{"id":8317,"date":"2019-11-25T08:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=8317"},"modified":"2019-10-04T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T17:14:22","slug":"holiday-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/holiday-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:65% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"288\" data-attachment-id=\"8297\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/thanksgivingdishes02\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"988,474\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;LeEtta&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1555512379&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thanksgivingdishes02\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-400x192.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-600x288.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-600x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-600x288.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-150x72.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-400x192.jpg 400w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-768x368.jpg 768w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02-144x69.jpg 144w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Thanksgivingdishes02.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Food is one of the primary ways that I celebrate the holidays and changing of the seasons.  However, I cannot claim to be a truly seasonal eater.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I do find that having a dish that you make only once a year, or even once a month encourages me to forget.  At which point I end up in a routine of making the same thing over and over.  To help me get over this, I <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/holiday-cooking\/\">put together a holiday recipe zine<\/a> a couple of years ago.  It didn&#8217;t completely capture my repertoire at the time, and I have added dishes since, so this would be a good time to add to it, yeah?  Perhaps I could expand it with my recipe series and my <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/comics\/drawingboard\/cuminpumpkin\/\">comic about cumin pumpkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quintessential foods that whisper &#8216;holidays&#8217; to me are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cumin roasted pumpkin which is such a devil to make,<a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/comics\/drawingboard\/cuminpumpkin\/\"> I drew a comic.<\/a><\/li><li>Kapusta, a warming cabbage stew that was always on the table at the Wilsey&#8217;s Christmas eve party, where my Dad took us every year.<\/li><li>Ginger bread, cake, cookies, whatever<\/li><li>Fruit cake<\/li><li>Stuffing because I never make it any other year<\/li><li>Green bean casserole, the canned way, but not with mushroom soup because that&#8217;s verboten in my house<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your quintessential holiday foods?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food is one of the primary ways that I celebrate the holidays and changing of the seasons. However, I cannot claim to be a truly seasonal eater. I do find that having a dish that you make only once a year, or even once a month encourages me to forget. At which point I end&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2019\/11\/25\/holiday-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holiday food<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[257,88,48,281],"class_list":["post-8317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-christmas","tag-food","tag-holiday","tag-thanksgiviing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7537,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/11\/24\/food-for-thought-cause-your-bellys-full\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":0},"title":"Food for thought, &#8217;cause your belly&#8217;s full","author":"leems","date":"November 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"When Thanksgiving was Weird on NPR calls out how, at the turn of the last century, Thanksgiving celebrations were incredibly different than they are today.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"scrambleforpennies-thanksgivingmaskers-locbaincollection","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ScrambleforPennies-ThanksgivingMaskers-LOCBainCollection-600x437.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ScrambleforPennies-ThanksgivingMaskers-LOCBainCollection-600x437.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ScrambleforPennies-ThanksgivingMaskers-LOCBainCollection-600x437.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9388,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/holidays-in-the-movies-valentines\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":1},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  Valentines","author":"leems","date":"February 9, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Keeping track of the year by celebrating holidays and the passing of time with curated movies, music, and seasonal food is taking deep root in the Schmidt house. We may have never celebrated Valentines in the traditional ways - and are more inclined to hide inside then venture out to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Valentine-kitten.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Valentine-kitten.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Valentine-kitten.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Valentine-kitten.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9651,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/07\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-christmas-in-july\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":2},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  Christmas in July","author":"leems","date":"July 20, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"We don't celebrate Christmas in July because we have an all encompassing love of Christmas and we just have to have it more than once a year. Our mini holiday is more because we need a little imagined cooler weather; would never turn down the opportunity for another present and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FloridaSanta.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FloridaSanta.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FloridaSanta.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9048,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/07\/25\/happy-christmas-in-july\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":3},"title":"Happy Christmas in July!","author":"leems","date":"July 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"According to Wikipedia, Christmas in July can trace its roots back to 1892 in the release of a translation of the French opera, Werther. A later journal article for the National Recreation Association makes it clear that a type of Christmas in July celebration was a girl's summer camp activity\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/11222208036_7aeb50ac4c_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/11222208036_7aeb50ac4c_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/11222208036_7aeb50ac4c_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/11222208036_7aeb50ac4c_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7812,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2017\/12\/15\/holiday-cooking\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":4},"title":"Holiday cooking","author":"leems","date":"December 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4876,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/12\/25\/holiday-greetings-the-leems-bean\/","url_meta":{"origin":8317,"position":5},"title":"Holiday Greetings | The LeEMS Bean","author":"leems","date":"December 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Holiday Greetings | The LeEMS Bean.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8737,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8317\/revisions\/8737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}