December 1st...it's time for the annual Tauer Perfumes Advent calendar! Yes, Tauer is holding 24 days of giveaways for Advent again this year. Why? Because...
It is this time of the year again: Advent, with its warmth and scents bringing back memories from our childhood. It is the time of the year where we prepare for the holidays...
Now Smell This is pleased to host the prize draw for December 1st. Today's winner gets a Tauer Explorer Set, with three 15 ml travel sprays (the winner picks the fragrances).
For a chance to win the December 1st prize, leave a quick comment below telling us your favorite holiday (this holiday, or any holiday) food. If the recipe is short and you are so inclined, feel free to include that too. The very simple rules:
- Be sure to use the “Post a comment” box; do not reply to another comment! All replies to comments will be deleted.
- Almost anybody, almost anywhere,* can enter, so long as I have permission to use the email address in your reader account to contact you. If the email address in your reader account is incorrect, you might want to fix it.
- If you are the winner and you fail to send me your mailing details within a couple weeks, we'll have to pick another winner.
We'll be accepting comments through tomorrow morning (2 December, around 11-am-ish Eastern US time), at which point a winner will be chosen at random. I will announce the winner later in the day. Good luck everyone!
And don't forget, there will be other prizes every single day for the rest of Advent; just check the Advent calendar page every day to find out how and where to enter!
*Tauer Perfumes is no longer able to mail to Italy, Spain, Croatia, Russia or Greece, sorry! (But yes, you are still welcome to enter so long as you can provide a mailing address elsewhere.) And wherever you live, local taxes, VAT, and import fee may apply and are not covered by Tauer. The winner is responsible for making sure that they are allowed to import the prize.
Woho! This is one of the best things with advent! I keep living in hope that some day I will be the lucky winner in a draw here :).
And ofc you have permission to use my e-mail address.
Happy advent everybody!
I know you can get them year-round now but Marshmallow Peeps are the Easter-iest thing I know of, I only ever buy them at Easter, and they are perversely my favourite holiday food. (Although I like Christmas fruitcake, too. And candy corn at Hallowe’en. It’s as if I only like the things that the Internet seems to hate.)
What an exciting competition! Not sure if it counts as a specific holiday food, but you can’t beat a bit of stilton with crackers at Christmas…mmm….
My favourite food for the holiday, especially Christmas holiday, are some cookies that are filled with walnut cream and topped with chocolate. I don’t think they are exclusive to the winter season, but with some boiled, spiced wine, they are definitely something that gives you energy for going out and play in the snow. I can’t wait for the snow to fall, because that and the smell of warm cookies, is the sign of the ultimate joy this month.
Thanks for the draw! Have a wonderful day!
Candied yams for me!
My favourite holiday food is my family’s Christmas cake, usually made by either by Mum or my sister. It is lovingly fed with brandy over the course of a couple of months and rich with dried fruit and peel and topped with whole almonds.
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Many thanks Robin and Andy!
Another year flown by, another Advent Calendar begins.
Andy’s generosity at this time of year is outstanding.
As for celebratory foods……………….I adore bonfire night parkin, packed with treacle & ginger………yummy!
Favourite Christmas holiday food is a Dutch Christmas specialty, “Kerstkrans”, which is puff pastry filled with a sort of chrunchy marzipan (almondpaste). Happy for my email address to be used.
I love a good apple&cinnamon cake during the winter holidays!
Thank you Andy and Robin for this! Turkey’s my favorite holiday dish, but here in Switzerland 8at least at our place) we have it at Christmas, not at Thanksgiving 🙂 Have a great day! kal
Holiday treats-mincemeat pie and ginger cookies!
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How generous of this perfumer!
Favorite holiday food – my wife’s trifle!
Thanks to Andy for this amazing draw and yes to using my email address!
Since my childhood, we’ve always had fondue on Christmas Eve. I’ve kept this tradition and we’re having this with my family as well every year. It’s just such a pleasant and communicative way to have dinner 🙂
I love braised red cabbage at Christmas, and a mince pie of course.
What a very generous gift to offer, I would love to win. I’ve not had a chance to smell any of the range as not readily available local to me.
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Bacalhau a Bras, a salt-cod dish, which they enjoy over the festive season in Portugal. Delicious!
My favourite dish is duck with plums.
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Thank you for the opportunity!
I love biscochitos, and of course, pecan pie!
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Thanks for the giveaway!
I was really looking forward to this one :).
My favourite holiday food are all the Christmas sweets, but particularly Zimtsterne!
Good luck, everyone!
What a thoughtful holiday giveaway.
My favourite holiday is Canada Day – it is the one day of the year that we seem to be able to be proud of living in this wonderful country.
Delighted to see Andy’s wonderful advent back again. Hmm, favourite food is a tricky one, but I think if I had to choose just one, it would be the bread sauce I make to go with Christmas dinner – the wonderful fragrance of the spices and herbs. And extra special as we only have it at Christmas.
Good luck to all.
Christmas Pudding! As in Great Britain’s small bowling ball of suet, sugar, currants and rum. And then more rum to set it on fire with. Cheers!
My favorite holiday food would have to be pumpkin pie because I never have it at any other time.
Please use my email address. Thanks for hosting the draw and thanks to Andy for this yearly fun.
Wow, I´ve been waiting for this date for the whole year, looking forward to Andy´s gifts and maybe a bit of luck!
Favorite holiday food are the pies my mother bakes, like her apple pie and the one with whiskey, coffee and walnuts.
Thanks Andy for this great advent tradition!
Advent calendar time, woo hoo!
In our hot summer I love to eat cool seafood for Christmas Day. Our tradition is always a casual lunch.
Thank you for the draw, I live in the US and would love to enter. For Holidays I always bake apple pies. Since I love sweets this would probably be my favorite food…and then there’s the wine ; )
Thank you Robin and Andy!
My favorite Christmas food is foie gras and champagne, cheers!
My favorite holiday food is the Christmas stollen that I bake each year. Thanks so much for this draw!
Anything marzipan that I can get my greedy little hands on. Which can be a challenge as it doesn’t seem to be very popular in the US, but the Aldi chain of grocery stores usually has some marzipan chocolates and pastries in around the holidays. Time to stock up! Thanks for the draw and please do use my email.
Potato pancakes! And how generous!
My favourite is Speculaas which isn’t even for Christmas, but it is just wonderful.
Thanks to Robin for hosting, and thanks to Andy for being so generous!
Christmas – it’s always the best! Close second is Advent Andy, the Santa Claus of fragrance x
My favorite holiday recipe is my grandmother’s Pumpkin Chiffon Pie, which I now make.
Happy holidays, everyone! And thanks to Andy for the generous draw.
I love my daughter’s homemade apple pie she makes every Thanksgiving. Such a joyful time of year!
I love Christmas cookies.
Thank you Andy and Robin!
Pecan Pie – the first one for Thanksgiving and then non-stop until the Three Kings Holiday! Also where I’m from we make all sorts of coconut deserts for the Holidays – puddings, custards and even a coconut and rum drink, all Yummy! And I almost forgot the nougat in all it’s varieties! Thank you for the giveaway!
My favorite holiday food is Toblerone shortbread. You may use my email, thank you for the lovely opportunity.
wow! what a great advent calendar. Alright – my favourite holiday food is probably lussebullar (saffron buns), traditionally baked for st. Lucia on the 13th of December but really eaten from November through January. Or maybe that’s just me… I have an extreme soft spot for saffron.
My favorite Christmas treat is a great panettone. Thank you for the giveaway to both Robin and Andy!
My favourite holiday food is beetroot and goat cheese casserole. Just like last year 😉
Well, I would say Beigli, with poppy seeds and with walnuts. Basically rolls with that stuffing. Yummy!
Easter is my fave holiday, w/ Christmas a neck-in-neck second place! Orange pomander is my fave Christmas scent, and anything chocolate is year-round food fave – can I get an Amen?? lol!! Thank you for the contest! 🙂 🙂
My favorite (non-traditional) Thanksgiving treat is pumpkin-filled ravioli…heaven. Thanks for the draw!
i love satsumas! the smell just reminds me of Christmas!
I love pickled sweet-and-sour herrings at Christmas (and Easter 🙂
Thank you for the draw.
My favorite holiday food is peppermint chocolate bark-a number of companies make it. I buy a lot during the Christmas season, freeze it, and ration it out the remainder of the year.
Thanks so much for the draw!
My mom’s choice-chip cookies. And only hers 🙂 Yes, you may use my email.
As I’m in Brazil and it’s Summer here, I love frozen grapes. All you need to do is buy grapes without seeds and freeze them in a plastic bag for 24 hours. You can have them as dessert or put some in a glass of white wine to keep your drink nice and cool.!
I have always enjoyed the tradition of homemade eggnog with a splash of rum. Thanks for the draw.
thank you for this wonderful draw. my favorite holiday food is blue corn tamales with black beans and rice. we order them every november from california and enjoy them in the winter months.
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Favorite holiday food has got to be: Christmas Turkey with HEAPS of Stuffing! (Don’t skimp on the gravy and cranberry sauce either!) 😉
Thank you!!!
Favourite holiday food – roasted parsnips! Actually, any kind of parsnips. But they associate with Christmas for me, because they’re an obligatory part of the dinner. Also mulled wine for New Year’s Eve.
Thanks for the opportunity at this drawing. My favorite holiday food is turkey, specifically, turkey skin. I was notorious as a child for trying to get strips of crispy turkey skin, as soon as the turkey came out of the oven.
My favourite winter desert is a sweet roll from Transylvania called kürtöskalács, a staple at all the Xmas markets in Hungary. Caramelized sugar on the outside, soft dough on the inside, baked over fire, I love it!
Thanks Andy, and thanks Robin for the giveaway…I look forward to these every year! One of my favorite holiday treats is some spiced South Georgia pecans, with a little Honey Vodka straight from the freezer. Lush! Wishing festive joy to you both this season!
Tourtière! Thanks to Robin and Santa Andy and yes to email use…
Thank you Robin and Andy for this 🙂
In Sweden, we eat pretty much the same stuff every holiday (herring, baked ham, lox, meat balls, cabbage) but of christmas, we have this dessert that is my favourite: ris a la Malta. Its basically cold rice porridge stirred with cream and vanilla. And served with home made strawberry jam. Sounds maybe a bit off, but it is delicious.
Happy December! My favorite holiday food is: potato latkes with sour cream and apple sauce.
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Well Andy’s advent calendar is the start of the holiday season for me! My favourite Xmas foods are all the savoury things like Beef Wellington made bitesize! And a fizzy Snowball cocktail Advocaat + lemonade with lots of ice – yummy!
My favorite food for the holidays is the turkey, you only eat that one a year and the way is prepared at home is delicious, most and with lots of flavor. Also like a dessert my wife makes with sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
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Thanks for the giveaway! Christmas is my favorite holiday by far, mostly because of the food. I love Christmas dinner: roasted meat and vegetables, mashed potatoes, and homemade cranberry sauce in a crystal dish. Perfect!
Thank you Andy!
My favorite december food is “pepernoten, speculaas and marzipan” That’s what the Dutch eat around this time of year and especially on the 5th of December, when Sinterklaas will be in Holland!
What a great opportunity – I would love to win this one. My favorite holiday treats are the various Christmas cookies baked by my mother and sisters.
Wonderful giveaway!
My favourite Christmas dish is wild mushroom soup.
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My favorite food thesdays is Fesenjan, It contains walnut, wheat flour and chicken,
Thanks a lot Andy and NST.
I think my favorite holiday food is the fried “filling” (it’s what we call it in PA) that my grandma Mae has always made for thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s so simple but you can totally gorge on it at midnight, cold, with a spoon in the container…ahem. Not that I’ve ever done that, mind you…
Bag of bread cubes (if you can, use Martin’s potato bread bread cubes), 2 cups of diced celery and of diced onion, 1 cup of milk that has one egg beaten into it, 1 stick of butter, salt and pepper. That’s it.
Melt the butter in a very large sauté or frying pan. Add celery and onion, and some salt and pepper. Once the veg is translucent, add the bag of cubes and CAREFULLY start turning them into the buttery veg so all the cubes get coated and start frying. Let them pan fry for about 5-10 min on medium. Add the beaten egg-milk over the entire pan of cubes and QUICKLY stir and coat all the cubes without getting scrambled eggs (it’s kinda like a half assed French toast method here). Let the cubes fry and get drier for another 5-10 minutes. Season again with more s&p and let the cubes get a tiny bit browned and crunchy in some spots. Then just dump in a vessel that you can either store in the fridge or store in the fridge AND reheat in the oven when ready for the meal. I dare you not to become addicted. 😉 happy holidays and THANK YOU to Andy for doing this once again (he is such a sweetheart).
My favorite holiday food is a crab dip appetizer that everyone in my family makes for Thanksgiving and Christmas. You take a block of cream cheese, cover it with canned crab meat, then cocktail sauce over the top. It goes amazingly well with triscuit crackers. Yum!
Easter is my favorite holiday with Xmas as a close second. The scents of orange and cloves, cinnamon and pine trees say Christmas to me.
However, at my daughter’s request we are having fettuccine alfredo for dinner!!!
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It’s hard to choose favorite holiday goods, but one of the things on my list is the maple pecan pie I make for Thanksgiving every year. Maple syrup > corn syrup!!
The Christmas season has begun! Andy is always so wonderful about his advent calendar!
I love all holiday food, but I think decorated sugar cookies are what I look forward to the most.
Here’s the recipe I use ever year and rolling the dough between parchment paper makes the process so easy:
6 cups flour
3 tsp. baking powder
2 cups butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract or desired flavoring
1 tsp. salt
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix well. Mix dry ingredients and add a little at a time to butter mixture. Mix until flour is completely incorporated and the dough comes together.
Chill for 1 to 2 hours (or see Hint below)
Roll to desired thickness and cut into desired shapes. Bake on ungreased baking sheet at 350 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes or until just beginning to turn brown around the edges. This recipe
can make up to 5-dozen 3” cookies.
HINT: Rolling Out Dough Without the Mess — Rather than wait for your cookie dough to chill, take the freshly made dough and place a glob between two sheets of parchment paper.
Roll it out to the desired thickness then place the dough and paper on a cookie sheet and pop it into the refrigerator. Continue rolling out your dough between sheets of paper until you have used it all. Reroll leftover dough and repeat the process.
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I would have to say turkey has got to be my favorite holiday food. And you have permission to use my e-mail.
My aunt used to poach pears in a syrup made from water and red hot candies. Aside from being delicious, they were the most beautiful red color!
Thank you for another great giveaway.
What an amazing offer! As for my favorite holiday food, it’s a draw between my grandma’s tamales and my aunt’s stolen. Both are for Christmas.
my fav holiday treat is ” Amman’s ears” cockies made for Purim
Andy’s advent calendar is wonderful, year after year
Thanks a lot
This time of year my favourite holiday food is lussekatter and not least modern versions like vanilla-filled lussebullar. Lussekatter or lussebullar are saffron buns made for Lucia Day, but this year I’ve been cheating and buying it since almost mid-November. That’s why I want to try saffron perfumes right now (must find a sample of Safran Troublant).
For christmas I love good old-fashioned christmas ham (julskinka) with eggs and bread. Not that interested in most of the other things on the christmas smörgåsbord (aka julbord), but I must have the ham. Same thing at Midsummer’s eve when I love new potatoes, sourcream (gräddfil) and matjessill (pickled herring) with strawberries in cream for dessert. Almost never cheat and eat it before the holiday, but afterwards I enjoy it several times.
Thanks, Robin & Andy! My favorite holiday treat is Christmas cookies. Tara’s recipe looks really yummy.
My wife’s poppy seed roll on Christmas morning. With coffee, please. =:o)
Thanks very much to Herr Tauer and NST for the drawing.
Now that’s an exciting draw!
Gajjar ka Halwa is the holiday, winter, and otherwise comfort food of choice! (It’s sweet, shredded carrots stewed & stirred slowly in whole milk until reddish-brown, with added spices and roasted nuts)
What does it smell like?
Cardamom, Saffron, Pistachios, Honey, Iris, Ethyl Maltol, Amber & Vanilla.
Look it up!
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I also prefer Easter over Christmas. I haven’t had potato pancakes over the Holidays but sure do love them! Yum. There was a deli in town and I would always go there just for the potato pancakes…sadly, the place was sold and the potato pancakes were no more:(. But it was like the best deli, ever.
My fave food would probably be stuffing if I really had to narrow it down.
Pumpkin pie…no matter the time of year!
My favorite holiday treat to make is cranberry sauce. I always make 2 or 3 different kinds – traditional cooked with orange, or a chutney style with dried fruits and fresh cranberries, or this year, one flavored with chipotle chiles. Yum! I live in hope that some day I’ll be chosen for one of Andy’s wonderful prizes…
Rather than a single favorite dish, my favorite thing about holiday eating is the sheer variety of foods at a single meal or party. It is such a treat to load up a plate with 8 or more different delicious things, especially when the guests are each contributing their own specialty dishes!
My favorite holiday is the one that just passed, this time Thanksgiving with family visiting me in stead of me going to them. My favorite food was this wonderful cheese from Wisconsin. But I also love good stuffing! Using my email is fine. Thank you for the draw and advent calender.
My favourite holiday food is chocolate!
My favourite holiday food must be gingerbread, for christmas obviously, but I am happy to eat them all year round. The crunch and the spices – love it!
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Thanks for the draw!
My favorite holiday food is my mom’s Portuguese sweet bread. She makes it for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s been handed down a couple generations and although I’ve not tried my hand at it yet, I will someday. It’s the best bread ever and I love toasting slices of it the next day and putting on some strawberry or fig jam.
My favorite holiday food is a breakfast casserole that we have Christmas morning, it’s a pretty generic recipe that you can find over the Internet. Growing up though I thought it was pretty special because we only had it on Christmas. I also love homemade whole berry cranberry sauce, no one else likes it so all the more for me, it’s excellent warmed and on top of vanilla ice cream! Use my email address, and happy holidays!
Turkey Slop, made with leftover ham and turkey combined with mushroom soup and served with rice. I look forward to this more than Christmas dinner itself 🙂
You just can’t beat a good old roast turkey with sage bread stuffing. No point in messing with a classic, IMO. 🙂
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Yay, Tauer Advent Calendar is back, lets have some perfume fun in the following 24 days.
What is my favorite holiday? I think that would be Midsummer, it’s celebrated around 21-22 of june. This holiday is a Slavic version of Valentine’s day.
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My favourite holiday meal is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, especially the pierogi that we make only once a year. We make ours with potato, cheese, and onion. I love pierogi because they’re delicious, but just as much because our whole family gathers together a few days ahead of time to make them. The assembly line with everyone from little children to seniors is so much fun – although the youngest is not a “little child” anymore – he has learned how to make pierogi so they don’t come apart when they’re boiled!
My favorite holiday food was always stuffing, but alas, I can’t digest bread anymore. Runner-up is an old family recipe for broccoli casserole. I’ll also eat all the toffee you can give me.
Happy holidays!
Yay, it’s that time of the year already! Once again, massive thanks to Andy and everyone who’s helping him do this.
My favourite Christmas food is probably mince pies, although I’m forbidden from buying and eating them until at least mid-December. Despite my annual good intentions, I’ve yet to try making them myself so sadly no recipe to share.
Hey Everyone,
So glad this generous Calendar giveaway is back:)!
My favourite holiday is Christmas, partially because of all that lovely food:)! I love Christmas cooking, and baking too, and probably my favourite holiday dish is the Christmas Eve roast duck breast with chestnut and dried plums cooked in red wine. I don’t stuff the bird, just roast them with spices and serve them with this gorgeous caramelized company:).
Happy Advent to You all:)!
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There are many wonderful holiday foods out there (all holidays), but one if my favorite things is giant shrimp, as an appitizer, with special home made cocktail sauce. So excited that it’s Advent Calendar time!
Stuffing 😀
My favorite holiday food is cappelletti, to be eated on Christmas Day.
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Thanks for the draw!
Oh yay, thanks to Andy for another Advent calendar! For the New Year I make Daniel Brulaud’s fabulous braised short ribs-rich and delicious.
My favorite holiday food is turkey with cornbread and sausage stuffing and a side of creamed spinach for our thanksgiving meal. Homemade Christmas cookies, yum! Thanks for the draw and yes you have my permission to use my email address.
I love Thanksgiving but we are usually out of the country, so I hardly ever get turkey and stuffing and all the trimmings. I make up for it on Christmas though!
Bonsoir, quelle merveilleuse chance!
La recette qui emplit ma maison de bonnes odeurs est celle de la soupe à la courge, de celles qui ont poussé dans mon jardin et qui ornent l’entrée de la maison, avec les épices qui réchauffent l’hiver, cannelle, cardamome, muscade et gingembre pour y survivre, 😉 (à l’hiver) et le croquant des noisettes grillées et de leur huile….. A la lumière des bougies et du feu, simplicité et authenticité!
My favorite Christmas food is a specialty from Quebec, le sucre à la crème (kind of like a fudge, more grainy, made with brown sugar, cream and vanilla and really really sweet)
I love homemade pfeffernuesse (little glazed spice cookies), but the recipe is way too complicated to list here. I also always make cranberry sauce, which is very good and very easy: 1.) Put 1 lb. fresh cranberries (washed), 2 cups sugar, 1/2 cup water and 1/8 tsp. salt in a saucepan. 2.) Cover, bring to a boil and cook just until the cranberry skins burst (8-10ish minutes). 3.) Remove from heat. 4.) Stir in spices (1/8 tsp. ground cloves, 1/8 tsp. ground ginger, 1/2 tsp. ground allspice and 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon). 5.) Pour into jars, screw on the lids and allow to cool. Presto = sealed jars of homemade spiced cranberry sauce!
Thanks for the chance to win! I live in the U.S. and you can email me.
Homemade eggnog — yum! Many thanks to Andy for another Advent giveaway, and to Robin for hosting today. You have my permission to use my email addy.
My favourite is probably stuffing with sausage and onions. Delicious! Thank you Robin!
My favourite holiday food is the traditional English Christmas cake with a bit tweaked recipe. It includes heaps of dry fruit soaked in cognac, stem ginger, chocolate and almonds…yumminess.
Yay, Advent time!
My favorite holiday treat was my mom’s prune cookies. This will be my first Christmas without her…why didn’t I learn how to make them?
Favorite holiday food is hands down blue cheese hamburgers on the grille for 4th of July. Top with fried onions for a real smelly breath treat LOL
What a fun question and so many different answers. Use of my email is of course OK. Thanks Robin.
Thanks for the draw. I love Tauer’s perfumes.
My favorite holiday food is carrot and ginger soup. Always put me in a better mood on a cold day.
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Many thanks for the giveaway! You have my permission to use my email address.
My favorite holiday food is mashed potatoes with a TON of butter! And for Christmas/New Year’s Day breakfast, Bailey’s french toast. Just replace the milk in your favorite french toast recipe with Bailey’s. It’s amazing!
You may use my email address! I think my favorite is fresh cranberry sauce with a bit of orange zest and juice. I can eat it by the spoonful by itself. So many lovely choices, though.
Foie gras with fig bread.
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What fun! Please use my email address if I am lucky enough to win! We do a big Christmas breakfast – and I make spicy biscuits and gravy; yum! But really, I just love breakfast meats – bacon and Taylor Ham (Jersey girl at heart…or stomach, whatever!)
oh, i love this Tauer game!
and love making cookies for christmas time! a lot of different kinds.
and champagne – would it be considered as a food?
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The festive dish par excellence for me since my childhood is: Civet de Boeuf, a beef stew that has been marinated in red wine for several days, with mashed potatoes.
Thanks for this draw.
Devils on horseback – soft putted prunes wrapped in thin smokey bacon strips & baked until crispy on the outside & gooey in the middle. Eat them as a canapé with bubbly or along side a turkey roast…getting hungry at the thought!
Thanks for the opportunity to join in this wonderfully generous festive offer 🙂 Woo!
Some Hot cocoa and butter cookies! Yes you can use my email address.
Cheers
I love these balls, kind of like dumplings, that are served in soup and called kneidalach!
Oh, I almost missed out on this contest. I thought this post was about an advent calendar. You know, the ones with little samples behind each door. Anyways, my favorite Christmas food has to be Christmas Cake. I especially like Italian Panforte!
Holiday food for me is deviled eggs and Russian salad served on New Years Eve; fun times …
Favorite holiday food is roast goose.
Christmas and candy canes……no contest! I’m in the U.S. and of course you can use my email on file!
I love the heavy and rich food we eat at christmas – red cabbage, duck, dumplings – i was surprised to learn that many more traditioanl families only eat cold dishes for Christams here in Berlin
Whoa, December already?!
I’m one of the strange few who loves Christmas fruitcake. Not the commercial ones (and especially not with icing!), but the two kinds my mother used to make when I was a child and in later years sent to me in a December care package. One was very, very dark as it included cocoa powder and grape jelly, the other a golden yellow made bright with crushed pineapple, orange zest and almonds.
Thank you for hosting this draw and Andy for his generosity.
Thank you for this contest. A favourite holiday food would be brisket, which is suitable for most of your cold-weather holidays…
Im gonna go with Cadbury Cream eggs on Easter.
Love this contest! And I’ll have to go with potato latkes as my favorite holiday food.
Ohmigosh, I’m getting so hungry reading all these comments!!
The season between Halloween and New Year’s is my favorite part of the year! I make an awesome pumpkin bread pudding, hand-blended egg nog (with vanilla bean paste, bourbon, dark rum, and fresh grated nutmeg), and pasteis de coco (a good recipe can be found at leitesculinaria.com, no affiliation)–they are in high demand in my family and I make sure to box up a batch of the pasteis de coco for my auntie because they were her favorite treat from her childhood.
Mahalo for the draw and of course you can use my email 🙂
Favorite holiday food is roast turkey with gravy. Love it so much that we made it for our Japanese exchange student, even though he was here around Easter time and not Thanksgiving.
Thank you, Andy and Robin, for the contest and you may use the email in my account. My favorite homemade holiday food would either be cranberry mousse or mashed potatoes with scallions, the former we make on Thanksgiving and the latter as often as I feel my figure can get away with it around the holidays. 😉 Though I do enjoy those tins of butter cookies or packages of Rocher candies that are on every shop shelf this time of year as well.
Eggnog for sure. It has such a limited lifespan. And it’s so delicious. I’m always looking for the perfect eggnog fragrance, too. (I’ve tried the Demeter). Thanks for the draw!
Home made mince pies with frangipane topping for me!
First of all, thank you Andy!
My favourite food in this period of the year is the apple pie with a lot of cinnamon. I also love “le moelleux au chocolat”
My favourite food for the Christmas period is mince pies. At work we are bravely doing comparative tastings of different makes of mince pie. ( we’ve done half a dozen already!)
Thank you Robin and Andy. You may use the email in my account.
I really do enjoy fruitcakes and look forward to the Holiday season just because you can’t seem to get them at any other time of the year. (The rest of my family is thankful for that.)
eggnog ice cream and mince pies
Hmm – so, so many favorites 🙂 Right now I am trying to perfect a Leckerli cookie recipe using my home made candied citrus peel. Thank you for the drawing!
Meat and veggies in any combination, made in oven. And then something ginger-honey-orang-er:)
Christmas is definitely my favourite holiday. In France my favourite Xmas food is champagne! I actually really miss steamed Xmas fruit pudding from home (NZ) with custard. Yes you can use my email address. Fingers crossed and thanks NST! These Advent prizes from Andy are brilliant.
Wonderful drawing! Where I grew up in Ketchikan, Alaska, lumpia was a staple of 4th of July. The Filipino community is pretty strong there, and for the parades and booths there was always more Filipino food than the barbeque and typical American food you would expect. Which was fine by me, because their food is delicious! I don’t live there anymore but my boyfriend still makes the food from his culture on the 4th – and I always look forward to it.
Thanks for the draw! I think my favourite holiday food has to be Hot Cross Buns – delicious spiced buns split, toasted and buttered generously! My favourite recipe is Delia Smith’s, available on her website. Please feel free to use my email 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway! My favorite holiday food is pie, particularly pumpkin and pecan pies.
Thanks as always for the giveaways! Where do I start with favorite holiday food? There’s fruitcake, coconut cake, BBQ, pumpkin pie, turkey, too many to mention! 🙂
Yay for this Advent Calendar!Being part of a family of complete and utter carnivores,you can just imagine the carvery set-up over Christmas in my house:Roast beef,Leg of Lamb(smothered in garlic and mint sauce!!!),Super-salty backgammon,and my ultimate favorite:Barbequed steaklets…Lol.There does feature some potato-salad-with my Mother’s AWESOME selfmade mustard!Fresh fruit and sorbet for desert-seeing we celebrate Christmas during peak-time SUMMER!NOW:I’m HUNGRY!!Good Luck everyone!xo
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Stuffing! This years’s had kale, dates and almonds
I absolutely adore the Tauer Perfumes. I would love to have this set.
Wooohooo, thank you for the draw! My favorite food around the holidays is my mom’s home-cooked lasagna!
Thanks for the fabulous Tauer perfume giveaway!
One of my favourite holiday foods is a wine soup that was only served on Christmas Eve. That soup always reminds me of Christmas.
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Mash potatoes! 😉 it’s all about the basics, isn’t?
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My favorite holiday food is the cream cheese kolaczki I bake, especially with poppy seed, sweet cheese, apricot, and raspberry fillings. Melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
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Wow excited its my first time entering one of these. I would have to say roast turkey with all the trimmings.
Thanks for the draw, Robin and Andy !!!
Toll House Cookies are my favourite holiday treat.
Recipe on the bag of chocolate morsels.
My mom’s weird Midwestern cheese balls with walnuts and crackers… Straight from the 50s!
Christmas cake/pastry made with poppy seeds, ground walnuts, quark and plum jam. It’s called ‘stedrak’ and it means generous or generosity cake in Slovakia.
I talked this over with my wife, and we decided we like food, all good food, and so there’s no single favorite. Of course, good food should go with good wine, but we like all wine as well… So when people ask me what our “dietary restrictions” are, we reply “we only eat good food.”
Koreans eat a rice cake soup for the new year and I just love it! It’s savory and warm, perfect for winter. 🙂
We have a 1950’s style cheese ball at our house with cheddar, blue and cream cheese. It is studded with parsley! Cannot have Christmas without it!
Cranberry sauce… from the can. There, I said it.
Oh gosh, I love a lot of holiday foods! I think my favorite might Harry and David’s fruitcake confection, though. One of my great-aunts would send us one every year, and I was the only one who liked it — juicy chunks of glaceed fruit and nuts, a tiny bit of batter, what’s not to like???
My favorite holiday food is stuffing. I never get to eat it except at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
good morning! wow , great Andy has advent calender again this year! holiday food…hmmm egg+crab gratin? mum always made that for christmas dinner . boil eggs, cut in half mix yolk+mayonnaise and put it back to half egg, sprinkle tin of crab meat on it and put white sauce over and put pizzza cheese on it. and cook in oven. yum yum
Holidays at our house wouldn’t be complete without mother’s mac & cheese. It’s a mainstay at Thanksgiving and Christmas! Yum!!!
Thank you for all the great information on scents, this is my 1st time here. I will be back. Please use my email with my permission. Thank you!
Wow–thanks to Andy and Robin for this wonderful Advent opportunity! Yes, you can use my email to contact me when I win!! As for holidays, I never met a Christmas cookie that I didn’t like, especially my mom’s pizzelle and biscotti. Now that she is gone, my wonderful sister carries on the tradition.
I have two tied favorite foods for the winter holidays: green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. If I just filled a half plate with each, it would be perfect!
Thank you for the generous draw!
I love the shrimp and grits we always have at some point during the Christmas holidays — it’s a nice change from all the turkey and ham…
Thank you, Andy and Robin, for this first (give-away) day of Advent 2014!
I’m embarrassed to admit this, after reading about all the delicious homemade treats from all over, but my favorite holiday food is the hors d’oeuvres and Champagne. I lead a very non-glamorous life most of the year, so it’s a real treat if I get to a party where I can have a glass of champagne in one hand and a bit of smoked salmon, oozy cheese, or a canape in the other hand.
HI Robin,
Thanks for this fantastic opportunity! Yes, you absolutely have my permission to use my email address.
My favorite holiday is the upcoming one; Christmas! It is truly the most wonderful time of the year! My favorite holiday food isn’t actually a food, but only available during Christmas. It’s eggnog! I wish they would make it year-round! I almost died when I found out that Starbucks discontinued the Eggnog Latte. But after people complained (myself included), they brought it back. So, I love eggnog latte, plain eggnog, spiced eggnog, eggnog any kind of way.
Again, thanks for this fantastic drawing! 🙂
Happy December! Now we think about more eating! Thank you for the drawing!
Caneca sausage from Coneca County, Alabama. It’s fantastic. Thanks for the opportunity!
My mother makes these lovely ginger, spice cookies. They are light with just enough chewiness. Then she tops them with a little dab of vanilla frosting with just enough orange rind to give them a lovely flavor. The combo is the best cookie I’ve ever had.
Thank you for hosting! My very favorite holiday food are those powdered snowball cookies–I eat way too many and leave none for others :(.
I am glad the holidays just come once a year!
Yay for advent!
It’s hard to narrow down to my favorite holiday food! I love turkey at thanksgiving and homemade candies at Christmas. Maybe the most dear is a traditional holiday cookie from my family–lebkucken, made with honey, molasses and lots of warm winter spices.
My favorite holiday food is Pumpkin Pie which reminds me that I have not worn my Demeter Pumpkin Pie Cologne!
Thanks for the generous draw.
Andy and Robin, thanks for the draw!
If I consider my birthday to be my favorite holiday, then Ice Cream Cone Cakes are my favorite food. You just bake your favorite cake recipe inside of flat bottomed ice cream cones (instead of cupcake pans). Once cool, frost with your preferred frosting. They are delicious and whimsical.
I live in the USA and my contact info is correct and may be used if I should be so lucky….
My favorite holiday foods can be summed up in a few words or many . Few words : carbs and fats and salt.
Many words : pecan pie with milk in the recipe, eggnog, boiled custard, candied yams , fresh baked yeast rolls,sausage stuffing with butter and cheddar, huge pats of butter, fudge ( made some by myself for the first time this year ! And it turned out pretty well too. Carnation kit at Walmart , and I went slightly heavy on the butter….) looking forward to my grandma’s Peanut Butter Balls and her fudge with walnuts! Mmmmmm ! (Must ! Not ! Drool . On . The . Ipad!)
Merry Christmas everyone!
I’m in the US and Thanksgiving STUFFING is what I wait for all year! That with a smidge of cranberry sauce on the side!
My favorite holiday food is pumpkin pie. I never have it any other time of the year.
My favorite holiday food is cranberry sauce 🙂 Thank you!
My favorite holiday food is Christmas Fudge!
Happy holidays everyone!
Love the Advent calendar!!! One of my favorite holiday foods….the Moravia Sugar Cakes make at Christmas time. So good!!!
Thanks Robin & Andy. I always look forward to the Advent calendar 🙂
My favorite food is sufganiyot- oil fried yeast doughnuts that are hand filled with jam and covered in powdered sugar. Yum!
You can definitely use my email address and I am in the US.
Apple pie. For Christmas. For Thanksgiving. Any holiday at all. For no reason at all. Home made butter crust and tart granny smith apples and only about half the sugar of most apple pie recipes. Yummy.
My favorite holiday treat is Pecan Snowball cookies from a local bakery.
My favorite dish since I was a little girl (at thanksgiving and christmas!) is my mom’s sweet potatoes, that she bakes with a pecan brown sugar crumble. Yum!
Here in Australia at Christmas time it’s hot so it’s all about salads and seafood, Christmas Eve cocktails with family and friends at my parents house is also a tradition. Wonderful giveaway, thank you!
The first thing I thought of was tamales and beans for breakfast on Christmas morning but I’m a fan of many, many holiday foods.
We had one of the best and most simple salads during the Thanksgiving madness when supplies were running low and I thought I’d share the recipe; chopped broccoli and cauliflower, raisins, and a little mayonnaise thinned with orange juice as dressing. You wouldn’t believe how good this was. Happy holidays to all!
So hard to choose a favorite holiday food. Buche de Noel filled with chestnut cream and covered in chocolate ganache? Cranberry walnut upside down cake? Silky slivers of smoked salmon on brown bread and butter with a generous squeeze of lemon? No, I think creamed onions are my favorite. Not onions boiled in milk, but caramelized in butter with nutmeg, fresh thyme and bay, then simmered in chicken stock and finished with a bit of heavy cream. Yum.
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My favorite holiday treat is one I make throughout the winter – Sweet, spicy and salty mixed nuts with rosemary. I caramelize the nuts with butter, brown and white sugar, and add chopped rosemary and cayenne pepper. It’s nice to cool the fire with champagne or a dry martini! Thanks for the draw!
Favorite holiday food — lebkuchen oblaten — soft, sugar-glazed gingerbread baked on a wafer cookie. I only eat these at the holidays to keep them special.
And chocolate truffles rolled in cocoa powder are reserved for holiday indulgence, too.
I love pies of all sorts and the many varieties of ginger-flavored cookies.
Thanks for hosting the first day of the Tauer Advent event. I’m always amazed by Andy’s generosity!
Simply… Stollen. Brings back memories of family at Christmas.
Thank you,
Michael
Wow, this is always so much fun, thanks Andy and NST! 🙂
My favorite holiday food is probably stuffing if I am honest – yes, I love the chocolates and the pastries and the eggnog and the other fancy treats, but just give me a big old bowl of traditional stuffing and I’m good!
This question reminds me of the things I’m going to miss again this year–in addition to pumpkin pie, my mother’s sugar cookies (the secret ingredient is orange rind).
This is so great! I am an absolute sucker for mince pies.
We actually have vegetable stir fry and cheese wontons on Christmas Eve and I love that.
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It’s difficult to narrow down all of the sweet and savory holiday temptations, but my favorite is probably homemade cookies such as gingerbread or decorated sugar cookies. They can be a bit time consuming to make, but the process can take on a meditative quality and allow you to quietly focus on just one thing.
My favourite holiday food is the baby Jesus buns that we make, from a recipe handed down by a Belgian great uncle. They are a yeasted white flour + egg dough, shaped into a swaddled baby Jesus by attaching a small round ball onto a longer, fatter oval. I’ve had friends tell me that it’s kind of creepy, but it’s not Christmas without baby Jesus buns.
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Thank you to Andy for sponsoring this generous drawing!
My favorite holiday-esque food is tamales! Wherever we happen to get together for Christmas that year, we gather the family/friends and assemble the tamales all together at the table. So besides being delicious, the process is fun and memorable 🙂
Wouhou! Another Advent Calendar from Andy!!!
Maybe this year I’ll be lucky…
As for my favourite holiday food… I like salads. Quite sophisticated salads with a lot of ingredients 🙂
red wine, beutiful red wine is the best treating and the best food ever in the season!;)
Pumpkin pie for sure!
Steve
Something ”weird” that we eat here in Sweden both on Christmas Eve and Midsummer Eve is pickled herring – it’s not Christmas if you don’t eat creamy mustard herring together with boiled potatoes and “vörtbröd” (bread flavored with wort) – the only difference is that you eat crispbread on Midsummer’s Eve!
Just in time, I hope. I’d have to vote for the traditional Christmas fruit. cake. Too many ingredients to give here, but suffice to say that the cupboard where I’m keeping it smells divinely of fruit and booze.
I’m in Spain, but can give a UK address. Thanks for the giveaway!
Another generous year of Andy doing the Advent giveaways. I love sweets so my favorite foods are around Christmas because of all the cakes, pies, cookies, etc…
Thanks again for the contest and hopefully this year I’ll win one.
I love the Advent calendar — Andy is so generous each year! Thanks for hosting!
My favourite holiday food is Chex Mix (homemade, of course) — I know that’s a bit strange but we make it at every major family holiday and it’s the only time of the year I’ll let myself eat it (so addictive!).