{"id":473,"date":"2013-12-08T13:42:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/?p=473"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T22:15:28","slug":"traditional-christmas-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS RECIPES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20130727-_DSC0112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-475\" src=\"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20130727-_DSC0112-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20130727-_DSC0112\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20130727-_DSC0194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-476\" src=\"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/20130727-_DSC0194-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20130727-_DSC0194\" \/><\/a>Christmas was never a big gift-exchange holiday when I was young. Besides, my parents\u00a0grew up with the tradition of receiving presents \u2014 usually limited to only one or two \u2014 on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, or on the 12th day of Christmas. At our house, it\u2019s always been more about the food and the edible \u201cgifts\u201d we bring to the table. It\u2019s about my mother\u2019s iconic lasagna, my dad\u2019s stuffed mushrooms, my sister\u2019s pomegranate salad, my brother\u2019s big bowl of mussels, the baked cardoons and, to top it all off, our delectable Christmas fig cookies (Purciddati di Natale), all of which are featured in THE HEALTHY ITALIAN. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/recipes-3\/christmas-fig-cookies\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HERE<\/span><\/a> for the Christmas Fig Cookies recipe. Even before our family plans the Christmas menu, we set a date to make these heavenly cookies, a long-standing tradition in our house. My parents, my kids, my niece \u2013 we all get in on the action, if not to get our hands into the dough or to pulse the chunky filling, then it\u2019s to be the first ones in line to taste them as they come out of the oven piping hot. With a sensory-awakening mix of ingredients like figs, oranges, almonds, cloves and chocolate, can you blame us for wanting to hold onto this ritual forever?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas was never a big gift-exchange holiday when I was young. Besides, my parents\u00a0grew up with the tradition of receiving presents \u2014 usually limited to only one or two \u2014 on the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6, or on the 12th day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1185,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/1185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyitalian.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}