What is your biggest holiday post pet peeve?

[mellifera]

Why on earth not? Too busy eating roast goose? :001_huh::lol:

 

:P

Rosie

 

It's too expensive to eat the rest of the year. Roast goose is overrated.;)

[Kari C in SC]

Mine is probably the ones that tell you that it is not celebrating the meaning of Christmas if you get your kids lots of gifts. Like others here, I am frugal all year. My kids don't get toys just to get toys. At Christmas, I like for their faces to light up amazingly! I don't have a problem with others choosing 3 gifts, but I would like for them not to tell me that I am missing the reason for the season. My family gets it, celebrates it and enjoys it. We also give our kids a ton of little trinkets (and a few bigger) to unwrap.

[Audrey]

:lol::lol: I'm goint to put a BTDT tag on threads that complain about holiday thread fights!

 

You go girl! :D

[nukeswife]

 

Greeting threads (i.e. is "Merry Christmas" is is appropriate)

 

I almost forgot how much I dislike those ones. Where someone complains that saying "Happy Holidays" is offensive to them, but don't care if they offend someone else by saying "Merry Christmas" to them, or think the other person is crazy for finding "Merry Christmas" offensive in the first place

[Emmy]

Hey, and this is not a rant, but vaguely on topic so I might as well say it. I was so shocked about all the people who eat take away or lasagne for Christmas dinner! To me, that's so strange! Most of the year is so mundane, it seems very odd to mark Occasions with the same food you eat the rest of the year, or even less elaborate than usual!

 

GASP!!!!!!!!!! There is *nothing* mundane about MY lasagna..... :tongue_smilie: It is amazing. Truly. :D

[Crissy]

GASP!!!!!!!!!! There is *nothing* mundane about MY lasagna..... :tongue_smilie: It is amazing. Truly. :D

 

Would you mind sharing your lasagna secrets? Because MY lasagna IS mundane.

[mellifera]

Dh makes the lasagna around here, but some things:

 

Use quality ingredients - the best you can find and afford.

 

Make your own sauce - preferably the day before.

 

Don't mix the sausage in with the sauce until you are assembling the lasagna.

[Emmy]

Would you mind sharing your lasagna secrets? Because MY lasagna IS mundane.

 

It's kind of an in-my-head thing (my mom keeps asking me to write it out next time I make it) but the principles of it are:

 

- whole milk ricotta with egg and chopped fresh herbs (no cottage cheese!)

- a cheese blend of mozarella, feta and fresh grated parmesan

- lasagna noodles must not be overcooked

- generous amount of real italian sausage (no ground beef)

- a really good sauce

 

Basically the best-best-best ingredients.

[phathui5]

I've honestly never seen any threads that are "My holiday is better than your holiday."

[jonesloonybin]

The serious pet peeve - "My Holiday is better than Your Holiday":glare:

 

Other pet peeve - "not leaving the recipe"!!

Come on....that is just mean!!!:tongue_smilie: