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The Christmas Tag

Written by Published on Updated on December 18, 2017 in Uncategorized

I have been nominated for the Christmas Tag by my lovely blogger friend Karin from The Austrian Dish.  If you have not yet come across her site please pop over and see for yourself the wonderful traditional dishes and recipes Karin posts. The Christmas Tag was started by littlediyprojects.wordpress.com. 🙂

The rules:

  • Thank the person that nominated you with a link to their blog
  • Add the picture in your blog
  • Copy these rules into your post
  • Add a link to this original post (littlediyprojects.wordpress.com/thechristmastag)
  • Answer the 10 questions (you can add extra Christmas-related questions if you want)
  • Tag at least 3 other bloggers with links to their blogs
  • Have fun!

The Questions:

1. What’s your favourite thing about Christmas?
2. What’s your favourite Christmas memory?
3. Are there special traditions your family has for Christmas?
4. What’s your Christmas wish? (Can be personal or general)
5. What’s your favourite Christmas dish?
6. What’s your favourite Christmas decoration?
7. What’s your favourite Christmas song?
8. Where do you usually celebrate Christmas?
9. What does the ‘Christmas Spirit’ mean to you?
10. Who out of anybody in the world would you want to spend your Christmas with?

My Answers

1. My favorite thing about Christmas is and was the family gathering at the table.  Living  in another country, makes it a bit more difficult to get everyone together now a days. 

2. Going into NYC, christmas shopping, ice skating at Rockerfeller Center, going to a lovely Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, and then heading over to a nice restaurant with mom and dad for lunch.

3. During Christmas time in Greece, children go from house to house and sing the Kalanda or other wise known as Christmas Carols and wishing everyone good wishes.  Also, back in the day Christmas trees didn’t exist to decorate, so they would decorate fishing boats for Christmas with lovely warm white  or colorful lights.  In some parts of Greece they still decorate boats.  

4. Good Health, Smiles, Fun, for everyone and Peace.  Life is just to short for everything that is going on, on this planet.

5.  Christmas dish favorite is Turkey and Gravy Yummmmyyyy

6. My favorite Christmas decoration is an Angel I have on my tree.

7. My favorite Christmas song is “Driving home for Christmas” !!!

8. In the Netherlands

9. Togetherness

10. Family and Friends…:)

So here are my nominees for the Christmas Tag

Invisible-No-More

Ritu But I Smile Anyway

Vero and Canito in the Kitchen

thethingsiveseenblog

Rapsody Boheme

BakewithT

 

Looking forward to reading your Christmas vibes  🙂

Sophie

 

 

 

 

I’m looking forward to read about your and your family’s Christmas traditions!

Welcome to a small corner of my Greek Heritage. Growing up in New York from Greek parents, was a challenge of its own...but the traditional food, tastes and aromas that my mother cooked always travelled me back to Greece. My mother is a wonderful cook, our house would always have that smell of home cooked food. I remember very clearly that we were only allowed fast food, once a week, that was a huge day for myself and my brother. Jumping up and down in the back car seat, laughing, just being kids. It is true that we all like to eat different foods, taste, smell, even try food that looks different than our regular meals at home and I think that is so natural. In my teens, I was not really into cooking, I enjoyed my magazines after school, listening to music, and just taking a breather. There were times that I would glance at some of my mom's recipes, more out of curiosity than to actually try to cook them. At that time I did not realise that cooking would become my passion one day. Slowly, I would start to look into my mom's recipes a bit more each day and I started to find it interesting as a hobby. Each month I would go into our neighborhood bookstore and pick up my monthly book, until one day I decided to stroll over into the cooking section. That summer was the first time I actually bought a cooking magazine....and I loved it. Cooking and baking started out as a hobby, but now after many years it is my passion. Exploring the cuisines, the spices, the oils, the scents, the variety of smells and tastes that exist. It was and still is an amazing journey without limits. So, come along with me on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Sophie

31 Comments

  1. Vero and Canito in the kitchen
    December 19, 2017 at 1:44 am  ·  Reply

    Congratulations, Sophie! And thank you for nomination! I love your answers and will share my Christmas vibes as well 💞💞💞❤️❤️❤️ Merry Christmas, my dear friend!

  2. mistimaan
    December 19, 2017 at 6:07 am  ·  Reply

    Congrats and loved your answers. 🙂

  3. Ritu
    December 19, 2017 at 6:55 am  ·  Reply

    Wonderful Sophie! Thank you for thinking of me!

  4. Ramyarecipes
    December 19, 2017 at 3:05 pm  ·  Reply

    Congrats 🎈🎉
    Happy to know more about you

  5. Karin, theaustriandish
    December 19, 2017 at 10:08 pm  ·  Reply

    It was so interesting to read your answers. And I learned so much – e. g. about decorating boats for Christmas. That sound like a wonderful and unique tradition. Thank you so much! 🙂

  6. just_me
    December 20, 2017 at 8:56 am  ·  Reply

    Congratulations! It’s so nice to know a bit more about you! 🙂

  7. Megala
    December 21, 2017 at 3:42 pm  ·  Reply

    Interesting to know what Christmas is all about to you ! Merry Christmas !!

  8. Pauline
    December 22, 2017 at 4:01 am  ·  Reply

    Congrats! 🎉 I’ve always wanted to spend Christmas in New York, it sounds like so much fun! 😄💕

  9. RhapsodyBoheme
    December 22, 2017 at 8:25 am  ·  Reply

    Loved your answers and thank you for the nomination. So much appreciated, even though it always takes me a little to get to them. But I promise I will soon and feel honored you thought of me. Much love to you.

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