Happy Hogmanay!
I've got haggis to turn into sausage rolls and my parents have steak pie and roasties ready for dinner.
Here's to 2013, may it bring only good things.
Have a fabulous year!
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Showing posts with label hogmanay. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Happy Hogmanay 2013!
I've got haggis to turn into sausage rolls and my parents have steak pie and roasties ready for dinner.
Here's to 2013, may it bring only good things.
Have a fabulous year!
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Forgotten Christmas Photos
I am already thinking ahead to Valentine's day but I realised I hadn't done anything with the photos from the Christmas season! Oooops! So here is a quick little visual recap...
On December 22nd we went to High Heeled Life's house for the day. When we arrived we got the tour, cracked open a bottle of champers and had a snack while the boys went out for a mini hike. HHL had these amazing little cupcakes that were so good I couldnt stop eating them! I dont normally like buttercream but these were just amazing! YUM! I keep thinking about them! Fortunately I had pills for my tummy and didn't suffer from my wheat allergy.
The bakery had lots of cute designs on their cupcakes!
High Heeled Life had lots of food out to nibble on!
I am hoping HHL will let us know what these are!
HHL gave us a box of cookies made by a friend of hers. How cute are these little mittens?! The baker did a lovely job with them and the details and packaging were beautiful! I studied them to figure out how she made them!
On New Year's Day we went to my inlaws for Hogmanay dinner...or so I thought. There was nothing traditional on the table or served and I left feeling a bit let down. I think if someone is going to insist on hosting everyone for a dinner someone else usually hosts, they should stick to the traditional menu. The flowers were beautiful tho! And perfect colours!
There is something to be said for the perfect simplicity of a pink carnation.
Have a fabulous day!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Happy Hogmanay!
Being Scottish, today is an important day! Hogmanay is the last day of the year and the Scots take it very seriously! My parents have lots of stories of wild nights spent going from house to house celebrating with their friends and neighbours! These days we spend New Years Day with my parents and have Hogmanay dinner with all of our parents. The menu ALWAYS includes steak pie (my Gran's recipe) and roasted potatoes. My mum makes shortbread and I make the haggis pastries. It is a great way to start the new year!
**There are many customs, both national and local, associated with Hogmanay. The most widespread national custom is the practice of 'first-footing' which starts immediately after midnight. This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt (less common today), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun (a rich fruit cake) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder. Food and drink (as the gifts) are then given to the guests. This may go on throughout the early hours of the morning and well into the next day (although modern days see people visiting houses until 3 January). The first-foot is supposed to set the luck for the rest of the year.
Although it is acceptable in many places for the first-footer to be a resident of the house, they must not be in the house at the stroke of midnight in order to first-foot (thus going out of the house after midnight and then coming back in to the same house is not considered to be first-footing). The first-foot is traditionally a tall, dark-haired male; a female or fair-haired male are in some places regarded as unlucky.
The first-foot usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin, bread, salt, coal, or a drink (usually whisky), which respectively represent financial prosperity, food, flavour, warmth, and good cheer.
Auld Lang Syne was written by Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns and literally means "old long since", but a more idiomatic English translation would be something like "long long ago", "days of long ago", or "olden days". "For old times' sake," or "to the (good) old days," or "To days(or times) gone by" may be modern-day expressions, in common use as toasts, that capture the spirit of "for auld lang syne". Although the song begins with a question whether old times should be forgotten, the song is generally interpreted as a call to remember long standing friendships.**
**Source - Wikipedia**
Have a fabulous day!
**There are many customs, both national and local, associated with Hogmanay. The most widespread national custom is the practice of 'first-footing' which starts immediately after midnight. This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt (less common today), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun (a rich fruit cake) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder. Food and drink (as the gifts) are then given to the guests. This may go on throughout the early hours of the morning and well into the next day (although modern days see people visiting houses until 3 January). The first-foot is supposed to set the luck for the rest of the year.
Although it is acceptable in many places for the first-footer to be a resident of the house, they must not be in the house at the stroke of midnight in order to first-foot (thus going out of the house after midnight and then coming back in to the same house is not considered to be first-footing). The first-foot is traditionally a tall, dark-haired male; a female or fair-haired male are in some places regarded as unlucky.
The first-foot usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin, bread, salt, coal, or a drink (usually whisky), which respectively represent financial prosperity, food, flavour, warmth, and good cheer.
Auld Lang Syne was written by Scotland's National Poet, Robert Burns and literally means "old long since", but a more idiomatic English translation would be something like "long long ago", "days of long ago", or "olden days". "For old times' sake," or "to the (good) old days," or "To days(or times) gone by" may be modern-day expressions, in common use as toasts, that capture the spirit of "for auld lang syne". Although the song begins with a question whether old times should be forgotten, the song is generally interpreted as a call to remember long standing friendships.**
**Source - Wikipedia**
Have a fabulous day!
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