Is there a seasonal treat you enjoy a lot?

[Archae]

And look forward to the time of year it goes on sale?

For me, it's eggnog.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Julekake.

Some bakeries have it but I usually have to make my own because they don't use enough cardamom.

[Phoenix61]

2. Publix Peppermint Stick Ice-Cream

I just wish it came in a pint size. The 1/2 gallon didn’t even make it through the week end.

[Grasswire2]

33. I haven't seen it in my Kroger's yet.

I love peppermint stick ice cream. Even though it WAS my mother-in-law's favorite.

[Phoenix61]

44. Publix is a grocery store chain in the south.

Sadly, they support Twitler.

[highplainsdem]

72. Blue Bunny Peppermint Bark ice cream snacks

[SamKnause]

3. My homemade Macaroni salad.

It requires home grown tomatoes.

I eat it all summer long.

[SterlingPound]

4. I used to make fudge around the holidays

but as more in my house became diabetic I was the only one eating the whole tray

so I stopped about 7 years ago

but still, miss it.

[Major Nikon]

5. Whiskey

[chillfactor]

6. same here....

eggnog!

[msongs]

7. sunrise on dec 26 when everything goes back to normal nt

[Shrike47]

31. Not at my house. On the food front, leftovers are a thing of wonder and celebration.

[2naSalit]

8. I love any cookies

with white powdered sugar on them. It's one of the worst things on the planet but during the holidays, when I see them free for the taking, I'm on it.

I also like another completely fattening treat...

Date candies. All ingredients are optional so you can pick the way you like them.

Majool dates, pitted, cream cheese, walnut halves, sugar (there's a theme here).

Slice one side of each date so that you can open it up and stuff cream cheese (about 1/4 - 1/2 tsp.) into the date, then stuff a walnut half into that. Close the date around the cream cheese leaving some exposed around the edges and roll in some kind of sugar. And there you have one of the richest, most addictive treats on the planet. And they are often the first things you run out of at a party.

[912gdm]

9. chocolate covered cherries...

That's when I would ever get up as a kid. I still buy myself a box every season

[yellowdogintexas]

48. UGH I always hated getting a box of those things

I gave them to my grandmother who loved them

[CTyankee]

58. Oh, they're sinfully good!

kinda thrilling in the mouth...mmm...

[True Blue American]

78. Love Chocolate Cherries

Made them myself after my favorite candy store told me to let them set 6 weeks to mak them juicy.

I made Coconut balls this year.white and dark chocolate. Yummy.

[peacebuzzard]

10. ditto.

and I even have my used pint of Capt Morgan's from last year to spice it up.
Personally, I like to warm the eggnog after spending time outside and come back into a nice warm house and chill with the spiced nog.

[Ohiogal]

11. My Polish grandmother's poppyseed rolls.

She made them at Christmas and Easter. I will never have one as delicious as hers since she’s been gone for many years now. Sorry I guess that doesn’t quite fit the category. For a store bought treat, I’d have to go with peppermint stick ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over it. That’s our Christmas Day dessert. Yum!

[sprinkleeninow]

51. They do fit the category, moja droga serce!

I'm Slavic heritage, Czechoslovak. Nut, poppy seed and leqvar rolls always anticipated at the holidays.

Have no Baba, Babçi or Grandmother on earth now who made these treats.

Bless you!

[OregonBlue]

59. My mother always made kolaches of poppy seed and ones of apricot. I never learned to make them.

[sprinkleeninow]

75. I was gonna say kolaches. Yeah, baby! Apricot and pot cheese or farmers'

cheese. Yum!

[Freddie]

12. My grandmas recipe for Chex Mix

I think it’s the original from the 50s. Rice Chex, Cheerios, pretzels, peanuts baked with the butter and spices. I usually make 3 turkey roasters full for parties etc. I would weigh a LOT more if I made it year-round. [link:http://www.bigoven.com/recipe/chex-cheerios-snack-mix/226980 Chex-Cheerios Snack Mix|

[Grasswire2]

35. can't have it any more

too many carbs. But I love it.

Now I make a glazed pecan/pretzel mix and try to avoid the pretzels.

[PJMcK]

13. I'm with you

Eggnog.

[doc03]

14. Here it comes get ready

I like fruit cake

[AJT]

43. You're not alone!

I love it too. Are there support groups?.....maybe not, but I LOVE FRUIT CAKE AND I'M PROUD OF IT!!!!

[sprinkleeninow]

52. One year I made a chocolate cherry nut fruitcake and it required wrapping in

cheesecloth and sprinkling it with rum daily for a few days and let it sit till ready to demolish!

[AJT]

62. Sounds heavenly.

[sprinkleeninow]

76. You can have dessert and a 'nip' all at once! Hiccup...

😄

[AJT]

89. Yep. Have your cake and drink it too....

[sprinkleeninow]

91. Very good! 😘

[Phoenix61]

45. I make a dozen every year.

There’s eleven happily wrapped in cheesecloth soaked in Capt Morgan’s. I usually can resist until the 25th but this year, not so much. I use dried fruit instead of candied so it’s not quite as bad for you.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. 100% agree with you on the dried fruit

It makes a huge difference! My recipe uses orange juice as the liquid in the batter which makes it a good base. I just go through the bulk bins at Sprouts and get a little dab of everything

[NJCher]

15. salads from my own garden

I know this will seem holier than thou but when I go into a store and they have pre-made salads, I drool. There is another effect seeing a salad has, and that is I feel like I'm melting. I see all these colorful vegetables arranged on top and I want to buy the salad, even though it probably costs $9! My favorite thing to see is snap peas, cucumbers, and cherry tomatoes on top. Maybe a slice of yellow zucchini.

But I don't buy their salad because most of the year I have fresh greens going in my garden. There is nothing like freshly picked greens. If I don't have them growing outside, I have them growing in my greenhouse. Right now, though, the pickings are pretty sparse.

There are a few places that don't know how to make and display a salad. There is one place that's run by four brothers. They are very aggressive businessmen and own all kinds of businesses but their salads are terrible. They grate everything. And they don't know how to tear the leaves so they are a manageable size. When I look at their salads, I just laugh.

[Grasswire2]

37. I love pea pods. Sugar snap, Chinese, English, whatever. nt

[unc70]

16. Moravian sugar cake

[handmade34]

17. not buy, but make...

RUM BALLS!! I make them in November, put them in the freezer to age well and had a few tonight

[Wawannabe]

18. Hot buttered rum!

[CanonRay]

19. Buckeyes

My wife makes them at Christmas

[flotsam]

20. Well this time of the year eggnog with a shot of whiskey

...but also spice jelly beans only available in grocery stores for Easter...

[safeinOhio]

21. Bah Humburgers.

Hold the pickles.

[TomSlick]

22. I'm with you on the eggnog.

With a liberal administration of brandy.

[chia]

23. Lebkuchen

German spiced cookie or bar (my friend's recipe that was her grandma's is a bar with lemon glaze) that's kind of like gingerbread but seems like there are a lot of variations. Hers look like these:



Trader Joe's has them like this and when they're gone from the store, they're gone until next year:

[Raftergirl]

24. Latkes!

Must be home made though.

[Kali]

25. tamales!

[Cartoonist]

26. I used to love these just for the novelty

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

39. I remember those - I didn't eat them but I thought they were kind of cool.

[GemDigger]

27. Eggnogg'n Tea

But I get a years worth to last me until the next year.

[Grammy23]

28. Love eggnog. The richest I can find.

A carton bought from the grocery store is fine. I can make it last, but would chug the whole thing if my discipline didn’t stop me.

My Aunt used to always make divinity at Christmas — weather permitting. If it was too humid, it would not set up right. But WOW, it was so good when it set up. It was an annual treat that I always looked forward to eating. Her coconut cake was ah-mazing, too. So many delicious treats at the holidays! I miss those days and folks who made the treats.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. I see your eggnog and raise you boiled custard

Boiled custard is wonderful. For me it is the #1 nostalgia Christmas food.
We would have coconut cake, ambrosia and boiled custard for dessert at Christmas.
The ambrosia was fresh oranges, grapefruit, bananas, coconut, sometimes tangerines.
It is very traditional in the South since back in the olden days, true eggnog was made with whiskey, cream, eggs and sugar (the whiskey cooks the eggs)so the teetotalers in the South invented boiled custard so they could have a rich eggy milk drink without being cooked with whiskey.

It is sort of like zabaglioni sauce but it's thin enough to be drinkable. Of course despite the teetotalers, most folks have their custard with a teaspoon of "flavoring" ...guess what "Flavoring" is? ....


BOURBON of course!!

[Grammy23]

64. My older sister usually made ambrosia each Christmas.

We’d get fruit in our stockings so there was fruit in the House plus daddy frequently got corporate gifts each year that included big baskets of fruit, ham etc. We had big naval oranges, red delicious apples and other fruit to make ambrosia so it was on the menu.

My father loved mincemeat pie so my sister usually made a mincemeat pie or two for him. He’d tell us to leave Santa a piece of mincemeat pie and a cup of coffee which we dutifully did, never wondering why he always asked for mincemeat. 😉

[yellowdogintexas]

50. I used to make divinity a lot, from my great aunt's recipe

Her divinity was legendary.

Today I answered a message on NextDoor from a lady looking for someone who could make it .. so I decided I would do it for her.

I haven't made it for years. It'll be fun

[Grammy23]

65. I'd love to attempt a batch but it is way too humid here right now.

Divinity is soooo good. When the front moves through, I might get inspired to try a batch. Even if it doesn’t set up right, we can eat it with a spoon. Hmmm, thinking about some fudge, too. The kind on the Hershey’s cocoa box. 😋

[yellowdogintexas]

84. hey, if it is really runny, just ice a cake with it.

Cook it to a soft ball and it makes a great icing. We used to put it on our coconut cakes. ( I now use the flour based buttercream AKA Ermine Frosting)

It is very similar to Italian meringue which Julia Child made on her TV show

I won a blue ribbon at the county fair with that Hershey's fudge during my freshman year of high school.

[Grammy23]

88. In my humble opinion,

Nothing beats a platter of Hershey’s cocoa fudge. I just love the taste, consistency and color of it. Being ore-diabetic limits the amount of sugar I consume these days, but I still remember how good it tastes and will try to replicate it with sweeteners that don’t cause blood sugar spikes along with elevated insulin levels. There are some sweeteners like stevia, erythritol and allulose that are not artificial and don’t mess with blood sugar like sugar does. So we’ll see how that goes. 😋

[MissB]

29. Toffee

I only risk first degree burns this time of year.

[brewens]

30. Corned beef around St. Patricks Day. I usually get a couple briskets so I can have it another

time too.

[onecaliberal]

32. Peppermint Bark

[Shrike47]

34. Corned beef for St. Patrick, raspberry fluff & apple galette for Thanksgiving, blueberry cobbler 7/4

Actually, there are a lot of things involving meat or dessert we only eat around holidays. That’s the only time I bake and the only time we cook potatoes with cheese. DH loves cheese but we save those recipes for special days

[Grasswire2]

36. Spicy pecan-pretzel snack mix.

[link:https://www.davidlebovitz.com/the-best-holida/|

[Golden Raisin]

38. Panettone.

[JackSabbath]

80. Yesssss!

We probably eat ten of the damned things between xmas and the new year 😋

[defacto7]

40. My first is a Semla (semlor)

My second is home made stollen with rum.

[SouthernIrish]

41. Gingerbread anything

I love it. I have gingerbread flavored coffee too. Yummy

[Cartoonist]

42. My SIL gave everyone gingerbread cake one Xmas

That night I dreamed of a girl I knew named Ginger.

[yellowdogintexas]

46. Hatch Chiles in August!! I freeze roasted Hatch

and save for making green chile stew later.

[applegrove]

54. I like eggnog, whiskey sours but my favourite in my Aunt's Cantley Pudding.

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It is a dry pudding made of cranberries and flour - it is really tart. You pour a sauce made of butter and sugar over it. And the two meet in your mouth and dam if it isn't just the best. I don't drink alcohol anymore but i can enjoy sugar.

[Adsos Letter]

55. Fish-eye tapioca

[yankeepants]

56. New Year's Day Oyster Stew

I have a NYD party every year. Hours are 11 AM -5/6 PM. Open house style held in my dog training building (no dogs allowed for the day). Guiness Venison stew, Oyster stew, quiches, all manner of cheese, crackers, dips, guests bring more wonderful food (they are foodies)! Mimosas and Bloody Mary bar. and music! Always been my favorite way to kiss the Holiday season good bye!

[jpak]

57. Needhams!

Maine's Needhams: A Sweet Treat Of Earthy Potatoes

https://www.npr.org/2012/08/26/159998395/maines-needhams-a-sweet-treat-of-earthy-potatoes

[yewberry]

73. Oh gosh, I remember these.

I think we called them 'need'ums' though. Wow, that takes me back.

[cwydro]

60. Mince pies! My Welsh mom made them every year.

I was missing her too much last Christmas, but I’m going to make some today.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

61. Russell Stover chocolates

My mom loved those things. She always bought bags of pecans at the beauty shop too. She would both consume and hand out the goodies. I don't go to the beauty shop, so no pecans for me.

Russell Stover chocolates are ordinarily $9.99 for a 12-ounce box. Right after Thanksgiving, they go on a two-for-the-price-of-one sale, so that's $4.99 per box. If you dig in your heels, the week before Christmas, they finally drop to $3.99 at Walgreens and Rite Aid. I've learned to wait before stocking up. I bought eight of them last year, IIRC. By now, I know which varieties I like.

I saw some at the CVS on Saturday. The 12-ounce box? It's now 9.4 ounces. That's a hefty price increase.

I thought about getting some eggnog last Saturday at the ALDI. They were all out. It's not cheap -- $3.89 for a half gallon.

[bluestarone]

68. Loved them BUT

They are NOT as good as they used to be. I liked the assorted creams, and NOT THE SAME!! No more for me.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

69. The assorted cremes were my favorite too.

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I'm sorry to hear about your finding. I'm annoyed about the drop in the weight of what I'll be getting.

Thanks for writing.

[bluestarone]

70. Yea they were awesome

Be sure to read whats in the box BEFORE you buy them! I didn't and was very disappointed. 4 or 5 creams missing. I tried to build a box and they say OUT OF STOCK.

[True Blue American]

79. We have a local

Candy store. Esther Price. She started in her kitchen. Maple nut my favorite. $13.99 a Lb.

[912gdm]

81. that's my favorite assortment brand

[yellowdogintexas]

83. there used to be a Russel Stover store in Nashville

You could buy your favorites by the piece! They were incredibly fresh!

This store was located in an old shopping area which was called The Arcade. It was a glass roofed, two story thing which enclosed an old alley. It definitely had a Victorian flair. Shops lined the upper and lower levels, including a hosiery shop, a sheet music store, Jewelry shops, at least one shoe store.

Stover's was near the Planters Peanut shop; I believe they had opposite corners near a side entrance. .

In addition to the shops, there were some folks who were pretty much beggars: a black man with some sort of birth defect which made one of his hands droop from the wrist, who sat on the concrete walkway in front of a shop, and a legless small person who raced around on a wheeled board using his hands to propel himself. I never ever went to the arcade that I did not see those two men and I went there often for many many years.

It began to get seedy in the 1960s, but it was still heavily trafficked.Of COURSE it has now been gentrified as part of Nashville's upgraded downtown. https://www.nashvilledowntown.com/go/the-arcade for today's version

for a nostalgic look.

[mopinko]

63. my- it isnt xmas until- cookie appears to have disappeared. jingles.

i make a lot of cookies, but often start off baking w an open box of jingles until i get something in the oven.

it's okay, tho, as my obsession is based on a great cut that has finally healed, i think.
see, my first born was born on dec 17. it was in the days when lamaze was first a big fad.
we went to classes, but the hubs was pretty worthless. never practiced.
but when the day came, as the contractions came closer, i found myself focusing on the different shapes of the cookies.
i was starving at the time, having been at the hospital for 3 days farting around, and they wouldnt feed me. so, yeah.

i asked the hubs to get me some, but in the 4 days in the hospital that followed no cookies were forthcoming. nor did they arrive once home. so, none that year at all.

since then, that craving reverberates in my little head. but the bakery changed hands some years back and they changed the recipe, and they werent that good. they cut the anise sharply. also changed the name.
i think that bakery has now changed hands. i looked for them at the grocery store the other day, but didnt see anything remotely like them. didnt really ransack the cookie aisle, but they were always on the end caps in every store by thanksgiving.

the kicker to this story? i got the paperwork in the mail the other day annulling that marriage 4 decades after the fact.
ya cant make this shit up, people.

[IcyPeas]

66. Baily's Irish Cream

I only buy a bottle at christmas time.

[smirkymonkey]

67. Panforte Nero from Pasticceri Montalcino.

It's hard to find, and very expensive, but it's so delicious. Not too sickeningly sweet, but just exquisite tasting.





I also love Russian Teacakes.

[we can do it]

71. Egg nog!

[Codeine]

74. Soy nog.

There’s almond nog now, as well. And the kids can drink it without farting the house into a toxic wasteland.

[BlueSpot]

92. Oh, I did not know this

Thank you!

[TlalocW]

77. There are many

Brach's makes a soft peppermint flat-round candy. It's white with red stripes around the edge and an Xmas tree in the center.
Fruitcake. I grew up with a mom who liked fruitcake, and I actually like it, and it reminds me of her.
Also, Mom always liked to have a box of cherry cordials so I'll get those.
We always had shelled nut assortments. Something about cracking them open yourself makes them taste better.
Mince pies.

A few years ago, I started either making or ordering treats mentioned in Christmas songs. I made a figgy pudding and ordered sugarplums. Neither were impressive.

TlalocW

[madamesilverspurs]

82. Danish Aebleskiver

Made from my great-grandmother's recipe -- took a few hours to prepare the batter; let it rise overnight, then the better part of the day to make them. Every Christmas morning, hot aebleskivers sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with hot cocoa. Delightful!


.

[Stuart G]

85. NOT really seasonal..cause I like them all year...candy corn...the best..

not new for me either....It has been about 60 years that I have adored them...picture anyone?

[WestLosAngelesGal]

86. I eat low-carb now, but am craving my old favorites...

... fruitcake, Danish butter cookies in that blue tin, egg nog, pumpkin bread.

[japple]

90. Fudge is your friend!

https://mymontanakitchen.com/2-ingredient-fudge-low-carb-sugar-free-thm-s/

[benld74]

87. French Gaufrette Cookies - Mother used to make, now I do

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/80149/french-cookies-belgi-galettes/