What are your must have Christmas food treats?

[Pinkkisugarmouse]

For DH it’s a really strong cheddar. Far stronger than supermarkets seem to sell.
We each get a box of Hotel Chocolat which we start on Christmas Eve and mine last a few weeks. I will get an alcohol free Rum. Used to have real rum at Christmas but developed a sudden allergy. I may think of others but those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Pork pie, smoked salmon pate, mackerel pate

“Brown” sherry 😁

Sticky honey sausages
Sausage rolls
Tin of posh biscuits from M and S
Lots of cheese
Snowballs
Gin and tonic

Tia Maria and Baileys - used for Christmas baking, adding to hot chocolate and generally just enjoying of a cold dark evening.

Brie and saltine crackers, salted cashews, mini sausage rolls.

I'll make some Nigella Christmas fruit cake and snack on that for a few weeks - yum!

Cheese × lots.
One year I had 17 types.

Chocolate
Venison
Yorkshire pudding
Roast potatoes
Mulled wine
Mince pie

Aww thank you 😊 the youngest teen has been going on about it already regarding the xmas food cupboard and the poptarts .its the only time I buy them is xmas. It started with the 25 and 21 year old when they were very young, but it would not be xmas without them now 😂

Lebekuchen
Patè
Chilli jam for cheese
Panettone (I love Sainsbury's orange and dark chocolate one) to be dipped into nod morning coffee
Terry's chocolate orange and mint matchmakers (for the kids)
Ferrero Rocher for me
Brazil nuts and walnuts
Homemade mince pies and sausage rolls
Can't wait 😋

*mid morning coffee

Pardon me for my ignorance but what’s an eski?

Can't forget the cheese footballs, home made tiffin, salted almonds and Delia's pistachio stables.

I'm curious too , I imagine it to be some sort of insulated coolbox that is banished to the garage

I definitely want to try lemon panettone this year 😀🍋

@Pinkkisugarmouse

A rum allergy?? Don't scare me like this!! 😩

Do you know how/why etc???

I used to have a bit of a list of Christmas Food Treats, but it's getting smaller & smaller as certain things just aren't like they used to be! One of them was Quality Street, but not only have they ruined the chocolates, they've now ruined the twinkle of the wrappers under the Christmas tree lights (traditional not LED) so they'll drop off the list this year too 😢

Alcohol
Bottles of pop
Tins of chocolates
Cheese board
Patè
Madagascan vanilla custard
Brandy cream/ normal cream
Cooked sliced ham

TKMaxx/Homesense has loads in yesterday , I bought mine a couple of weeks ago when I saw them .

Long Clawson Stilton
Cheese crackers

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
M&S pickled onions, cabbage, chutney and beetroot
Merry Munch

An esky is Aussie slang for a cool box.

A chicken liver pate I make every year. It involves cream and three sorts of booze.

Ooh, I make a stuffing every year with chicken livers, we call it, "murderers stuffing", as it looks like you murdered someone when you blend the livers.

I was a very occasional drinker. I was also a real lightweight so after two rum and Diet Coke I would be laughing at my own shoelaces. Then out of the blue in my late twenties I started to get uncomfortable pains in my jaw and cheeks if I had rum or a glass of wine. Then the pains were dreadful and I couldn’t swallow. So yep out of the blue I became allergic to alcohol. It’s not just rum though. All alcohol.

No idea why. Apparently we can develop allergies at any time in our lives.

Orangettes here too
Chestnuts (and maybe marron glaces)
Advocaat
A lactose free blue cheese for my annual blue cheese fix
Might have a go at making a tunis cake this year

We are not a family that sits down to a roast much throughout the year ( maybe 4 / 5 times ) so really enjoy the Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
Also have to have some nice cheeses in .

A box of Famous Names chocolate liqueurs. Childhood tradition, and it feels like my parents are still present in some way for the festivities.

Garners pickled onions and red cabbage for the Christmas Eve cheese-fest

Peters Yard crackers and Stokes chilli jam

Lebkuchen - as many kinds as I can get my greedy little paws on

The adult dc like Quality Street but I think they're horrible now, so it would be nice to find something with a similar vibe to replace them