I just now figured out who the winner of the advent calendar is . . . and I had loads of fun reading through everyone's favorite holiday foods. To be honest, I'm wishing I'd told everyone to include the recipes - so many of the things you all listed were incredibly intriguing! I'd love to hear more about the rice pudding - and the peppermint snap cookies - and the wassail - and the yorkshire pudding - and the intensely complicated irish cream fudge - and the Christmas morning french toast strata with apple cinnamon sauce - and all the awesomely ethnic sounding foods that I have no idea what they even are! Pretty much all of it in fact. I wish I had another calendar to offer up as incentive to recipe sharing - but at the moment there wouldn't be time. December 1 is fast approaching and the lucky winner needs to be ready to pop the first door by Thursday!
So without further ado, let me announce the winner! I wish I had a name, but the winning entry came in with the author as "Unknown". Her favorite holiday food was:
Egg nog with nutmeg sprinkled on top
If that was you, drop me an email at info@amoretti-designs.com and we'll get this in the mail to you immediately! However, since I have no clues as to this person's identity, if I don't hear from you by Sunday night I'll pick another entry so that someone out there can have this calendar by the end of the week!
And in the meantime, if anyone felt like telling me how they make wassail . . . or anything else for that matter . . . I'd love it!
PS - shout out to Katie from Oxford . . . the one who sat behind us at Ebbes! Drop me an email! I'm dying to know which Katie you are! Plus, I'm totally feeling for you as you're about to celebrate the holidays in a foreign country where you can't get the right ingredients for anything and it doesn't feel Christmasy because all the familiar sights and smells are absent and you're dying for a taste of home. I actually cried when some American neighbors brought a cookie tray to our door in Oxford. It was a selection of all the cookies that everyone here gives each other at Christmas on paper plates with colored cellophane on top. Possibly with a stick-on bow if they want to get really fancy. I don't even like those cookies all that much. I never make them and I never eat them . . . but it was so lovely to see them in Oxford that I seriously cried. Over candy cane shaped sugar cookies. For real. I'm wishing I could send you some little bit of English Christmas but the only thing I have is some jars of mincemeat that I brought home from Oxford and put in the cupboard and will seriously never use. On the other hand, it's probably much more authentic than the fakey American stuff . . . this has honest to goodness suet in it, which, as someone so shrewdly pointed out in the comments, you can't buy here. Americans seem to have conscientious objections to suet. If that's what you're missing this December, just let me know and I can hook you up. Black market mincemeat . . . just sitting here lonely and unappreciated in my cupboard.
And in the meantime, if anyone felt like telling me how they make wassail . . . or anything else for that matter . . . I'd love it!
PS - shout out to Katie from Oxford . . . the one who sat behind us at Ebbes! Drop me an email! I'm dying to know which Katie you are! Plus, I'm totally feeling for you as you're about to celebrate the holidays in a foreign country where you can't get the right ingredients for anything and it doesn't feel Christmasy because all the familiar sights and smells are absent and you're dying for a taste of home. I actually cried when some American neighbors brought a cookie tray to our door in Oxford. It was a selection of all the cookies that everyone here gives each other at Christmas on paper plates with colored cellophane on top. Possibly with a stick-on bow if they want to get really fancy. I don't even like those cookies all that much. I never make them and I never eat them . . . but it was so lovely to see them in Oxford that I seriously cried. Over candy cane shaped sugar cookies. For real. I'm wishing I could send you some little bit of English Christmas but the only thing I have is some jars of mincemeat that I brought home from Oxford and put in the cupboard and will seriously never use. On the other hand, it's probably much more authentic than the fakey American stuff . . . this has honest to goodness suet in it, which, as someone so shrewdly pointed out in the comments, you can't buy here. Americans seem to have conscientious objections to suet. If that's what you're missing this December, just let me know and I can hook you up. Black market mincemeat . . . just sitting here lonely and unappreciated in my cupboard.
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I just read the exciting news and sent you an email!!! I am the person who entered eggnog with nutmeg sprinkled on top:). My name is Jennifer Kruse. Thank you do much!!!!
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