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Holiday Food Traditions

We love the holiday season at my house. Like many other families we have many food traditions centered around the holidays. Some of the traditions date back 40+ years, such as my sister and I along with our Gram making stuffed rolled dates for Dad and tasty gingerbread cookies. Another tradition that dates back almost 50 years in our family is the classic Red Velvet Cake.

Another is my mother's glazed baked ham. It's a tradition that I still continue, studding the ham with whole cloves, decorating it with pineapple rings and cherry's and glazing it with a mixture of brown sugar, pineapple juice, whole grain mustard and orange juice. Here is a classic Pineapple Glazed Ham recipe from Epicurious.

We're making plenty of new family traditions too. I've included one our our newest traditions, although it goes back almost 20 years or so. It's the famous (or infamous) Mrs. Field's Cookies. My sister and I got together to make this recipe. I'll never forget the first time I made them, they turned out fabulously.

Perhaps you're planning on cooking a turkey for your Christmas dinner and have any questions we're here to help. We can help teach you how to roast a turkey and keep is moist and make it flavorful. We've got a fabulous turkey stuffing recipe and a recipe for homemade turkey gravy. You can check out all of our turkey recipes and turkey tips here.

Part of the magic of the holidays is making new traditions as well as honoring the old ones.

Our Favorite Christmas Recipes

Apricot & Bourbon Pork Tenderloin
Baked French Toast Casserole (Paula Deen)
Crumb Cake
Dad's Sweet Stuffed Dates
Egg & Sausage Scramble
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Grand Marnier French Toast
Leg of Lamb, Creme de menthe
Mrs. Field's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Pineapple Glazed Ham
Red Velvet Cake & Butter Cream Icing

Try Some of our Tasty & Easy Green Bean Recipes

Blanched Green Beans
Fried Green Beans
Green Beans a'la Waterman's
Green Beans Almondine
Green Beans Almondine (with a hint of lemon)
Green Beans Almondine (with an Asian flair)
Green Beans Almondine (with mushrooms)
Green Bean Casserole (Campbell's)
Green Bean Casserole (Cook's Illustrated)
Green Beans in Sour Cream & Tomato Sauce
Green Bean Salad
Green Bean Salad, Provencal
Green Beans with Ginger Butter
Green Beans with Shallots
Greek Green Beans
Greek Potatoes and Green Beans
Italian Green Beans (St. Anna Beans)
Oven Roasted Green Beans
Pears with Green Beans & Bacon
Sesame & Portobello Green Beans
Stir-Fried Green Beans with Pork & Chilies
Sweet & Sour Green Beans

Russian Green Beans in Sour Cream & Tomato Sauce
This is a recipe that we attribute to The Best Foods of Russia by Sonia Uvezian. It's a tasty and delightful green bean dish unlike any other we've had. It was our first attempt at Russian cuisine and a success! We used regular fat sour cream but you can certainly substitute light.

Thanksgiving Dinner
Last Thanksgiving was the first Thanksgiving meal I've ever cooked, at the tender age of 48. I'd always had a parent's house to go to, or a friends house, or had gone to a restaurant/buffet for Thanksgiving with friends. I am now married and between my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law and myself we decided that I'd be responsible for Thanksgiving dinner. Luckily there are only eight of us.

Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes, Turkey Help
I took the turkey out of the freezer and put it into the refrigerator two days before Thanksgiving so that it would thaw thoroughly. I also kept an eye on it to make sure it was thawing. The day before Thanksgiving I got the turkey out, removed the giblets and rinsed it. I put the turkey back in the refrigerator.