My daughter has a school project,, [the traditional food of America] ... asking What are the traditional foods of festive Christmas of your area???? I will be glad if you write some :-D :-D thank you very very much...
Ham and/or turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes for one side of the family. The other side of the family does Christmas breakfast (egg/ham casserole, cinnamon rolls, fruit).
When I was a kid we always had either roasted Turkey w/gravy and cornbread dressing(or Ham if everyone is tired of Turkey from Thanksgiving in late November), mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, green bean casserole and whole kernel corn along with homemade dinner rolls and Cranberry sauce, for Christmas dinner. And that is pretty much what we have now too. A few years ago we were all so tired of Turkey and Ham that we had steaks and last year was a particularly stressful year so we just had a variety of sandwiches so cooking and clean up was a minimum. Our special foods that we only have at Christmas are my homemade Cinnamon Bread with breakfast, Pumpkin Pie (made with pumpkin I cooked instead of the store bought canned), Pecan Pie, Chocolate Pixies, Snowball Cookies, Marshmallow Cream Fudge and regular Fudge...and maybe Divinity if the weather is right. Here are recipes for the cookies, I can post the Cinnamon Bread too if she needs it. Chocolate Pixies Cookies Snowball Cookies
My husbands family makes Poppyseed kuchen. A sweet yeast bread that is filled with a poppyseed filling ( traditionally a german sweet, I think). Pork roast with a horseradish sauce, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, greenbeans or corn.
Traditional Christmas is pretty much whatever we want in our house. I usually fix ham, or a stuffed pork tenderloin, frozen vegetables from the garden (green beans, corn, maybe some yellow squash in a casserole), homemade crescent rolls, an apple/raisin/cranberry chilled salad, and pumpkin pie from cooked, not canned pumpkin. My mother-in-law's traditional Christmas dinner was fried chicken from Kentucky Fried Chicken. If the local one was closed, she'd get it the day before. Yum .
My traditional Christmas dinner is whatever my sis-in-law is cooking. We really don't stick too much to traditional meals. It's whatever sounds good. One year I made Gumbo... it was a big hit since everyone was tired of the same old stuff. One tradition that I try to keep to is the sweets. I have a couple cookie recipes that I always make... and last year I learned how to make Pecan Pralines like my mom used to make. So I guess I'm no help to your daughter.
Me and my daughter thank you very much,,, her work is sure to be amazing, I'm very lucky to be your friend .... you yourself celebrations brew AMAZING food and sweets :-D :-D :-D :-D
