Comments on: Top 10 International Christmas Dinners

By: easy dinner solutions

easy dinner solutions — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:58:57 +0000

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By: Ronlyn

Ronlyn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:02:41 +0000

I am from Fiji – for Christmas, we usually have lovo – which refers to the traditional Fijian style of cooking in an earth oven of sorts. The earth oven is easy to do, you dig a hole in the ground, line it with special stones (that won’t crack in the heat), put some wood in there and light a fire. Once the wood has burned down, and the stones are hot, we put the food in there. We put the carbs in there first. We put taro (we call it dalo in Fiji) and cassava (tavioka in Fiji) in first then the other stuff. Next goes the chickens, which we marinate with garlic and ginger and some soy sauce. The chickens can be wrapped in aluminium foil or plaited into coconut leaves. We also make “palusami” which is dalo leaves wrapped around a filling of meat (you can make it plain as well) and a helping of coconut cream and then wrapped up. We also can chuck fish and lamb in there as well. Once all the food is inside, we put coconut leaves and banana leaves on top, then put the soil on top (to prevent heat escaping) and leave it for about two hours. Two hours later, you can take the food out and its delicious! For dessert, we usually make custard pies or cakes or have pineapples and watermelons (which are in season this time of the year) or the traditional Fijian dessert of plantains cooked in coconut cream and sugar.

By: Maeve Wirsow

Maeve Wirsow — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:03:46 +0000

you forgot the gammon.

By: Anne Onemus

Anne Onemus — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:55:37 +0000

No, no no. Sorry to say, but you got the Dutch Christmas dinner all wrong. Traditionally, on Christmas eve, the Dutch family don their finest clogs (wooden shoes), then we go down to the gracht (town c*****) and sit under a windmill around a large wheel of cheese decorated with tulips, then we pull out long-stemmed clay pipes and smoke hashish.

By: Patrick Smythe

Patrick Smythe — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 08:09:24 +0000

The pavlova was created in Australia!!!

By: Remi

Remi — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:46:32 +0000

In French Canada, the same fare is served as in English Canada, with perhaps the addition of “tourtière”, a ground pork meat pie…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 02:30:08 +0000

You haven’t experienced Christmas in the Philippines yet!

By: Christel

Christel — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:15:52 +0000

This list is so ethnocentric, why is America's Christmas feast celebrated as the best?

By: Magnumto

Magnumto — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:35:00 +0000

Here in South Texas, my family has always called it dressing, and it's never come from a box. It's made with cornbread, toast (white bread), onions, celery, pecans, apples, juice from the turkey, poultry seasoning (spice), and one other spice that I can't remember right now. Besides the turkey and dressing, we have mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, asparagus, green bean casserole, "pink fluff" (whipped cream, cherries, pineapple, pecans), and pumpkin and apple pie. Egg nogs with plenty of Jack Daniels in the morning (in lieu of cinnamon buns, I guess!).

By: Lemon

Lemon — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:34:21 +0000

Gløgg looks really nice…
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