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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 23, 2022 11:07:00 GMT
At this time of year I suspect we all have some form of festive meal or foods. Some will be based on family tradition, other religious etc etc.
Mine is based around the Festival of Chanukah, which commemmorates the traditional Jewish phrase of '...They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!..'. The killing part was the Assyrians trying to destroy Judaism about 2,200 years ago. After the 'we won' bit, it was realised that the temple was short of oil for lighting the 24/7 lit candelabra known as the Menorah. They found a small flask of holy oil which should have lasted for a day but miraculously lasted for eight days. Therefore the festival lasts for eight days, we light our our Menorahs and eat lots of food fried in oil.
So at this time of year we eat lots of doughnuts and deep fried grated potato and onion rissoles called Latkes. And you wondered why you rarely see slim Jews...
What are you foody traditions?
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Post by Humph on Dec 23, 2022 11:24:38 GMT
Whisky mainly. Don’t really drink much at all the rest of the year, but when it’s dark and cold and there are things to be got through…
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Post by bpg on Dec 23, 2022 14:59:48 GMT
Deep fried grated potato is a thing here in Germany, Reibekuchen in the Ruhrgebiet or Kartoffelpuffer elsewhere served with apple puree at Christmas markets.
Whisky gets attention more towards New Year for me. Christmas is Advokaat, wine, beer, girly drinks.
Christmas is really a grand Sunday lunch with two meats (Beef and lamb this year), five veg, Yorkshire Pud, bread sauce, pigs in blankets...
New year I do a joint of pork and make some Geordie caviar for sandwiches which I use a Turkish Fladenbrot as a stottie substitute.
I don't have a sweet tooth but one thing I do look forward to is proper homemade Christmas cake with fruit that has been stewing in booze for weeks. Not bothered about the marzipan or icing but the moist cake is delicious.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 23, 2022 15:05:50 GMT
We also eat Kartoffelpuffer with apple sauce but apart from my family no one else I know has it. Latkes were the only dish that was my father's responsibility to make.
Of course Friday night dinner is a weekly tradition of chicken soup followed by roast chicken with roast potatoes.
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Post by Humph on Dec 23, 2022 17:32:07 GMT
I guess Thursday is not a good day to be a chicken in Tel Aviv then?
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Post by WDB on Dec 24, 2022 18:48:54 GMT
Our Christmas food traditions are those of millions of others — at least since 2004, when I discovered the bronze turkey as the antidote to all the dried-out white birds that had put me off for years. I enjoy it hot on the day but the leftovers are out of this world.
The tradition I’ll claim as our own is a New Year's Day brunch of smoked salmon and vintage champagne, followed by the Neujahrskonzert from Vienna. Even perma-stroppy Boy2 likes this, to the point where he’s told his American girlfriend about it and wants her to get back here in time to join us.
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Post by Humph on Dec 24, 2022 19:06:26 GMT
New Year’s Day used to (in our Scotland and Switzerland days) include a bag of chips in the car after a day’s skiing, but now it’s a bag of nuts and a flask of coffee while sitting on the back step of the car after a mountain bike ride.
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Post by WDB on Dec 24, 2022 22:02:31 GMT
Hmm. This year, what with Things Being the Way They Are, it might be wise to settle for a park bench after feeding the ducks.
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Post by Humph on Dec 25, 2022 8:30:00 GMT
That thought didn’t escape me last Wednesday actually. Was up a Welsh hill on the bike (on one of the ambulance strike days)
I’m still not quite able to to reliably grip with my left hand but was contemplating a steep twisting descent that would have involved getting briefly airborne in places. Haven’t attempted anything like that since I damaged my arm but I was tempted.
Bottled it and went round the easy way in the end.
Still trying to convince myself it was a sensible victory of discretion over valour, but part of me feels like it was a wimp out.
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 26, 2022 12:11:42 GMT
In Prague for a few days. Just tried a Trdelnik. Lovely but I'm glad I shared it with Espadrille. I feel two kilos heavier.
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Post by bpg on Dec 26, 2022 14:15:56 GMT
Wash it down with some Becherovka.
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Post by WDB on Dec 26, 2022 17:17:16 GMT
Central Europe does the very best keep-out-the-cold food. One more reason for limiting climate change: so there’s still some cold to keep out.
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Post by dixinormus on Dec 26, 2022 21:03:26 GMT
Seems to be plenty of cold in North America and Japan at the moment?! And aren’t the media predicting another arctic blast for much of the UK any day now..?!
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Post by EspadaIII on Dec 27, 2022 11:40:12 GMT
Unseasonably warm in Prague. About 2C.
A lovely brisk, bright day and time for another Trdelnik....
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Post by bpg on Oct 26, 2023 11:51:46 GMT
It's not even Hallowe'en and "she" has started watching those horribly cheesy Hallmark Christmas films 🙄 🤢🤮
I broke out the Rum loaded Stollen as a countermeasure. That could come back to haunt me at 386 calories/100g. I could be match fit as Santa by the middle of November.
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