It feels weird to have certain foods relegated to certain times of the year.
If I want to eat pumpkin pie and gingerbread cookies in the middle of goddamn June, who's gonna stop me!?
I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
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Further to Blake’s post re: Christmas pudding - it is very weird that a bunch of white people invaded Australia and then inserted their white people food into the opposite season.
It would make much more sense for us to have Halloween eggs and Easter pumpkins, but I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that colonizers didn’t think that hard about that sort of thing.
And to be fair, it also messes with immigrants - lots of traditional Chinese New Year food is seasonal since it’s our spring festival, but in Australia all that stuff is out of season and this costs more + tastes worse.
But folks - and cuisines - do adapt.
Australia at least does Christmas lunch instead of dinner, and in Blake’s family it’s like a couple of traditional proteins like turkey (not even a whole one!) and ham and then everything else is basically salad using seasonal ingredients. Plus a Christmas pavlova for dessert - that shit is genius.
Like to me, a quintessential Christmas meal here is gravlax blinis for starter, a prawn, avocado and mango salad for main, followed up by a pavlova covered in seasonal fruit.
Man now I’m vaguely annoyed I’m going to be working on Christmas (I didn’t mind initially because the penalties are $$$$). Oh well.
Further to Blake’s post re: Christmas pudding - it is very weird that a bunch of white people invaded Australia and then inserted their white people food into the opposite season.
It would make much more sense for us to have Halloween eggs and Easter pumpkins, but I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that colonizers didn’t think that hard about that sort of thing.
And to be fair, it also messes with immigrants - lots of traditional Chinese New Year food is seasonal since it’s our spring festival, but in Australia all that stuff is out of season and this costs more + tastes worse.
But folks - and cuisines - do adapt.
Australia at least does Christmas lunch instead of dinner, and in Blake’s family it’s like a couple of traditional proteins like turkey (not even a whole one!) and ham and then everything else is basically salad using seasonal ingredients. Plus a Christmas pavlova for dessert - that shit is genius.
Like to me, a quintessential Christmas meal here is gravlax blinis for starter, a prawn, avocado and mango salad for main, followed up by a pavlova covered in seasonal fruit.
Man now I’m vaguely annoyed I’m going to be working on Christmas (I didn’t mind initially because the penalties are $$$$). Oh well.
Holy gods, I cannot imagine trying to do a christmas feast like that in Aussieland.
Further to Blake’s post re: Christmas pudding - it is very weird that a bunch of white people invaded Australia and then inserted their white people food into the opposite season.
It would make much more sense for us to have Halloween eggs and Easter pumpkins, but I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that colonizers didn’t think that hard about that sort of thing.
And to be fair, it also messes with immigrants - lots of traditional Chinese New Year food is seasonal since it’s our spring festival, but in Australia all that stuff is out of season and this costs more + tastes worse.
But folks - and cuisines - do adapt.
Australia at least does Christmas lunch instead of dinner, and in Blake’s family it’s like a couple of traditional proteins like turkey (not even a whole one!) and ham and then everything else is basically salad using seasonal ingredients. Plus a Christmas pavlova for dessert - that shit is genius.
Like to me, a quintessential Christmas meal here is gravlax blinis for starter, a prawn, avocado and mango salad for main, followed up by a pavlova covered in seasonal fruit.
Man now I’m vaguely annoyed I’m going to be working on Christmas (I didn’t mind initially because the penalties are $$$$). Oh well.
Holy gods, I cannot imagine trying to do a christmas feast like that in Aussieland.
Also, the ovens are much smaller.
Yeah. The last thing I want on a 40°C day is a serve of mashed potatoes.
You can get bigger ovens for sure, but there isn’t much point unless you’re cooking for 2 or more families on a regular basis.
Further to Blake’s post re: Christmas pudding - it is very weird that a bunch of white people invaded Australia and then inserted their white people food into the opposite season.
It would make much more sense for us to have Halloween eggs and Easter pumpkins, but I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that colonizers didn’t think that hard about that sort of thing.
And to be fair, it also messes with immigrants - lots of traditional Chinese New Year food is seasonal since it’s our spring festival, but in Australia all that stuff is out of season and this costs more + tastes worse.
But folks - and cuisines - do adapt.
Australia at least does Christmas lunch instead of dinner, and in Blake’s family it’s like a couple of traditional proteins like turkey (not even a whole one!) and ham and then everything else is basically salad using seasonal ingredients. Plus a Christmas pavlova for dessert - that shit is genius.
Like to me, a quintessential Christmas meal here is gravlax blinis for starter, a prawn, avocado and mango salad for main, followed up by a pavlova covered in seasonal fruit.
Man now I’m vaguely annoyed I’m going to be working on Christmas (I didn’t mind initially because the penalties are $$$$). Oh well.
I have had one Christmas lunch in Australia. There was Christmas pudding, but basically everything else was fruit and charcuterie and some cold seafood. As a young teen I didn't super appreciate chilled shrimp, but everything else seemed pretty reasonable for midsummer.
They also had crackers with paper crowns and terrible jokes, and some game involving little plastic jumping frogs, and there were like some Monopoly tokens you had to watch out for in the pudding. All extremely festive.
I got a wallet made out of a kangaroo, which I only just replaced this year.
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One of the best Christmas meals I've had was in 2017 when I spent it in RSA with my work colleagues, and we made it an international mish-mash with everyone providing a staple of their home Christmas dinner. So we had oven roast turkey with all the trimmings, plus steaks from the braai, someone else did a loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with cheesy gloop, I think the Danish person made a vegetable casserole, my Aussie manager made a pavlova. And I provided pigs in blankets (the English version, which is chipolatas wrapped in bacon). It was awesome. And then we all got drunk on Aquavit, also courtesy of the Dane, and I ended up passing out on top of a wooden lookout platform looking at the stars which was a confusing place to wake up.
Bacon Mac and Cheese
-because fuck you, that’s why. Colby jack and gruyere for that extra mildy mildness on account of it’s already got bacon in it
Skipping the pumpkin pie this year because basically nobody had any list year and I ain’t wanna make pumpkin pie for just me. Turkey gravy made day of.
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If you are of an onion persuasion, I highly recommend sprinkling some finely diced red onion over your brussels sprouts before they go in the oven. They go great together.
Every time I make crispy Brussels sprouts lately, I make a smokey mayo based on this recipe.
Main differences are that I like to use light mayo and fresh garlic. And some cayenne doesn’t go amiss. And you could use lemon juice in stead of vinegar (it’s a very modular idea for a sauce). Always pairs great with crispy sprouts
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It feels weird to have certain foods relegated to certain times of the year.
If I want to eat pumpkin pie and gingerbread cookies in the middle of goddamn June, who's gonna stop me!?
I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
It feels weird to have certain foods relegated to certain times of the year.
If I want to eat pumpkin pie and gingerbread cookies in the middle of goddamn June, who's gonna stop me!?
I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
pumpkin pie isn't made with anything seasonal
you make it with canned pumpkin
Sure. You try finding Pumpkin Pie Spice(tm) out of season.
It feels weird to have certain foods relegated to certain times of the year.
If I want to eat pumpkin pie and gingerbread cookies in the middle of goddamn June, who's gonna stop me!?
I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
pumpkin pie isn't made with anything seasonal
you make it with canned pumpkin
Sure. You try finding Pumpkin Pie Spice(tm) out of season.
Cinnamon ginger nutmeg cloves and allspice? :rotate:
Also I have some friends who always use a whole pumpkin in their pie. Seems like too much work to me but what do I know? The spices that go in pumpkin pie?
If you are of an onion persuasion, I highly recommend sprinkling some finely diced red onion over your brussels sprouts before they go in the oven. They go great together.
I was just gonna pan fry ‘em, but I love a red onion. I’ll have a look at the schedule and see if Ic an spare the oven for the sprouts at all, we’re on a tight schedule since her family eats by 12 and we do Thanksgiving on Sunday since it’s a regular ass week in Taiwan.
It feels weird to have certain foods relegated to certain times of the year.
If I want to eat pumpkin pie and gingerbread cookies in the middle of goddamn June, who's gonna stop me!?
I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
pumpkin pie isn't made with anything seasonal
you make it with canned pumpkin
Sure. You try finding Pumpkin Pie Spice(tm) out of season.
Cinnamon ginger nutmeg cloves and allspice? :rotate:
Also I have some friends who always use a whole pumpkin in their pie. Seems like too much work to me but what do I know? The spices that go in pumpkin pie?
Fresh pumpkin is not really any extra work if you have an oven, once you roast the pumpkin you just throw it all in a blender.
Yeah I actually just learned how to do oven roasted pumpkin puree a couple weeks ago and with butternut squash today. It's actually super simple. I'm gonna make so much butternut squash soup.
Anyone have a good simple recipe for dinner rolls? I think I could throw one together but I'm not sure if they'll come out tender enough the way I usually do dough.
I'm thinking at the moment
200g flour
120ml water
~30g melted butter
20g honey
8g salt
And a package of yeast
I also think I'll use ap flour for fear of making them too gluteny to be tender.
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I mean if you want to, live your best life. But those dishes are made with seasonal vegetables so if you eat them then the fruits and vegetables won’t be at their peak. And those dishes are made for different temperatures as well.
I mean I fricking love traditional Christmas pudding with Hardsauce. It’s my jam. I also live in Australia and eat it on a forty degree day. It is not the right temperature to eat it. Vivienne has never enjoyed it. Then last year she went to a Christmas in July thing and ate it in the middle of winter. She now Understands The Dish.
So yeah if you want to do it, they really won’t eat as good though.
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It would make much more sense for us to have Halloween eggs and Easter pumpkins, but I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised that colonizers didn’t think that hard about that sort of thing.
And to be fair, it also messes with immigrants - lots of traditional Chinese New Year food is seasonal since it’s our spring festival, but in Australia all that stuff is out of season and this costs more + tastes worse.
But folks - and cuisines - do adapt.
Australia at least does Christmas lunch instead of dinner, and in Blake’s family it’s like a couple of traditional proteins like turkey (not even a whole one!) and ham and then everything else is basically salad using seasonal ingredients. Plus a Christmas pavlova for dessert - that shit is genius.
Like to me, a quintessential Christmas meal here is gravlax blinis for starter, a prawn, avocado and mango salad for main, followed up by a pavlova covered in seasonal fruit.
Man now I’m vaguely annoyed I’m going to be working on Christmas (I didn’t mind initially because the penalties are $$$$). Oh well.
yes!
it's linked in the OP
Holy gods, I cannot imagine trying to do a christmas feast like that in Aussieland.
Also, the ovens are much smaller.
Best 26,000 dollars I ever spent.
Yeah. The last thing I want on a 40°C day is a serve of mashed potatoes.
You can get bigger ovens for sure, but there isn’t much point unless you’re cooking for 2 or more families on a regular basis.
Every year since we moved into our house I've made a different menu of a celebrity chef. I've done Alton Brown, Martha Stewart, and Kenji Lopez Alt.
Usually takes me two or three days.
But since we are ordering out, this year's project is a dozen Maine oyesters which I'll learn to shuck the day of.
Got a fucking shucking knife and everything.
I have had one Christmas lunch in Australia. There was Christmas pudding, but basically everything else was fruit and charcuterie and some cold seafood. As a young teen I didn't super appreciate chilled shrimp, but everything else seemed pretty reasonable for midsummer.
They also had crackers with paper crowns and terrible jokes, and some game involving little plastic jumping frogs, and there were like some Monopoly tokens you had to watch out for in the pudding. All extremely festive.
I got a wallet made out of a kangaroo, which I only just replaced this year.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
They aren't nearly as much an Xmas/ New Years staple.
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Turkey with Dry(?) Rub
-salt, cumin, oregano, garlic, white wine
Brussels Sprouts and Bacon
-that’s... that’s it.
Roasted Garlic Potatoes
-also parsley. Not mashed because we have 3 dishes that are gloopy, as will become immediately apparent.
Stuffing (technically dressing)
-no frills this year: onions, celery, baby corn
Creamed Corn
-recipe stolen quite shamelessly from The Summit House
Bacon Mac and Cheese
-because fuck you, that’s why. Colby jack and gruyere for that extra mildy mildness on account of it’s already got bacon in it
Skipping the pumpkin pie this year because basically nobody had any list year and I ain’t wanna make pumpkin pie for just me. Turkey gravy made day of.
Main differences are that I like to use light mayo and fresh garlic. And some cayenne doesn’t go amiss. And you could use lemon juice in stead of vinegar (it’s a very modular idea for a sauce). Always pairs great with crispy sprouts
pumpkin pie isn't made with anything seasonal
you make it with canned pumpkin
Sure. You try finding Pumpkin Pie Spice(tm) out of season.
Cinnamon ginger nutmeg cloves and allspice? :rotate:
Also I have some friends who always use a whole pumpkin in their pie. Seems like too much work to me but what do I know? The spices that go in pumpkin pie?
I was just gonna pan fry ‘em, but I love a red onion. I’ll have a look at the schedule and see if Ic an spare the oven for the sprouts at all, we’re on a tight schedule since her family eats by 12 and we do Thanksgiving on Sunday since it’s a regular ass week in Taiwan.
Fresh pumpkin is not really any extra work if you have an oven, once you roast the pumpkin you just throw it all in a blender.
My main concern at the moment is finding a place to purchase gruyere for the Mac and cheese.
I need to try and secure some of my aunt's macaroni salad, it's the only thing I can't do without
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Same here. I love cooking so Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but this year we can't be around each other
And it doesn't make sense to make a turkey and sides for just me and my wife, so we're ordering in from a local restaurant.
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Gruyere is peasant cheese!
I'm thinking at the moment
200g flour
120ml water
~30g melted butter
20g honey
8g salt
And a package of yeast
I also think I'll use ap flour for fear of making them too gluteny to be tender.