-my mom’s matzoh ball soup is the BEST -my grandmother (when she was alive) made homemade gefilte fish and my mom still uses her recipe -my dad makes matzoh brie on Passover mornings -on DH’s side, my FIL makes noodle kugel for, like, every major holiday and gathering ... oh, and latkes
I feel like I could have written the exact same list for my family. I feel like every Jewish family is passionate about their recipes being the best. But really, mine is the best.
Anything my mom makes is insanely good, and she doesn’t necessarily make the same things every year.
My personal faves include her fried spring rolls, spicy wontons, and leaf-wrapped glutinous rice. My brother’s faves include her mapo tofu and fried rice. My husband’s fave is her salt and pepper pork ribs.
Post by Doggy Mommy on Oct 29, 2017 11:40:18 GMT -5
My mom’s cornbread stuffing is amazing Not really a recipe but ever since we started using Williams Sonoma brine, turkeys have been perfect My pumpkin cheesecake
All other side dishes are negotiable.
It’s also tradition to do something totally different for Christmas, like making Chinese food or lasagna. My mom makes homemade tangerine peel chicken and pot stickers and they’re sooo good.
Post by jillboston on Oct 29, 2017 12:35:51 GMT -5
my late mothers' sausage stuffing, pretty typical except she put chopped green olives in it. my sis who hosts Tgving always makes it -( even better than Mom's) she uses Oscar's pork breakfast sausage (Oscar's is a Warrensburg NY family-run smoke house - famous now bc of Rachael Ray who is from the area did a food network visit there)
I make a chocolate pie - a Gourmet mag recipe from the early 90s ; also a gorgonzola walnut pear crostini that I found in the Boston globe 20+ years ago
DH makes Buffalo chicken dip that is requested everywhere we go
Post by nextbigthing on Oct 29, 2017 12:48:03 GMT -5
My great grandmothers homemade Vanilla Ice cream. YUM
My grandmother used to make a cranberry salad with the cherry jello for Thanksgiving, and now I require my mother to make it every year. And it has to be made in the old school Tupperware mold from the seventies
My grandma's (now my mom's) cranberry salad - it has tons of fresh cranberries ground up in a mixture of Jell-O, a shit-ton of sugar, some chopped walnuts, it's a holiday must.
Oh yeah, my mom makes an awesome cranberry salad as well.
Potato Filling. We are PA Dutch and it isn't stuffing. It's filling. Here's a close recipe but it should be stiff not pudding consistency. I don't have the actual recipe, my mom says when I hit 40 I may receive it. It's been passed down but there's no written recipe.
It looks similar to this picture.
This is almost the exact recipe my grandmother makes (also PA Dutch), but instead of baking it we pan fry it in more butter. Makes it the perfect consistency to pour lots of gravy over top.
Post by starburst604 on Oct 29, 2017 13:17:02 GMT -5
Eggplant parm at Christmas Eve. My mom always made it and taught me. We have a huge gathering with her side of the family every Christmas Eve, it’s always requested so one of us will make it. I am told mine is just as good as hers 😊
Although, my H who eats almost ANYTHING will not touch the eggplant parm. He hates eggplant and shakes his head like a toddler when I ask him to just try a bite.
Post by picksthemusic on Oct 29, 2017 13:28:23 GMT -5
My deviled eggs are always popular. I always need my grandma’s ambrosia, but I’m not sure who will make it this year since she passed in June. Also, DH’s giblet gravy is a must-have.
The one it isn’t (insert holiday or event) without?
We have a few: My mom’s stuffing and my dad’s carrot cake are the top two. Both will be appearing at Thanksgiving this year.
Can I get recipes?
I'm looking for a good stuffing recipe. I've tried to make something that suits everyone (bff is pescatarian, my mother won't eat mushrooms, onions, or oysters, and dh dislikes stuff with nuts). With those constraints, there isn't enough flavor and I'm always disappointed.
I've decided to make a stuffing I like this year.
I also love carrot cake.
My stuffing would upset your entire family;. bacon, mushrooms, onion, chestnuts, pine nuts, and celery.
On my mom's side of the family, it's boob jello. My wonderful yet ditzy aunt once brought a molded jello that was a soft pink. She topped it with a touch of whipped cream and a cherry. It looked just like a naked breast, and we've insisted she bring it for every holiday now. For my immediate family it's mom's home made honey wheat dinner rolls. I always make my apple/onion/sage/bacon stuffing (can be vegan without bacon.) I can't do without it and DH's family always requests it.
Recipe???
There isn't much in my family anymore. Just my mom's great dinner rolls, but otherwise we try new things most years.
Pretzel Salad. Which is not really a salad. Crushed pretzels and butter baked into a crust. And then strawberry jello and strawberries topped with whipped cream.
And not a holiday thing per se, but I always requested my grandma make corn fritters for my birthday:
Beat the eggs separately, the whites first, then the yolks. Add the yolks, seasonings, and flour to the corn. Lightly fold in the egg whites. Put 2 tablespoons of lard or butter into a frying pan. (I'm pretty sure my Mom used cooking/vegetable oil. I also remember the fritters weren't 'frying' like pancakes, they were floating in the oil.) When hot, drop tablespoons of the corn batter into it. When fritters are brown on one side, turn over and brown the other side. Drain on a paper towel. Serve hot with syrup.
On my mom's side of the family, it's boob jello. My wonderful yet ditzy aunt once brought a molded jello that was a soft pink. She topped it with a touch of whipped cream and a cherry. It looked just like a naked breast, and we've insisted she bring it for every holiday now. For my immediate family it's mom's home made honey wheat dinner rolls. I always make my apple/onion/sage/bacon stuffing (can be vegan without bacon.) I can't do without it and DH's family always requests it.
Recipe???
There isn't much in my family anymore. Just my mom's great dinner rolls, but otherwise we try new things most years.
Here you go! Catlawdy , you mentioned needing stuffing recipes too. I just c&ped from CEP, so my turkey and cranberry orange relish are below too.
I started with this recipe: www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/romertopf-roasted-chicken-324144?soc=socialsharingpinterest but before baking, I pureed a pound of raw bacon with fresh herbs, salt, and pepper. Loosen the skin of the turkey, and massage all of that glop between the skin and the meat before putting the skin back in place. Oh dear lord, it was the most amazing thing ever. And to be honest, it would have been amazing without the glop, just with the clay cooker. Oh, and obviously I used a turkey instead of the chicken in the recipe.
If you don't have a clay cooker, you need one. Like cast iron, this is actually better if you can get it used and well seasoned. Also, it will be about 10% of the cost that way.
1/4 cup butter 3 cups chopped onion 6 cups stale bread, cubed 2 green apples, peeled and chopped 1 lb bacon 3 tbsp fresh sage, chopped 3/4 cups chicken stock or more to moisten salt and pepper
1. Place bacon in a large skillet and cook until browned and slightly crispy. 2. Remove bacon and cool, keeping grease in the pan. 3. Add butter and chopped onion to bacon grease and saute until onion is tender. 4. Meanwhile, toss bread, apples, and sage into large bowl. 5. When bacon has cooled, crumble or dice and add to bread mixture. 6. Remove onions from skillet and add to mix. Toss gently to combine. 7. Add chicken stock a little at a time until stuffing has reached desired consistency. 8. Bake stuffing in a 9x23 dish until toasty, (about 20 minutes), checking a few times and adding more broth if needed OR stuff into turkey cavity.
Vegetarian Option Omit bacon, obviously. Saute onion in just the butter. Add vegetable stock instead of chicken stock. This option is also very flavorful and much closer to the original recipe.
At my family's house it isn't Christmas morning without "breakfast pizza," which is a type of German kuchen. My mom got the recipe from her BFF's family when I was about 4, and has been making it exactly once a year in triple or quadruple batches because my sister and I devour them.
My H's family traditionally had a shrimp salad with Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's nothing special, it's just what they always do.
I've become the cranberry sauce maker of the family. I recently switched to a cranberry-blueberry Cabernet recipe, and that has been a big hit. The blueberries cut the tartness, and the wine and spices make it more delicious.
Post by DotAndBuzz on Oct 29, 2017 14:22:48 GMT -5
Applesauce, made with Transparent apples.
They are ripe around the middle of July, and are not very hardy, so most orchards don't grow them. But my grandmother had 4 trees in her back yard, and applesauce from those apples is a staple. I have to drive an hour to the orchard to get the apples, but it is worth it! I make about 6 gallons each year, freeze it (give some to out of state family when I see them), and then have it year round for family holiday dinners.
on DH’s side, my FIL makes noodle kugel for, like, every major holiday and gathering ... oh, and latkes
My mom has been making me noodle kugel regularly since halfway through my pregnancy and a few times since the girls arrived. So good. Plus H hates kugel so I get it all to myself. She will stop making it at some point and I will be so sad lol.
At my family's house it isn't Christmas morning without "breakfast pizza," which is a type of German kuchen. My mom got the recipe from her BFF's family when I was about 4, and has been making it exactly once a year in triple or quadruple batches because my sister and I devour them.
My H's family traditionally had a shrimp salad with Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's nothing special, it's just what they always do.
I've become the cranberry sauce maker of the family. I recently switched to a cranberry-blueberry Cabernet recipe, and that has been a big hit. The blueberries cut the tartness, and the wine and spices make it more delicious.
At my family's house it isn't Christmas morning without "breakfast pizza," which is a type of German kuchen. My mom got the recipe from her BFF's family when I was about 4, and has been making it exactly once a year in triple or quadruple batches because my sister and I devour them.
My H's family traditionally had a shrimp salad with Thanksgiving and Christmas. It's nothing special, it's just what they always do.
I've become the cranberry sauce maker of the family. I recently switched to a cranberry-blueberry Cabernet recipe, and that has been a big hit. The blueberries cut the tartness, and the wine and spices make it more delicious.
Recipe please.
My mom gets mad when I give out the kuchen recipe, and I don't have one for the shrimp salad, but here's the recipe for the cranberry sauce:
I half the cinnamon and after some experimenting I leave out the cloves, because that's just how all of our families prefer it. If you do leave the cloves in, I'd half that too, or maybe even less. Cloves can be *very* over powering.
My mom's German potato salad and her apple pie. They are both so good and every get together has to have the potato salad and Thanksgiving and Christmas must have her apple pie! The family expects it and there are never leftovers of either.
I need to learn how to make these. She doesn't have a recipe for either. She just puts them together from memory.
I have stuff that I make for each holiday, but I don't know that anyone would really miss it if I didn't make it!
I'm looking for a good stuffing recipe. I've tried to make something that suits everyone (bff is pescatarian, my mother won't eat mushrooms, onions, or oysters, and dh dislikes stuff with nuts). With those constraints, there isn't enough flavor and I'm always disappointed.
I've decided to make a stuffing I like this year.
I also love carrot cake.
My stuffing would upset your entire family;. bacon, mushrooms, onion, chestnuts, pine nuts, and celery.
I would love to have this recipe It sounds amazing!
Well I *thought* it was a chocolate chip cookie recipe (for YEARS!) until my mom told me it was on the back of the toll house package.
Other than that, I think there is a chicken papikash (sp?) recipe of my grandma’s but I don’t eat it so I’m not sure. All I know is that my u for asks my mom to make it “just like ma’s” whenever he visits.