Writer's Block: Good eats

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Depends on the holiday we're talking about.

My traditional Yule meal, which I have not done yet and which I am hoping to make tomorrow, is roast pork and colcannon, both of which I adore - except that I don't add the onions to the colcannon, due to the effects insufficiently cooked onions have on my trick stomach.

I totally spaced on doing latkes for Hanukkah because I was in Grading Hell, for which I should probably apologize to the Spouse.

My family's Christmas tradition is roast beef, rather than ham or turkey, although occasionally there would be turkey from one end of the family and roast beef from the other. I will probably get a turkey breast to roast - we're not having enough people over on Christmas Day itself to justify a whole bird.

None of this is particularly out of the ordinary - all decent enough food, but nothing to shout about. The stuff I like about the winter holidays as a whole are the desserts, mostly the cookies. My mother's traditional ones were Danish wedding cookies, which I love, and cherry winks, which I like - but the recipe makes enough for a little league stadium's worth, and they go stale quickly, so I'm probably not making them this year. Our coven made a batch of a specific type of icebox sugar cookie for a ritual over ten years ago, and I've added them to my traditional repertoire for the season. I've been doing Mexican wedding cookies, which are more or less the Danish wedding cookies with chocolate, but again, those go stale awfully quickly - I might make a smaller batch this year. Mom added date nut balls late in my childhood, and I like them, but they're more like candy than cookies, they're an awful lot of work, and no one eats them other than me, so I'll probably skip them this year.

But my very favorite holiday cookie, I learned from my paternal grandmother, despite the fact that they're Scandinavian and she's as Irish as the year is old. I need to get my rosette iron out.

Side note: almost all of the listed cookies, with the exception of the cherry winks, use powdered sugar - so this is just about the only time of the year I buy it . . .

Writer's Block: Good eats

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Depends on the holiday we're talking about.

My traditional Yule meal, which I have not done yet and which I am hoping to make tomorrow, is roast pork and colcannon, both of which I adore - except that I don't add the onions to the colcannon, due to the effects insufficiently cooked onions have on my trick stomach.

I totally spaced on doing latkes for Hanukkah because I was in Grading Hell, for which I should probably apologize to the Spouse.

My family's Christmas tradition is roast beef, rather than ham or turkey, although occasionally there would be turkey from one end of the family and roast beef from the other. I will probably get a turkey breast to roast - we're not having enough people over on Christmas Day itself to justify a whole bird.

None of this is particularly out of the ordinary - all decent enough food, but nothing to shout about. The stuff I like about the winter holidays as a whole are the desserts, mostly the cookies. My mother's traditional ones were Danish wedding cookies, which I love, and cherry winks, which I like - but the recipe makes enough for a little league stadium's worth, and they go stale quickly, so I'm probably not making them this year. Our coven made a batch of a specific type of icebox sugar cookie for a ritual over ten years ago, and I've added them to my traditional repertoire for the season. I've been doing Mexican wedding cookies, which are more or less the Danish wedding cookies with chocolate, but again, those go stale awfully quickly - I might make a smaller batch this year. Mom added date nut balls late in my childhood, and I like them, but they're more like candy than cookies, they're an awful lot of work, and no one eats them other than me, so I'll probably skip them this year.

But my very favorite holiday cookie, I learned from my paternal grandmother, despite the fact that they're Scandinavian and she's as Irish as the year is old. I need to get my rosette iron out.

Side note: almost all of the listed cookies, with the exception of the cherry winks, use powdered sugar - so this is just about the only time of the year I buy it . . .