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Siu

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Happy Second Sunday of Advent!

 

Thanks to the amazing snowfall that started a week ago in Scotland I'm in the Xmas mood rather early this year. I made the first batch of gingerbread dough last weekend and today we're going to try the first baking.

 

How about you? Slippers ready on the ledge?

 

Write!

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Send you Xmas wishes!

Share your Xmas spirit!

 

 

 

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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...

 

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guylainem123

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i also got a few things ready for xmas. :teehee:

 

last sunday, a friend of mine came over & we baked cookies together.

 

we made shortbreads, sugarcookies & some kind of chocolate cookies, shaped like candy cane, coated with white chocolate melted & crushed candy canes on top.

 

my sons were mad at me for freezing them right away. i KNOW them, if i had not done that, we'd have none left already :sneaky2:

 

& my turkey is in the freezer :kachinga:

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willywonka

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Xmas is hapening in my house this year...

Home decoration is already done but the food is left for the day...

We also have an outside decoration as we moved to a new house with a garden this year...

Children are thrilled!!! :yay:

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I will celebrate my Christmas with my family as always do, but this year I will celebrate with my new family (Mika Family) too for the first time, I'm very happy for it, meet Mika and some their fans, even for distance, were some of the best presents I gained ever

:mf_lustslow::mf_lustslow::mf_lustslow:

 

*This the new Coldplay's song, but I wanna share my Christmas feelings with you, is so beautiful that I can't get enough listen it*

 

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This is a lovely thread:thumb_yello: It will be nice to hear of all the different traditions each country has for Christmas, all the different preparations and foods. And also to hear about different family traditions.

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Glad this thread's been opened. It'll be my first christmas here too :yay:

Here it is around dec 22th, when holidays start and Christmas Lottery takes place, that everyone gets into holiday spirit.

(Though I've already bought a few pressies and Christmas decorations :teehee:)

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:biggrin2: Christmas, yei!

 

well we usually get the house decorated like a week before christmas, but my mom this year decorated everything the last week of november

and have already done like 4 jars of cookies..they won't last long :naughty:

I have tried to make a new vertion of a recepy for a bread

"pan de jamon" traditional here in y country

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cause my mom doesn't like too much the traditional recepy she always use

...so yeah were sort of experimenting :aah:

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:biggrin2: Christmas, yei!

 

well we usually get the house decorated like a week before christmas, but my mom this year decorated everything the last week of november

and have already done like 4 jars of cookies..they won't last long :naughty:

I have tried to make a new vertion of a recepy for a bread

"pan de jamon" traditional here in y country

77189_499884273034_619078034_7174513_801040_n.jpg

cause my mom doesn't like too much the traditional recepy she always use

...so yeah were sort of experimenting :aah:

 

did you make that? that looks yummy!

what's in it? ham? bread? did you make the bread also? :blink:

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did you make that? that looks yummy!

what's in it? ham? bread? did you make the bread also? :blink:

 

yes I did with some friends :blush-anim-cl:

but I didn't take the picture, I suck at that hahaha

yeh we even made the bread it took us like 4 hours the hole thing

inside it has ham, bacon, olives, raisins and the our crazy little experiment we added brown sugar the stuffing :aah:

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it doesn't look so yummy here :aah:

BUT it is

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yes I did with some friends :blush-anim-cl:

but I didn't take the picture, I suck at that hahaha

yeh we even made the bread it took us like 4 hours the hole thing

inside it has ham, bacon, olives, raisins and the our crazy little experiment we added brown sugar the stuffing :aah:

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it doesn't look so yummy here :aah:

 

oh my! :shocked: what's the white stuff? is that mayonnaise?

i would have never thought of putting raisins with olives.

is that tradition? or is that your own addition?

 

i often put brown sugar on ham when i bake it, so i think that may taste ok

i'd be willing to try that. :blush-anim-cl:

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oh my! :shocked: what's the white stuff? is that mayonnaise?

i would have never thought of putting raisins with olives.

is that tradition? or is that your own addition?

 

i often put brown sugar on ham when i bake it, so i think that may taste ok

i'd be willing to try that. :blush-anim-cl:

 

noup the white stuf is bacon, guess is hard too see with so much ham ahaha

it is traditional here, the only thing we added was the brown sugar :teehee:

here everyone love sweet stuff, so the combination of salty with sweet is everywhere in our gastronomy :naughty:

aw my mom does that too (add sugar to the ham when baking it)

hihi well if you ever come to Venezuela I'll make you some pan de jamón :aah:

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noup the white stuf is bacon, guess is hard too see with so much ham ahaha

it is traditional here, the only thing we added was the brown sugar :teehee:

here everyone love sweet stuff, so the combination of salty with sweet is everywhere in our gastronomy :naughty:

aw my mom does that too (add sugar to the ham when baking it)

hihi well if you ever come to Venezuela I'll make you some pan de jamón :aah:

 

oh :doh: i see the bacon now!

i would love to visit your country :wub2:

 

so you made supper for your family?

what does pan de jamón mean? ham bread?

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oh :doh: i see the bacon now!

i would love to visit your country :wub2:

 

so you made supper for your family?

what does pan de jamón mean? ham bread?

 

aw :biggrin2: it would be cool ...I don't know much of my country though I mean I know what's important but never gone to any of those places :boxed:

I think I've seen like ...15% of my country oh God

 

yes in Christmas we eat supper together! my brothers are coming to my country in 2 weeks :boing::wub2:...but I just help, my mom goes all territorial in the kitchen during christmas eve

yeah ham bread it sounds awful :aah:

 

EDIT sorry I missread that hahaha

I didn't made supper for my family the experiment was just with friends :teehee:

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aw :biggrin2: it would be cool ...I don't know much of my country though I mean I know what's important but never gone to any of those places :boxed:

I think I've seen like ...15% of my country oh God

 

yes in Christmas we eat supper together! my brothers are coming to my country in 2 weeks :boing::wub2:...but I just help, my mom goes all territorial in the kitchen during christmas eve

yeah ham bread it sounds awful :aah:

 

EDIT sorry I missread that hahaha

I didn't made supper for my family the experiment was just with friends :teehee:

 

it looks good! :blush-anim-cl: you must be happy to have your brothers coming... you see them often?

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yes I'm happy!! :boing:

I see them often with the web cam :aah:

in RL once a year ..in christmas ahaha

 

what do you do in christmas? :biggrin2:

 

for christmas, i'm having my sister and her family over to celebrate with my family. I will see my entire family on New Year's day. there is about 50 of us for that party :naughty:

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for christmas, i'm having my sister and her family over to celebrate with my family. I will see my entire family on New Year's day. there is about 50 of us for that party :naughty:

 

wow 50! you got a big family! sounds like you'll be having fun

and tons of presents :aah:

 

 

I gotta go :bye:

it was nice talking with you :biggrin2:

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this is a nice thread! To talk about Christmas in different countries all over the world!

Last weekend we had the celebration of Sinterklaas. A real Dutch tradition. Sint Nicolaas is an old saint who is believed to have lived around the year 280! He used to give gifts to poor children. No adays he gives presents to children, and we celebrate his birthday on the 5th of December.

 

After the Sinterklaasfest Christmas preperations start here!

 

My family celebrates Christmas in Austria, where we have a holiday house. So we will be skiing with Christmas. Allthough on Christmas eve we will have a nice Christmasdinner together. No gifts, but we do have a Christmas tree and Christmas decorations.

 

But before we leave for Austria we will have a Christmas tree in our house in the Netherland as well!

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:biggrin2: Christmas, yei!

 

well we usually get the house decorated like a week before christmas, but my mom this year decorated everything the last week of november

and have already done like 4 jars of cookies..they won't last long :naughty:

I have tried to make a new vertion of a recepy for a bread

"pan de jamon" traditional here in y country

77189_499884273034_619078034_7174513_801040_n.jpg

cause my mom doesn't like too much the traditional recepy she always use

...so yeah were sort of experimenting :aah:

 

That looks really tasty:thumb_yello:

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i also got a few things ready for xmas.

 

last sunday, a friend of mine came over & we baked cookies together.

 

we made shortbreads, sugarcookies & some kind of chocolate cookies, shaped like candy cane, coated with white chocolate melted & crushed candy canes on top.

 

my sons were mad at me for freezing them right away. i KNOW them, if i had not done that, we'd have none left already :sneaky2:

 

& my turkey is in the freezer :kachinga:

 

That's exactly what happened to the gingerbreads we baked yesterday :roftl:. Kids were so happy to both bake and eat the cookies that I didn't have the heart to tell them to stop! I guess they must have eaten a kilo of cookies all together :shocked:, I of course didn't have any :rolls_eyes:. None were left to decorate this time, maybe we'll have more luck the coming weekend :lmfao:.

 

Last year I made a gingerbread house and kids want to make one this year too. We'll see :wink2:. It's a day's worth of effort :sweatdrop:.

 

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We usually have a traditional Christmas meal but in Edinburgh I haven't been able to find many of the things I'd need: sauerkraut, blood sausages, cowberry jam, layered vanilla waffles, sour apple sauce... well most of the things :lmfao:, which means that I'll have to start discovering the local Christmas meal traditions.

 

I have tried to make a new vertion of a recepy for a bread

"pan de jamon" traditional here in y country

77189_499884273034_619078034_7174513_801040_n.jpg

cause my mom doesn't like too much the traditional recepy she always use

...so yeah were sort of experimenting

 

This looks truly delicious! :licks_lips:

 

 

And it my first MFC Christmas too!

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