Christmas food

wish you a Merry Christmas, and a happy New Year!” The special time of the year is slowly approaching. What a better way to celebrate “the best time of the year” than by attending the annual Hopeful Christmas Party. The Hopeful Christmas Party is an organization which assists the needy people within the community by giving them an opportunity to eat food and giving them gifts. It is an all-day event that has intriguing activities, delicious food, and more. The Hopeful Christmas Party will be…

For as long as I can remember a tradition in the Janowitz household was making Christmas cookies. My mom and I made cookies as basic as sugar cookies to double chocolate chip peanut butter. The house would smell like chocolate for days and it would take weeks to remove all of the sugar from the counter and floors. However, it was all worth it. The childhood fantasies within me were content and I even became creative with the cookies. Sadly the fantasies and excitement eventually faded and the…

Christmas is not only a day of sharing presents and celebrating with family and friends, but also a week of joy. The exciting days leading up to christmas to the aftereffects of happiness that result from the carols of Christmas prove that December 25th is a very special holiday. Christmas to me means spending and sharing time and the moments with each other and it also celebrates the birth of Jesus. The gifts and the food are amazing, but the main point of Christmas is to celebrate the nativity…

Christmas is known for many things – feasts, gifts and presents, Santa Claus, decorating the Christmas tree with tinsel and ornate ornaments, but where did all of these traditions come from? America isn’t the only country that has trees or feasts in the winter months, so where did all of this Christmas fun originate, if not from here, and how did it get here to be celebrated in the first place? Well, to find out, you can start with the gifts that you get on Christmas day, and the cards that you…

Every year on Christmas Eve the whole family woke up at 9 in the morning. We would all get ready for a family Christmas in DeWitt, Iowa at my aunt’s and uncle’s. Christmas was the only time the whole family got together. My family never had any family reunions or family Thanksgivings. So going to Christmas in Dewitt would let me see all my family members that rarely came by. The day started out with my mother in the kitchen. Every year my mother made the best vegetable pizza that she took…

things like went shopping, celebrated Christmas, and celebrated New Years. To begin with, I went shopping for different things during this Winter Break.My dad gave me 200 dollars , so I went to the mall and saw some shoes I wanted.But, we had to go to get the shoes at a different mall because they didn’t have my size.I also got a 50 dollar Dick’s gift card from my aunt.With that gift card I bought a new thing for my basketball hoop. Next, I celebrated Christmas with a lot of my family.I saw some…

It 's a Hispanic tradition to have two Christmases. However, my parents ' Christmas was totally different compared to mine. Usually, what they asked Santa what they wanted (which was an Uncle on both sides who often dressed up as Santa), but usually they were gifted an item they needed. For example, my father would ask for legos…

over the course of 10 years amounts to 20 pounds of weight that will be difficult to come off. Holiday weight gain can be tricky. That’s because you’re likely not noticing that it’s happening. You’re being invited to a ton of parties full of fun and food. You’re having the time of your life. You’re overindulging, because of course you’re happy. Then the next thing you know, your pants are getting just a bit tighter. Your face seems fuller. One day you decide to step on the scale, and your…

to my family, and I? Christmas will be the most special holiday we celebrate as family. When we come together for this holiday, it is full of laughter, love, and talking; although we all are around each other very often, this holiday brings out the best of us. Christmas is the holiday where we all are very thankful, and appreciative of the things we receive. Family is everything, and spending Christmas with them is beyond amazing. The purpose for coming together for Christmas is much more than…

really fascinated by what kind of foods they ate on the day of the Chinese New Year. So, within this paragraph are some of the most popular dishes that you would find if you ever happen to go to a Chinese New Year. Also, you will come to find a short explanation of what goes on in the pages of Fish Cheeks. There are four types of various dishes that are most commonly found on the table during the Chinese New Year. These dishes include various types of fish,…