I'm in New Zealand and we don't celebrate Thanksgiving, so my favourite holiday meal is Christmas, which when I and my flat have hosted it consists of:
- scorched almonds (for breakfast - scorched almonds are coated in chocolate, and are Traditional) - things on toast for breakfast ... and then basically a series of points during the day from about 2pm to about 8pm at which we eat: - bread and dips (oils, dukkah, rock salt, pesto) - cold roast ham - salad - barbeque (steak, shrimps, mushrooms, onion) (weather dependant) - nut roast - roast vegetables (potato, kumara [sweet potato], carrots, pumpkin) - spinach and feta pastries - Christmas cake - usually some kind of biscuits [cookies] with chocolate in them - trifle - cheesecake
And drink a lot of wine! And have eggs the next morning for breakfast, along with many, many leftovers! \o/
[I find it really weird how many people seem to put sweet potatoes in sweet dishes. They're pretty exclusively treated as a savoury food here. Regional traditions for the win!]
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on 2010-11-21 06:24 am (UTC)- scorched almonds (for breakfast - scorched almonds are coated in chocolate, and are Traditional)
- things on toast for breakfast
... and then basically a series of points during the day from about 2pm to about 8pm at which we eat:
- bread and dips (oils, dukkah, rock salt, pesto)
- cold roast ham
- salad
- barbeque (steak, shrimps, mushrooms, onion) (weather dependant)
- nut roast
- roast vegetables (potato, kumara [sweet potato], carrots, pumpkin)
- spinach and feta pastries
- Christmas cake
- usually some kind of biscuits [cookies] with chocolate in them
- trifle
- cheesecake
And drink a lot of wine! And have eggs the next morning for breakfast, along with many, many leftovers! \o/
[I find it really weird how many people seem to put sweet potatoes in sweet dishes. They're pretty exclusively treated as a savoury food here. Regional traditions for the win!]