got smaller, and my family adopted a smaller christmas lunch tradition of smoked salmon, goat cheese, and crackers from Costco. And My dad would always make shredded pork jerky and Taiwanese sticky rice for my siblings and i to take on the road after visiting from the holidays. ^_^ Today now that my sister married into a giant Peruvian family, our thanksgiving and christmas eves have gotten a lot more lively again! So now it’s christmas and thanksgiving meals of a mix of Peruvian and american food. So along side the turkey and ham is, peruvian olive rice, papa haucaína, and causa (Peruvian potato salad) along side mac n cheese, green bean casseroles, and boxed stuffing ^^ For the day after thanksgiving, we’d make leftover sandwiches with salsa criolla and the hauncaína sauce.🤤 For christmas, it’s small lunches with the nuclear families and a big soccer match with family in the afternoon. Yep! ^^ Not really many other holiday meals, except bbq’s for various American holidays. Oh and lunar new year. Which is hot pot ^^ Re: sweet potato with marshmallows… It is my absolutely least favorite thanksgiving dish… like whyyy??? Sweet potatoes are sweet enough on their own. If you want dessert just eat sweet potatoes pie 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Rev

I love sweet potatoes casseroles , one recurring memory came to mind in reading this post , back when I my grandparents were alive whenever we had meals at their house they always had things like cheese and Crackers, pickles and other assortment of stuff, we always call ourselves pickers cause even if the meal was soon we would still be standing around the snacky stuff picking at things to eat ..