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You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:08 am
by Alfred_E._Neuman
right now!!!!!!!
Tonight's the night we bake up our annual fruit cakes. Dried fruit has been soaking in rum for a week now, absorbing alcoholic goodness. Everything is mixed up on the stove and the whole house smells like liquid Christmas. One of my favorite days of the year.
After soaking in some good brandy, they'll be ready to eat Christmas day.
What are your traditions?
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:04 am
by syaigh
Well. We have a few but this year, we chucked the annual cocktail party in favor of a party for the kids and their friends. Its on the solstice so we're going to have a big bonfire, play football, and decorate gingerbread houses. Yeah, im preconstructing about 25 gingerbread houses. Thats the kind of crazy I thrive in.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:07 am
by Blaidd Drwg
Alfred_E._Neuman wrote:What are your traditions?
All Day.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:09 am
by Alfred_E._Neuman
Nice.
Wife got me this for my Bday this year:
Have just over half a bottle left, waiting for Christmas day to sip on.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:28 am
by Fat Cat
My wife's grandmother grew up as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and they all have the tradition of making ridiculous piles of these little cakes and cookies: vanilice, Isleri, salamice, napolitanke...some two dozen different kinds. I don't actually stuff myself with them (anymore, but Jesus the first few years...) but just seeing them pile up puts me in more of a holiday mode, and the kids we always have around LOVE it.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:40 am
by Alfred_E._Neuman
Fat Cat wrote:My wife's grandmother grew up as a subject of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and they all have the tradition of making ridiculous piles of these little cakes and cookies: vanilice, Isleri, salamice, napolitanke...some two dozen different kinds. I don't actually stuff myself with them (anymore, but Jesus the first few years...) but just seeing them pile up puts me in more of a holiday mode, and the kids we always have around LOVE it.
That sounds like eight shades of awesome. My grandmother always had a very formal dinner on Christmas eve. She would spend from Thanksgiving to Christmas prepping and baking. Several different kinds of cakes, cookies, ambrosia. Enough food to feed an army. The centerpiece was her fruit cake. She started soaking the dried fruit the day after Thanksgiving and the final cake finished soaking up Brandy Christmas eve for the dinner. It's one of my best memories of her, so my wife and I have been making it just like she did when she was with us.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:47 am
by Brutal Bajan
Fuckin' fruitcakes. My grandparents used to love that shit. I imagine I'm only about 10 years away from starting to dabble myself.
Re: You bitches wish you could smell my kitchen..
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:28 am
by hideouse
editted- nvm