Favorite Holiday Foods

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What foods do you love and can not wait to eat at the holidays?

For me, it is tamales. We make pork tamales every Christmas. It just does not smell like Christmas without those tamales. It takes all day to make them. My sister and mom help. It is just a fun day.

And you KNOW that you have a batch with my name on 'em already, right?

Well, I don't really have any favorite, per say... but I love sweet potatoes, and I love cranberry sauce too!!!

I love that cranberry gel. Not many people like it, but I do.
I also love my pecan pie.

Yummy... pecan pie!!! And home made too? Alright!

I don't celebrate Christmas, but I do like the smell of it. I like the combination of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. I actually put it in a mini canvas bag for my desk.

As for food... No favorite because foods traditionally reserved for the holidays are in my regular day life. Why wait for Christmas? lol. If I want a pumpkin pie and it's July... guess what?

Jumbalaya on Christmas day, Traditional Turkey on thanksgiving! I can't wait!

I am not much of a gravy person, but on Thanksgiving I have it. My sister makes a fantastic gravy.

Mine is pumpkin pie! Yum!!! It's good. My mom won't get it unless it's Thanksgiving or Christmas though. But, I guess that savors the moment!!:-)

My mom make a peppermint pie. Oh man... it's all home made.
She crushes up Oreo cookies, and makes a crust for the pie.
She takes peppermint sticks and crushes them in to small pieces and then places them in a sauce pan with marshmellows and melts that as the base of the pie. Then, cool whip is added in as well.

It's really good... but I can't eat more than a couple bites.

Chocolate covered macadamia nuts. mmmmmm
Our macadamia nut tree drops the nuts in October/November, so they are ready just in time to makes some at Christmas.

So, ummmmmmmmmm... since I'm your sister-in-law does that mean that Heidi and I will get some macadamias? No chocolate required, as far as I'm concerned!!!

Still waiting for them to fall. Yes, the pods have to open and they fall off the tree, nuts have to be husked, then dried. SO, I will let ya know

Yeah, that's good. I can wait. I only want a couple (hundred) No, just kidding. Just a couple. That's all, really.

Glazed ham at Christmas. We use brown sugar and mustard. Sounds gross, but it makes the best glaze. YUM!

Ohhhhhhh, Honeybaked ham or turkey's!! They have the best glazes.

Butter cookies with sprinkles at Christmas. Walnut tarts!