What family traditions do you recall which may have had their origins in a foreign land?~Family History Tuesday~

One of the tastiest ones is "chocolate y panettone"


On Christmas Eve we all stay up late, waiting for Christmas day. At exactly midnight we all wish each other a "Merry Christmas" or "Feliz Navidad" with a hug.  Then it's time to break out the specially-made hot chocolate. It's a steamy mixture of bittersweet chocolate squares swirled into condensed milk. Piping hot and dee-licious!


Next, slices of an extraordinary bread are eaten.  As a child, my mother could not find this special bread, from her home country, in our local stores.We ended up eating Hawaiian Bread --it most resembled and tasted like "Panettone".

It wasn't until we were well into our young adulthood that the high, circular bread was finally being sold in nearby stores. One year I even found a chocolate chip one at our local Target store.

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