Welcome to our Fifth day of
FABULOUS
Holiday Giveaways!
Today we are featuring:
Bakerella
Gooseberry Patch
Heather Jones-Olive & Ollie
&
Lisa Leonard
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Bakerella
Angie Dudley AKA Bakerella is a Georgia native who enjoys creating fun sweets for family and friends. After taking a cake decorating class in 2007, she started the baking blog, Bakerella, to explore new ideas and satisfy her sweet tooth. Her creative approach with sweets and colorful photographs have inspired many others to do the same. In April, 2008, Angie appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, where she demonstrated how to make Cupcake Pops. Her book,
Cake Pops By Bakerella: Tips, Tricks, And Recipes For More Than 40 Irresistible Mini Treats
was released in September of 2010.
The response to these cute little cakes on a stick was incredible. So, don’t be surprised if you see these pop up at a party near you.
Please visit her at
www.bakerella.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bakerella
Twitter: http://twitter.com/bakerella
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Bakerella has generously offered these GREAT prizes!
A copy of her book:
These FABULOUS note cards …
PLUS A Cake Pops Kit!~
Not only that, we’re going to throw it a copy of our BRAND new book
Where Women Cook Celebrate!
This GREAT book features Bakerella, plus 27 other top food bloggers, chefs, cookbook author and kitchen creatives! You can read more about Where Women Create! Celebrate HERE
Gooseberry Patch
Back in 1984, we were next-door neighbors raising our families in the little town of Delaware, Ohio. Two moms with small children, we were looking for a way to do what we loved and stay home with the kids too. We had always shared a love of home cooking and making memories with family & friends and so, after many a conversation over the backyard fence, Gooseberry Patch was born. We put together our first catalog at our kitchen tables, enlisting the help of our loved ones wherever we could. From that very first mailing, we found an immediate connection with many of our customers and it wasn’t long before we began receiving letters, photos and recipes from these new friends. In 1992, we put together our very first cookbook, compiled from hundreds of these recipes and, the rest, as they say, is history. Hard to believe it’s been over 25 years since those kitchen-table days! From that original little Gooseberry Patch family, we’ve grown to include an amazing group of creative folks who love cooking, decorating and creating as much as we do. Today, we’re best known for our homestyle, family-friendly cookbooks, now recognized as national bestsellers. One thing’s for sure, we couldn’t have done it without our friends all across the country. Each year, we’re honored to turn thousands of your recipes into our collectible cookbooks. Our hope is that each book captures the stories and heart of all of you who have shared with us. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or are just discovering us, welcome to the Gooseberry Patch family!
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Our friends at Gooseberry Patch are giving away one of their favorite holiday cookbooks,
Christmas Cookies
(Seriously, who doesn’t LOVE Christmas Cookies!)
They are featuring this great cookbook over on their blog today, so please go visit:
http://gooseberrypatch.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/cotw-christmas-cookies.html
Then,
Find even MORE from Gooseberry Patch online!
www.gooseberrypatch.typepad.com
www.facebook.com/gooseberrypatch
www.twitter.com/gooseberrypatch
www.youtube.com/gooseberrypatchcom
www.scribd.com/gooseberrypatch
Heather Jones~Olive & Ollie
Heather Jones is a designer, seamstress, and modern quilter. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband, Jeff, and two young children, Aidan and Olivia, who are her biggest supporters as well as her greatest sources of inspiration. Heather is the founder and current president of the Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild and is working on her first line of appliqué, sewing, and quilting patterns. She is often inspired by everyday places and things that many people wouldn’t even notice, and is always excited by the challenge to translate that inspiration into her work. Three of her original quilts were chosen as winners of the Modern Quilt Guild’s Project Modern Challenges, a year-long national quilting competition. Heather has great respect for the art of quilt making and loves to bring a modern twist to traditional patterns.
Heather is also the owner of Olive & Ollie, a small, handmade business that specializes in clothing and accessories for infants and children. Heather creates fresh and modern designs and she sells her handmade work in her etsy shop, www.oliveandollie.etsy.com, and at select retail locations throughout the US.
Olive & Ollie is named after two women in Heather’s family, her great-grandmother Olive, and her great-great-aunt Ollie. Both were strong, independent women who made all sorts of things by hand, and shared Heather’s belief that handmade is best. In fact, she still has her baby quilt aunt Ollie made over 35 years ago, when she was in her 80s.
For more information on Heather and her work, please visit her blog at www.oliveandollie.com.
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Heather is giving away a FQ bundle of Kona Cotton from Robert Kaufman –the Grounded Color Story, which is 23 fat quarters (or 5.75 yards) and a copy of the book “Modern Log Cabin Quilting: 25 Simple Quilts and Patchwork Projects” by Susan Beal, and a pdf copy of her Yield Quilt pattern.
Heather is also giving away an AccuQuilt Go!Baby plus THREE dies on her blog!
Click HERE to visit and leave a comment for your chance to win!
Lisa Leonard
I have been making jewelry since high school but i decided to get serious after my first son, david, was born. i wanted to start a small business that would enable me to quit my job and stay home with my boys. at the time, I had never taken any formal classes or received special training in jewelry making. I just went for it! I am kind of the “jump in and learn as you go” type. creating jewelry not only allowed me to work from home, but has connected me with so many amazing women along the way.
my desire is to create simple, lovely pieces that can be worn with jeans or your little black dress. i want each piece to be meaningful. our custom jewelry is hand-stamped with your kids’ names or a special phrase or verse. I love to touch my necklace throughout the day and reflect on my husband and my sweet boys.
each piece we create is a work of art—hand cut; hammered, polished, drilled and assembled with care. I am inspired by other artists—painters, scrapbookers, clothing designers and poets. I also love to soak up nature-the sky, the sea, the green hills. I let all these ideas and images swirl around in my mind and then I create. when an idea hits me I sketch it out and play until the perfect design comes together.
lisa leonard designs exists because moms, grandmas and friends have shared our designs with each other while waiting in line at the grocery store or sipping coffee with a friend. most of our customers find us through word of mouth. we know that you’ll find the perfect piece.
come visit my blog to hear more of our story and please share your story with us!
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Lisa is giving away this customized Sweet Star ornament. It is cast in fine pewter and strung with a gorgeous velvet ribbon and she will add up to five words or meanings just for you!
WOW!
All you need to do to enter to win all FOUR of these prizes is comment below with your answer to this question …
What is your favorite holiday food and why?
Thanks so much to our FOUR FABULOUS artists!
~We’ll see you tomorrow~
This would be the most amazing x-mas present for my 20 yr old daughter. She loves to bake and thats how she celebrates the holidays. Happy holidays everyone
Christmas Cookies! Of course.
My favorite holiday food is a Yule Log. My sisters and I have a baking contest every year. So yummy to try different recipes!
Other than all the fabulous bake goods it’s a tradition to have fresh perch on Christmas Eve, YUM!
This is hard…I mean it’s definitely desserts, but there are so many I love I can’t pick just one, so I’m going to tell you my husband’s favorite. Swedish meatballs. Isn’t Christmas for him without them.
It wouldn’t be Christmas if we didn’t have extra spicy Chex mix in the house. We make two batches “regular spicy” and “blue blazes hot” (my sister and I insist on the latter).
I have to admit my latest addiction is white chocolate covered pretzels with green sprinkles. So festive and yummy!
This comes close to my favorite part of Christmas day – making and eating sticky buns. In my family we call them “Philadelphia Sticky Buns,” because the recipe appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer probably in the late 1960′s. My mother made them every year, and they became part of our family Christmas traditions. Now my two brothers and I make them every year AND my niece and her family are continuing the tradition. These are absolutely, hands-down the best sticky buns ever, and Christmas would not be complete for my family (and a few friends) without them.
My favorite holiday food is our Feast of the Seven Fishes dinner on Christmas Eve. Loving seafood as much as I do, it’s my favorite meal of the year!
My favorite holiday food is cookies. My boys love to make and decorate the cookies for friends and family.
I love the eggnog cheesecake bars that I make but I eat only one or two (so rich with calories). But I also love the pumpkin crisp I make for dessert too.
My favorite holiday food is Eggnog! My favorite brand is no longer available so I’ve been trying every brand of eggnog to find the right one…..
Wow the are AMAZING prizes! I really do hope I win! Thank you to everyone for being so so generous. My favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies (chocolate chip) and a glass of milk because I always would make them with my mom and it hold a special place in my heart.
Mmmmm…would have to be my mother-in-law’s Pumpkin Roll!!
Merry Christmas to all!!
Oops! Forgot the “why” part……..because she makes her Pumpkin Roll so YUMMY!! (I can never get it right.)
I can over to look at the fabric
but, the star ornament is amazing
thanks
Dessert is where it’s at! I have my eye on my grandma’s Spritz cookies every year that her neighbor makes for her. They are seriously addicting!
This is going to sound stupid, but my favorite holiday food would be the bacon, egg, and cheese on an english muffin/bagel we make as a family on Christmas morning. So simple and every day, but they taste so much better on Christmas with the whole family around!
Crab legs are my favorite holiday food on Christmas Eve…
I am coming to enjoy these posts, like a grown-up girl’s Advent calendar! Such lovely introductions to talented women, and such generous prospects. Fun. This time of year I look forward to making and eating tamales… nothing can beat the combination of tasty food and fond memories of holiday traditions.
My favorite holiday food is eggnog, a local dairy has the best. It is great with or without a little ZIP added in. Santa loves when it is paired with homemade cookies, and left for his Chritsmas Eve treat.
Wow! We can only choose one? Well, one thing I look forward to every year is buying a pound each of See’s Vanilla Fudge and Bordeaux Fudge. I love it!
oh my gosh – that’s a killer giveaway…. favorite holiday food? pierogi!! i’m not polish at all, but my husband’s mother is just about 100% polish. she and her mother (my grandmother-in-love, Rose), have taught me how to make pierogi. and oh, are they good. they’re a ton of work, but every christmas eve for the last six years have been spent with four generations of women in the kitchen, rolling out dough, patting them and filling them with sauerkraut and love!
Hmmm…my favorite food for the holidays is homemade pizza. We don’t have family close so most Christmas and Christmas Eves are just the 5 of us. I started a family tradition if making homemade pizza for Christmas Eve. It’s a fun night…we all decorate the pizzas and spend some good family time while they cook.
Wow! Wow! What incredible prizes!! My favorite holiday food is hard to narrow down. I do love my mother’s sweet potatoes with marshmallows. Yum!!
I”d be THRILLED to win this giveaway! Anyway, my favorite holiday food is shepherd’s pie. It is traditional in our family to eat this to focus more on the meaning of Christmas. We keep it simple! Thanks so much for a chance to win! kmassmanATgmailDOTcom
I like baking Christmas cookies for my kids and husband and every once in awhile I will bake a few to give away. My kids love it when there are lots of cookies around especially the ones that I only make around Christmas time.
I love my mums Pavlova. Can’t have xmas at my mums without one. Unfortunately my kids don’t eat it.
I am a big fan of Heather’s!
My favorite holiday food isn’t healthy and it isn’t gourmet. It represents the only cooking my father did throughout the year. What he lacked in quantity- he made up for with the creamiest, most chocolately, smoothest fudge you ever tasted.
THE best holiday food is my mom’s turkey stuffing. we’re having xmas with MY family this year… :D bring on the stuffing!
I came over from Olive & Ollie. Wow. What an amazing giveaway! I guess I would have to say that I just love all the holiday treats. Cookies, homemade fudge, and pie, oh my! I just love this time of year!
My favorite holiday Food would have to be my mothers homemade Cinnamon rolls. They remind me of home and all that comes with the great memories of my childhood! Just thinking about the rolls makes me smile! Can’t wait for Christmas Eve to eat more!
My fav holiday food: merinque cookies. They remind me of the snow I am wishining for on Christmas Eve because light and fluffy. They remind me of dirty snow when I see a choc chip-but still love. One of my favs because low in sugar content, usually can have just about as much as I want to indulge in and makes me want more…………..
I love the Christmas Cookies but my all time favorite is stollen. This German Christmas bread has been part of my Christmas since I was a child and as I bake it each year and continue the tradition, it reminds me of my mom, who I miss so very much this time of year, while it carries the tradition forward with our children. Thanks for offering the awesome prizes!!
On Christmas mornings my Aunt Arlene would make Bubble Bread; a sweet dough rolled into balls rolled in butter and cinnamon sugar. We would eat this while opening our stockings. I’ve continued this family tradition for more than twenty years myself and it’s become an important tradition to my children and grandchildren.
My favorite at Christmas is my moms homemade candy!!!! This is a great giveaway.Would love to win this to share with my mom… MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!!
During the Holidays, I love to make, and eat comfort food for my family. Shepherds Pie is our favorite! It is an easy dish to prepare, and everyone enjoys it with a piece of crusty bread!
My favorite holiday food are christmas cookies. We begin the holiday season with a cookie party where we bake ginger bread, sugar cookies and anything else we want. It always feels like Christmas after the cookie party.
My favorite holiday food are peppermint Hershey kisses b/c I can only get them this time of the year and they are ADDICTING! I love to drop one into my hot chocolate b/c it gives it such a creamy & yummy flavor.
My favorite holiday food is my great Grandmother’s sour dough cookies. They are these delicious tangy cookies with raisins cooked in the center. Unfortunately, she passed away last year, so I’m going to try and make them!
My favorite holiday food is Stove Top Stuffing. I only eat it at holidays because it reminds me of being that little kid who will not eat anything, so it makes me smile, and it reminds me of family get togethers around this time of year. I haven’t been able to make it home for a holiday since 1997, (I live 1200 miles away from everyone) so little memories like this make me happy.
My favorite holiday food is my husband’s molasses cookies. They just feel like Christmas to me.
definitely cookies
What a great giveaway! I love whoopie pies – make them every Christmas.
My favorite holiday food is a Belgian/Dutch treat – speculoos cookies! If you tasted one – you would know why immediately! If you want the recipe – visit my blog tomorrow as I will be posting the recipe.
My favorite holiday food is cranberry orange bread, with spiced tea!
English Butter Toffee hands down my favorite holiday food. I make it almost every week and have to give 90% of it away otherwise I would be 400+ pounds by January, lol. thanks for the giveaways and I love your magazines.
My favorite holiday food is “Fudge”. I love making it and eating it! It’s a family tradition. What makes it so special for me is that my dil Jenny asks for it as part of her Christmas present every year. I love seeing the smiles on my grandkids faces, when they see what grandma brought. Also my son James serves in the USS Navy, he always brings two huge containers of my fudge to share with all the Sailors in his unit.
I would love to win all of these wonderful gifts!!!
Anise cookies……….they remind me of my German grandmother , Eva. Love her !
I love to bake scones on Christmas morning. My latest favorite: apple and cheddar, from Smitten Kitchen. Yum!
Oh by far my dear Momaloo’s Walnut Potica…. yummy walnuts, sugars, butter, rich cream all cooked to the perfect flavors while the dough rises and then is spread across the entire dining room table as thin as any pastry … the cooled filling poured on and the “legs” rolled cut and formed for the loaf pans….. the depth of my momma’s love goes into this rich christmas memory! I love my mom and hope we win!
Wow this is a hard question to answer-I love bakery: cookies,cakes, etc but I am also a big vegetable eater and love to eat lots of squashes in the winter.
my favorite holiday food is really good moist dressing and turkey! When the dressing is made right it is the best!
My dad makes DateNut Balls, a delicious, yet simple confection that combines dates, pecans, and Rice Krispies. One of those things that brings my childhood back…
I love pumpkin rolls. Actually, I love anything pumpkin!
I am a huge fan of all these ladies! Would love to share them this season :) Let’s see…favorite Holiday food would have to be my family’s traditional pancake breakfast. Because all of the family that is in town or lives here comes over for breakfast. Love my special family!
I am a sucker for sweets, and I especially love pumpkin and cream cheese icing, so any combo of those flavors is good with me!
My favorite holiday food is home made baking and anything chocolate. It is always fun to try new recipes and bring treats to friends and neighbors.
My favourite holiday food is the turkey. I especially like turkey sandwiches made with the leftovers.
I love the cheeseball my Mom makes. Cream Cheese, Blue Cheese, Sharp Cheddar, onions and worcestershire. Delicious! We only have it at Christmas so maybe that is what makes it so special.
does caramel count as a food? i make tons every year.
My favorite holiday food is probably Pumpkin Cheesecake!
I loved my Grandmother’s Carrot Pudding with Lemon Sauce. She served it every Thanksgiving or Christmas. Miss it, but most especially miss her! I have her recipe and should try to make it. Just afraid it won’t be the same.
My favorite holiday food is raisin pie mainly because the only time I make it is for the holidays. So it’s special!
I love pecan pie!
Gingerbread men….when they’re soft and decorated. I love spritz cookies too!
Pumpkin Pie…. my favorite, because it’s also my grandson’s favorite. He is so excited and anticipates it with so much joy, it’s contagious.
Oh the aroma of the mince pies cooking in my Grandmothers kitchen, I treasure those memories. None of my family really likes mince pie except for my Mom so I always make sure that “we” get to share a couple of pieces of pie. I loved the pies warm so it was especially nice when microwave ovens came about that the pie could always be warm to eat.
Christmas cookies! Especially sugar cookies with frosting :)
christmas cookie cutter shortbread cookies because they are delicious and are an important part of our christmas tradition.
My favorite holiday food is my Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese icing and lots and lots and lots of Elliot pecans straight from my daddy’s farm.. I hope I win one of these, any of these, they are all AWESOME!
Haha…My mom and I have almost identical posts…Mine is post #475…
My grandma’s Fenster Cakers of course. They are this wonderful treat made out of pie crust. Everyone that tries them wants the recipe. It wouldn’t quite be the same without them on Christmas! They are marvelous!
My mother-in-law’s fruitcake. No, seriously! I thought I hated fruitcake until my husband’s mother made the secret family recipe for persimmon fruitcake, now I look forward to it all year!
My favorite holiday food is cardamom bread, only time of year I ever have it. It is fantastic!
There are so many i like!! which one, which one? i am thinking.It would have to be the meatballs that i make yum, yum they are so good !!!
my favorite holiday food is baked goods…especially iced sugar cookies!
Hands down it would be the good ole southern cornbread – chicken dressing and chicken gravy (giblet gravy but with chicken breast-I just can not do that giblet thing).It is a traditional thing for the family holiday dinners and it is good.Of course there is a lot oof good holiday foods to choose from.
I forgot about my daughters favorite breakfast dish for Christmas morning.It is a baked French toast from a Gooseberry cookbook.The page is marked so I can go right to it.It is very good .Breakfast on Christmas morning is the best.Wishing everyone a wonderful Holiday filled with love.
Since its the only time of the year I indulge in homemade cookies and candies, that tops my list…Pair it with some coffee with Baileys or Rum Chata and I can “eat” for weeks.
I love it all, but I really love homemade Almond Roca. It is something that I make each year for all of our neighbors.
Candied yams – because its jsut so sweet and yummy and reminds me of my mom! :)
Chex party mix. I make it every year, then I get sick of it but am ready for it again the next year.
My husband makes the absolute best turkey gravy. It wouldn’t be the holidays without it!!!!
Susan says…
My favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies because my daughter and I have baked and eaten these every year since she was 2 years old and she is 19 now. We have such fun baking, decorating and eating Christmas cookies.
Chocolate covered pretzels…because nothing beats chocolate. ;) :D
Cinnamon rolls that i am discovering are very popular during this time of the year!
My favorite holiday food is a cheese dip made from Kraft roka blue cheese, old english cheddar and philidalphia creme cheese. My mom, who passed away 12 years ago, always made this at Christmas and I just love it. Last year Kraft discontinued roka blue cheese and that was sooooo sad, however, they have released it again this holiday season:):):)
Christmas cookies! I have great memories of baking them each Christmas with my mother – the only time we roll out cookies!!
Any of my dad’s Christmas cookies. He would start baking 2 weeks before Christmas and by the big day there would be at least 6 or more huge tins of cookies – chocolate chip of course, sand tarts, thumb prints, pin wheels, Russian tea cakes, sugar cookies of all shapes, etc.
My favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies. All kinds. Every year my family and I would gather and make tons of cookies on two December Sundays. Then we would divide them between ourselves and also make packages to share with our neighbors. This year is the first year we are not able to gather to do it. I am doing a little baking, but it’s not the same without them.
Clementines and cranberries! I love the two and only seem to ever eat them in November and December. Today the girls are having clementine slices with cranberry dipping sauce for snack. Yum!
I love all of the junk food.. Cakes, candies, cookies.. no one thing is better than the other, I see this as a time to indulge in all of them!
Wow! What fabulous prizes!
Fave holiday food?? Easy! Mince pies!
Cardamon bread is without a doubt my special holiday treat! I only bake it after Thanksgiving until New Years with a recipe that was passed down to my family from an old family friend. I love the star ornament too, it would be a great way to celebrate my little one’s first Christmas!
My dad’s Puerto Rican Roast Pork, it’s truly the best I have ever had!
My favorite holiday food is homemade hot chocolate marshmallows! I use them in coffee, hot cocoa, rice krispy treats ….YUM!
My favorite holiday food has be candy canes. It’s festive, you can decorate with them, you can use them to stir hot cocoa, and the peppermint really wakes me up!! I look forward to them every year!
Homemade peanut butter cups!:)
My Favorite Holiday Food Is ….. Pumpkin Pie… :) with LOTS and LOTS of Cool Whip
My mother makes my favorite dish every yr. It is a cranberry ice served over fruit salad. To die for!
My favorite Holiday food is peppermint ice cream! I wish it were available all year! And I hope I win! These are great prizes!
These giveaways are fantastic. My favorite holiday food has to be the ham. I love the smell of smoked ham.
Christmas cookies!! Any kind…just as long as they are homemade. Why….if might have something to do with the tradition of making and giving away hundreds over the years but mostly I think it’s just b/c they taste good!!
My favorite holiday food has to be potica…a sweet bread with walnut filling that my grandma used to make when we were kids!
I am hoping to teach our own kids how to make this over their Christmas break this year as we haven’t made it since they were little with the help of my aunt and uncle!
Thanks for such incredible giveaways!
Julie
My favorite holiday food is any family dinner we all help buildtogether. Last year it was a taco bar and fun was had by all. My all time favorite drink is peppermint hot chocolate.
My favorite holiday food is roasted turkey…..simply because turkey sandwiches the next day are to die for!
Thank you for the chance to win some awesome prizes.
Nuts & Bolts. It’s a tradition that I make a huge pan of this-some for giving, some for nibbling. Everyone loves it and homemade is so much better than store bought.
P.S. Cakepops are like CRACK. Starbuck’s makes a tiramisu one that is my favourite. Sin on a stick!
Candy!!! Divinity, chocolates, all those cookies and treats that only seem to come around at this time of year!!
Always hard for me to pick a favorite… Of anything… but I can definitely commit to cookies being one of my favorite Christmas foods. I love the family time while baking together, but what really stands out is the reflection and warmth of memories that occurs while making those cookies that we just make at Christmas time. Recipes from my childhood and newer ones too – all so very special…
Pecan Pie – I am not sure why we only make it during the holidays, but I love the sweet taste and the combination of textures in pecan pie. It is probably good we only have it a few times a year because it is so fattening and pecans are expensive this year.
Buckeyes! Because the creamy peanut butter and chocolate combination just can’t be beat! And we love our Buckeyes here in Ohio:)
Love cookies! Pretty much any kind, who doesn’t love cookies!
Wow, such good prizes! My favorite holiday food would have to be the ham. I’ll have seconds of that for dessert.
My favorite holiday food, sounds funny, but Peet’s coffee has the greatest gingerbread latte!! It says ‘holiday’ to me!
oh yes please! if there were ever a day I’d be overjoyed to win a givaway it would be this one! my favorite holiday treat is gingerbread cookies covered in icing. I never liked gingerbread until a friend shared her recipe with me in 2007 and now it’s tradition!. We’ve done 3D gingerbread houses, gingerbread men, and last year gingerbread snowflakes. (my favorite is making gingerbread haunted houses…in Oct!) This year we’re doing gingerbred cookies in flat house and hand shapes with a heart cut-out. :D
Holly Cookies… they’re made with cornflakes, marshmallows, butter, green food color and three cinnamon candies for the berries. They look like holly & I trick myself into believing they are healthy, ha! And, we all go around with green mouth because I like to make them a nice dark green. Probably really unhealthy.
I love one salad with salty herring and beets) here is reciept http://relax.ua/menu/coated-herring/ Sounds strange but so tasty! Thank you!
My favorite holiday food would have to be the little cocktail weenies you heat up and serve with a red currant jelly and mustard sauce for dipping. Yum!!! This annual tradition was started by my Mother in Law Jacque, who has since passed away but we carry on the tradition, and think of her lovingly every Christmas.
Gingerbread biscotti!!! I make it myself, so I load in the candied ginger. It is low fat, low calorie, and delish!
My favorite holiday food is cookies!!! cookies!!!! cookies!!!!
I love decorating them with my kids.
My favorite holiday food is any dessert with chocolate!
Pretzel Salad. It is made by a lady on our church for our annual Christmas banquet. I get it first and eat it as dessert. (Then I make sure to get some to take home)
It’s got a buttery sugar and pretsel crust with a cream cheese and cool whip layer, and then a strawberry and strawberry jello layer. GAH!!!!!! I love it. I only let myself eat it once a year!
My favorite holiday food is a Christmas tree made out of bread dough. Its kind of like a cinnamon roll thats made into the shape of a Christmas tree. After its baked I frost it with green icing and put candied cherries on it so its cute and so tasty! My family looks forward to it each year.
My favorite holiday food are fruit cake cookies. OMGoodness they are sooo very yummy. I don’t know why I only make them at Christmas time. They are so rich and good!!!!
What a great bunch of prizes. My favorite holiday food is pie! I like pie because when I was younger we used to go “up north” for Christmas and my Grandma made the best pies and a bunch of them, blueberry, pumpkin, cherry and peach.. So I always think of her when I have pie :)
I would have to say that my favourite Holiday food would have to be a TURKEY LEG!!! I always “call” the leg at our dinner. But for some reason no-one else wants it….what is wrong with the leg? Oh well, more for me.
Cheeseball! Yum Yum. The only time of year that cheeseball is an essential food group!
Thanks for the chances, great prizes!
My favorite holiday food is fudge – because Christmas is the only time of the year I let myself indulge – so it’s the only time I make it. Thanks for the wonderful giveway.
My favorite holiday food is my Mom’s powdered sugar nut balls, which she made every year and shared with all of the other relatives. She has been gone for over a dozen years now, and every year I try to make them in remembrance.
Homemade dark chocolate truffles ~ raspberry, mocha, peppermint, coffee ~ yummmmm.
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I love TURKEY! Only a few times a year you you cook a whole turkey and there is nothing like it. It reminds me of the best holidays. Also Christmas cookies. I have started baking cookies each year and they have become a fmily favorite… Although my hips and butt are not a fan :)
Some of my favorite people are being elfkins today WOOT!! Anyhoo….my favorite food is Christmas Cookies. The sweet precious memorys of Grandma, me and my sons rolling out dough, baking and decorating them to Christmas tunes. Then we would have a sample & drink hot cocoa… yum!! The best part was the fellowship we shared as family!
Delicious food is such a part of our holiday celebrations! When we have our family gathering at my Mom and Dad’s, there are always SO many wonderful dishes that we cover all the kitchen counter and serve buffet style– then we all make 2 or 3 “take out” plates to take home for enjoying later…. YUM! I always look forward to my Mom’s home cooking, but there is one dish in particular that I LOVE so much– always have and always will… and that is Mom’s dressing. My sisters and I have tried repeatedly to replicate her dressing, but we have never been able to get the seasoning just right– it just doesn’t taste the same… I think it’s because no one can cook like “Mom” cooks– she seasons all her meals with tons of love … :-)
My favorite holiday treat is the orange and raspberry sticks…how can you go wrong with a delicate jelly flavor covered in chocolate! An open box is an empty box.
PUMPKIN PIE!!!!!!!!!!!
LVE the star ornament!
Wow! I love all of these giveaways! I want to win today! My favorite holiday food would have to be Christmas cookies. Because, duh, cookies, who doesn’t love cookies? But Christmas cookies are more special, probably more labor intensive (at least the ones my family bakes are) and you only get to have them once a year, so that makes them more special, and they evoke so many memories, and that makes them even more special.
YUM! Everything looks delicious! Would love to win one of the cookbooks. Thanks!
Just one!? Ok…… Apple Cranberry Bourbon Pie! Mmmmmmmmm.
Great Giveaway.
Christmas Cookies!! :) I love baking them, giving them as gifts and especially eating them!!
My fav holiday food is a side dish made with rice and raisens. It is both sweet and savory.
What a wonderful line up of fabulous giveaways!! :) Absolutely beautiful stuff represented here and I’m going to do some Christmas shopping from your list! lol :)
Thanks for the chance to win! :)
Gooey butter cake cookies! My sister has a big cookie baking weekend every holiday season. She usually forgets she’s got flour in her mixer and turns it on and covers herself and the kitchen in flour. It happens every year and cracks me up. It’s darn near a tradition now.
CHRISTMAS COOKIES!!! Definitely Christmas cookies. Especially the little pecan tassies my grandmother used to make. Even though she is no longer with us and no one’s taste as amazing as hers, they bring back yummy memories of swiping one off the table EVERY time I went by. Speaking of Gramma, she used to make the most yummy ham, you know – the one with the cloves and pineapple. I guess I have 2 favorites. :) Nobody makes it like Gramma did.
Hands down – my favorite holiday food is cookies!!!! The kids and I bake cookies and decorate them every year – I love having a tradition my kids can pass on to their kids in the future ;-) Our decorating improves every year too!!!
I don’t eat a lot of desserts through the year, but I do eat quite a few during the holiday, lol. We always make my hubbys great grandmother’s sugar cookies. I also love pumpkin and pecan pies.
Fudge! My mom always made it around Christmas when we were growing up so it always tastes better during the holidays!
Homemade Chex mix, yummy!!!
Christmas equals the scents and smells of homemade cookies and candies. feeds the mind, body and soul…making something delish to give to friends and family :)
I would have to say pierogis. My in-laws are Ukrainian and celebrate Christmas Jan 6th with a huge fest of all their traditional goodies. yum
Mmmm… gingerbread. I love the warm cozy feeling it evokes!
Hands down …. my Mom’s frosted sugar cookies with a fresh cup of Iceland coffee.
Holiday blessings ~
Very cool products! My favorite holiday food is the turkey and spiral ham. But really all of it as a whole, its more the idea that this is when friends and family get together and all seems good with the world.
My favorite holiday food is the fabulous decorated sugar cookie!! I love love love to decorate these babies up for Christmas and my family loves to devour them! They are fantabulous!
I love making and eating o’henry bars!
My favorite holiday food is pumpkin pie! It’s a great holiday dessert that everyone loves and also makes a nice breakfast the next day! :) ha ha
Gingerbread! mmmm….
My favorite holiday food is cut out sugar cookies with a creamy buttercream icing. We make tgese every year, which coats my kitchen in a thin layer of flour. My family refers to these sinful cookies as “devil cookies”, because you can’t stop with eating just one. Non the less, this yummy goodness will find its way back into my kitchen in just a few days!
My favorite holiday food is the famous chocolate peanut butter fudge my sweet hubby makes each year! It is baked with lots of love and I allow myself one piece each day….like a vitamin..HaHa! (Well…..sometimes two pieces….LOL!!!) I LOVE holiday traditions and enjoy reading about other peoples as well!!! =)
My favorite Thanksgiving dish is pearled onions!!! They are so unique and special….not to mention SO delicious!!!!!
I love turkey! Specifically, I want one turkey sandwich with white meat, crisp lettuce, mayo, salt and pepper on fresh baked squishy white bread!
Favorite food-all the cookies that come and go and are shared with family and friends!
I thought this question would be a cinch–turns out it’s harder than I thought!
After much deliberation, I’ve decided my favorite holiday food has to be gingerbread cookies. I love the spicy and comforting aroma they create and fill the house with. My favorite holiday memory growing up was making spice (gingerbread) cookies with my mom and sisters. My mom would roll out the dough and my sisters and I would cut out the cookies, fighting over who got to use the coveted “angel” cookie cutter. The kitchen table at my home is still wobbly from years of us leaning on it to roll out the dough and create the imprints in our cookies!
My favorite holiday food is candy cane ice cream. : )
fudge. My mom would make the best old fashion fudge in the world. I have tried for years to make it like her but of course I cannot.
All candy and cookies. This was always a tradition, since I was little, I would help my mom make all the candy and cookies. My mom has passed away, now I am instilling this tradition into my children. We usually take the evening of one whole week and make everything.
My favorite dish I always looked forward to is my mother’s baked cauliflower. Since she past away, Christmas dinner has never been the same. I try to make it, but needs my mothers’ touch!
I have 2 favorite holiday foods – classic stuffing, made my mother’s way, and feijada, a Brazilian winter stew, made my mother-in-law’s way. Holiday foods reflect the best of both cultures around here!
Giant makes a scrumptious seafood stew every Christmas…it is truly the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten…it’s my favorite because it tastes so good…and it’s made with love!
My favorite holiday food would have to be hors d’oeuvres. I love it when I go to parties and there is an amazing display of these yummy tidbits and dips. I guess I enjoy them so much because they are things that you don’t usually see during the rest of the year and I just love it when I leave with a bunch of recipes and many others ask for mine. Sometimes I even try to have copies of my recipes with me should someone ask for them.
Very hard to choose as there are SOOOO many wonderful foods this time of year. My favorite is Chocolate Meringue Pie (my mother’s is preferred!). Not really a holiday food but I only get it at holidays. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I have to pick one favorite?!? I do enjoy Christmas cookies and I’d say that egg nog and other festive teas are a close second. I think they are so special and enjoyable because I only get to enjoy these things for a few weeks a year. Thanks for the opportunity to win these wonderful prizes!
My favorite holiday food is all the delicious Christmas cookies!
My most favorite holiday food are butter cookies made from my great grandmother’s recipe- super thin, crisp, melt in your mouth– we eat them like potato chips! A childhood memory in every bite.
Cranberry Tea, yummy and warm!
My mama’s fudge is my favorite holiday food and Christmas is the only time she makes it!
black walnut fudge…my mother always made this as a special Christmas treat..it was always savored slowly because when it was gone, it was gone….sorry but my close second was sassafras tea because it was always a winter drink because the roots were dug when it was freezing and a pot sitting on a wood fired stove makes the whole house smell wonderful.
It has to be baked goods.. Love eggnog lattes too!
Such great gifts! My favorite holiday food is fried dough. I only make it at Thanksgiving and Christmas, just like my mother and my grandmother did. There is nothing like hot, puffy dough slathered in butter and dipped into molasses or real maple syrup!
My favorite holiday food is cranberry sauce! I don’t know why we do not serve it the other 10 months of the year but November – December is the only time I eat cranberry sauce!
Old Fashioned Chess Pie!!! Reminds me of my grandmother making a whole one just for me!!
My favorite holiday food is nut roll. It reminds me of family members who used to make this wonderful treat and are no longer with us. And, it tastes great!
My favorite holiday food is my mum’s roosted turkey and Christmas is the only time she makes it!
Pumpkin Pie is my absolute favorite. It’s somthing my mother started and I have continued.
Chex party mix. My Grandmother and I would make dishpans full of it to give to our family. Since the 70′s we made it together. She died last year and I miss her terribly. The funny thing is that she always called it Trash. I am guessing it was called that in the 60′s in a magazine article. We only got it once a year so it was and still is really special to me. That bag stuff doesn’t touch what I made with my Grandmother.
I can just hear someone asking “what is a dishpan”? LOL
Wow! Just one food :) My favorite and it almost sends me into a sugar coma is Pralines. My SIL makes them every year. Just love the sugar and pecans. Thanks so much for highlighting these creative women! It’s been so interesting reading their stories.
My favorite holiday food is sweet potato casserole. My mom passed down her recipe for this amazing dish to me, and it includes a streusel topping made of pecans, butterscotch chips, and brown sugar. I just got married in June, and as a new bride, cooking for my husband is one of my favorite things to do. I prepared my mom’s sweet potato casserole on my own for the first time this Thanksgiving. We had a crowd of guests for the holiday, which required a huge portion of the casserole. Although the thought of hosting guests at my home for the first time, my husband and I turned the cooking into a fun project, and together we baked and mashed 15 sweet potatoes. The dish was a huge success. I am so thankful to The Lord for my many blessings, and sweet potato casserole means family to me. That’s what the holidays are really about – family, hope, and embracing the love and mercy of The Lord, the Giver of all good things.
I am in love with ribbon candy…does that count as food?? Once I crack open that first box and peel back the bubble wrap from the top layer, I know the holiday season can begin! :) My Grandmother started my love of ribbon candy…she always had a box she would bring to share and it was such a treat!
I have to tell you…I am loving these fun daily prompts. So much that I have started asking my 3 kids and my husband the question each day. I am taking all of our answers an compiling them into a little mini album of the 12 Days of Christmas 2011. It is such a simple idea but to have the prompt given to me each day takes out any stress of “thinking” and we are all having fun listening to each others answers. I am sure this little album will become a keepsake and possibly a new tradition! thank you!!
Lisa D – that is an EXCELLENT idea!! I may have to steal that one!!
Anything that I can make ! I love all the staples for the entree, but then i like to try something new for the sides and desserts! That’s why I am always looking for NEW recipes from all these great sites! My husband is very supportive of me TRYING A NEW RECIPE, which helps! :) One Favorite side that I have to do (One of my son’s favorite for holidays) is a
Spinach Casserole. Another one is Onion Wraps. the green onion cleaned and the tip cut off and then you take a piece of beef lunchmeat and spread any flavor of creme cheese on it and then wrap it around the tip of the onion. Great starters!
My favorite holiday food is a sweet one – frosted gingerbread cookies! They are cute, tasty and sweet. Not to mention it’s the only time of year I get them – Christmas-time! Thanks for an opportunity to win!
Boy there are so many good choices…….I would have to choose my Great Grandmother’s Molasses Cookies. :)
My favorite holiday food is snowballs…we take vanilla ice cream shaped into a ball, roll them in shredded coconut, decorate the top with green leaves in icing and red cinnamon candies (to look like holly) then we put a red (birthday) candle in the middle of the icing. On Christmas Eve everyone there lights the candle on their snowball and starts eating. The person who keeps their candle burning the longest time while eating wins a dollar bill that Grandma always puts in the middle of the table.
Christmas cookies of all kinds and butter tarts are my favorite holiday foods because it brings back memories of standing at Grandma’s side (on a chair so I could see) helping her bake the goodies when I was a little girl. Then as and adult, watching my children stand beside Great Grandma doing the same thing. :D
Any dessert. Because it is the only time of the year that I can eat them.
My favorite holiday food is cheese ball. My family’s long time tradition, also a favorite, is punch made with Hawaiian punch and vanilla ice cream!
Red Velvet Chocolate Cake
Mt step-mum makes rum balls each year – they are absolutely delicious!!! Being in Australia, we also enjoy fresh salads too, esp fruit salad and ice cream :) Thanks for the inspiration today!
My favorite holiday food is sausage balls. My two kids would not come to my house for the holidays if we did not make this recipe together.
My favorite food for the Christmas is….the one that gets fixed every year. I love that tradition. You always have that meal to look forward to. Christmas Eve is usally spent with my family and we do slow cooked beef sandwiches with horseradish sauce and my dad will cook home cooked green beans with bacon, baked potatoes with all the goodies on top, and I usually will make a beautiful chop chop green salad. We spend the evening opening presents, eating a good meal and spending time with the ones we love the most in the world.
My favorite holiday food is a breakfast casserole that I have made each year since my kids were born (now 25 & 23)….they hate it…and refuse to eat it….but we laugh about it and when I make it sometimes during the year…it reminds me of such great times I have had with my kids during the holidays….it is amazing such a simple recipe means so much to me. Last year my daughter was stationed in Okinawa and we “skyped” while I fixed it just so we could laugh about her finally having an excuse not to eat it!!
My favorite Holiday Food is something we call “pink salad” (although you can make other “colors”). It is a concoction of cottage cheese, thawed frozen whipped topping, pineapple chunks, mandarin oranges, and dry (full sugar) Jell-o. When I was in High School we lived in Florida. Since it was so warm, my mom decided a cold Christmas dinner was in order. Canned ham, potato salad, rolls, and the above salad made pink by using strawberry or cherry Jell-o. It became a yearly tradition until I moved away, but the “pink salad” went with me. It is a staple on our Holiday table, every holiday. Colored appropriately for the Holiday. Orange for Thanksgiving, green for Easter and of course always pink for Christmas!
My favorite holiday food is the christmas cut out cookies that have been made in my family for the last 40 years. They stay soft and are great tasting even without frosting. I make about 50 dozen every year for family and friends and no one ever has any that last very long.
My favorite holiday food is the country ham we have for breakfast at my Mom’s every year for Christmas. This year my youngest sister died in a car wreck leaving her 16 year old daughter and the rest of us grieving. I know that the holidays will be a struggle for all of us. Hoping the country ham and red eye gravy will be our comfort food.
my Grandmother’s Christmas cookie recipe…..such a labor of love I discovered as I got older and continued this tradition with my kids……rolling out the dough, cutting out the fun shapes and decorating them. My daughter is 22 and lives away now, but comes home for Christmas in time to make them every year and all of her friends come. They all must wear a vintage apron from my collection and they out do themselves with fancy icing colors and crazy decorations….singing Christmas carols and the house is filled with laughter….just writing about it makes me smile…..they will be here in a few weeks….time to get the cookie cutter out!
OMG – LOVE Heather Jones!! Truly – ALL of the artists you are featuring during the Holiday Giveaways are extraordinary! My favorite holiday food is the Peanut Roll. I admit – I don’t usually eat more than one – and they are probably more nostalgic than over-the-moon delicious. However, I have great memories of being with my Grandma as we hand-ground peanuts with her old steal grinder, baked white cake from scratch and had a messy good time rolling the frosted squares of cake in the ground peanuts. OK – maybe they are really yummy too as I now have a craving for them!!
I love eggnog! Definitely tastes like the holidays to me. :)
O such a hard decision to make….my favorite holiday food….cookies, sweet potatoe casserole….but I am going to have to go with bread filling with gravy. YUMMY!!
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Hot cabbage salad that my Russian Granpa always made, I remember it better than I remember him, probobly because my Mother kept making it long after he was gone.
Christmas cookies! I love them all!!!
Favorite food? It has to be fudge. It is so rich and chocolately and each bite brings back memories of Christmas past and all the joys of cooking with Grandma and Mom in the kitchen.
I love peanut butter kiss cookies.
Hi y’all my favorite holiday food has got to be
Christmas cookies because it’s something we do as a family every year.
And it’s such a joy to make them to bless my family but other families as well.
My favorite holiday food is definitely Christmas cookies. I love mixing the dough, rolling it out, cutting into cute shapes, baking, and finally frosting with colored royal icing and adding sprinkles. My daughters and I do this together every year.
I’d have to say my favorite Christmas food is Nut Roll. My mom made only at Christmas time and after she passed away….I continue to carry on the tradition of making them. It wouldn’t be Chritstmas without them!
I would have to say pumpkin pie because I eat every one that comes in the house!!
I love all of the traditional Swiis-German foods that my family makes at Christmas time. It’s one of the only times of the year that we eat some of them.
I love almond bark covered pretzels!!!!!
I LOVE the awesome things that you gals have created!
What a great giveaway!!
forgot to write that my favorite is peppermint bark.
My Grandmother’s homemade fudge! She only made it at Christmastime(well, sometimes Thanksgiving too). It just melted in your mouth. And she always put the pieces in this wonderful white milk glass bowl with lid that she put in her living room. That made the fudge seem even more special somehow. I still have not been able to make any fudge myself that tastes quite as wonderful as hers did!
What amazing prizes! Thanks so much for the chance to win! My favourite holiday food is TURKEY! I love to try new recipes every year and they have all been so yummy! And leftovers are great too!
My favorite holiday food is the Christmas cookies. We have a family recipe that has no sugar in the cookie; it’s all in the icing. This causes the cookie to be SO SOFT! Of course, because of this, you HAVE to pile the icing AT LEAST as tall as the cookie, if not taller!!! j-j-s AT juno DOT com
how to pick from all the kinds of food! but i do love all the sweet treats that you can get away with making during the holidays with the excuse of “they are for gifts!!” love all the prices! thank you thank you!
my favorite holiday food is pumpkin bread. ever since i was little it’s been in our holiday baking fun! when i was in grade school i would bake a loaf for each of my teachers. i just recently came across a card from my KINDERGARTEN teacher telling me how much she loved eating the pumpkin bread we made her over the holiday break. it has always been dear to my heart.
I love all the holiday cookies, but my favorite are the frosted sugar cookies! I also make up “goody” boxes as gifts filled with homemade breads, cookies and candies :)
Merry Christmas!
What a great giveaway today! My favorite food is pumpkin pie. I know, I know. It’s so ordinary, but who can resist a slice of cold pie in the morning with a hot cup of coffee?
My favorite holiday food is homemade pirogies….They always remind me of growing up and having big family get togethers every year at everyones houses. Every night the whole week from christmas to new Years…..
Thanks for the giveaway!!
At Christmas we bake a Neopolitan cookie that our mother baked at Christmas. It feels like the holidays when I smell them baking!
Favorite Holiday Food: Russian Tea Cakes! We make them every year. Who doesn’t love powdered-sugar-lips?
I like all the great side dishes that get cooked–green bean casserole, yummy salads, mashed potatoes! Thanks for the generous gifts!
the butter tart – definitely
Would love to make that quilt!
My favorite holiday food is my mother’s Steamed Christmas Pudding with Lemon Sauce-we only have this at Christmastime and it’s so yummy and special.
My favorite holiday food is what my family calls “Christmas Candy”. It’s my favorite, because it’s delicious and we only get it at Christmas. It’s the prefect mix of peanut butter, chocolate and powdered sugar. So yummy!
Cheese ball – I really enjoy this as a holiday treat . For years I have made them as gifts and used them at home for special events. They are easy to make,you can use the herbs and spices you have on hand ,roll them in nuts,shredded cheese or herbs. I try to stock up on the cream cheese and cheddar cheese which make up the base when on sale . I try to keep the cheeses in the freezer until needed. You can also use lower fat versions . If made fresh,they can be frozen until you need to use them.
I love eggnog!! Its my favorite! Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite holiday food is ham. So delicious if made just right ;)
My favorite holiday food is spritz cookies :) I make them every year as green trees with little colored sprinkles on top!
My favorite holiday food I must admit are decorated sugar cookies and mainly because my boyfriend does an awesome job with the decorating and makes each one unique and special almost to cool to eat keyword almost…lol
Pumpkin pie is my favorite because It’s delicious and somewhat healthy and we get to have it on two holiday occasions. Thanksgiving and Christmas. I associate the aromas and flavors of pumpkin pie with happy family gatherings and homemade feasts.
Our family’s special version of Chex Mix …. lots of things other than Chex and super spicy!! We only make it during the holidays and it wouldn’t be Christmas without it!
All my favorites yeah! My favorite holiday food is pumpkin bars. Yum!
My favorite holiday food is christmas cookies all the different kinds and shapes and colors and its always fun to make a new kind I host a cookie swap party for my friends the week before Christmas and then at all my holiday events i can take a WIDE variety of cookies to share!
Two things I can only find at Christmastime – Egg Nog and Mince Pie. And, I’m the only one who likes them. They just scream Christmas to me.
I wait like many others for the “Where Women Create or Cook” Thank you for sharing the spaces and recipes.
My favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies – I love to make them myself and receive them as gifts. I just love to be able to walk through the kitchen and grab one for a quick snack. I’ve even eaten them for breakfast. It’s my favorite part of Christmas and I’ll eat them until they’re past their prime.
Every year I eagerly await the arrival of Trader Joe’s Peppermint Hot Chocolate! I really need to just stock up for the whole year : ) Thanks!
My favoriet holiday food – cookies! Because they hold so many fond memories of baking with my children and with friends children and maybe someday – grandchildren!
My favorite holiday food would have to be cornflake cookies – they are also called wreath cookies – I think we loved so much as kids because they turned your teeth green :) – it was all about the gross out factor :) – I think food for the holiday is all meories of your childhood
My favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies. I enjoy making them, giving them and eating them. <3 Kim Lessig
I love my grandma’s sugar cookie recipe! They are soft and not too sweet, delicious!
Ooooooo, tough one. I would have to say out of the the ‘holiday’ themed food, it would have to be frosted sugar cookies. It’s the only time of year I eat them.
The prizes are fabulous, and I love these artists! It’s so hard to narrow down my favorite holiday food since I love the whole Christmas “eating” season! I’ll have to choose the peanut butter kiss cookies I make every year with the kids. It’s that combo of peanut butter and chocolate that’s so yummy!
Christmas sweets! Peppermint candies, gingerbread, fudge, eggnog and lots of hot chocolate with marshmallows at all of the outdoor activities in the cold.
My favorite holiday food is my mother’s pecan pie. Why, you ask! I like it because it tastes so good. Since I see her cook the pie, I know that it is a safe food to eat at any buffet function!
My favorite Christmas(time) food would have to be my Grandma’s recipe for Poorman’s cake. Kind of like fruit cake, but the only fruits are raisins and maraschino cherries. I love the taste, but I love that it reminds me of my Mom and Grandma. Thanks!
My favorite holiday food is pumpkin pie with whip cream. It always means the holidays to me and means to that I am gathered around family enjoying wonderful food and wonderful conversations!!!!
My favorite holiday food is decorated sugar cookies. I can’t resist them!
Fruitcake! Yes, I know everyone in the world hates it but me! As a child my great uncle would send tins of fruitcake from Collins Street Bakery in Corsicana, TX. We would slice off a chunk of the dense cake filled with candies pineapple, cherries, raisins and citron and eat it with a cup of tea or milk. My favorite recipe- passed down from my Auntie Berta- has dates, cherries and pecans. I’ve probably experimented with at least 20 different recipes over the years. Anybody receiving an unwanted fruitcake can send it to me!
My all time fave is my mom’s stuffing. The. best. Period!
My favorite holiday food is my sister in law’s Christmas cookies!! They are absolutley perfect, sweet with just the right fluffiness…with warmth and love baked tightly within. Really, they’re the very best :)
”My absolute fave holiday treat is gingerbread. I love it! And it wouldn’t be Christmas morning without biscuits and gravy :)
My 86 year old mother’s home made biscuits and gravy. I only have them for our holiday dinner and they bring back so many wonderful memories of family times.
I loved my mom’s pecan balls, she only made them at Christmas, light and flakey when you would bite into them and the powered sugar melted in your mouth. I will miss them this year as mom passed in January
my favorite holiday food is a cheeseball…i absolutely love those things! the women in my family all get together and play games while we snack on it! so not only does it remind me of the holidays but also of the great time spent with my family :)
Tingalings… bittersweet chocolate, corn flakes & date candies! Why… well, it’s a great chocolate fix with a nicely chewy element.
Favorite holiday food is Marzipan Panettone. I could eat a whole cake in one sitting.
Cookies as the desset because they are just plain yummy and it wouldn’t seem like Christmas without them but I would have to say Prime Rib as my favorite holiday food- complimented with all of the other holiday time dishes! I think the reason is just the nastolgic feeling of Christmas and winter wrapped up with family all together.
And thank you again for continuing to share all of these talented gals with us everyday!!
I have not had it in years but my favorite holiday food is Lefse. I miss it soo much. My aunt used to make it when I was little. I begged her to teach me but she said it was a secret. SO when she died, no one in the family had learned to make it. I would love to learn even now. It is a Norwegian potato pancake that you eat with butter and sugar. SOOOO GOOD!
Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite holiday food is the fudge my grandma used to make. It’s the kind you boil on the stove, then pour onto a plate to cool. The plate is always a fancy, festive one, which of course makes the fudge taste even better.Then, we cut tiny pieces with a very sharp knife and savor the goodness. My grandma is not with us anymore, but she left us with a very sweet memory.
Oh, this is an easy one. Every year, my mom used to make “Christmas Salad”, a recipe from the Mike Roy cookbook involving oranges, canned cherries and pineapple chunks in a whipped cream sauce with marshmallows and a tad of lemon juice. Sounds awful, when I write it out, but it was a real treat, especially since we had it only once a year. After I became a vegetarian, and stopped eating marshmallows, my mom would make a portion of it just for me, sans marshmallows. She was very thoughtful about things like that.
Now I make the Christmas Salad, often in a smaller batch since I’m the only one who eats it. Christmastime and Christmas Salad, a perfect pairing.
I believe that Eggnog would be my favorite holiday food. I love the creamy texture and the light nutmeg flavor. The only problem is the recommended serving size is much too small for my appetite!
My Mom’s Pistachio Torte. Unfortunately she passed away over 6rs ago now. We have the recipe, but it just doesn’t taste the same.
Chocolate fudge with no nuts.
My Grandma used to make butterscotch and chocolate fudge and while it was cooling on the washer & dryer, I would sneak in there and snag pieces off of the chocolate tray!
This is so great and gets me even more into the holiday spirit!
Thank You!
Standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding – because we only have it for Christmas Dinner and it is YUMMY!!
Oh goodness is it possible to pick just one favorite food for the holidays……..
well the homemade cookies really make Christmas so special and remembering
all those cookies my Mom use to make for us seven kids.
thanks so much for the chance to win these wonderful prizes from all thes
very talented ladies.
Happy Sewing and Merry Christmas
Peppermint bark or anything peppermint and chocolate combo!
Hello, One of our favorite foods at Christmas is Chex mix, I end up making two batches of it. My family loves it. I also bake alot and make candy! Thank you for the opportunity, this is so wonderful. Merry Christmas! Terri
Cut out sugar cookies. My whole family gets together, cuts them out, frosts and decorates. Soooo much fun.
I love to make gingerbread cookies. They remind me of lebkuchen and Christmases in beautiful Germany!
Ok hands down it has to be the coconut strawberries! It’s coconut mixed with strawberry jello and almond dyed green for the leaves and stem. Oh, peanut butter balls, and the cornflake wreaths, and, and…..My grandmas homemade hard candy!
I would have to say during the holidays I do not have a favorite food. Having a homecooked meal with family that I do not get to see on a regular basis is my favorite part of the holidays. It makes everything smell and taste soooo good.
wonderful sites! My Mom’s chocolate jumbo cookies, which are old fashioned cutouts and decorated. Yum and we only get them once a year. I will inherit the recipe one day just like Mom did. Happy Holidays!
Baklava! Every year before she passed away, my grandmother and I would sit down and make homemade Baklava together. We only made it at Christmas time and I looked forward to spending the special time with her every year!
My favorite holiday food has always been my grandma’s homemade raviolis! I haven’t had them in years – she died in 2004 – but I have the recipe and will attempt to make them this year! Jamie V in MT
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Anything with PUMPKIN! Love this time of year for Pumpkin chai, pumpkin bread, muffins, and the latest, GrillSmith’s pumpkin soup!
wow, that book would be awesome to win – really ALL the gifts!! My favorite is my best friend’s peanut butter ball candies. is that a food? lol
Pumpkin muffins with cream cheese in the middle. :) And they’re even better with chocolate chips in them! They’ve sort of become a holiday tradition for my family so I’ve grown up loving them. :)
Cherries are my favourite. Christmas is the only time we have them and I guess that makes them so much more special.
This might sound really silly, but my favorite holiday food is the mint ice cream Christmas trees at the grocery store. I have to have at least a box every year and will even make my husband go on a special trip to get them. They are so delicious!
I love Christmas cookies because it reminds me of my childhood when my mother would bake 4 or more different types over the course of the month.
I love my Mother’s cheese balls. She has always made them for Xmas eve for as long as I can remember. They are really nothing special but they bring back such sweet memories. My Mother raised myself and 2 sisters on her own. She worked very hard on the night shift at a hospital but she always managed to see we had a special Xmas! We I had my own children I realized how hard it must of been for her. Merry Christmas Mama!
One time a year a recipe for chocolate chip cookies with orange comes out and I make at least 2 double batches. The cookies are so amazing I should make them year round but they are more special maybe because it is just 1 time per year.
Christmas cookies. There is a variety of cookies. The way they are shaped. The way the smell and decorated. Yes, they taste great!
Oh my goodness, I love all these giveaways!
My favorite holiday food is pecan pie. MMMM!
Christmas cookies–sugar cookies cut in holiday shapes and decorated with icing and sprinkles. It just reminds me of being a kid!
Hmmmm. the cookies. the desserts. the extras. the drinks. I love holiday foods!
homemade doughnuts. It’s a family tradition.
Home made noodles…like my grandma made when I was small….hand cut and some would stick together…I can almost taste them now.
I love my mom’s sweet potato pies! That’s the only time of the year that I ever have that special treat!
Gingerbread!!!! I never made a house, but I’ve had a lot of fun making goofy people. (Think pirate, zombie, Rocky Horror kind of people.)
My fave holiday food is homemade fudge — any flavor!!
Thank you.
Wow, what great giveaways! One of my favorite holiday foods is pizzelles. I don’t know why, but they always remind me of the holidays and I’ve loved them since I was a little kid.
Cranberry Pumpkin Bread!! – It has to be at the top. As well as may other baked goodies.
Why? It is a family tradition and when we make it – the house is just filled with the aroma of the holidays. Love it!!
Plus it is delicious too!
My family is Norwegian, and each holiday we gather to make large batches of lefse’. Christmas dinner is not complete without these yummy rolled up pieces of potato flatbread filled with goodies or just dusted with butter and sugar. Yum!
My favorite Christmas food is defintely ham. Why, because I have the best receipe for a delicious glaze that I baste on my ham and I have ham only once a year. This makes it special for the family.
My favorite Christmas food is these creme de menthe bars we make every year. I only make them at christmas time and freeze them. They are delicious out of the freezer. My sister in law gave me the recipe years ago.
My favorite holiday food is pumpkin pie. Nothing special, and really I could eat it anytime, but I save it for Thanksgiving and Christmas/
My favorite holiday food? That’s a tough one there are so many contenders! Maybe almond spritz cookies heads the parade!
Christmas cookies, I remember helping my grandmother make them when I was a small girl an as the years passed we seemed to switched places I did most of the work while she was the helper, the best part being the fun times we had making the cookies.
My mother-in-law makes the most awesome icecream for Christmas with glace cherries, walnuts, marshmallow and chocolate (rocky road). I always look forward to this and the Christmas pudding.
I love buckeyes! My Mom always makes these peanut butter & chocolate yummies every year.
I love having fondue on Christmas Eve — we cook mushrooms, shrimp, chicken, have various dipping condiments, have a big salad, and French bread. It takes a long time to eat, we talk and laugh.
We could have fondue any time, but it never tastes as good as it does on Christmas Eve!
I love it all, but I think a sugar cookie would be my favorite because it is the only time of the year I eat one.
I love making Christmas Day dinner, turkey with all the fixin’s. Its a time to share with kids and grandkids… it is such a blessing to have them all over for dinner..
I’ll have to go with pumpkin nut roll, rich but oh so good.
Today’s giveaway is most impressive!! Is it bad if I hope I win??
My husband & I began a new tradition with our grown children several years ago. Before we open our presents to each other, we make a huge ‘brunch’ breakfast with bacon, sausage, country ham, gravy, biscuits, eggs and more. It’s become one of the meals I look forward to most!
Christmas is the time for lots of cookies! Some to eat and some to give away. The smell of my favourite Christmas cake that uses crushed pineapple wafting up the hallway. Smells evoke such wonderful memories. oh, and the taste of the smoked salmon pate my husband makes with salmon he smokes himself – yummo!
Ah, that would definitely be my homemade Peanut Butter Bon-Bons!
My favorite Holiday food is my Kumquat and Cranberry sauce. It has become my “reflection” food. Before all the hubbub in the kitchen starts, I get up at 5am on holiday mornings and start the process of preparing the kumquats. My grandfather used to grow kumquats, and they would be so ripe you could pick them and immediate pop them in your mouth like candy. The ones in stores in Nov and Dec here on the north east coast, however are a bit different and require several boil baths to remove the bitterness. It has moved from being labor-intensive to my favorite part of the day and favorite food to prepare because it gives me a chance to pray, reflect, and just plain miss parents and grandparents who are no longer with us. The smell of citrus is so comforting, and once I have the sauce prepared, I enter the holiday cooking with a renewed faith, heart, and energy for a busy but loving day :)
My most favorite holiday food is Christmas cookies! Love to make this almond shortbread cookie that is divine!
Everytime I taste baked sweet potatoes with marshmallows, I remember how much I love them–they’re definitely my favorite holiday food.
my favorite holiday food is cookies. I love making and giving cookies. I also love receiving cookies- most holiday cookies are family receipies and hearing the family story around them I swear makes them taste better.
My favorite holiday ‘food” has to be Christmas Cookies !
Any yummy kind will do but especially fond of Swedish Spritz cookies (we always make a ton of them) and also big soft Ginger cookies. Can you tell I’m half Swedish and Norwegian ?
What WONDERFUL giveaways !! It would be the BEST Christmas ever to win these … Thanks for the chance !
Mmm… I love those holiday sugar cookies!! Well, and the gingerbread ones too!! Thanks so much for the chance!
cranberry bread!!
Fabulous prizes, I love making cake pops with my daughter but don’t have Nakerella’s book yet.
I love the simplicity of cold turkey, salad and cranberry rolls on Christmas Day evening.
Favorite Holiday food is my angel daddy’s homemade hot buttered rum mix!! As kids we would sneak into the fridge after he made it up, and take spoonfuls at a time. So nutmeg yummy. Me and my siblings try and recreate his recipe but no one could make it like my Daddy!! He would make the mix, then when his friends would come over he would scoop out some of the mix into a mug, fill the mug with warm eggnog, then add a splash of rum or whiskey. Sure miss my angel Daddy, but his memories are always with me. thank you for the fun christmas giveaway, and I will go and check out the artist right now!!
My favorite is not really a “food”…well to me I guess it is. lol My wonderful grandmother always made Divinity at Christmas and it wil forever remind me of her.
Almond crescent cookies. I love the holiday flavors and they remind me of time spent with my mom. I miss those holiday traditions.
There’s nothing quite like Christmas ham!
Though pudding and homemade custard is a close second!
Ooh that’s tough… Cherries, I think!
Pumpernickel & spinach dip :) My brother made the original batch one year and we haven’t had a Christmas or New Years pass by since without it :) Of course, since that time, us women have had to make it … ;)
So many to list but I’ll choose the Peppermint Topped Sugar cookie that I make only this time of year – my family cannot get enough of them!!!! Reminds me, I should start baking SOON!!!!
anything pepperminty. i absolutely love the chocolate covered peppermint joe joe’s from trader joe’s, but i just recently moved to where there are no trader joe’s. so i make a lot of peppermint bark. love peppermint hot chocolate and mochas, too. oh, and the peppermint milkshake from chick-fil-a is something i look forward to every year. :)
I don’t have a real favorite food, just enjoying good food with friends and/or family.
Kringles, they are the best!
My favorite holiday food is peppermint bark. I can’t wait every year for it to come out in the stores (especially Williams Sonoma!!)
I love all kinds of cookies! We especially love Andes Mint chocolate cookies. Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh Merry Christmas I would Love to get an early Christmas present!
My favorite desert is called a “Kajun Kringle”. It is in the shape of a King Cake however it is made with a more flaky pastry and is topped with a Praline like topping. DELICIOUS!!!
My favorite holiday food is cookies! Sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, thumb prints…You name it, I love it! lol I know they’re not *just* a holiday food, but they remind me of holidays at home. We didn’t have alot of money, so that’s what my mom would make to give as gifts. We’d all get to help. Dozens and dozens of batches (even doughnuts)! My all time favorite would be what we used to call “Fry Cookies”, but I believe their real name is “Rosettes”. Just recently made my first batch and my kids loved ‘em!
My favorite holiday food is stuffing! In the bird, out of the bird, for Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Years. I make stuffing on a regular basis. LOVE it. And a big shoutout to Oliver & Ollie’s – Heather Jones. She is right her in Ohio! Thanks for ALL four great prizes and artists ideas.
My favorite holiday food?! That’s such a difficult choice – It’s all good. So, I’ll have to narrow it down by what brings the biggest smile to my heart … Cookies and candies that Mom and I made together while I was growing up. I now have her recipes and smile every holiday season when I pull out the tattered recipe cards.
wow! amazing prizes!!! My favorite holiday food is-cornflake cookies. My grandma used to make them for our gatherings, and now I do-they are still a crowd favorite.
Recipe: 1 bag butterscotch chips, 1 cup peanut butter (melted together in microwave), then use mixture to coat 6 cups of cornflakes. Put by spoonful onto a wax paper covered cookie sheet, and harden in freezer.
My favorite holiday foods are pumpkin pie and sugar cookies. I can’t get enough of either. Sugar cookies just simply say “Merry Christmas!” just by being there to eat. Pumpkin pie just makes me feel warm and cozy. Both are yummy, and my absolute favorites!
I’d love to win these cookbooks, as I’m a collector.
My favorite dish at the holidays is my mom’s oyster stuffing, a recipe passed down from her mother. Now that mom is no longer with us, this dish is even more special. I’m going to try and make it for Christmas.
We always make a batch of my grandmas fudge – wonderful reciepe!
I can’t stay away from all the goodies around the holidays! Plus our Christmas tradition is pizza on Christmas day, yummy!
I like egg nog and apple cider this time of year.
PIE!!! I don’t seem to eat pie very much any other time of year and really like it! :)
Thanks again for all the great fun!
My grandma makes dumplings on Thanksgiving and they are EVERYONE’S favorite! She always complains and says that they came out too hard or too doughy but we tell her they are perfect..and they always are:)
My favorite holiday food is either Peanut Butter Blossom cookies or Buckeyes. With peanut butter and chocolate, you can’t go wrong.
Cookies, especially big sugar cookies.
Wow, again fabulous giveaways and women!!
As for my favourite holiday food… Well that is a tough one, but I would have to say turkey!!! I only roast it twice a year, so it seems extra special, and I am getting better at it every time I cook it!! It is just nice to sit and enjoy a good meal with family and be thankful they are with you again this year, so maybe that’s why I like it so much!
My favorite holiday food are the cookies I make only at Christmas. My Mother started the tradition and I have continued it. Merry Christmas!
Great post, amazing giveaway.
I must confess my favorite Christmas food are all sweets. I love pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and so many cookies I can’t list them all. Ok, I love Turkey too!
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My favourite holiday food is turkey with all the trimmings. To me it is the ultimate family meal.
My favorite holiday food is Iced Christmas cookies! It was a tradition to have those waiting on a dish for Santa when he came down the chimney!! I remember frosting and decorating them every years!!! Yummy~ xoxox, Diana
I love making my Grandma’s Christmas cookies…such a fun tradition!
Thanks for the chance! I don’t think that I could pick just one food, so I’m sharing my fave holiday meal… last year my husband cooked butternut squash ravioli with sage butter sauce. They were delicious! I made steamed green beans with almonds and we had a delicious salad on the side. It was really simple, but so tasty!
My favorite holiday food is monkey bread. As a kid, my mom would often make a batch on Christmas Eve that she warmed on Christmas morning while we opened our stockings. Since we usually ate very healthy breakfasts throughout the year, it was always such a treat to eat something so sweet for breakfast on Christmas. Thinking about monkey bread makes me think about the joy of cozying up as a family opening presents on Christmas morning!
I like Christmas, but maybe because it interferes with my birthday I can’t like it best, hahaha. So Halloween is my favorite holiday. Thanks for all the giveaway-ing, my fingers are practically shivering from the possibility of getting themselves on all that fabric :)
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My dad’s homemade from scratch eggnog is my favorite. It takes so long for him to make, but it is the creamiest most delicious drink. No other nog that I’ve tried ever comes close. It feels like the Christmas season when he starts heating that up. Thanks!
My mom has always made this side dish called …. Cape Cod Cranberry Salad (at least that is what we have always called it) It is Cherry Jello with whole cranberry sauce, celery, pineapple, cottage cheese, walnuts, lemon juice……mmm mmm good ! ! ! ! ! We have it for Thanksgiving & Christmas, I never get sick of it .
My mom’s Spritz cookies– somehow, mine never taste as good as hers do!
My favorite ‘Winter’ holiday food is Gingered Cranberry Sauce. It is easy & quick to prepare, keeps for a long time, goes with anything, tastes fabulous, the gorgeous deep red color is unbelievable, & it is truly ‘American’. What could be better?
My favorite holiday food is my homemade frosted Christmas cutout cookies. They take a lot of time but are so worth the effort. Why? I know they are made with good ingredients, and they are so buttery and sweet. Yum!
Wow, this isn’t easy. I think of one thing then another comes to mind so I delete the first thought. =/ I think it would be (besides all the wonderful cookies) ham. I usually don’t buy a big ol’ bone-in ham except for when I’m feeding a crowd so I guess that’s it.
Now buy the time this is posted I’ll have thought of something else…;)
My favorite holiday food is all the yummy treats like frosted sugar cookies, and homemade fudge and peppermint bark. YUMMY!
My favorite holiday food is shorbread cookies. My mom made the most delcious melt in your mouth ones. So when I make them at home now it reminds me of her.
Fresh cranberry sauce….with little sugar. I love it tart!
I loooove sugar cutout cookies for the holidays! Love love LOVE them, because (1) they’re YUMMY, and (2) they’re so simple! You can decorate them any way you want, and the sky is the limit really. You can just let your creativity abound, which I think is just so wonderful. And it’s something that adults and kids alike can really get into. So what’s NOT to like about them??
Filling. An old family recipe that I love making with my mother. I feel like all my family is with me, even those that have passed on.
Definitely all of the cookies – the oh so many different kinds of cookies!
Christmas cookies. The recipes are passed down from my grandmother and her mother.We make them and share with the rest of the family. It keeps the memories of past generations alive with during the Holidays.
Christmas cookies. So many choices so few days to bake them ALL!
My favorite holiday food would have to be pumpkin cheesecake. It is definitely a once a year treat! Thank you for the chance to win!
I want, I mean I need this! Awesome!
yorkshire pudding is my favorite. made by my mom….they’re super delicious…that’s why!
Cookies. Christmas cookies. LOVE them. Love making them too!
Prune Cookies – My grandmother made these delicious “polish prune cookies” for years. Then she passed away and my Mom made them. We now give my Mom a break and my sister and I make them. But we only make them at Christmas time. We are all usually eating them as soon as they come out of the oven nice and warm. Then we try to make enough to last another week…LOL! Not always an easy thing! I look forward to them every year and to continue the wonderful tradition!
My favorite holiday food has to be spiced tea or stuffing from Thanksgiving. Yum!
My favorite holiday food is Lefsa! With Norwegian in my heritage, it’s the food that keeps me connected to my childhood memories. My maiden name is Olson and the only kind of lefsa I can buy in my grocery store is made by “Mrs. Olson”.
My all-time most favorite holiday food has GOT to be my uncle’s rice dressing. It is a devine mixture of rice, meat, and seasonings and it only comes around for Christmas. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
My favorite holiday food is… all of it!! It’s too hard to pick just one. Ok, ok, i’ll pick the fruit cake. Most people hate fruit cake, but I love it. The spices, the chewy fruit, and the dense cake are delicious.
Does eggnog count as a food? I like to put a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it and have an eggnog float! It’s just simply delicious and even more special because I only get it once a year! :)
My favorite is stuffing because it’s delicious, comforting and brings back memories from past dinners with my family.
Home-made Chex Mix is my favorite! My family always saved it for Christmas. Thanks!
My all-time favorite holiday food would be nut rolls. My Baba and my mother used to make these all the time. Now that these two wonderful woman are gone, once in a blue moon my sister will make some and overnight delivery them to us. One of these days, I might surprise everybody (including myself) and make some. We love them.
Merry Christmas!
My favorite holiday food is what I have at the different places I visit. My maternal grandparents create an Italian style meal, whereas my paternal family has a very traditional, drenched in butter approach, and spending time with my boyfriend’s family puts a Portuguese spin on things. But what I appreciate most is the desserts. I love that no place has all the same things, most being homemade and experiencing the effort someone put in to creating a treat for the holidays.
My favorite holiday food is a Christmas Coffeecake. We put the cake together on Christmas Eve and pop it in the oven on Christmas morning. It is a moist sour cream cinnamon coffeecake and it’s wonderful!
peppermint bark, but mashed potatoes is a very very close second.
Christmas cookies are my fav!!! I especially love the decorated sugar ones! Yum!!! They just scream the holidays to me.
My favorite must be Christmas cookies – preferably with chocolate, please. :)
Sugar cookies, because of the memories of decorating them w/ my mom, my children, and now my grandchildren.
My favorite holiday food is my Mom’s Buttermilk pie…………YUM!
Pecan pie – because it reminds me of home and my mom’s pecan pie.
I absolutely love pumpkin pie- wouldn’t be a holiday without it! Makes for a good breakfast the next morning, too :)
My favorite holiday food are all of the different Christmas cookies! I love baking and making cookies for other people. I look forward to it every year! :)
My favorite food is Christmas cookies. I love making cookies for the holidays and enjoying my work afterwards. I also love making them for others and brightening their day with a little holiday cheer.
My favorite holiday food is no bake
Cookies! The kind with oats and chocolate and peanut butter, nothing more delicious!
I just love Cheesecake with Cherries on top. It is a family tradition around here. I got the recipe from Lindy’s in New York. Wishing everyone a Very Merry Christmas!
Each year for many years we went to a Christmas Eve party that a family member gave. Each year she made these delicious brownies with mint frosting and topped with fudge..oh oh oh oh I looove those. Learned how to make them myself..which is dangerous at best!! Sarah
My favorite holiday food is cornbread dressing. It just envelopes all the comforts of the winter holidays…warmth, contentment and nourishment.
My favorite Christmas dinner food growing up was what my mom called Christmas salad. It was a congealed lime gelatin with sour cream, pineapple, maraschino cherries. I loved the tangy taste, but it was beautiful, too, like an edible wreath!
I think my favorite holiday themed food is anything with peppermint, especially a peppermint cookie with a homemade peppermint mocha! That may seem like overkill, but I LOVE it!
Christmas cookies! It’s so much fun to make them with my daughter–we turn the kitchen into a disaster area, but we have a great time. I tried for years to duplicate the cookies I remember from my childhood–my mother’s best friend made the BEST cookies–and I finally found a recipe that duplicates them!
Divinity…..my grandma always made it for Christmas.
My favorite holiday food that is soooo Christmasy, is Ribbon Salad, a layer of green Jell-O with crushed pineapple, then a white layer which is lemon Jell-O blended with cream cheese and sugar, topped with a layer of Strawberry Jell-O with crushed strawberries and pecans. The colors say it all – CHRISTMAS. I normally don’t put so much time and effort into a Jell-O salad, but this it worth it once a year.
White Chocolate Fudge Oreos – oh my gosh, I can eat a whole package!!!
I love spritz cookies just like my Grandma used to make!
I love snickerdoodles and a delicious cup of peppermint coco! Yummy!
Has always been a Christmas favorite of my Grandpas!! So each morning on Christmas eve he’d have a cup of coco and freshly backed snickerdoodles waiting for me
COOKIES!
My favorite holiday food is the Spicy Cranberry Chutney my sister makes! Enhances the amazing flavor of turkey.
My favorite holiday food…hmm, hard to pick just ONE, but I do love the German cookies my dad’s parents used to make, and now my cousins make every year for my dad’s side of the family’s annual Christmas gathering. There are a couple different kinds, but my favorite are the anise-flavored springerle cookies – SO yummy!!
My favorite holiday food is the potato dressing we make from an old family recipe on our Russian-German side. It’s not only delicious, it brings back so many memories of my grandparents :)
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My favorite holiday food is Swedish Kringle. Growing up it was the special treat we got on Christmas morning to hold us off for a later meal (it’s butter, flour, egg, and some sugar – what’s not to love?). I grew up knowing it was my grandma’s recipe, that my mom continued to make each year (even though she wasn’t fond of the process to make it) for my dad and then because we kids loved it. When I was old enough I took over making it and changed our tradition to be on Thanksgiving and Christmas morning. …this year I will have to learn to make it gluten free. It might just become my favorite memory of food. :-)
My favorite holiday food to eat is cornbread turkey dressing. It’s such a part of our family’s traditional holiday dinner, it’s what makes the holiday dinner. My favorite holiday food to cook is cookies. I love getting in the kitchen and making different kinds to share with friends and coworkers.
My favourite holiday food is Suchard chocolate turrone (a candy we eat in christmas as a dessert). Turrone is normally made with almonds, sugar and honey (yes, very nice but very dangerous for my weight), but this one in particular has chocolate too and is made by the brand Suchard.
Vegan pumpkin bread!
My favorite Christmas present was my Daughters first christmas in 2007 We had tried for 10 years to have a child and to wake up Christmas morning with our little Amelia it was Heaven no other gift could match what I felt at that moment.
My favorite holiday food is homemade Almond Crescent cookies and hot chocolate. I only make these cookies during Christmas time. They look like they are snow covered and so much fun to eat.
My favorite food during the holiday season is hot chocolate meringue cookies. They remind me of my grandmother and Christmas when I was a little girl.
Wow, gorgeous prizes! My favorite holiday food… If we’re talking food-food, I’ll say cornbread dressing. It’s just such a cozy (and delicious) dish, and it feels like the holidays to me. But I also have a sweet tooth, so don’t get me started on desserts. ;)
I love tamales and I love Christmas ham. It just reminds me of our Christmases growing up
My favorite holiday food is the stuffing in the turkey. My dad made the best stuffing ever with sausage, onions, apples – yum.
I love stuffing, the crunch of the celery and onions, the smell of the sage, and the bread thats warm and flavorful, not too crunchy and not soggy either. It’s the one food that really kicks the holiday season off for me! Thanks so much! Have a very Merry Christmas!
my favorite holiday food is turkey and stuffing. It just feels like christmas with the smell of turkey in the air and it tastes sooo good! plus it’s not a regular meal since it needs the crowd to eat it!
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My favorite holiday food is cranberry! there are so many delicous foods you can make from cranberry: stuffing, bread, tapenade, cookies, granola bars, cocktails!! Yummy :)
potato soup. My dad (passed away now) made it every winter. Makes me think of him
My favorite holiday food is pecan pie. It’s so delicious and sweet, but I know it’s not the healthiest thing, especially when you add whipped cream (and who can’t add the whipped cream?) so I only indulge this time of year!
My favorite holiday food is a Heavenly Ham. I could eat their ham every day!
I haven’t given it yet, but this year I made my nieces some very cool (I think, anyway) totes. Hope they like them! I have two boys, so I loved making some ruffle-y, flower-y things for a change.
My favorite holiday food would have to be my mom’s cut-out cookies…. YUMMO!
I am loving learning more about these great creative women!
Pumpkin pie! I remember helping my grandmother make it every year as a child for both Thanksgiving and Christmas get togethers. Since she had a collection of pans, sometimes we’d end up with various pies ranging from 6″–10″. I think I ate a whole 6″ one on my own when I was about 7 years old! Totally worth the stomach ache. She made the best pies.
I want it all! lol. Please add my name for a chance, thank you!
Well, appetizers are my favorite food, period. So Christmas time is especially great because there are LOTS of parties… which means lots of appetizers. I love how appetizers pack a lot of flavor and interest into a small bite. Yum~my!!
I love homemade Christmas cookies and fudge. Yum, Yum. I still need to do a little Christmas baking. Thanks for a chance to win some fab prizes.
My favorite thing to eat during the holidays are the delicious homemade cinnamon rolls my hubby makes each year for Christmas morning. Sooooo yummy!!
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My favorite holiday food is a weird one – everybody in my family is a great cook and we have really wonderful food, but my favorite is my grandma’s red jello with cranberries, nuts, pinapple, and celery in it. We call it Red Stuff and I love it.
While I really love holiday baking I also love making my mom’s apple salad to serve with Christmas dinner. It’s my Dad’s favorite salad and it reminds me of home.
Christmas pudding! I’ve always loved it and start having it for breakfast well before Christmas hits. When I was a kid I would make extra pocket money “picking over” all of the dried fruit (making sure there are no crunchy stalks or seeds in there) for the puddings and cakes my mam baked. Yum.
That’s an easy one. Grandma’s Cornbread Dressing is what we call it in the family. My sweet mother-in-law died 3 years ago, but we girls learned by watching and we’ve passed down her special recipe.
What wonderful prizes… I know the name of this blog is “Where Women Create” so I hope I am not stepping on any toes by leaving a comment, but I had to share my favorite Holiday food…
My Favorite Holiday Food is Polska Kielbasa with Sour Kraut. I know, you’re thinking, “That stupid MAN, Polska Kielbasa and Sour Kraut is NOT a Holiday food!” But for me, it is.
You see, I don’t care for Turkey, Gravy, Cranberries, etc. and I can’t stand stuffing (who thought wet bread was a good idea!?) My Grandmother knew that I didn’t like those foods so every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas she would prepare the Grand Feast for the family and plates and plates of food would be brought out, and then she would bring a small corning ware dish with her Sour Kraut and Polska Kielbasa just for me. It is my favorite dish bar none, and Grandma knew that.
On Holidays she insisted that everyone be able to enjoy their meal, and against the protestations of my father who told her every year that I should just eat what everyone else was eating, she kept making me a special dish of my favorite food. Every other day of the year, I would eat whatever she put on the table without discussion (not that there was much she made that I didn’t like, mind you) but on Holidays, she was willing to go to a little extra effort to ensure that we were all happy. Even little ol’ me…
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Hi, Thank you for your part in the 12 days of Holiday giveaways. The most favorite will have to be Peanut butter cookies my mom used to make then when I got old enough to make them now I make about 50 dozen cookies because that is what everyone wants. Once you get something started they just expect it to be year after year. Thank for the giveaway and Happy Hpliday to You and Yours.
My favorite holiday food is a cheese ball. I know, weird, right? Well, it’s kind of a joke with our family now. Years ago, when we hosted our first Xmas for my family, my husband requested “cheese balls”. Now, being young and never having had a cheese ball at a party before, the only thing I could think that he meant were Planters cheez balls…as in little crunchy puffed things with artificial orange “cheese” on them. So, that’s what I bought. When I put out the appetizers he’s asked where the cheese ball was…I’m like “um, they’re right here”. When I finally realized that there was such a thing as a cheese ball, as in a ball of cheese used to spread on crackers, we made it a must have at every holiday. Cracks us up every time! Thanks for the chance!
My favorite food has to be a Puertorican Christmas dinner. I love the spread that they make. Roasted pork, rice with pigeon peas, bananas, pasteles( similar to tamales but better) and the desserts are to die for. But if I have to choose one thing, has to be the COQUITO, which is a drink similar to eggnog but made with cream of coconut and RUM.
FELIZ NAVIDAD! (I’m from Puerto Rico but moved to the USA 16 years ago and I REALLY miss my little island)
best regards,
Wanda
Christmas dinner is always my favorite… baked ham with my mom’s special macaroni!
I love making peanut blossoms for christmas – my grandmother made them every year and I carry on the tradition, plus they’re so yummy!
I know this may seem crazy but I LOVE roasted brussel sprouts with onions and bacon. YUM
My favorite is home made divenity with lots of nuts in it. Yummy!
The holiday food that I look forward to the most is (maybe surprisingly) roasted chestnuts. My husband and I start making them on Christmas Eve when we first were married as our “new family tradition” and we still do it every year. :) Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
love cutout sugar cookies! Making them with my kids just makes them better!
FUDGE!!!!!!!! Why? Because it’s FUDGE!!!!!!!!!
Martha Washington candy! My mom made it for us when we were kids. It is a long process but so worth the wait!
Merry Christmas!
Lori
Amazing giveaway gifts!! My favorite holiday food is turkey. Traditional, I know!
Thanks for the chance to win.
Linda
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My mom make a great cinnamon roll which she only makes on Christmas. It is my favorite.
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More beautiful gifts! I think I am very simple in that my favorite holiday food is pure and simple sugar cookies just because I find them hard to beat. Even my favorite “non dessert” food is pretty sweet as they are praline-topped sweet potatoes. : )
My favorite holiday food is ham. It is something most people don’t cook very much during the rest of the year. When I think of holiday food it is ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (with LOTS of marshmallows on top), green bean cassarole, fresh warm hot rolls or bread. Yumm now I am hungry!!
My favorite holiday food is my grandmother’s creamed corn. SOOO delicious!!!
Pumpkin Roll- my MIL makes the BEST ever pumpkin roll and she only makes it at Christmas time!
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My daughters would say I am a little strange, but I can’t go without my fudgesicles.
Ooh, food! My inlaws used to come and stay with us over Christmas (now they live close by :) ) and they’d bring a cooler full of family favorites, including swedish meatballs and kohldomer (stuffed cabbage rolls). All of it is my favorite!
I think my favorite holiday food is Russian Teacakes. They are just simple butter cookies that you roll and bake, then coat in powdered sugar – twice. (They look like little snowballs) My mom makes these every year for Christmas and when I make them, it reminds me of home.
Oddly enough, even though I’m obsessed with food, I don’t connect any particular food with Christmas…but I do love frosting and decorating cookies with my boys.
my favorite holiday has to be Christmas. I love everything about it, the lights, the smells, the treats, the decorations, and even the cold weather! It’s so hard to narrow down my favorite Christmas food, though! I love all the treats, but I’d probably have to go with fudge. Really, can you go wrong with fudge? Thanks for the chance to win.
Date Nut bread. Each year I work on it to try to get it like my grandmothers. Tho it tastes good, I still can’t get it as dark and delicious as her’s was!
the thing I look forward to most is roast duck – I love it and we only have it at Christmas. I’ve made some balsamic pickled onions for this year’s cold plate so they might become a firm favourite too.
My favourite holiday food would have to be endulging in all of the yummy sweets and Christmas cookies! I try and bake a big variety of holiday sweets and cookies each year so we have a nice selection! Christmas only comes once a year so it so much fun to bake up a storm and have a plate out baked treats out during the whole holiday!
The stuffing. Always. It is the only time of year that we have it, I don’t know why.
My favorite holiday food is stuffing made by mother-in-law. Yum!
My favorite holiday food was my grandmother’s poppyseed roll. I don’t have the recipe, but I have the momory.=) Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Christmas cookies, but particularly the frosted ones! And I only have the patience to make them once a year.
Such a hard question….but I love the cookies!
I like hot chocolate, especially when curled up on the couch in front of a fire.
Sugar Cookies – they just bring back so many childhood memories. My mom made them really thin compared to what people know to be sugar cookies, so they were really crispy – YUM!
I loved the fudge that my Grandmother made when I was little. Now I do that for my family. Everyone gets a box of fudge in their stocking every year.
Birthday cake for Jesus, because it is the reason for the season!
I really, really want to win this day’s prize. I am a HUGE fan of Lisa Leonard! To answer the question, my favorite holiday food is my mom’s Red Velvet cake. I personally believe she makes the best Red Velvet Cake in the world. One of the things that makes it stand out is the pecans in the cream cheese frosting that come from my grandfather’s pecan orchard!
here in Australia it’s summer, so my favourite Christmas holiday food is fresh seafood and summer furits, such as mangoes and cherries! Fruit cake as well, though!
Christmas cookies, because what’s more delicious than cookies?
For me, Christmas is about tradition, and food. Certain things I have to do at Christmas one one of them is make cookies. A particular bunch of cookies, like a potpourri of family traditional recipes along with amazing recipes that I have picked up through the years. But the favorite cookie of all, is this odd little cookie. Its a mint meringue and its NOT Christmas without it. It requires a Chocolate Mint Chip (it cannot be white chocolate colored green and flavored like mint) It also cannot have mint flavoring in the mirange and a regular chip in the cookie – I’ve tried both and they are epic fails.
Now, this historically was not a problem the first decade of my marriage, but in the past decade finding these chips has been my task (and it wasn’t easy – stores stopped stocking it – and floated to the white chocolate style). Thank goodness amazon came around. I looked like an insane woman purchasing twenty bags of mint chocolate chips (when I was lucky enough to find them) and saving them for up to two years, doling them out.
So I ordered my stash in November from Amazong – no longer nestle – they are gourmet (I tasted them – they are delicious). So I can make my Mint Meringues, and it can be Christmas!
I have the best Christmas sugar cookie recipe ever. I cut out about 10 dozen Christmas shapes, frost & decorate them every year. They are my favorite and my family/friend’s favorite too – YUM. Great giveaway – thanks for the chance to win.
LOVE the prizes today!! So lovely :)
Sugar cookies with icing and sprinkles. they are fun to make and always yummy to eat :)
cranberry sauce…it just seems to taste better at Christmas
What a fantastic group of women! Thanks for the awesome giveaway! My favorite holiday food… Homemade caramels. I’ve been making them for the last three or four years but they are a holiday tradition now and I love that my family looks forward to them :)
My favorite holiday food has to be pumpkin donut holes. I found the recipe about 20 years ago and I make them faithfully every Christmas morning after the house is wrecked with wrapping paper tornados and the kids are starting to think about food.
Divinity! That is a food group, right? :-)
Pizzelles….reminds me of holidays with my Nana, whom I miss dearly!
chocolate fudge, it is so fun to make this with my girls.
Do I have to choose just one? I absolutely love all of the handmade goodies and of course the prime rib that we have on Christmas day!
I love the turkey and stuffing dinner. The whole thing including the pie. I always think it is time to have it again for Christmas even though we just had it for thanksgiving. thanks,
Wow that’s actually a tough one to call on because we always make something different every year. But I could go for some bresh baked Monkey Bread.
Stollen. It’s a German Christmas bread (taught to my Grandparents when they lived in Germany) that is traditionally made in my family only from December 1st to December 25th. It’s a crowd pleaser too!
My favourite holiday food is my grandmother’s trifle, which we eat only at Christmas. Creamy, with almond and raspberry flavours and lots of booze. It is so delicious! Thanks for a chance at all these fabulous giveaways.
I LOVE Christmas pudding with lashings of vanilla bean ice-cream & can always find room for seconds. Thanks for a lovely & generous giveaway.
Bake Ham never seems to taste as good any other time of the year than at Christmas…. it must be because it was such a treat when I was a young child and my mother made it taste so wonderful….
My favorite is cookies called “Paprenjaci” because there are tradicional croatian cookies.
My favorite holiday food is Spritz cookies, for some reason we never make them any other time of years. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway!
My favorite Holiday food is cut out cookies with icing. Why? They are so much work to cut out a few and bake, individually ice, that we only do this at Christmas. But the real reason I like them is that it is a family project for us and we are all together baking, talking, commenting on each others cookies. Even when we eat the cookies later, we remember who made it! It’s just fun.
Bubble and squeak on Boxing Day. Leftovers are always so tasty and it brings back many happy memories of childhood.
Peanut Brittle!!! Yum!
I love baked ham with dried beans and potatoes. Love it, because it is only eaten around christmas in our house and so filled with memories!
Coffee Cake! First it was my grandmothers. We would get a pan every year for on christmas morning and now I have an awesome recipe (that is egg free due to allergies) that we make LOTS of and always have a pan for christmas morning.
My favorite food at Christmas is our homemade peanut brittle. It’s a lot of hard work, and that’s why we only make it once a year, but it’s not Christmas without it.
My grandmother’s homemade egg nog! It is amazing and we only have it once twice a year :)
My mothers roast pork with brown gravy and goumbots (potato balls).
Nothing like it and is is my favorite thing to eat.
My favourite holiday food is Christmas Pudding – the way my mom used to make it. I think it is a variation of carrot pudding, with carrots, potatoes, raisins, suet, etc. in it. We heat it and put a brown sugar sauce over it. It just tastes like Christmas to me.
These giveaway prizes are AWESOME – would love to win!
my favorite holiday food is my grandma’s apple pie! its the best apple pie i’ve ever tasted. the crust is thin, flaky, sugary- and the apples are soft and sweet!
Wow, what a fab giveaway. I love Christmas pudding with brandy sauce…so reminiscent of my childhood Christmases.
My favorite holiday food is an orange ice cream my mum makes. It is divine – she won’t tell me how to make it so I can eat it all year round!
Wow! I love hearing about the people behind the creativity. Thanks for the chance to win.
There are so many special foods for the holidays. I love the dinners with savory hams, turkey, pastas and more. I also love the variety of side dishes, with stuffing, casseroles and salads, and my sausage bread appetizer. Mostly, though, I love the desserts: Cookies, cheesecake, special pies! It’s just so much fun to celebrate with friends and enjoy the treats.
Candy! Really no explanation needed!
My favourite holiday food is an Australian dessert – pavlova. It’s meringue topped with fresh cream and fruit and very delicious! (We make it throughout the year actually, but I can’t imagine a Christmas without it!)
We always have Chocolate pie for Christmas
We go out for Chinese food every Christmas, to our favorite Chinese restaurant. So my favorite holiday food would be the crispy beef Szechuan style, please!
My favorite holiday food is cookies! I love the variety of cookies there are at the holidays. Its not all about the chocolate! Its the one time of year people make sugar cookies, gingerbread and Russian Tea Cakes (my favorite 3 cookies)!
I love the desserts-cookies, squares, chocolate, anything that adds the pounds :) They just taste soooo good and it’s just that time of year to splurge!
My favourite holiday food is warm gingerbread cake, fresh from the oven. Or at least that’s the holiday food I’m currently craving! :)
My favorite food during Christmas would be warm apple pie! :) Thank you all, and Merry CHRISTmas!!!
My favorite holiday food would be my mother’s candy cane twists- breaded treats shaped like candy canes, with cranberry. Delicious!
My Grandma’s chocolate covered ‘meatballs’. Really it s chocolate covered peanut butter balls that named when I was 3 or 4. They ate the best thing!
Christmas cake with rum, so delicious!!!!
I love Christmas cookies because they are yummy!
Hands down my mom’s divinity!
Don’t laugh at my, but I like the cookies best. And my MIL’s soup. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love the eggnog. I also love anything made with eggnog like eggnog bread and waffles or french toast.
My favorite holiday food is my Mom’s Texas Cake (chocolate sheet cake). Yummy!
Cookies! Yum. Thanks for the opportunity to win such great items!
Smoked Oysters…. cause I’m weird
My favorite of the season is the Seafood Cioppino that my husband & I make for the family every Christmas Eve. It’s loaded with fresh Dungeness crab, prawns, scallops & halibut. Of course, it’s topped off with baked Christmas goodies that my girls bring. Yum!
my goodness, what fantastic giveaway, Id love to win, my fav xmas food is mince pies laced with brandy and topped with some chantilly cream xx
OMG, I already follow 2 of the 4 featured bloggers, Bakerella & Heather. Now I just need to check out the other 2 and see what they have going on!
My favorite holiday food is Stuffed Grape Leaves with Avgolemono Sauce. We usually only make it for holidays because it takes to long to make so my appetite for it is through the roof by the time any holiday rolls around!!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
gingerbread is my favorite as I remember making it with my great grandmother! thanks for the lovely giveaways.
I love gingerbread as I learned to make it with my great grandmother!
what a great giveaway! Thank you! Favorite holiday food …….hmmmmm……..i loveeeeee egg nog as the drink, food wise I think its the cookies. My fav is always the sugar cookie version of the gingerbread man. yummmmmm
Cookies!!! My Mom’s snicker-doodle cookies to be exact :)
My favorite holiday food is most definitely my grandmother’s homemade noodles. They are absolutely delicious and I love to see her roll and cut them out! YUM!
Mint truffles and English Toffee. Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate and some crunch. I only make them at Christmas time and they are just good. Thanks for the giveaway.
My favourite holiday food is pavlova, topped with kiwifruit and strawberries.
All of the Christmas cookies lovingly made each year from recipes handed down through several families and generations. Made with LOVE!!
Christmas morning wouldn’t be complete without my “Christmas Strata” – yum!
My favorite holiday food would have to be no bake cookies! So yummy and delicious. A total odd one for me since I don’t like sweets!
chocolate fudge… because I have so many happy memories of my mom making it when I was little. Once a was at a slumber party next door and smelled her making it and came home!
Homemade fruit cake. Most my family loves it and one of the few things I cook well
The cookies. They always remind me of making cookies with my Mom. : )
My favorite holiday food is PUMPKIN!!! It is so versatile and can be used in so many ways, from Pumpkin Waffles for breakfast to yummy pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting for dessert. And the best part is sneaking it into my childrens food items for that extra boost of vitamins and their either not even noticing it or even missing it when I don’t add a little pumpkin puree to their waffles!
My mom used to make these lacy cookies with dark chocolate inside. And spritz cookies. But my dad makes the most amazing Wild Rice Soup and does so every year. It is so rich and delicious that you can’t have it more than once per year! I am looking forward to having it again this year.
Enjoy the day!
Erin
My dad makes the most delectable Wild Rice Soup. It is a lot of chopping and prep work, filled with heavy cream and butter, but it is the most amazing taste. Everyone loves it. And I a happy that he will make it again for us! You can only have it once a year because it takes you that long to recover from its richness.
Enjoy the day!
Erin
For Christmas, I always look forward to our traditional Tourtiere, an Acadian meat pie. I married into an Acadian family. This dish is so yum! We have it every Christmas Eve with a salad after our church service. Leftovers are yummy on Christmas day and make for an easy relaxing day of not having to cook.
My favorite holiday food is Cheese Potatoes, my grandmother always made them and they are super yummy!
Thanks!
My mom (and now I) make amazing caramel sticky buns that are only justifiable around the holidays when we won’t be stuck with a big plate of them at home to eat all ourselves ! They are soft and sticky and indulgent and bring up many memories of bringing them to family Thanksgiving dinners.
This is an incredible giveaway! My favourite Christmas food? Mince Pies! Mums recipe of course! closely followed by cheese… a massive cheese board has always been a family tradition for lunch!
Shortbread. It’s perfect. And I only eat it at Christmas time because otherwise I’d weigh five hundred pounds.
Hmm…my favorite holiday food is a Honey Baked Ham. I love ham, but for some reason only eat it during the holidays…but my dad used to make a ham, soaking it overnight and then cooking it on the grill with indirect heat for half the day…it was delicious, and while I can’t match that taste, Honey Baked at least gives me my ham!
My favorite holiday food is Puppy Chow because my mom always makes it when I come home for Christmas. I have happy memories of making it at Thanksgiving and Christmas when I was younger, too.
My favorite holiday food is homemade Caramel’s. My aunt makes these every Christmas and they just melt in your mouth! Oh so divine.
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Oh jeez. What DON’T I like? If forced to choose just one, then pumpkin pie is the fav.
My favorite holiday food? Does it have to be just one thing? It’s a barley casserole that my mom used to make. I just love the earthy richness of it. Mmmm–I need to dig up that recipe.
That is a hard question to answer, so many to choose from. My favorite holiday food would have to be the roasted turkey. I just love the white breast meat, so juicy and goes with anything. Plus you get the added bonus of a nice nap after you eat it!
My favorite holiday food is my friend’s brussels sprouts with bacon. No one else makes decent brussels sprouts!
Ginger crinkle cookies….because they are soft and chewy and taste so good, especially with a cup of coffee or cocoa. This was my moms signature cookie, and I have the recipe in her hand writing. I brings back wonderful memories of my mom when I make them.
Chocolate Toffee Matza! It is INSANELY yummy, so much in fact, that I am almost as happy when it is all gone, since I seem to have no self control when it is around.
My grandma’s cranberry-tangerine relish. It’s DIVINE! She always makes extra for me to take home too.
Pumpkin pie because it tastes soooo good.
Favorite holiday food–right now it is fudge because I just learned a super easy way that even *I* can make it! :)
my favorite holiday food is pumpkin bread, because it is TASTY!
It could not possibly get any better then this, quilting fabric, quilting books, sweet treats books, more cookbooks and one from the Gooseberry Patch! I could possibly one fat but very happy quilter if i won. I am willing to risk the fat to get the fabric Thanks for having this fun giveaway. Check out my blog, things going on there tool.. Happy Day to you and the gift givers!
Jeanne
I forgot to mention the gorgeous pewtar star, it is simply beautiful. My favorite holiday food is my mom’s Million Dollar Fudge with black walnuts. She left the recipe with me so I make it each Christmas just like she did.
My favorite holiday foods are crescent rolls with lots of butter and Christmas cookies.
I love the new starbucks peppermint cocoa. Why? its mint and chocolate and whats not to love about that combo?!
WE LOVE CARAMELS! !!
IT’S A TRADITION FOR US;THAT A ND DECORATED COOKIES TOO!
THANKS FOR SUCH A NEAT GIVEAWAY!
MERRY CHRISTMAS ♥
I love trifle, it just reminds me of being small during the holidays. It’s the only time we ever eat it and it brings back so many memories.
My favorite holiday food is eggnog, because it has such a decadent rich taste and it only comes around once a year!
My favourite holiday food by far is mince pies. I love how they declare the season in all their sugary, fruity goodness. The only thing is that they are so incredibly moreish – eep!
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that would be anything that falls into the dessert category!!! love dessert and this is the only time of the year i eat it w/o guilt.
Wow what a fab giveaway! My fave holiday treat is probably iced sugar cookies because I enjoy the time spent with my family as we make them. :)
My favourite holiday food is the baked ham and tomato gravy with grits that my grandfather always made Christmas morning. I’m still unsure if it’s a Bahamian tradition or just a family tradition :) but a few years ago, my mom finally perfected the tomato gravy, so I can have heavenly Christmas morning breakfast in Atlanta without having to travel … not that I don’t also miss my grandparents Christmas morning, but they do get to be on the beach while I’m bundling up ;)
My favourite is shortbread – I love not only eating it but the fun time we have together as a family when we make it. All of us cutting out our favourite shapes, talking and laughing while we do so.
my mom’s sugar cookies. not just because of the taste but because of the tradition of baking, icing, and sprinkling. now i do it with my own kids:)
BUTTER COOKIES – love those. I think its because they are hard work to make and then we get to decorate them – but they taste wonderful!
Favourite Christmas food is definitely Plum Pudding with lashings of custard or cream – my mum makes 2 plum puddings and leaves one for the following year – this one is always the best because the fruit has been marinating in deliciousness for such a long time – super super rich and filling and very very christmasy!
Love Olive & Ollie!
I think my favorite holiday food is the cinnamon buns I always make for breakfast christmas morning!
Cookies! This year it’s the Sparkling Chewy Molasses Cookies at Not Martha: http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/12/21/sparkling-chewy-molasses-cookies/
My favorite holiday food is Oreo cookie truffles. A delicious mix of crushed Oreo cookies and cream cheese covered in milk chocolate! They are also the perfect little bite sized treats.
I have 2 favorite holiday foods, one is the stuffing/dressing and cranberry and the other is chocolate toffee bark candy or it may be called almond rocha .
My favorite food at the holidays is fruitcake. I just love all the fruit and nuts inside. Besides, this is the only ime you can find it so that makes it even better!
My favorite holiday food is probably anything sweet. I have a serious sweet tooth!
Do I have to choose just one??? Homemade meatballs and spaghetti! By mother-in-law
Wow – this is an amazing giveaway. My favorite holiday food is Haystacks – large marshmallows dipped in melted caramel, then dredged in Rice Krispies. Why? Because my Grandma always made them and they make me think of her :)
Oh my what a wonderful giveaway! I’ve followed many craft bloggers for years and always filling up my list of items I want to make, bake or sew.
My favorite holiday food? Hard to pick one. Currently it is my Great Aunt’s Minestrone soup. It’s so hearty it’s more like a stew and takes hours to prep. To me and my siblings smelling my mom cook it signified that Winter had started. It’s a special soup recipe handed down generations.
Ham… It is the only time I really eat it and I love it warmed up on sourdough toast for breakfast the next day. Thanks for the chance to win.
mississippi fruit cake. a recipe from my great-great grandmother that has been passed down my mothers side of the family.
Oh how lovely. I would be delighted with any of these let alone all of them.
My favourite Holiday food is my grandmothers secret recipe Frozen Christmas pudding. The recipe is a closely guarded secret and you can only get it if your a family member who can be trusted to never make it unless it is December (no exceptions). It is yummy but I think the limited access and secrecy makes it even more special, plus it remind’s me of my grandma.
Jodi
I loveee pecan pie! It’s so decadent and sweet.
I always get After Eight mints at Christmas and only at Christmas.
I can’t remember a Christmas with out them.
My favorite holiday food is crayfish (lobster) – since here in Australia it’s (hopefully!) pretty warm on Christmas day, and its more a seafood and salad kind of meal than a traditional roast.
My very favorite are oranges. We used to get one in our stockings as kids. I looked forward to that sweet little orange just as much as I looked forward to the gifts!
Oh my gosh, what a terrific giveaway! I love christmas cookies of all kinds!
My favorite holiday food? Probably anything salty and sweet. I love how chocolate covered pretzels get really popular this time of year. Yum!
Fudge. Because it’s fudgy. Seriously, does it need a reason? Thanks for these fabulous giveaways!
My favorite holiday food is blueberry coffee cake! We have it every Christmas morning while opening presents!
My grandma taught me how to make her stollen recipe and we made them together for several years. Now, she isn’t up to it anymore, but I make sure to make them and bring them for Christmas. I love food that carries traditions!
My favorite holiday food is gingerbread.
Just can’t pick a favorite, I love all the sweets and cookies :) Thanks for the chance to win!!
I love cut-out cookies. They’re thin, buttery, crispy and just a hint of frosting on top.
Favorite holiday food? all of it? :) the top fav. would have to be our Christmas dinner – City Chicken. It’s only made for Christmas and is such fun to make & eat. such wonderful giveaways – thanks!
My favorite holiday food is pecan pie. Nothing but sugar, so evil and so delicious!
pumpkin pie!! so creamy and satisfying!
My favorite holiday food is chocolate covered pretzels. I think it is because my mom and I used to make them together. I miss her now, and it reminds me of those good times.
Fave holiday food is turkey. Yep, turkey. Love the smell of it cooking. Love the turkey sandwiches. Love the fight for the wings. thank you for the awesome give away.
Pumpkin Spice latte with an extra shot of espresso. Because…it’s caffeinated and I got a lot of projects to finish before Xmas.
I am from Barcelona and for Christmas we usually eat some caneloni filled with roasted meat and covered in bechamel sauce…yummy!!!
My favorite holiday food a tie between mincemeat pie, and powdered sugar nut balls. I like the nut balls because they are so versatile and can be made so many different ways, depending on the cook and what’s on hand at the moment. One year I had no vanilla, so I used rosewater for the nut balls– delicious! Another year, I made them for a friend who is allergic to nuts, and I substituted minced raisins and oatmeal for the nuts, and they turned completely different, and just as good in a new way. Mincemeat is just one of those pies that I always will associate with my Grandmother, and the care she took to make them those lucky years she managed to do it. Thanks for a lovely chance for a giveaway. I’m sorry I missed much of the 12 days…
my mother’s Christmas bread – the sugar on top is amazing, and it’s usually a bit doughy in the center – just how i like it! the most comforting bread you could imagine :)
Has to be fudge, Oreo fudge to be exact.
Beautiful, exciting giveaway!! Thank you!
My favorite holiday food is my mother’s cornbread dressing. I guess the reason is the sweet memories that are tied to the special days that we eat it.
I love the traditional Christmas dinner: ham, mashed potatoes, corn, rolls, ect. Yum! Now I am hungry. lol. Thanks for putting together this amazing giveaway(s)!
Gingerbread Boys are my favorites because they remind me of my mom. We ONLY got them at Christmastime because they were so much work. They are Christmas on a plate!
I love baking soft gingerbread men and decorating them with icing and little m&ms with my boys! Thanks for the giveaway!
This is so cool! Thanks for the chance.
sorry forgot about the question, I don’t celebrate the holidays but cookies are my favorite food!
Egg nog – technically a drink, but oh well. It’s just so indulgent! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love to bake gingerbread men and shortbread with my little boys at Christmas time!
I love artichoke dip. It is so yummy and fattening.
I just love ‘Hello Dolly Bars’ but this year there won’t be any. I usually pick one up every time I walk by the plate. So I will refrain this year because I’m fat enough
My favorite holiday food is Fudge! And that is because it is the only time of year that I actually get to eat it! Of course I also love all the rest of it!
My husband and in laws are Italian so I love the stuffed mushrooms and meat ball source that my mother in law made. They are sooooooo good!!
My in laws are Italian so I love the stuffed mushrooms and meat ball sauce that my mother in law made. They are sooooooooooooo good!! lol
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I love Pumpkin pie because this is usually the only time of year I get to eat it!
There are so many wonderful foods around the holidays, but my favourites are a) my mother’s shortbread and b) stuffing (again, my mother’s; but, my husband’s sausage stuffing is a close second)
My absolute favorite holiday food are tamales. My grandma makes the best ones! I look forward to them every year. Thanks for the great giveaway!
My favorite is a must have on Christmas in my hubby’s family, but I had never heard of it before we were married. They make rice crispie treats in a layer at the bottom of a jelly roll pan and then they put a layer of peppermint ice cream on top of it. So good!!
My favorite Christmas food is the traditional Norwegian Christmas cake called Kransekake that we make. It is pretty and festive and holds the tradition of my husbands Norwegian roots.
Baked Brie with apples. Yum!
My favorite holiday food is definitely Christmas cookies (doesn’t matter what kind). I love to bake them, and I love to eat them!!
wow…so generous, such fun…thank you for the giveaway
Favorite holiday food would be a pumpkin roll…not only is it delish, but it looks delightful (like you spent a lot of work on it) when placed on a holiday platter.
My favorite holiday food is baked ham – delicious and can then be used in lots of ways
I love Christmas pudding. It’s so warm and rich and it’s the only time of year we get to enjoy it, which makes it special! Thanks for the chance to win!
I love chocolate chip cookies – Just love them ;D
Thanks for the chance!
Turkey and cooked cranberry!! I look forward to the house smelling of turkey.
I love frosted sugar cookies. They are fun to make and decorate with my family. We have so much fun listening to Christmas music and decorating our cookies. The best part is eating them!
Rats, I missed the Accuquilt giveaway by only a few hours. Ahh, that’s just how the
cookie crumbles. Nonetheless, Heather has another wonderful giveaway that is also
right down my alley, log cabin quilts.
I couldn’t but help checking out all the recipes on this website. I especially love the cookie cookbook.
Happy Christmas to all.
My in laws are Italian so I love the stuffed mushrooms and meat ball sauce that my mother in law made, they are soooooo delicious!!
turkey! it is so good the day you make it, then you don’t have to cook protein the rest of the week- easy meals!
My favorite holiday food is chocolate fudge. My dad always made a batch, and it makes me think of him.
You are not going to believe this but I love fruitcake.
My favorite holiday food is the cookies!
favorite holiday food: hmm. turkey. :) homemade caramels. sugar cookies. almond roca. cashews.
My favorite Holiday food is my mom’s fruitcake! Yum! The fruitcake is made around Thanksgiving and soaked with a special liquid till Christmas!
candy cane cookies. if it needs substance than yams!