I'm getting ready to start my holiday baking and I got to thinking about the special food and desserts that are traditions in my family and only get made during the holidays. It is cookies around here. Scotch Short Bread, Pizzells, and Pecan Tarts. Just wondering what everyone else looks forward to along with the Turkey.
I make "Holiday Yams" only for Thanksgiving. I just love the combination of yams, sliced canned peaches and whole cranberry sauce with just a touch of brown sugar. This side dish is easy to make and so flavorful. I liked it so much more than candied sweet potatoes.
Annie
It is hard to narrow it down!! I love all of the food over the Holidays!! Of course I really look forward to turkey sammies! If I could I would have a big "Thanksgiving" meal every week!! This year we will be out of town for Thanksgiving but we will still make a turkey at some point. Even when we go to one of the family's house we still make our own just so we can have the left overs.
I am helping my mother plan Christmas dinner this year so I am on the hunt for new and exciting dishes to make. I enjoy going through cook books and talking to all sorts of people about recipes. So this is my favorite time of year!!
Hope everyone has a safe and happy Holiday Season!!
hey Annie can we have a recipe for those yams??
Recipe for Holiday Yams
2 cans (17 ozs. ea) yams, drained
1 can (16 ozs.) sliced cling peaches
1 can (8 ozs.) whole berry cranberry sauce
1 tbls cornstarch
2 tbls butter
1/3 cup Liquid Brown Sugar*
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Drain peaches, reserving juice. Dissolve cornstarch in 1/4 cup of peach juice and set aside. In 11" skillet, heat remaining juice, brown sugar, cranberry sauce, cinnamon and butter. When butter is melted, add cornstarch mixture. Stir over medium heat until mixture thickens. Add yams, cover skillet and cook 10 minutes. Stir in peaches, and cook additional 5 minutes or until through.
*NOTE: I don't usually use the liquid brown sugar and prefer the light brown sugar. I guess at the amount by tasting the mixture. I don't want it to be too sweet. I also usually cut the sliced peaches into chunks.
I hope you like this dish as much as I do.
"HAPPY THANKSGIVING"
MMMMM yummmm Thank you!!!!!
I have a couple of questions! What is pizzels,scotch short bread and pecan tarts? I've never heard of those! A tradition in my family is a salad called pinapple cheese salad.We've had that for a dish a Thanksgiving since I was a little girl.I will be happy to post a recipe if anyone would want it.For the last couple of years another request has been pretzel salad.Another request in my family has been the green bean casserole.
Pizzelles are thin Italian cookies baked in an iron something like a waffle iron, only instead of grids the design is a snowflake or poinsettia pattern. Scotch short breads are small cookies made only with butter (lots of butter :ambulance:) sugar and flour. Pecan tarts are just mini pecan pies.
Those are the must haves, that doesn't include chocolate chip cookies, ginger snaps, homemade cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning and fresh baked rolls and breads and pies. Thank heaven I love to bake and cook and my friends like to eat!
The one thing I make only for the holidays is pierogis, stuffed with potato and cheese mixture, and dressed with browned butter. It is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. I have been eating them ever since I could eat solid food. Dan and I have the pierogis with a side of cold shrimp with cocktail sauce, carrot sticks, apple slices and champagne.
Kelly, I would like to have your recipe for the pineapple cheese salad. There is a simple salad we like in my family that utilizes jellied cranberries and is soooo big on taste. You take a bed of lettue, top that with a slice of pineapple. On top of the pineapple place a nice slice of jellied cranberry. On top of the jellied cranberry place some cottage cheese. Top the cottage cheese with french dressing. It tastes great! If you use light cottage cheese and light dressing, it is low in calorie....but big on taste.
This salad, particularly at Thanksgiving is a tradition in my family.
Turkey Gumbo almost as much as the original turkey. I did post my recipe just for fun. I do love the turkey!!!!!
I don't have the recipe, because we eat out on Thanksgiving - my aunt; Mocha's mom, Brenda; and I, but my favorite is the cranberry-orange relish. Hodel's (restaurant) makes theirs with walnuts - I think I ate at least a cup of it this year!