Holiday Traditions

[KoPilot]

I always feel that people whose birthdays are that close to a holiday get rather cheated. I have a friend whose birthday is December 27th I started a tradition just for her, I celebrate a half birthday for her June 27th. Party, cake, presents, everything. Makes it special for her. She said she finally likes her birthday! Or, half birthday at least

Wow, two or three days to decorate impressive?!!

Yeah, same. My birthday is in mid-January, so everyone is celebration-fatigued and broke by the time that rolls around.

As a kid, it was awful. I very rarely got to have any bday parties of note.

 

[KoPilot]

And I keep forgetting to say, but...

KoPilot! I want your pozole recipe please!

LOL

I actually rarely make it myself! But if I remember correctly, there's a few ways to do it...

Now, I always make red, never green (just not a fan of green sauce in general, I've always been a red gal), and personally the red ALWAYS goes with pork (chicken for green, though whatever you can do whatever you want haha). So get some pork shoulder or some cheap cut because you'll be cooking it forever. Throw it in a pot, whole, with some crushed garlic and a few bay leaves, salt, etc. Cook through, then remove the meat from the pot and cut into rough chunks, or shred into rough chunks, whatever texture you prefer. Return to the pot, skimming whatever muck from the top.

Throw in your chile (you can just buy canned red or green sauce from the store if you like; I like El Pato, but do whatever you have access to really. You can also make your own sauce from chile powder. Basically just mix the powders (also some garlic and onion powder) with some oil in a fry pan over med heat, let it cook through until it's real thick, not quite paste-like, and add that to your pork broth. Chiles de arbol, ancho, and New Mexico are the typical go-to's for red sauce. With green sauce, you can't, as far as I know, make it from powder and have to do it fresh or from a can.

So yeah, add your sauce to the broth, give it a good stir, and toss in the hominy. My family just gets it in big cans, but you can buy it dehydrated too, though it's harder to find; I've never used it, but I hear it adds to the broth when you cook the dried hominy in it.

Simmer forever to blend the flavors and all that good stuff, and then you're pretty much done! I like to top mine with thinly sliced green cabbage, diced white onion, cilantro, and dried oregano. Yummm. |3

So like I said, you can do this all with chicken too if you want (whole chicken is best, especially when making broth), but now that I'm a vegetarian, I like to make mine with lentils. :3

And for the heck of it:

To make the BEST meat-substitute-worthy french lentils, boil them plain for 5 minutes, drain, and then cook again with white onion, bay leaf, one carrot, and ONE whole clove. You can do this with salted water or broth. Comes out perfect every time.

If you put the lentils in the pozole, though, or in another soup, you'd want to undercook them for sure. So instead of, say, 30-40 mins, cook 15-20 and finish them off in the soup.

Enjoy

 

[FurryFury]

So yummy but I just buy one box and share.

Ok, I'm normally not big on decadent sweets, but white fudge covered Oreos are tempting me

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Just thought of another tradition. Thanksgiving day after the meal was over, we would watch a Christmas movie or listen to Christmas music in the background. And black Friday we would put up the tree.

Always classics

LOL

I actually rarely make it myself! But if I remember correctly, there's a few ways to do it...

Now, I always make red, never green (just not a fan of green sauce in general, I've always been a red gal), and personally the red ALWAYS goes with pork (chicken for green, though whatever you can do whatever you want haha). So get some pork shoulder or some cheap cut because you'll be cooking it forever. Throw it in a pot, whole, with some crushed garlic and a few bay leaves, salt, etc. Cook through, then remove the meat from the pot and cut into rough chunks, or shred into rough chunks, whatever texture you prefer. Return to the pot, skimming whatever muck from the top.

Throw in your chile (you can just buy canned red or green sauce from the store if you like; I like El Pato, but do whatever you have access to really. You can also make your own sauce from chile powder. Basically just mix the powders (also some garlic and onion powder) with some oil in a fry pan over med heat, let it cook through until it's real thick, not quite paste-like, and add that to your pork broth. Chiles de arbol, ancho, and New Mexico are the typical go-to's for red sauce. With green sauce, you can't, as far as I know, make it from powder and have to do it fresh or from a can.

So yeah, add your sauce to the broth, give it a good stir, and toss in the hominy. My family just gets it in big cans, but you can buy it dehydrated too, though it's harder to find; I've never used it, but I hear it adds to the broth when you cook the dried hominy in it.

Simmer forever to blend the flavors and all that good stuff, and then you're pretty much done! I like to top mine with thinly sliced green cabbage, diced white onion, cilantro, and dried oregano. Yummm. |3

So like I said, you can do this all with chicken too if you want (whole chicken is best, especially when making broth), but now that I'm a vegetarian, I like to make mine with lentils. :3

And for the heck of it:

To make the BEST meat-substitute-worthy french lentils, boil them plain for 5 minutes, drain, and then cook again with white onion, bay leaf, one carrot, and ONE whole clove. You can do this with salted water or broth. Comes out perfect every time.

If you put the lentils in the pozole, though, or in another soup, you'd want to undercook them for sure. So instead of, say, 30-40 mins, cook 15-20 and finish them off in the soup.

Enjoy

Sweet! Thanks! This sounds similar to my Pork and Onion Pozole, but I'm going to try some variations based on this. And try the lentils sounds very different than how I make mine... already dying to try it. Thank you for typing all that out!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

So yummy but I just buy one box and share.

*takes an Oreo*
Thanks!

 

[mnbreastluver]

My holiday tradition for Thanksgiving is the following! Women are stessed out when they have to go to the grocery store to get all the food beforehand. I pick out a women's shopping cart that is almost completely full. When she's not looking and has to get that one last item further down the aisle and leaves her cart to get it. I grab her cart and take off with it and hide it completely on the other side of the store. Then I go back and watch her look for it. When other people's carts are full they all start to look all the same. Eventually she goes up to the customer service desk and they make an announcement over the speaker system. "If you have the wrong cart could you bring it up to them." It's been a tradition for me for years.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

My holiday tradition for Thanksgiving is the following! Women are stessed out when they have to go to the grocery store to get all the food beforehand. I pick out a women's shopping cart that is almost completely full. When she's not looking and has to get that one last item further down the aisle and leaves her cart to get it. I grab her cart and take off with it and hide it completely on the other side of the store. Then I go back and watch her look for it. When other people's carts are full they all start to look all the same. Eventually she goes up to the customer service desk and they make an announcement over the speaker system. "If you have the wrong cart could you bring it up to them." It's been a tradition for me for years.

Hahaha! I mean... you asshole!
Ok, not sure which reaction is appropriate, so... both!
OMG I love this, but it's so close to gaslighting you really should be punished!

 

[mnbreastluver]

Hahaha! I mean... you asshole!
Ok, not sure which reaction is appropriate, so... both!
OMG I love this, but it's so close to gaslighting you really should be punished!

Yea. I am an ass, but it's just something I enjoy doing! You don't live close by, so you don't have to worry about it happening to you! I love your profile picture by the way with the corset! Have a good thanksgiving if your celebrating it.

 

[BiBunny]

I lied about putting up Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving. We put the goddamn tree up today.

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

I lied about putting up Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving. We put the goddamn tree up today.

So does that mean that the three day ritual has now become a five day ritual? Or just that you get to go home earlier?

 

[desertslave]

One was my father and I going to the mall to pick out a present for a girl and a boy and taking it to the Santa's anonymous drop off. This was always a special day for me and my dad and I cherish those memories.

I did this with my Dad before we went shopping for Mom and both Grans. I started taking my own kids for Toys for Tots when they were very young. The first few years, when they didn't quite understand that they were picking treats for other kids, were tragi-comical.

When we moved here to AZ we discovered a 'giving tree' at the nearest mall, where we could pick a child according to their present-wishes. I've been the family "Lego Fairy" since my oldest niece & nephews were little, so it allowed me to indulge even more. I still look for a Lego wish every year, while I wait for the next generation in our own family.

 

[Cumference]

Christmatomizing avatars!

Just for the fun of it!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Christmatomizing avatars!

Just for the fun of it!

Yes! Hooray for holiday avatars!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

One of my traditions that I had forgotten about is in regards to Thanksgiving leftovers. I line muffin tins with pie crust and layer the leftovers in it, including gravy, sweet potatoes, everything goes in, then bake it up for yummy little bites of deliciousness. More info and a pic in the What's Cooking thread if your interested

 

[KoPilot]

One of my traditions that I had forgotten about is in regards to Thanksgiving leftovers. I line muffin tins with pie crust and layer the leftovers in it, including gravy, sweet potatoes, everything goes in, then bake it up for yummy little bites of deliciousness. More info and a pic in the What's Cooking thread if your interested

Oh my god

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Oh my god

I'm taking that as a good "oh my god"

 

[LallyH]

Yeah, same. My birthday is in mid-January, so everyone is celebration-fatigued and broke by the time that rolls around.

As a kid, it was awful. I very rarely got to have any bday parties of note.

My birthday is mid-December, and when I was a child, relations would give me one present and say 'this is for your birthday AND for Christmas'. I know now that they were probably doing their best, but as a kid, it felt like a cheat somehow, like they couldn't be bothered to think of two things to buy.

My favourite Christmas tradition now is taking my two kids to the German Christmas market on the Saturday before Advent - in the weeks leading up to it, I'm really busy at work and hardly see them, so that day marks the end of a horrible stressful time, and the beginning of silly season Even now, when they're old enough to know better, we go to the market and I buy them a chocolate Santa each, and we have fun finding cheesy Christmas decorations for the house whilst laughing at hubby for being a grump about it!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

A new tradition...

... for me! Holiday avatar. Thank you Meeks for making mine. I LOVE it and will definitely be using them in the future, most likely this one

And an old tradition of mine, which I had forgotten about until this past weekend. I absolutely must drink hot chocolate while putting up the tree, or it just isn't Christmas!!

 

[desertslave]

I went past the tree display at our supermarket today. Smelled divine! I can't quite wrap my head around Christmas trees, though, when it's 70 outside and I'm wearing shorts & sandals. There was a beautiful blue spruce that tempted me, but it's awful early and Master would have a fit. Besides, cut trees make me sad. I know they're raised just for this, but I always feel guilty. I'm weird about cut flowers too.

 

[midwestyankee]

I went past the tree display at our supermarket today. Smelled divine! I can't quite wrap my head around Christmas trees, though, when it's 70 outside and I'm wearing shorts & sandals. There was a beautiful blue spruce that tempted me, but it's awful early and Master would have a fit. Besides, cut trees make me sad. I know they're raised just for this, but I always feel guilty. I'm weird about cut flowers too.

Guess I'd better not bring up circumcision, eh? (Not that it's a holiday tradition anywhere I know about)

 

[KoPilot]

I'm taking that as a good "oh my god"

Yes o__o

And bah humbug I got bit by the avatar bug

 

[Cumference]

My private little tradition:

At winter solstice, I set something on fire.
Depending on the weather, it can be a regular bonfire, a good pile of magnesium turnings or when the weather is really crappy: a roll of toilet paper soaked in kerosene or gasoline.


It does not really matter what it is. It is dark and cold, and somethings gotta burn!

 

[Collar_N_Cuffs]

Yes o__o

And bah humbug I got bit by the avatar bug

Leprekitty!!
That's as in leprechaun, not leprosy
She can serve for two holidays! Very cute!!

My private little tradition:

At winter solstice, I set something on fire.
Depending on the weather, it can be a regular bonfire, a good pile of magnesium turnings or when the weather is really crappy: a roll of toilet paper soaked in kerosene or gasoline.


It does not really matter what it is. It is dark and cold, and somethings gotta burn!

Ooooohhhh! Major fire bug here. I am going to have to add this one to my list!! Thanks!

 

[desertslave]

Guess I'd better not bring up circumcision, eh? (Not that it's a holiday tradition anywhere I know about)

ROFL Well, I like uncut there, too. Extra nibbly bits can never be bad.

 

[MeekMe]

ROFL Well, I like uncut there, too. Extra nibbly bits can never be bad.