Get to know your Foodistas better
Happy holidays, everyone! Since it's the holidays, we asked the Foodistas to answer the following questions:
What's your favorite Christmastime food? Why? Is there any specific way you like to eat it?
Tell us about a fond Christmas memory.
What's your ideal Christmas gift?
BongChristmas Food and Fond Christmas Memory
Every Christmas since the day that I had consciousness, my lola and the whole household would always cook food for the whole family. Sometimes, I also join in and help. Oftentimes, my aunts and uncles would also bring in food and desserts at my lola's place and we would enjoy the food and each others' company.
There's the usual BBQ, Inihaws, Pasta, Beef Casserole, Lumpia, and a lot more lutong bahay everyone would really enjoy and savor. It was always like this, up until now!
Since then, me and my cousins would always hang out, exchange stories and chismis(es), until now. The only difference, I would say today, is that we do it over some booze and cards. What better way to spend Christmas than with them, right? I love my cousins and my family and I always, always am excited for Christmas :)
Ideal Christmas Gift
I can say a ton of different gadgets and gifts that I would want to receive (Like DSLR, Cook Books, Trips here and there... I wish, right?), but I guess a simple dinner with my friends and or family at a new restaurant with great food and wine, will do :)
Hannah Christmas Food
I would have to say that I have inherited my father's penchant for Cebu lechon (must have crispy skin!), and the lechon derivative that follows, Lechong Paksiw, which i enjoy on the mostly sour side. Although this year as a gift to the world and to myself, I will be foregoing meat and having a meat free Christmas.
Fond Christmas Memory
My fondest Christmas memory would have to be spending Christmas with my family at a beach resort in Sogod, Cebu, where we feasted on lechon every night and cracked open sea urchins that we collected ourselves.
Ideal Christmas Gift
Most people would tend to side with the more immaterial gifts for this one, but I stand firm in my belief. My ideal Christmas gift would the perfect neck pillow.
HarrellChristmas Food
Sapin-sapin! Sticky, sweet, and yummy! The perfect way to end any Christmas feast! I cut a large portion from the bilao, I then add latik on top until it's COMPLETELY covered (it has to be overflowing), I eat it part by part (the whole thing can't fit inside my mouth), then I scoop up the latik that fell back on the plate so it won't go to waste.
Fond Christmas Memory
When my ninang gave me my first Power Ranger toy, the Megazord! It started my chain of buying Power Ranger toys. I even went to Hong Kong just to buy some of the figures (Thunder Assualt Team, Red Dragon).
Ideal Christmas Gift
T-shirts! You can't have enough. :)
JoeyChristmas Food
I have three :) One is my mother's molo (Filipino wonton) soup, because we live in a relatively cool area and hot, heartwarming, familiar soup is the perfect thing to tuck into on a cold December night. The next is my dad's turkey, which is always, always one of the things my family and I look forward to during the holidays :) I love my dad's cooking and this once-a-year treat is absolutely one of my favourites. It's absolutely perfect with a generous serving of gravy (which my dad always makes sure to make a lot of because he knows I consume gravy like I would soup). Finally -- this is actually something I enjoy year-round -- I love(!) apple pie/apple crumble/apple whatever! If generous in cinnamon, with still slightly crisp-textured apples and a not-too-sweet, not-too-tart taste, I'd consume this in great quantities, if left unchecked.
Fond Christmas Memory
Too many! Haha :P I love the holidays! Last year's was particularly special ♥ and one of my favourite things to do on Christmas eve is to put a little santa hat on our shih tzu, the baby of our family, and take an excessive amount of photos of our too cute doggie ♥
Ideal Christmas Gift
I never know what material thing I want for Christmas :) I usually never want anything in particular, haha, which makes it such a pain for people to find me a perfect gift. But, if pressed to give an answer, an ideal Christmas gift for me is, honestly, just to be able to spend my holidays with those I love the most in the place I love the most, doing the things and eating the food we love the most :)
MarkChristmas Food
I'd probably have to go with lechon. Sure, it's not Christmas food per se, but it's the closest thing we have to a Christmas constant. And sure I might regret it a few years down the road, but during the holidays you gotta forget about diets or whatnot, you gotta live life!
Fond Christmas Memory
Every year when I was a kid, waiting at my grandparents house for the clock to strike twelve so we could finally open all the presents under the Christmas tree. It was along and antagonizing wait, but it was absolutely magical once the presents were opened.
Ideal Christmas Gift
Stuff from Gourdo's! Or weird cool gadget things :)) Whenever I go into Gourdo's or gadget shops I just feel like a kid in a toy store again because there's just so many cool, uncommon things to see.
PatsChristmas Food
Bibingka because I just love it. I eat bibingka with puto bumbong because I think the sweetness of puto bumbong goes with the salted egg in the bibingka.
Fond Christmas Memory
Every Christmas is a fond memory.
Ideal Christmas Gift
Ideal Christmas gift? Anything. Haha.
TiffyChristmas Food
I love puto bumbong! I love the butter and the coconut and the sugar. I like 'em sweet! I love it. I love lengua -- my aunt serves it whenever we have family get together dinner during the holidays!
Fond Christmas Memory
I love going to my aunt's house for our Christmas eve dinner. I LOVE eating during Christmas. It's an excuse to get an extra helping. Plus, I've got absolutely ADORABLE nephews and nieces -- that counts for something.
Ideal Christmas Gift
A bottle of tequila or a new jacket -- yes?
So what about you? :) What be your answers to these questions? Give us a link to your blog for your answers or your Christmas experience and we'll link you up!
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