Day 14 - Charlie Novak
Hello Holiday Lovers!
I'm so excited to be here as part of RJ's epic advent event. Christmas is one of my favourite holidays, especially because the food is amazing, I can cover everything in glitter and for all the super cute holiday reads! This year, I've joined them by releasing my very first Christmas novel – Spiced Kisses.
It's part of the Kiss Me series, which is all set around The Pear Tree – a pub/restaurant in the English countryside and full of a few colourful characters – and you can find out all about them at https://charlienovak.com/kiss-me/
Happy Holidays!
Love Charlie xx
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Competition
For your chance to win a direct-to-kindle ebook bundle of Strawberry Kisses, Summer Kisses and Spiced Kisses, simply comment below and let me know your favourite holiday food or drink!
The competition will close on the 20th December, and the winner will be chosen at random. You must be able to provide a direct to Kindle email address.
Russian tea cakes and eggnog.
My favorite is the banana pudding
Apple crumble
ice cold slabs of ham on-the-bone with mustard
I really like my grandmother’s cranberry salad with apples and nuts, in a jell-o base.
My favourite holiday food is Mocha Cakes, which are little cubes of pound cake dipped in icing and then in finely chopped peanuts. I used to watch my Nana make them when she’d visit our house and she’d cut off the top of the cake that would fall off anyway and let us eat that cake. Then of course we got to eat them all through Christmas. It’s not really the holiday without them. Ironically, back in the day, she bought pound cake from the grocery store and now, I have to bake the pound cake as stores only sell fruit cake.
Sweet potato pie
Tamales on Christmas Eve!
apple cider – chilled or hot with caramel.
Eggnog and date nut pinwheel cookies.
turkey
Green bean cassorole and corn cassorole
Egg nog and date nut pinwheel cookies.
My favourite (could be considered an addiction) is pumpkin snickerdoodles. I am not a big sweets fan but with these I could eat a dozen by myself!
Green bean casserole and fudge!
Christmas cookies!!!
Eggnog and date nut pinwheel cookies.
Favourite holiday food are homemade gingerbread biscuits… But that may be because I’m on a diet this year, and know I won’t be indulging… Much 😉
Lebkuchen and Stollen
Egg Nog and pumpkin pie
egg nog
My grandmother’s Christmas cookies, made with a secret ingredient, 1 teaspoon of brandy
Love a bit of christmas cake and mulled wine, never say no to a mince pie and always save a lovely bottle of bubbles for Christmas Day
Cappuccino and panettone ⭐⭐
My mom’s homemade soft caramels.
Eggnog and shortbread. Yum.
Mince pies and an Irish coffee with lots of cream.
Any of the array of Christmas cookies we make each year…cant pick just one…and salted caramel hot chocolate.
Egg nog
Gingerbread cookies!!!
Mincemeat pies. It’s not the holidays without them
Gingerbread cookies and mulled wine.
My favourite food that I always only eat at Christmas is egg roll Pizza and I always have lemon pie.
I love sweets, and carbs, lol, so it’s always the desserts for me. I love Snickerdoodles and pumpkin pie!! Oh and for a drink, extra rich hot chocolate!! yum!! Thanks for the chance!!
Apple cider for the drink and for the food no bake cookies.
Lefse – a Norwegian potato flatbread that we eat rolled up with butter and brown sugar.
Egg nog and molasses cookies.
Chocolate fudge with cinnamon pieces
Roscón de Reyes and hot cocoa (if it has a splash of baileys even better 😂)
Ginger and cinnamon biscuits.
Homemade Turtles. I have an allergy to peanuts so I cannot ever take a chance with the nut portion of the chocolate caramel goodness.
Eggnog and these Archway cookies that I never remember the name of because they are only available around the holidays. They are little round shortbread like cookies with pecans rolled on powdered sugar.
Eggnog
Rum balls (sooo good!)
Pumpkin pie and my daughter’s Christmas morning punch
yule log is a must have every year!
spiked eggnog
Dark hot chocolate with lots of whipped cream on top and thumb print cookies
Krinkle cookies and spiced tea
Hot chocolate or hot cider for sure.
Our family’s recipe for old fashioned cookies with icing
So many it’s hard to choose. Pecan pie, I think.
Homemade fudge
Cranberry Pie.
Caribbean Rum Fruit Cake which I make once a year.
I love eggnog, sparkling Apple Cider and Hot Chocolate
mini mincemeat pies and shortbread cookies – to me these are Christmas.
My mom’s cinnamon bun wreath, she only made it for Christmas morning!
Peanut Butter Blossoms. Pre Covid-19, the only time each year I had them was Christmas Eve at my sister’s house.
Homemade fudge and cookies
Christmas because I get to give so many people gifts.
Eggnog
Well as an Italian,, Christmas smells and tastes like a Panettone to me.
Hot turkey sandwich smothered in gravy with dressing and mashed potatoes on the side, beverage is hot apple cider and for dessert, crisp molasses cookies. Yum.
I like drinking egg nog. I like eating spiral cut ham.
Eggnog
Sugar cookies, Terry’s chocolate oranges, butter tarts, Turtles
A warm Mince Pie with fresh double cream and a homemade glass of Mulled Wine
Cookies!!!!!!
I always make a green and white spinach lasagna for Xmas day
My favorite Christmas holiday drink is egg nog. My favorite Christmas dinner dish is sliced ham with potato salad.
Without a doubt, my favorite food at Christmas is mince meat pie, but the way my mother would make it. Her father and I were the sole fans as we sat around the formal dining table, with my father and 3 siblings going for the apple pie. But Gramps and I got large servings of the warm pie, oozing dark sauce full of super sweet minced fruit.
Probably the pumpkin bread my sister-in-law makes
Egg nog with Irish cream
egg nog!
My favorite Christmas cookie is anise cookies. Benefit – only one of my five brothers liked them so less competition. My favorite Christmas cake is, for some reason called, Composition Cake. It’s kind of a lighter pound cake. What makes it special is the nutmeg and sour cream ingredients, I think.
My mom’s chocolate hazelnut truffles!
I love cranberry sauce and only make it for the holidays!
Mulled wine and mince pies.
Fruit mince pies!
Spanish Roscón de Reyes (ring-shaped cake) mmmm.
Hot chocolate
Chocolate Fudge or Divinity with Pecans
Cocoa with peppermint
My grandmother’s butter cookies with a large white chocolate hot chocolate.
White Chocolate Hot Chocolate and Pecan pie
Peppermint white hot chocolate
Peppermint gingerbread latte
I make a home made slow cooker hot cocoa and it is soooooo good.
Got to be mulled wine!
I adore Stollen, it’s only at Christmas I see it in the stores and I love it. Happy Christmas!
Christmas morning quiche…. Mom made it the night before when we were little. As we got older, we would get to join in and help.
Fudge
Mincemeat Brownies – I don’t like Mince Pies but the combination of chocolate brownie and mincemeat is a winner in my book.
I love making my home made cheesecake and sharing it with family during Christmas
Pigs in Blankets.
Home made Christmas pudding with brandy custard sauce and thick cream. Yum!
Tamales and anise cookies- not at the same time
Pork roast on dollar rolls & cheesy hashbrown casserole
I love the cookies and cream cookies my twin makes every year.
I”m a big fan of boozy hot chocolate, but I made my own eggnog for the first time last year and that was amazing.
Slippery nipple on the rocks! Equal parts of butter shots and Bailey’s Irish Cream over ice!
I love homemade fudge!
Shortbread cookies!
Peppermint mocha coffee drinks
Gingerbread cookis and glögg (i think it maybe is like your mulled wine)
Pavlova. It’s Meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh seasonal fruits.
Pumpkin pie
Mulled wine