Every few years, we ask some of favourite acquaintances what they like for food and drink of a winter seasonal nature. Some give us recipes such as Stay Home Egg Fluff oftfered up by Jennifer Stevenson, or Deborah Grabien with salmon in puff pastry recipe complete with bad pun where served up. So how’s let’s see what the other contributors had to say…
Jane Yolen says ‘A third of the family (Daughter Heidi and her youngest daughter, son Adam and his family) gather here for Christmakkah and New Years, with music and lights, and candles, and singing and working on massive jigsaw puzzles, and wine and much too much food. (I already celebrated this early in SC with youngest son Jason and his family.) We exchange presents of books, and clothing and jokey stuff. And we discuss schools, politics, and the zombie apocalypse. The usual.’
Ellen Datlow has a Dickens aspect to her reply: ‘I always buy one pint of eggnog from Ronnybrook Farm Dairy per winter holiday season. The special foods I consume are the Christmas goose with friends and wonderful, very crunchy almond cookies made for me by a friend for my birthday. (Dec 31).’
Emma Bull who for a while lived her husband Will Shetterly in Arizona say ‘We have to have tamales on Christmas Eve. Fortunately, local tamale specialists La Loma make excellent ones, since I’m way too lazy to build ’em myself.We have to that ‘have tamales on Christmas Eve. Fortunately, local tamale specialists La Loma make excellent ones, since I’m way too lazy to build ’em myself.’ She added a bit later that the is ‘Filling? Anything vegetarian: cheese and peppers, mostly, or tamales de elote, which are slightly sweet corn masa. Served with roasted garlic salsa and spicy guacamole. The one year Will and I made our own tamales, the filling included wild rice, which sounds weird but which was really tasty.’
