BBB Members and Their Christmas Traditions

Khun Khun said:
What's the menu for everyone for their main Christmas meal? Traditional hot meal? Salads? BBQ? Asian? Seafood?
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None of the above but ironically, I make salads and ham and turkey for Christmas Day.;)

These days we go Thai influence combined with seafood, ham off the bone, my potato salad and sago plum pudding. Not to mention choccy covered aniseed rings, licorice allsorts, Long gone are the days when my maternal grandmother would put threepences or were they sixpences in the pudding. Even though we were in decimal currency she kept the old coins just for the pudding.
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Would love to swap Potato Salad recipes with you.👍

When I was a kid, my grandmother did the same. A cloth wrapped pudding that had been hung for months and then on for the final boil and when cut, there would ALWAYS be a coin in each slice. I don't know how she managed it.😳
 
Kismet said:
None of the above but ironically, I make salads and ham and turkey for Christmas Day.;)



Would love to swap Potato Salad recipes with you.👍

When I was a kid, my grandmother did the same. A cloth wrapped pudding that had been hung for months and then on for the final boil and when cut, there would ALWAYS be a coin in each slice. I don't know how she managed it.😳
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It was luck of the draw in our puddings. Everyone got one coin, some of us got more. They were handed in, washed and kept for the next year. Mind you there were only six of us to share it around. My potato salad is easy - desiree potatoes, white onion, mint and homemade dressing. I'll send it along later.
 
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Anyone remember this? I used to watch it every year. I think I'm going to watch it again this year. This was my favourite Christmas special as a kid. haha! 😊

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Episode #152: The Nanny (3x14): ‘Oy to the World’
Original Airdate: December 18, 1995
Summary: An animated Christmas fantasy in which Fran and Brighton are magically whisked to the North Pole, where they must protect Christmas against the wrath of the ice princess, C.C. the Abominable Babcock.
  • Grace: Fran, the storm is getting worse. How is Santa going to deliver all the presents?
    Fran: Gracie, the man is bigger than Dom DeLuise and he fits through a chimney. Believe me, he can get through a blizzard.
  • Fran: Oh, so I guess it’s okay for the snowman to say a few words but god forbid, the dog gets a little chatty. And I’m ready for the looney bin.
  • Brighton: Look it’s an ice cream castle!
    Fran: And it’s a banana split level!
Taken from tumblr.com / http://movienighteverynight.tumblr.com/
 
Lucas said:
Anyone remember this? I used to watch it every year. I think I'm going to watch it again this year. This was my favourite Christmas special as a kid. haha! 😊

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Episode #152: The Nanny (3x14): ‘Oy to the World’
Original Airdate: December 18, 1995
Summary: An animated Christmas fantasy in which Fran and Brighton are magically whisked to the North Pole, where they must protect Christmas against the wrath of the ice princess, C.C. the Abominable Babcock.
  • Grace: Fran, the storm is getting worse. How is Santa going to deliver all the presents?
    Fran: Gracie, the man is bigger than Dom DeLuise and he fits through a chimney. Believe me, he can get through a blizzard.
  • Fran: Oh, so I guess it’s okay for the snowman to say a few words but god forbid, the dog gets a little chatty. And I’m ready for the looney bin.
  • Brighton: Look it’s an ice cream castle!
    Fran: And it’s a banana split level!
Taken from tumblr.com / http://movienighteverynight.tumblr.com/
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DO I REMEMBER IT?

I loved cartoons for way longer than one is supposed to (still do :p) so combine The Nanny with a cartoon version!

Thanks for bringing back great memories.
 
bleachy_dude said:
DO I REMEMBER IT?

I loved cartoons for way longer than one is supposed to (still do :p) so combine The Nanny with a cartoon version!

Thanks for bringing back great memories.
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I distinctly remember being really up close to the TV watching it one Christmas Eve (in the late nineties, I was probably only 7 or 8) with my dad sitting on the couch begrudgingly having to watch it but that was ok because one of his favourite shows Newsradio was on Channel Ten after it 😆. I think I even recorded it on VHS that night too. Aw! Good memories. 😍

I still love cartoons too bleachy! 👍 I hate how people think their has to be an age limit to enjoy them. Who cares!!! ;) If that makes me a big baby then I guess I am a big baby! 😏
 
This year I'll be having two Christmases again. The first, Czech Christmas, on the 24th. Dinner will include fish soup, followed by carp and potato salad, and all day there will be fairy tales on tv. That tradition is actually pretty cool. Fairy tales on most channels all day. Everyone love it, and I get why. It is Christmasy. The second will be with other ex pats, and will be a roasted bird of some sort and other traditional English Christmas foods, which are of course the foods I remember from my Australian Christmases. But they make more sense now.

We had our first snow yesterday, and the lights have gone up around town. It's beginning to look a lot like...
 
This year, we will do what we have for the last 5 years. Christmas eve will be half at my grandparents and then my hubby's side at his aunties. Christmas day will be lunch at my in-laws and dinner at my parents. A lot of driving but it keeps everyone happy.
 
Frelard USA said:
Fav Christmas Movie or TV Show? What means Christmas to you? Good, bad or ugly?
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Foxtel were showing home alone 1 and 2 a few weeks back and I let my 3 year old watch. He loves the movies now. This was one of the movies I also use to watch a lot around Christmas with other family members, so it brings back some good memories. The first time he watched it though, he cried his heart out and would not let me let go of him because he did not want to lose me... I was overwhelmed with love from that boy lol. Now he will watch it and just laugh- thankfully haha
 
So I made a gingerbread house. Never made one before. I should say I decorated...The gingerbread pieces were made by a friend. I'm not all that creative but pretty pleased with the results. Almost too good to eat......nah! Haha.

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I CAN'T WAIT TO EAT IT. haha.
 
bleachy_dude said:
So I made a gingerbread house. Never made one before. I should say I decorated...The gingerbread pieces were made by a friend. I'm not all that creative but pretty pleased with the results. Almost too good to eat......nah! Haha.

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I CAN'T WAIT TO EAT IT. haha.
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That's amazing, BD! the cool santa and gingerman is my fave! How did you do the snow background for that?
 
Sweetgeek said:
That's amazing, BD! the cool santa and gingerman is my fave! How did you do the snow background for that?
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I made the icing a little more runny then just mixed some blue colour with desiccated coconut and threw it at the wall. The blue blob that the gingerbread man is sitting in is the left over icing with the left over coconut all mixed together. In hoping it tastes a little bit like coconut Ice.
 
bleachy_dude said:
I made the icing a little more runny then just mixed some blue colour with desiccated coconut and threw it at the wall. The blue blob that the gingerbread man is sitting in is the left over icing with the left over coconut all mixed together. In hoping it tastes a little bit like coconut Ice.
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that's clever! I am stealing this idea! I am dreadful with decorating treats, so I will use this idea for the cupcakes I bake for Christmas day.
 
Actually, I'd like to know some treats that members make for Christmas- preferably with as little sugar as possible, or barely at all (pre diabetic over here)
 
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