HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or Festivus, have a joyous hoilday!
Our Christmas Eve was, as usual, a wonderful dinner from another region of the world. Each Christmas, whoever in the family is hosting, prepares a scrumptious feast from a country or region of the world, and keeps it a secret. Then when the guests get there, the secret is revealed and dinner is served! It’s a really, really fun tradition that’s been going on for years. This year, my sister Gina and her husband Bill prepared an amazing Mexican meal of Spicy burritos, (not-so-spicy burritos for the kids), tamales wrapped in corn husks, spoon bread, rice, and an absolutely fantastic flan for dessert. Oh my gosh, was it a great meal. The burritos were so good I could’ve eaten all night!
(Next year, my wife Jeanne and I get to host the family…we’re already trying to decide what type of food to prepare. Any ideas? We’re VERY open to suggestions, so lay ’em on us!)
Then, this year the kids were good and set us sleep until 7:30 (1/2 an hour longer than they were insructed!), and we all got up to see if Santa had visited. He had!! And, to our excitement, he not only left presents and treats, but while coming through the chimney he left a little bit of red fuzz from his coat on the fireplace screen!
Now the morning and afternoon will be spent playing with new games, listening to new music, eating our traditional Christmas morning breakfast of fruit, sausages, juice and cinnamon rolls, and generally laying around until we go to Jeanne’s parents house for their Christmas day dinner.
Hope the day is wonderful for everyone!
Tony Caselli 
What a great tradition!!
How many years have you been doing it? And how did it start?
How about Thai?
Which places have you already done?
I am LOVING this idea! I may have to find a way to steal it for my own family!
It’s a great tradition, we love it! We’ve been doing it for 22 or 23 years. It started with my folks doing Greek one year, then my aunt surprised us with Spanish the next year and a tradition was born! Jeanne and I have hosted with French, Moroccan and Native American. We’ve had Japanese and Chinese in years past, but not Thai – that might be fun!
Aw, I was just gonna suggest Thai but Kate beat me to it!
What about Hawaiian? Medeterrenanean? (No clue if I spelled that right…)
The Mediterranean cuisine was done recently (and was yummy!) Sometimes regions are fun to do, too, like Cajun was one that I loved!
I keep threatening to do Ballpark Food, but I think I’d get my butt kicked! 🙂
Maybe Icelandic cuisine …. smoked mutton, mutton soup, mutton ice cream, chocolate-covered mutton wafers …. 🙂
Yum! We can all wear lighted wreaths on our head!
We did Iceland, remember? It was in 1996. The only reason I know the year, is because it was the year I came home from living in Iceland, and I brought a cookbook with me so mom could cook Icelandic for Christmas…
Alesha and I did the Med, which was based in Cyprus but couldn’t get enough recipes to do a whole meal. Then we did Ukraine, which turned out to be great food, but the whole traditional 12 course meal thing about killed me…
Dom
That’s right! Man, that Ukrainian meal was delicious!