Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!
December 24, 2013 by SusieOf course, it’s only Christmas for some of us. And it’s not even the cooking-est holiday – that would be Thanksgiving. Yet publishers barely lift a finger for Thanksgiving, and Hannukah and Kwanzaa and Ramadan hardly get a second glance. Christmas, at least in the English-speaking world, gets a special place on the cookbook shelf.
Many cookbooks focus on Christmas cookies at this time of year, as if there weren’t a causal connection between the butter of December and the resolutions of January. But cookies are fun, they’re quick, and they’re kid-friendly to eat and (mostly) make, so it’s no surprise that this category continues to tick along steadily every year.
Do a search of “The Perfect Christmas” here on EYB, and you’ll get the sense that this holiday is impossible to resist for the Type A homemaker. I’ve never quite understood this kind of Christmas. For me, Christmas has always been for the kids, not the house, and as long as there’s a tree, Santa comes, and the power and water stay on, it’s all good.
Well – to be honest – there is one more thing I like to have around the house at Christmas. I like to splurge a little on the protein. Used to be I’d get a once-a-year goose, but nowadays the price of goose (which is, by the way, a very bad deal per-pound anyway) has gone into orbit. So it’s a pair of ducks – a treat right there, and I know just where to find a recipe.
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