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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:38 am
Yum, pole beans with a ham hock and onion cooked in them for a few hours until they are so tender there is absolutely NO nutritional value left. LOL I hate what I call yankee green beans. They cook them for about 5 minutes. YUCK!
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:40 am
Christmas eve we go to Bennihana's and then Christmas day we vary. Sometimes ham, sometimes Turkey sometimes Prime Rib (I love the prime rib Christmases!!)
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:41 am
I'm a native Yankee, Twinkie, and I like my vegetables steamed so much that they droop over the sides of my fork. None of those crispy things for me ('cept for corn, I think). I don't care what nutritional value is left, I eat things for the taste! Your ham hock thing above sounds yummy! I'll be right over...
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:43 am
I am with you Huk! If I am going to have crispy veggies I am going to eat them raw. are we supposed to eat for nutritional value?
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:58 am
...I know, ZM, isn't that wierd?
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:11 am
My middle adopted brothers birthday is Christmas Eve. We get together that evening because a friend of ours dresses up as Santa and brings the kids a gift and takes pics with them. Some years middle bro wants to have a birthday party, some years not so our dinner that night depends on him. He chooses what we have (some years pizza, some years asking someone to cook his favorite meal, some years he's like the rest of us, wants to get home and deal with Christmas Eve stuff for his kids and we'll celebrate the following weekend.) If he is in a hurry to get home, we take the kids to look at Christmas lights, then run through Carl's Jr. LOL, it's a great tradition! Christmas we have the traditional...turkey, ham, yams, stuffing, green bean casserole, spinach dip with fresh baked bread. But bils family is also Italian and they start cooking several days ahead of time. There's a keilbasa and tomato sauce that cooks all day, homemade spaghetti and lasagna and manicotti and more homemade bread with a spicy oil/vinegar dip and big salads and oh geez now I'm hungry, lol! There's no sit down meal, every surface in the kitchen and dining room is covered with food and people just eat all day long.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:15 am
My siblings and I haven't lived with our mother in so many years, and traditions changed as the grandchildren and now great-grandchildren have come along. There is only one tradition that has remained despite where the get-togethers are. My mother makes roast beef on weck rolls (I think weck rolls are only in the northeast) and every blasted year she puts too much horseradish on her sandwich and starts coughing her head off. It never fails...
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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:16 am
Texannie, we have tamales on Christmas Eve also. My second husband is Hispanic and we would make tamales (on what a tedious job!!!!) and have them for breakfast on Christmas morning. The first time we did this my family thought he was nuts for about five minutes and then dug in. As our family grew and it became difficult for all of us to get together on Christmas morning, the tamales moved to Christmas Eve. He's no longer around but the tamales are.
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Racinrach
Member
11-16-2006
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:19 am
Due to my sister having three kids we have our holiday on Christmas Eve so we do up a qiuck lunch sloppy joes and chips and make a big dinner than after dinner we all go to the living room put on the holiday music and one by one each opens gifts. the kids go to the tree get one for everybody and it starts youngest to oldest and the next round the person who wnet first goes last...and so on! Yes it takes us well into 4 hours to open gifts and gets close to midnight, but it is so much fun to see everyone watching you as you open a gift and the kids love to pick out the gifts for people. Then in the AM Santa leave a few more stuffs the stockings and the kids go to their dad's for Christmas day. This year my BF has three kids and it is their year with the mom so she lives in Colorado and they have to leave on the 23rd. I am trying to get back on the 22nd to have the holiday with them to. I did buy and wrap all the gifts! LOL
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:47 am
My Christmas is going to be easy. Just us and Kevin and his family. My melt down about Thanksgiving paid off. MIL and company are going to the Casino to eat. I thought about doing something different. First I thought about a Rib Roast but I do that for New Years Day. Then I thought about Lobster, that however will throw Trey into a complete meltdown. One that would make mine look like a day in the park. Trey will not stand for me throwing a live lobster into a pot of boiling water. I honestly believe he and the lobster would run away from home.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 9:03 am
LOL Huk, I eat cuz I am hungry, not cuz I need nutrition! LOL
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:11 am
I just buy a turkey breast, potatoes, gravy, pie, whipped cream from Marie Callendar .. it is like having prime leftovers without cooking. We always had turkey and suddenly mom got a honeybaked ham, which was ok but not turkey and later she started getting non-honeybaked hams. But I wasn't cooking, so couldn't really complain. I've spent a few Christmas days at Disneyland and a few Christmas eves too.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:28 am
We've spent New Year's at Disney a few times. That's a lot of fun.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:11 am
so the pole beans are different than the green beans I get at safeway?
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:15 am
Yes. They say pole beans on the label. They're a flatter bean.

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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:28 am
Biloxibelle, I am with Trey. I get all teary eyed when I see a tank of lobsters in the store. We spent one Christmas in Oaxaca with our then 8 year old GD. We were invited into a small church and handed sparklers. Beautiful memory.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:14 pm
Huk, I never heard of weck rolls until I moved up here and I love them! Roast beef on weck is my favorite sandwich.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:44 pm
Hi Twinkie! We've tried to send them back with my uncles...one to Michigan and one to Ohio. By the time they arrive home, the salt has kind of mushed into the rolls and they're just not the same without the crispiness. Yeah, one of my favorites, too! Here's a weck roll for those of you who have never heard of them. It's a hard roll with salt and caraway seeds on top. The roast beef is sliced thinly and you should dip the top roll into the juices just before serving. Top with horseradish and devour!

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:46 pm
Oh my Huk ... my mouth is watering. That sounds so good! And where do you get these???
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:48 pm
At Huk's house 
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:52 pm
I think weck rolls are sort of indiginous to the New York State area. I've never heard of them elsewhere. They don't travel well because the salt sort of melts into the crustiness of the rolls. I would think you could just get a hard roll, mist it with oil or something and use sea salt (I think that's pretty chunky). Put on a few caraway seeds and there ya have it! Yay! Beef on Weck for everybody!! I'm actually thinking of getting one for dinner now that we're talking about them. Yesterday I ate a Fluffernutter because someone was posting fudge recipes with Fluff in them. I'm so easily lead...and so ashamed....NOT!
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:54 pm
I love it when Vac and Scoot follow me around the boards! I sorta follow you two, too! I wish we all lived closer so we could meet one day. 
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:59 pm
Ahem! Someone? I have been reduced to someone?!!!!! Those sandwiches on weck rolls look marvelous! (Had never heard of a weck roll before.)
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Scooterrific
Member
07-08-2005
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:59 pm
Huk...hopefully it's not considered stalking!!! LOL!! Speaking of stalking, after lunch today Sea and I were finishing our conversation up in the parking lot and 2 paramedics walked by...I was going to follow them into Quizno's and have another lunch...Sea didn't think that was such a good idea. Sheesh! I wish we could meet too...that would be fun!
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Friday, December 08, 2006 - 2:01 pm
<-----secretly following Scoot, Vac, and Huk around because they are so much fun. Using my secret Ninja moves.
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