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Offline franksolich

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favorite holiday snack
« on: November 25, 2009, 11:20:29 PM »
What is your favorite holiday snack, from Thanksgiving through New Year's?

I'm not talking about the main course--which has to be turkey--or one of the subsidary courses (vegetables and deserts)--but rather, something you're inclined to nibble on inbetweentimes, such as at informal gatherings or parties.

Mine has always been slices of cheddar cheese dipped into sour cream, much as most dip potato chips into some sort of dressing.

I don't believe it's an obsession with cheddar cheese or sour cream--it might however be--but more so that I prefer eats that I can identify; things simple and basic which gives one no reason for distrust.

Nebraska enjoys the highest percentage of those of Danish extraction (for the record, I am not of Danish extraction) of the fifty states, and while such are not so common these days as in the past, much of the church and community dinners, and even office parties, featured Danish cuisine.

There is nothing wrong--absolutely not--with Danish cuisine, as its evident longevity and popularity demonstrate, and if one likes it, more power to one, but it was never my bag.

Simple and basic.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 11:32:34 PM »
Celery sticks with pimento cheese.
Deli ham slices wrapped around philadelphia cream cheese.
Candy canes.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 11:38:58 PM »
I'm a mixed nuts kind of gal when I snack.  :naughty:

I also like a triscuit or wheat thin cracker and either cream cheese or a slab of brie. And a dab of raspberry chipotle jelly on the top.

And ribbon candy.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 11:40:02 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on November 25, 2009, 11:38:58 PM
I'm a mixed nuts kind of gal when I snack.  :naughty:

I also like a triscuit or wheat thin cracker and either cream cheese or a slab of brie. And a dab of raspberry chipotle jelly on the top.

And ribbon candy.

Ah, I remember ribbon candy from my childhood.

I wasn't aware it was still around.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 11:43:38 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 25, 2009, 11:40:02 PM
Ah, I remember ribbon candy from my childhood.

I wasn't aware it was still around.

I have seen it in candy shoppes, but only around the holidays. I also remember those orange slices that tasted like gum drops.

Here is a cool link with a bunch of vintage candy that is still available.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/ribbon-candy.htm
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 11:53:49 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on November 25, 2009, 11:43:38 PM
I have seen it in candy shoppes, but only around the holidays. I also remember those orange slices that tasted like gum drops.

Here is a cool link with a bunch of vintage candy that is still available.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/ribbon-candy.htm

That's a good link, a colorful site, a history of candy.

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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2009, 01:29:28 AM »
Just saw big boxes of ribbon candy being sold at Dollar General stores the other day.

My favorite is my wife's butter cookies with homemade icing.  They're the reason the phrase "to die for" was created.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 06:46:37 AM »
In no particular order:

Deviled eggs
Cocktail shrimp (not too big, not too small, usually in the 50-60 per lb. range)
Veggie platter with pretty much ANY dip
Cheese/crackers/pepperoni
Mini spanakopita
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #8 on: November 26, 2009, 07:09:30 AM »
"hearty" dips...not just boring old french onion or whatever, with raw vegetables.


And from Thanksgivng through Christmas, I always have a bowl of some sort of candy sitting out...the kids mow through that on a regualr basis.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #9 on: November 26, 2009, 07:10:29 AM »
Deviled eggs
Cheese!  All the different kinds that pop up like port-wine cheese balls, and brie baked with dried fruit.  

Frank, I did cheddar cheese in sour cream.  I thought I was the only one.  
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #10 on: November 26, 2009, 10:32:44 PM »
Cheese and crackers
My mom's cookies
Fudge made with pecans
Walnuts
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #11 on: November 26, 2009, 10:52:16 PM »
Spicy sausage balls wrapped in pastry dough.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #12 on: November 26, 2009, 11:57:29 PM »
Deviled Eggs and things like cheese and crackers, especially with Triscuits!
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2009, 12:12:22 AM »
Danish butter cookies.....(I use my step-grandmother's recipe, who was from Denmark)
Homemade Chex mix
White chocolate peppermint bark ..... bought stuff yesterday to try making up a recipe
Mini brownie cupcakes


And the top two holiday season addictions....

Magic bars and peppermint ice cream.... :drool:

 
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2009, 06:52:12 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on November 26, 2009, 07:10:29 AM


Frank, I did cheddar cheese in sour cream.  I thought I was the only one.  

My daughter dips cheddar cheese in mustard...swears it's wonderful, But I've never tried it.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2009, 07:03:26 AM »
A crab dip with cream cheese and cocktail sauce spread over crackers.

Italian Wedding Soup (we have it on Christmas before the "big meal")

My mother's jelly-thumbprint cookies, followed by homemade biscotti.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2009, 07:04:07 AM »
Depends on the kind of mustard.  I like the spicy stuff with the little seeds in it.

Oh, and I almost forgot pigs in blankets--they make the damn things at Sam's now.  Wo0T!
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2009, 01:11:34 PM »
Quote from: Flame on November 27, 2009, 06:52:12 AM
My daughter dips cheddar cheese in mustard...swears it's wonderful, But I've never tried it.


I like it dipped in ranch dressing with a slice of jalapeno on top.... :-)
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2009, 05:43:05 PM »
Pralines
Cheese and sausage on butter crackers
Cheese popcorn
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2009, 06:29:39 PM »
Forgot to add orange slices! Not real ones, although during the holidays I'm always on the lookout for cara cara oranges. But ever since working in the grocery store, and the market being in charge of packaging the holiday candy, I just love those artificially flavored, sugar crusted hunks of rubber.  :-) Chocolate covered peanuts are pretty darned good too. Never did care for eggnog. What is nog anyway?
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2009, 06:31:12 PM »
Quote from: kenth on November 29, 2009, 06:29:39 PM
Never did care for eggnog. What is nog anyway?

Eggnog is great, with or without liquor.

Just never quaff down a quart of it with a small pepperoni pizza.

You'll suffer, I assure you.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #21 on: December 07, 2009, 06:38:13 PM »
Here is a different taste treat for you. Its a Southern Maryland treat. Ginger Snap cookies with a slice of New York cheddar cheese. I know...sounds awful...till you taste it...yummmm.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #22 on: December 07, 2009, 07:42:10 PM »
Quote from: cottondress on December 07, 2009, 06:38:13 PM
Here is a different taste treat for you. Its a Southern Maryland treat. Ginger Snap cookies with a slice of New York cheddar cheese. I know...sounds awful...till you taste it...yummmm.

My wife had bought some Ginger Snap cookies to make a crust for a pumpkin pie cheesecake for Thanksgiving.  The left over cookies were good dunked in coffee.
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #23 on: December 07, 2009, 07:58:07 PM »
I like my mom's deviled eggs. Also in no particular order after those:

cheese straws
sausage balls (or cookies as my son calls them)
cheese ball with crackers
relish tray (I'm usually the one who sneaks by the relish tray a million times to gobble up stuff)
pecan bars
any kind of dip w/veggies or crackers
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Re: favorite holiday snack
« Reply #24 on: December 07, 2009, 08:23:51 PM »
Quote from: DixieBelle on December 07, 2009, 07:58:07 PM
I like my mom's deviled eggs. Also in no particular order after those:

cheese straws
sausage balls (or cookies as my son calls them)
cheese ball with crackers
relish tray (I'm usually the one who sneaks by the relish tray a million times to gobble up stuff)
pecan bars
any kind of dip w/vegetables or crackers

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