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Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
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!

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
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!!)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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...

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
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?

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
...I know, ZM, isn't that wierd?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
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.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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...

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Native_texan a private message Print Post    
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.

Racinrach
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11-16-2006

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Racinrach a private message Print Post    
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

Biloxibelle
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12-21-2001

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Biloxibelle a private message Print Post    
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.

Zachsmom
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07-13-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 9:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Zachsmom a private message Print Post    
LOL Huk, I eat cuz I am hungry, not cuz I need nutrition! LOL

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
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.

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 10:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
We've spent New Year's at Disney a few times. That's a lot of fun.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
so the pole beans are different than the green beans I get at safeway?

Twiggyish
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08-14-2000

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:15 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twiggyish a private message Print Post    
Yes. They say pole beans on the label. They're a flatter bean.
bean

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
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.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Huk, I never heard of weck rolls until I moved up here and I love them! Roast beef on weck is my favorite sandwich.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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!


Vacanick
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07-12-2004

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vacanick a private message Print Post    
Oh my Huk ... my mouth is watering. That sounds so good! And where do you get these???

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
At Huk's house :-)

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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!

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
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.

Vee
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02-23-2004

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Vee a private message Print Post    
Ahem! Someone? I have been reduced to someone?!!!!! Those sandwiches on weck rolls look marvelous! (Had never heard of a weck roll before.)

Scooterrific
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07-08-2005

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Scooterrific a private message Print Post    
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!

Mamapors
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07-29-2004

Friday, December 08, 2006 - 2:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamapors a private message Print Post    
<-----secretly following Scoot, Vac, and Huk around because they are so much fun. Using my secret Ninja moves.