Cooking for festivals and holidays where you live

we prepare foods for christmas occasions, not just christmas but lots of occasions around the year, like birthdays,fiestas..even holy week and halloween. i do the cooking and sometimes we just cater our foods.

I love the holidays but im not nuch of a cook I usually go to the grocery store and but the meals where all you have to do is put the turkey in the oven and the rest of the stuff is alredy made just have to heat and serve but i do love to cook just not very good at it.

This year for christmas we are at my mothers for dinner thankfully.That means this year i have not got to cook,but i will help with dishing the dinner up as well as tidying it up.We have a full christmas dinner at my mum and that is loads of food where as they are always lots left over,she seeems to cook too much every year.

Hi Karen,

I am appreciating about you that you are a good cooker and a professional
cooker that is the reasons your mum and brother have asked to bring some
special types of foods for them during the festival seasons. I am
used to travel all the countries and have been participated on all types
of festival. So I used to taste all the culture foods and they are very
tasty and also mouthwatering. So when I am going to other countries,
I like to enjoy the foods and also I have tried to know the recipe in order
to make by own, that is the good experiences I have gained. So I am still
trying to learn so many interested recipe in order to make the good foods
according to the types of festival.

Have a wonderful day.

I fix the very same thing for t-giving every year. If i didn't the kids would croak, lol. I have turkey, dressing, ham, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, corn macaroni & CHEESE FOR THE GRANSON & MY BOYS, USE TO BE AU GRATIN POTATOES BUT T.J.'S WIFE LOVES CREAMED POTATOES SO I HAVE SWITCHED TO TEH & T.J. FUSSES EVERY YEAR, LOL, CRANBERRY SALAD THAT ONLY MY other dil & i eat & for dessert chocolate majesty. ONE YEAR I MADE A DIFFERENT & I HEARD MY DIL SAY I CAN'T BELIEVE SHE DIDN'T MAKE CHOC. MAJESTY, THE GIRLS ARE AS BAD AS MY SONS. LOOL. THEY USUALLY DON'T WANT ALL THAT AGAIN FOR CHRISTMAS SO I MAKE LASAGNA, CHESS SQUARES & PECAN PIES & WHATEVER ELSE SUITS MY FANCY. I don't do anything special for halloween. Cooking big dinners about gets my goat anymore but will do it for as long as i can.

For Halloween there isn't actually a specific dish that I like to cook. However, for the other major holidays there are. For Thanksgiving, I love to cook a casserole of either green beans or broccoli. For Christmas I enjoy cooking the sweets, cookies, candies, etc. For New Years, we've always had a tradition to eat spinach, so I really love to make creamed spinach to go with our New Years Day dinner.
I don't do the majority of the cooking for any of the holidays because we are expected to spend them with either my family or my husband's family, but we do contribute with a dish or two.

OMG you seem to be the star chef of the family LOL…good for the family to have someone like you who can whip up wonderful food.
Autumn is very special to Indians too coz Hindus have their special festivals of Dusshera and Diwali and Muslims have their Id too. Each state and community of India has its own particular festival favourites and even I don’t know all of them or have never tasted them either. We Bengalis are a foodie people and holidays clubbed with festivities are the time to cook cook and cook. Rice is our staple so we usually make special curries and fish and mutton preparations to go with it and for desert we have chutneys of different kinds rounded off with rice pudding (payesh). It’s a treat we all look forward too and I’ve just finished mine*burp*

I love every holidays and festivals for the relax and delicious food.In Chinese new year we will prepare dumpling,In middle autumn day we will take moon cake,we can enjoy the moon beautiful light while taking the cake.In dragon boat festival we take zongzi that is a traditional chinese rice-pudding.

Hi Peaceful! You know i love to cook. I usually experiment on new and different recipes. I prepare meat and fish recipes but i love to experiment on salads and pasta. I usually modify the usual recipes to suit my taste. In order to have a wide range of recipes, i register in Kraft, Nestle, Del Monte Kitchenomics and visit websites that shares nice recipes and food products. I also collect magazines with recipes in it and watch cooking shows on TV. I choose recipes that are new and easy to prepare. My only problem in trying out new recipes is, some of the ingredients are imported and not available in the local supermarkets.

My daughter loves my version of spaghetti, carbonara, mashed potato, potato salad, different kinds of frozen cakes and some fish and chicken recipes. During holidays i see to it that i prepare food that are different from what i prepared before.

Hi Karen, well the special meal out here lasts over the Easter weekend. It starts on Saturday night about midnight with the disgusting concocotion of mayeritsa soup, basically offal with lemon in a soup. Nothing would induce me to cook it or eat it ever again, it is revoltingly foul but loved by every Greek, who appear to have had mass amputation of taste buds. I also won't lift a finger on the Sunday to help turn the lambs innards posing as potential food, which need hand turning on a spit. I am always assured to please not bring anything along, as no doubt it would be regarded as suspect.