{"id":1415,"date":"2008-12-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/10\/merging-christmas-food-traditions\/"},"modified":"2023-02-19T05:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:07:29","slug":"merging-christmas-food-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/merging-christmas-food-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging Christmas Food Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>I grew up with very strong food traditions in my home. Christmas meals, especially, were filled with tradition and usually included the same dishes year after year. I loved those meals and the feelings that they evoked. Food has a way of really tying a family together.<\/p>\n

Once I was married though, I learned that other families had their own unique traditions (and non-traditions) that were very different from what I had grown up with. So I vowed to find a way to merge all of our traditions together into new and unique experiences that were ours.<\/p>\n

Christmas eve at my house was a very traditional Polish meal \u2013 mushroom soup, fish, and pierogi<\/span> were the focal points. Christmas morning was probably my favorite \u2013 puffed pancake with strawberry sauce, Christmas tree coffee cake, and mini-blinis. And then Christmas dinner was always a fancy meal \u2013 crown rib and ham with lots of sides.<\/p>\n

For my husband, the food traditions were minimal. My father-in-law needs ham, baked beans and coleslaw in order for it to feel like Christmas. The food was simple, but the memories they evoke are still just as strong.<\/p>\n

We rotate who we spend Christmas with each year. When we go to my parent\u2019s house for a few days, we obviously eat the way I was accustomed to. But when we stay home, my goal is always to merge our traditions. Usually Christmas eve is spent with my in-laws. I bring along some homemade pierogi<\/span> to go with the baked beans, coleslaw and ham. It works perfectly. On Christmas morning, I add some elements from my mom\u2019s breakfast and some of our favorites as well. Because we spend Christmas day alone, the meal is pretty simple, but I try to make one or two of my mom\u2019s dishes along with some new ones that are unique for our family.<\/p>\n

Merging old traditions\u2026creating new ones\u2026enjoying wonderful food with my family\u2026it all works for me!<\/p>\n

Stop by Shannon\u2019s blog<\/a> for more WFMW<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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I grew up with very strong food traditions in my home. Christmas meals, especially, were filled with tradition and usually included the same dishes year after year. I loved those meals and the feelings that they evoked. Food has a way of really tying a family together. Once I was married though, I learned that … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolenmomentscooking.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}