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Now, to be fair, the healthy Christmas cookies on this list are really healthier or healthy-ish. Because even with good-for-you ingredients like heart-healthy oats and protein-packed peanut butter ...
Sweet pear, salty Cheddar cheese and crunchy nuts make this healthy cheese ball recipe an alluring holiday treat. Serve with an array of crudités and crisp party crackers. View Recipe
Additionally, at the time, it was a Catholic practice to abstain from meat in the lead-up to holy days, including Christmas Eve. In southern Italy, that meant an elaborate fish dinner, as National ...
The Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italian: Festa dei sette pesci) is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. [1] [2] Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day, and the abundance of seafood reflects the observance of abstinence from meat until the feast of Christmas Day itself.
Torrone di mandorle (usually eaten around Christmas): blocks of chopped almonds in a brittle mass of honey and sugar. Torrone di Bagnara Calabra is a well-known torrone given the designation IGP. The recipe, which dates from at least 1700, includes orange blossom honey (from Calabria ), almonds (from Sicily), egg whites, sugar, cocoa, and ...
In Italy, the Christmas Eve meal is usually called cenone (lit. 'big dinner'). [24] The culinary tradition is polarized between Northern and Southern Italy. [25] According to tradition, the Christmas Eve dinner must not contain meat. A popular Christmas Day dish in Naples and in Southern Italy is female eel or capitone.
Mistletoe Martini. Say 'cheers' to the holiday season with this festive martini made with vodka, cranberry juice, and elderflower liqueur. There's also fresh mint for a pop of flavor and color.
[7] [8] An old Silesian custom is still followed today: the morning after the Christmas carp meal, the leftover fish bones are placed on the fruit trees in the garden to encourage them to flourish in the spring. [9] This custom is also followed after eating the New Year's Eve carp.