Christmas Food...

OK, Alison's newest blog mentioned some Christmas party food (the Christmas party that the Mom and I must have missed...). This brings to mind some traditional Christmas food and some of the sources.

Christmas Food Fact List
Aunt Betty's coffee cake - we all know the secret ingredient

Aunt Ester's sugar cookies - The overall favorite... Alison has come the closest to duplicating this past Christmas recipe with the combination of crispy and chewy consistancy

The Mom's turkey - with the elongated cooking time, great taste and the special way she has of figuring out when to put it in the oven
(take the weight of the turkey in pounds, add the number of minutes at 300 F and 190 F, divide it by the square root of the earths diameter, subtract the age of the oven, multiply it by the lunar new year date for 1989 and then add the time for dinner minus 1 hour...) When all this is done, it always comes out that the turkey goes in the oven at 2 am... hmmm...
Of course this is done so Alison doesn't say, "Yeww, this turkey is dry".

Pies - vast in number and made mostly with butter and sugar
(pecan, cherry, chess, pumpkin, sometimes apple (Mary's...) and of course fudge)

Aunt Suzanne's breakfast casserole and the BACON - she always cooks about 30 pounds of bacon...mmm...

What others need to be listed... There is alot more, I think.

mmmm...
The Dad