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What part of your Holiday meat incorporates some of your cultural backgound? Mine is stuffed cabbage (Original Post) debm55 Sunday OP
Mine, too SheltieLover Sunday #1
Thank you very much much. SheltieLover. debm55 Sunday #3
Just go for some bakalava. discntnt_irny_srcsm Sunday #5
Love bakalava. Use to make it when I was younger. It is time consuming to make but has great results. debm55 Sunday #6
Ha! SheltieLover Sunday #11
This message was self-deleted by its author debm55 Sunday #12
My wife LOVES stuffed cabbage! discntnt_irny_srcsm Sunday #2
Thank you very much iscntnt_irny_srcsm. I understand. debm55 Sunday #4
Haggis is awesome! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #16
None Jilly_in_VA Sunday #7
Thank you Jilly_in_VA debm55 Sunday #8
We have oyster stew on Christmas eve. Nanuke Sunday #9
Thank you very much Nanuke. That is a new one for me. Thank you for sharing it with us. debm55 Sunday #10
That is also a thing on the North Carolina Outer Banks on 'Old Christmas'! OldBaldy1701E Yesterday #17
not so much now but my family had several yellowdogintexas Monday #13
Thank you yellowdogintexas. That meal sounds wounderful. Thank you for sharing with us. debm55 Monday #14
This question went right me past first time. But now... electric_blue68 Yesterday #15

SheltieLover

(60,221 posts)
1. Mine, too
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 01:43 PM
Sunday

Just made a big pot of stuffed cabbage soup. It tastes identical without all the futzing around with cabbage leaves. Chop them up & toss them in the pot. LOL

Enjoy!

I wish I could find a good potica!

debm55

(38,376 posts)
6. Love bakalava. Use to make it when I was younger. It is time consuming to make but has great results.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:17 PM
Sunday

SheltieLover

(60,221 posts)
11. Ha!
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:55 PM
Sunday

Nothing but deep fried crap in this region.

Paneras barely have a pastry section. 😓

Good thought though. Thx for sharing!

Response to SheltieLover (Reply #11)

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,599 posts)
2. My wife LOVES stuffed cabbage!
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 01:54 PM
Sunday

I prefer stuffed peppers and the wife makes great ones.
I'm of Scottish heritage and don't really want to try eating what that culture stuffs.

Jilly_in_VA

(11,102 posts)
7. None
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:26 PM
Sunday

Ours will be lamb, roasted baby potatoes and apples, and sautéed spinach. Chocolate chip pecan pie (made sugar-free for my diabetic husband) for dessert.
Maybe the hard cider we'll be drinking?

Nanuke

(579 posts)
9. We have oyster stew on Christmas eve.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:34 PM
Sunday

Years ago, Scottish coal miners got a bucket of oysters to take home as a Christmas bonus on Christmas Eve. I’m told the tradition was carried over to miners on the Minnesota Iron Range.

debm55

(38,376 posts)
10. Thank you very much Nanuke. That is a new one for me. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:36 PM
Sunday

OldBaldy1701E

(6,601 posts)
17. That is also a thing on the North Carolina Outer Banks on 'Old Christmas'!
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:56 AM
Yesterday

That was one of the first things I learned about when I moved up here. The guy that owns our place is from up north. He told me that oyster stew is fairly common up there.

yellowdogintexas

(22,801 posts)
13. not so much now but my family had several
Mon Dec 23, 2024, 02:24 AM
Monday

I grew up in the rural South so some were farm related and some are just Southern

one of my uncles cured hams so we always had one of his hams
radishes from the plant bed which was also used to steam the tobacco seeds
Boiled custard (alternative to egg nog) delicious especially with coconut cake and ambrosia.
(my mom made ambrosia with tangerines, oranges, bananas, red grapefruit, coconut . No fruit cocktail. Back then winter was when we could get the most citrus.)
Oyster casserole. I don't know how this started but my mom made it every Christmas . I loved the taste but hated actually eating the oysters (a texture thing) My sister ate the oysters from my serving.
Cornbread dressing, not stuffing. Very southern
Giblet gravy with hard boiled eggs in the gravy.


electric_blue68

(18,685 posts)
15. This question went right me past first time. But now...
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 07:46 AM
Yesterday

As I saw this now - I suddenly remembered!

If we were visiting one set of cousins (all Greek-Amrican on one side) for Christmas we'd have pastitsou!
Ziti noodles (long round tubes) in layers, ground beef, a bit of tomato sauce, a bit of olive oil, probably some garlic, with a ? white bechamel sauce topping! Yum!

Thanks for the prompt of memory!

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