Comments on: 5 Odd Holiday Dishes

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:46:45 +0000

That stuff looks gross and nasty.

By: Tiffany!

Tiffany! — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:30:25 +0000

Wouldn’t congealed salad be more fitting for this list?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:57:38 +0000

That stuff looks disgusting.

By: dawn

dawn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:33:31 +0000

My family is Norse – usually there’s beef & fishcakes, sausages & cheeses, ryekrisps, lots of butter, lefse, pickled & all sorts of baked herring dishes, cucumbers & onions in a dill sourcream, silte (a sausage), & for the daring – lutefisk – Desserts – krumkake, cardomum biscuits, & pfeffernusse — typical for the old Norwegians – quite new for us youngsters in the USA…

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:03:47 +0000

That sounds delicious, Jin!

By: Jin

Jin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:30:32 +0000

This isn’t really odd, but it’s different. For the last several years, instead of the traditional marshmallow-laden canned yams, I’ve been following a recipe I found in Real Simple magazine. It calls for plain sweet potatoes, which you bake, then cut up. Boil maple syrup with whole cloves and a vanilla bean in it, then drizzle it over the potatoes. It’s so much better than the traditional sickly-sweet yams.

By: penny

penny — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:56:22 +0000

I wouldn’t say it’s odd, but maybe that’s because we’ve always had it. My family’s German, so we have spaetzle every holiday. It’s a German pasta that’s kind of bland, but I love it. We make it from scratch, but you buy it boxed in the “ethnic food aisle” at the grocery store.

By: H

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:39:11 +0000

having grown up in the South, but family ain’t from around here…green bean casserole…ew

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:29:27 +0000

I guess it’s called ambrosia? My grandmother makes this… thing… with marshmallows, mandarin orange slices, coconut and who knows what else. Every year we all moan and groan about how gross it is, and every year, without fail, it is completely gone by the end of dinner. I don’t know that it could be considered “odd” but it’s definitely on the gross side. :-)

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:17:17 +0000

Watergate salad is a staple on our Thanksgiving table. It’s whipped cream, pistachio gelatin mix, crushed (and drained) pineapple, and mini marshmallows. I’m not a huge fan of it, but the bowl is always empty when the meal is over.