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I want to try butternut squash pie and a pumpkin soup. Pumpkin pies from the store are way too uniform in taste. I only eat them to balance a dried-out turkey.

Terry

Dear Edward,

I have tried the last two. They are very good.

Don't forget that lemon (w/olive oil and oregano) is also the favorite marinade for chicken in Greece.

Here is one that is also very good: meat with the fruit called quince.


BTW, your fish ideas for the nativity supper sound wonderful!

That was ofcourse from the other thread...these two threads are quite intertwined...the fine line between loving and hating, I guess!

Alice

I like the sound of everything mentioned in the last post. Boy am I getting hungry!

Tim

Gordo,

Sometimes it's the parent who's last to know.

How could I have forgotten that in Greece, lemon goes with everything! It was a a Cypriot Greek lady who first taught me to use lemon in roasting lamb. What a revelation it was (I'm accustomed to only rosemary and garlic).

If you have an asian food store near you, look for something called Kecap/Kicap Manis (pronounced Ketchup Maanis). It's a sweet dark soya sauce, slightly caramelish and molasses-like. It's excellent as a barbecue marinade for chicken and seafood and pork, and used mainly in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. It's also good as part of a sauce base for noodles.

lol yea

ok i know im going to get socked for this one i like fruit cake especially when it has butter on it

I've heard all the fruit cake jokes, of course. But there's a local company here that makes them, and they are not bad. Perhaps the bad ones stay in the stores too long and dry out. I haven't tried butter (now I will), but I have sprinkled them with brandy and covered them for a few days. It does make a difference.

It seems that my 'favorite holiday food thread' has fallen away and merged in spirit with this one, so I will print this here:

Forget about fruit cakes and try these whiskey and other liquor cakes.

I promise you... THEY ARE 'TO DIE FOR', and make a GREAT gift!!! (and I don't even like whiskey, but in this cake, I thought I was in gastronomical heaven!)

The Amaretto one is DELISH too!

http://www.coffeecakes.com/irish-whiskey-cake.html

Edward,

Your idea is excellent. The idea is that the meal should serve the Fast and your idea of 12 vegetarian courses works. The Christmas Eve Supper finds its origins in the meal take to break the fast after receiving Eucharist on Christmas Eve in the morning (i.e., the Vespers and Divine Liturgy celebrated in the morning on December 24th). The meal should be a celebration of the events just proclaimed at that Liturgy while also respecting that one is still fasting in preparation for Eucharist on Christmas Day itself.

I'd be very interested in seeing what you come up with. Also, you might also speak to what you would plan for the Christmas Day feast itself.

John

I have some vegetarian friends who are Orthodox, and often send me their Christmas Day menu. If they do so this year, I'll ask if I may share it with you.

Fr. Serge