I was at a meeting a couple of weeks ago and the speakers’ theme was all about holiday tradtions and how to introduce new traditions to our families. Over and over it seemed that a food theme was emerging. Many of the family traditions related to some sort of food. Ideas ranged from a holiday cookie baking day to serving Mexican food on Christmas Eve to making gingerbread houses or cookies.
At our house we started a tradition a couple of years ago to serve what I call our Christmas Eve Nachos. I think it started mainly because my children were smaller and by the time Christmas came around I was too tired from all the preparing to do a big meal. Since we don’t celebrate with our extended family until Christmas day or after, Christmas Eve dinner could be simple. It’s stuck and now that is something we all look forward to each year. I serve plenty of “sides” like guacamole, sour cream, chopped tomatoes and jalapenos and whatever we want. Preparation (and clean up!) is easy so that we can focus on spending some fun family time together away from the kitchen.
It seems that every holiday has some sort of food tradition associated with it and families create their own from there. Hanukkah has many food traditions as does Kwanzaa. And Christmas food tradtions may be more well known by many (like a holiday fruitcake) but they are certainly varied from region to region.
What kind of food traditions do you have with your family? It would be fun to share them with others and maybe find a new one to add to our own family!
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