What part of your Holiday meat incorporates some of your cultural backgound? Mine is stuffed cabbage

[debm55]

[SheltieLover]

1. Mine, too

Just made a big pot of stuffed cabbage soup. It tastes identical without all the futzing around with cabbage leaves. Chop them up & toss them in the pot. LOL

Enjoy!

I wish I could find a good potica!

[debm55]

3. Thank you very much much. SheltieLover.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. Just go for some bakalava.

Close enough for my taste.

[debm55]

6. Love bakalava. Use to make it when I was younger. It is time consuming to make but has great results.

[SheltieLover]

11. Ha!

Nothing but deep fried crap in this region.

Paneras barely have a pastry section. 😓

Good thought though. Thx for sharing!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

2. My wife LOVES stuffed cabbage!

I prefer stuffed peppers and the wife makes great ones.
I'm of Scottish heritage and don't really want to try eating what that culture stuffs.

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much iscntnt_irny_srcsm. I understand.

[OldBaldy1701E]

16. Haggis is awesome! (n/t)

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. None

Ours will be lamb, roasted baby potatoes and apples, and sautéed spinach. Chocolate chip pecan pie (made sugar-free for my diabetic husband) for dessert.
Maybe the hard cider we'll be drinking?

[debm55]

8. Thank you Jilly_in_VA

[Nanuke]

9. We have oyster stew on Christmas eve.

Years ago, Scottish coal miners got a bucket of oysters to take home as a Christmas bonus on Christmas Eve. I’m told the tradition was carried over to miners on the Minnesota Iron Range.

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much Nanuke. That is a new one for me. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[OldBaldy1701E]

17. That is also a thing on the North Carolina Outer Banks on 'Old Christmas'!

That was one of the first things I learned about when I moved up here. The guy that owns our place is from up north. He told me that oyster stew is fairly common up there.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. not so much now but my family had several

I grew up in the rural South so some were farm related and some are just Southern

one of my uncles cured hams so we always had one of his hams
radishes from the plant bed which was also used to steam the tobacco seeds
Boiled custard (alternative to egg nog) delicious especially with coconut cake and ambrosia.
(my mom made ambrosia with tangerines, oranges, bananas, red grapefruit, coconut . No fruit cocktail. Back then winter was when we could get the most citrus.)
Oyster casserole. I don't know how this started but my mom made it every Christmas . I loved the taste but hated actually eating the oysters (a texture thing) My sister ate the oysters from my serving.
Cornbread dressing, not stuffing. Very southern
Giblet gravy with hard boiled eggs in the gravy.

[debm55]

14. Thank you yellowdogintexas. That meal sounds wounderful. Thank you for sharing with us.

[electric_blue68]

15. This question went right me past first time. But now...

As I saw this now - I suddenly remembered!

If we were visiting one set of cousins (all Greek-Amrican on one side) for Christmas we'd have pastitsou!
Ziti noodles (long round tubes) in layers, ground beef, a bit of tomato sauce, a bit of olive oil, probably some garlic, with a ? white bechamel sauce topping! Yum!

Thanks for the prompt of memory!