Christmas recipes
Christmas is that magical time of the year when you spend days choosing thoughtful gifts for friends and family and hours creating the perfect dinner. Exchanging Christmas gifts with your loved ones and eating mouth-watering Christmas recipes are the two major attractions of the holiday season. This is the time when old treasured recipes handed down from generation to generation are brought out, dusted and aired. The actual ingredients and measurements are jealously guarded and the method of preparation remains a secret. Though Christmas involves the cooking of a lot of festive dishes, there are ways to make your work run smoothly so that you can actually enjoy the holiday season instead of spending the entire time period between Thanksgiving and January 2 in the kitchen.
Different tastes
There can be no celebration without a gala feast. Christmas cakes and cookies are the hot favorites of all the children around the world. There are hundreds of thousands of different varieties of food that is cooked at Christmas time, in different countries. In fact each region and nation has a special set of food prepared during the holiday season. Then again there have been fresh entrants to these age old recipes to cater to the new-fangled and changing tastes. These new recipes include low calorie recipes as well as recipes for diabetics and heart patients.
A few examples
- Orange Eggnog punch; Shirley Temple; Sangria and Whiskey eggnog are some of the favorite Christmas drinks.
- Shrimp cocktail; Sausage bits; Country Pate, Quiches, wafer thin sandwiches, ham biscuits are a few of the many preferred finger foods
- Garlic roasted lamb; Roast goose with stuffing and holiday roast turkey with stuffing are some favorite main course dishes.
- For desserts apart from the Christmas pie and Dundee cake people tend to like fruit bread pudding; Christmas apple pie, Christmas fudge and fruit cake etc.
Don’t hesitate to share your recipes in comments.