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December tastes like...

This was discussed on the Washington Post. December is filled with numerous holidays which include many once a year foods & just plain "feel good" foods!

December tastes like...

hot chocolate
clementines
peanut brittle
pecans in the shell
eggnog
fudge
Texas ruby red grapefruit


What does December taste like to you?

22 Comments:

homemade butter cookies
eggnog with a little brandy
espresso with a shot of Grand Mariner
and the smells of ginger and nutmeg

hot apple cider
ginger cookies
roasted chestnuts
clementines
sweet potatoes and cinnamon

fudge that melts in your mouth
a never-ending supply of frosted sugar cookies
peanut brittle! I could live on peanut brittle, I think
5-pound candy made by my dad's boss
Chocolate Charlie which, to my knowledge, is only sold in Northern Indiana around South Bend
green bean casserole

My mom's famous fudge
Hot cocoa
Sticky buns on Christmas morning with
Fresh Squeezed orange juice
Nutmeg and cinnamon and cloves

gingerbread
latkes
egg nog
peppermint

December tastes yummy:
Hot homemade chocolate chip cookies
Hot apple cider with captain morgan's and cinnamon sticks
Truffles with the advent calender
Champagne
Jumbo Shrimp cocktail

1) peppermint/candy canes
2) tangerines~always stocking stuffers when I was a child. The aroma in the air just screams Christmas to me.
3) mixed nuts~another stocking stuffer, but there was always a big bowl of them, too. Seems like we sometimes spent hours trying to get a handful of nutmeats out of those babies since we always had the ones still in the shell
4) ham baked with cloves, brown sugar,pineapples and cherries
5) banana bread
6) chocolate oranges~a new tradition I have with my own kids
7) chocolate~fudge, hot cocoa, assorted Russell Stover/Whitman's/Candy Cupboard and the handful in my stocking
8) snow cream~usually by the middle of Decemeber it was cold and snowy enough to get a bowl of fresh snow to make this with my grandmother
9) fruitcake or cranberry orange bread~ for some odd reason these two are somehow always associated together in my mind. I love them both.
10) mincemeat pie~made with my grandmother's homemade mincemeat. She always told me that this was a traditional dish to have for Christmas since the mixture was supposed to somehow represent the gifts that the kings brought to Jesus.

Hot soup
cappucino
eggnog
cookies
snowflakes
torrone

peppermint
Florida citrus

OMG!
I have so many December tastes that I forgot some! I forgot tortellini, pannettone, strufoli, pizzelles, marzipan, and turrone. My grandfather made the torellini by hand and the rest was usually purchased in the North End of Boston. We always had the tortellini as a soup course on Christmas.

My mom would always make homemade beef jerky(note to self: get that recipe!) and peppermint bark.

chocolate peppermint ice cream

Cinnamon
Cloves
Ginger
Sugar

And always on Christmas Eve - the aroma of the Feast of the Seven Fishes cooking away. Could be broiling lobsters with savory crab stuffing or a wall of garlic from any of the other dishes.

My dad used to say he had to make baccala fritters in his own house "because the stink has to be in the walls. It's not Christmas unless the stink is in the walls." Not quite how I'd phrase it but I got the message :D.

@chiff holy cow your killing me. I have not cooked 7 fishes in a decade because of the "stink". I can remember opening up the windows when it was 20 degrees out to air out that smell. Although I have made baccala fritters since then.
We made a reservation for Christmas eve at someplace where I know the chef and the owners came over from Italy. I am baking like mad. The house smells like love and christmas here.

cloves
cinnamon
bayberry
chocolate
gingerbread

clementines
fantasy fudge
sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting
eggnog lattes

Coffee frappe, what's snow cream? If it's made with real snow, I'm assuming I'm oblivious due to my California upbringing!

We called it snow ice cream, and yes, it's made with fresh snow. Add milk, vanilla, stir and EAT QUICKLY.

Yes, the smell of tangerines - or clementines, as they're now marketed; I think they're slightly different, but not to my nose.

Now, January - January is the taste of grapefruit.

Cinnamon
Cloves
Nutmeg
Tangerines
Peppermint

Peppermint and gingerbread and all sorts of baked goods!

Hillary
Chew on That

Clementines
Spritz cookies made with ground almonds
Candy canes
My dad's orange bread
Maple syrup and fresh snow
Nuts freshly cracked from the shell
Waffles or a Danish pastry on Christmas morning
And, now that I've lived in Italy, roasted chestnuts and pannettone,

Satsumas from a little farm not too far aways from home
chocolate mint brownies
marzipan bars
my neighbor's angel sugar cookies
weird peanut butter cereal stuff
stollen

Pine Trees
Freshly Fallen Snow
Hot Chocolate
Eggnog
Cookies Baking
Peppermint Candy Canes
Popcorn Balls
Stollen
Orange Sour Cream Scones
Incense in Church

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