Christmas in the Kitchen - Family Favorites. For sweet things, Vic loves Date and Walnut Bread, at any time, any season. Sophia loves Fudge, the kind made with marshmallow fluff, and I love fruitcake.
Top of the savory list is smoked salmon for Vic (we had a standard Sunday after church lunch at a local bagel place in Virginia and lox and cream cheese bagels were always our choice). Sophia loves marinated mushrooms and just give me a jar of pimento-stuffed olives and I am happy. I suppose that comes from a childhood memory of only ever having green olives at Christmas time. They were a treat (a jar of olives and a can of Reddi-Whip-type squirt cream were the two things my sister and I really looked forward to each Christmas); I don't find them to be overly expensive but I suppose for a one-income family of four in the late 60s and 70s, they were a treat item.
We have lots of other favorites but these stand out to me as the ones that I will remember most.
We used to beg our mom to buy the aerosol canned whipped cream, it looked so exotic to us!
ReplyDeleteWhat great fun you guys have with all those traditions! I know here fudge and thumbprint cookies are for Christmas... I didn't do any thumbprint cookies last year and my daughter said it wasn't Christmas without them... so they will go back on the baking list this year.
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