Puff Daddy
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We're having a ham and homemade stuffed cabbage, a Hungarian recipe my great grandmother brought over from the old country.
We've been a beneficiary of a large family Christmas Eve tamale making fest. So good.Puff Daddy":jrvq3t0u said:We're missing a big part of our tradition this year, actually. My wife is Mexican, and we usually have a Christmas gathering with her family either Christmas eve or Christmas day, but this year it just didn't happen. So, I'm really missing these:
Pork!! ig:BigCasino":tyojde5z said:That sucks! I love Tamales what kind do they make? I try to make them every once in a while, but I lack the proper knowledge, they turn out ok but never as good as some real tamales I have had
My wife is also Mexican so it's Home-made Tamales, Tortillas, Chile Colorado and Carne Arnevada.Puff Daddy":l1axr6o4 said:We're missing a big part of our tradition this year, actually. My wife is Mexican, and we usually have a Christmas gathering with her family either Christmas eve or Christmas day, but this year it just didn't happen. So, I'm really missing these:
Fr_Tom said:The holidays were the busy season at my house when I was a kid. My father was an Episcopal priest, and so it was all about church and the Christmas pageant...
Interesting comment. Both my parents started out teaching in a two room school (mother taught K-4, and dad 5-8 and was principle) in the woods of Northern Wisconsin. Each year, at the end of December, the County Board of Education would meet and decide if they would keep their jobs after the following spring and if they would or would not get a raise. They both agreed that how the school Christmas pageant went in early December was probably the #1 factor determining if they got a raise of not. One year, my mom was quite ill and dad, lacking musical or theatrical talent had to organize and run the pageant, no raise that year. The next year, mom was OK and being a music major and an over abundance ot theatrical flair, she created quite the Christmas extravaganza, for a small, north-woods lumber town (brought sheep, goats, doves and a mule with a fake hump to look like a camel into the school for dramatic affect). She cast a small, handicapped child (polio) with a wonderful voice as one of the wise men. The kid was from a somewhat outcast family and no one ever paid the family or this sickly, hobbling kid any mind. He sang a solo that had the entire board and every parent in tears it was so beautiful. Biggest raise they ever got, (and more importantly, he became quite the hero in town and everyone wanted him to sing at their wedding or special occasion).
So even in the "public schools" of the north country back in the 1930s, the Christmas pageant was very important.
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God bless you and your folks. That sacrifice meant a lot to someone.Fr_Tom":0o4ypprx said:The holidays were the busy season at my house when I was a kid. My father was an Episcopal priest, and so it was all about church and the Christmas pageant with less time for things like family meals. That coffee cake we had Christmas morning was about all that was going to happen at that point. We enjoyed it. These days, my wife and I are the ones with the services Christmas Eve. She ran by my church after her first service and brought Chinese takeout this year. We ate in the parish hall between my second and third service that night.
The Chinese takeout may become our new family tradition for Christmas Eve.
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