For some time now I have blogged (and basically told everyone who will listen) about how much I ADORE President’s Choice Products. They are high quality, affordable and delicious – that’s a perfect combination if you ask me! Since last year, PC has sent samplings of their new products for my review, and every time they do I am very pleased. At this time of the year when we start thinking about the holidays, entertaining comes to mind and automatically I think of PC products to simplify the process and impress my guests.
Recently, the folks at PC have generously offered an amazing prize for a giveaway at Cat Can Cook. The gift basket “President’s Choice Holiday Survival Kit” is valued at $100 and contains a huge assortment of beautiful PC products sure to please you and yours during the festive holiday season! Here they are:
MUST TRY! PC ® The World’s Best Jumbo Cashews
MUST TRY! PC ® 100% Ground Coffee – Hawaiian
MUST TRY! PC ® Dark Chocolate with Cranberry and Almonds
MUST TRY! PC ® Gourmet Belgian Chocolate Collection
NEW! PC ® Premium Fruit and Nut Collection
NEW! PC ® Artichoke & Asiago Cheese Yogurt Dressing
NEW! PC ® Thick Cut Pizza Flavour Rippled Potato Chips
NEW! PC ® 100% Sparkling Fruit Juice – Kiwi Berry
NEW! PC ® White Chocolate Covered Sponge Toffee
NEW! PC ® Butter Tart Square
NEW! PC ® Cinnamon Buns Mix
NEW! PC ® Cracker Collection
NEW! PC ® Chocolate Fruit Fancies
PC ® Baking Square Mix – Belgian Chocolate
A $10 PC ® gift card to help stock your holiday survival kit with the MUST TRY! PC ® Puff Pastry Hors D’Oeuvre Collection or the NEW! PC ® Angus Sliders Mini Angus Beef Burgers.
A copy of this year’s President’s Choice Holiday Insider’s Report to help entertain smarter, not harder this holiday season,
If you are a Canadian Resident and would like to enter for your chance to win this *amazing* gift basket courtesy of President’s Choice, all you need to do is leave a comment below (not on my Facebook Group) but right here at www.catcancook.com telling us about your favorite holiday food tradition. Simple enough? The contest will remain open for one week. I will randomly select one winner who has commented to receive this fabulous prize package which will be mailed!
Thanks President’s Choice & Goodluck everyone!
*Canadian Residents only please! Thanks 🙂
My Mother and I have a quiet Christmas Eve and enjoy just nibbling on different hors d’oevres we don’t cook a dinner and just nibble on different things, we love it.
My favorite holiday food tradition is simple but means the world to me. I love baking all sorts of cookies with my husband and two children. There is barely room in the kitchen for the four of us but we make it work anyways. We put on some Christmas music and bake way too many cookies. We eat some, we freeze some and we give some away 🙂
By far my favourite holiday food tradition is the baking, my mom and dad did it and I have carried it on!! My children know the time of year and have already started asking, for it!!! Shortbread cookies. They don’t last long in our house.
I love my moms macaroons, or haystacks as I’ve always called them. It just wouldn’t seem like Christmas without them!!!
Our tradition is that on Christmas Eve we celebrate our Christmas with our family and the kids have a scavenger hunt for a $10 gift and the adults play a game for a $20 gift. I loVe Christmas, it such a happy joyful time 🙂
Other than cooking up a scrumptious turkey dinner with all the fixings…I enjoy all the pre-holiday baking! Cookies and desserts Mmmmmmm!
Christmas in our family has always been about Food & Family. We share a traditional turkey dinner on Christmas Day, and lay around groaning with satisfaction until it’s time to open gifts. Dessert is always of the “potluck” style, so it’s different every year.
Merry Christmas to all!!!
Love, love, love Presidents Choice products. Have been using them for years.
Have to make my moms shortbread every year. Christmas wouldn’t be the same without them.
I love the quiet of the holiday mornings! I rise early (well earlier than everyone else!)and put a batch of homemade cinnamon buns in the oven and brew a BIG pot of coffee. Once everyone’s senses have stirred we generally indulge in our lovely breakfast and sit around all day cuddled up on our couches watching movies. Occasionally snacking on leftover turkey dinner from the previous evening in the form of open faced hot turkey sandwiches with veggie hash. AHhhhh…pure bliss! 🙂
Our favorite holiday food tradition is waking up on christmas morning, getting the coffee brewing and baking cinnamon buns, there is nothing better then watching your family open gifts with christmas music playing and the smell of yummy cinnamon buns baking in the oven, then we would all take a break to eat them 🙂
My most favorite holiday tradition is when I was yonger my whole family would get together on christmas eve. We would all bring a dish to eat and share our feedback with one another. We would have our christmas music playing and we would watch all the christmas specials on television and stay up late just enjoying one anothers company. The adults in the family would let each kid open up a present before they went to bed as well so they kids went to bed before Santa came. We would wake up really early in the morning and do the gift exchange then about 10-11am after were done playing in the snow we would help our grandma cook christmas dinnner with all the yummy fixings.
On Christmas Eve, after church, we prepare different kinds of hors d’oeuvres, turn on the tree lights and enjoy. My kids love the “treat” kind of food, it’s only served at Christmas time. Some of our favourites are PC, some are homemade. After the hors d’oeuvres, we have some of the baked goods that I’ve been baking and hiding for a month. This year I’m thinking of having fondue, with chocolate fondue for dessert. Yum!
I haven’t really had a food tradition other then the regular family get-together turkey dinner of course. Now that my daughter is old enough, I think we need to start baking some treats together every holiday season. Thanks to your famous Banana Muffin Recipe(which I found and use regularly since last year), I now have confidence that I too can bake!!
I love having company in on Christmas Eve for good French Canadian food (especially Tourtiere Pie) and a few drinks. On Christmas morning we have a simple breakfast, but for dinner, it is the whole ball of wax. A traditional Turkey dinner, with my home made cranberry sauce. There are always 20 or more for dinner…family, friends…anyone who doesn’t have a place to go for Christmas dinner is always welcomed.
The tradition I look forward to all year is warm, melty cinnamon buns on Christmas morning. I can’t have them any other time of year now, because they just don’t taste the same!
Our favourite holiday food tradition is my mom’s shortbread recipe. Its really super easy – only 3 ingredients and was clipped out of the Toronto Star recipe section sometime in the late 1960’s, early 1970’s. I only make it at Christmas time and when I was growing up that was the only time we ever made it. I love to bite into the first one of the season while its still warm!
We have started to make a yule log cake. After Christmas eve mass, we come home and share it with our family, and whoever else we find along the way.
We always get together for a Traditional Turkey and Ham dinner with all of the fixings. A little busy at times because there is about 30 of us now, but worth it .
Our favourite holiday food tradition is turkey, stuffing with all the trimmings…followed by lemon meringue pie, pumpkin pie and shortbread that melt in your mouth.
Because I’m vegan, we do a non-traditional Christmas every year. We pick a theme at Thanksgiving, and we have a lot of fun with it. The theme can be anything. Last year, when Obama won the election, we decided to have food from all the countries where he had lived in his lifetime – so we had food from Kenya, Hawaii, Indonesia and the US. That was fun to research and to cook! In previous years, we’ve done all appetizer meals, all Indian food, all Italian food, all red and green food, etc.
This year, we are going to do Caribbean food, because we are planning a Caribbean cruise for the whole family (3 generations) in February. Should be fun!
Hmmm…. Well we have coffee and cinnamon rolls (homemade) for breakfast, and quiche mid-day. We round off the day with the big ol’ turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Of course there is food served and out all day. I think we eat enough on that one day to last a year! lol
My favourite holiday food tradition is Christmas morning at my parents. We wander over in our new Christmas PJs from the night before and get ready to dive into our presents. My mum makes fresh fruit salad and homemade coffee cake or baked French toast, and there’s plenty of tea, coffee, and juice to last the morning before church.
Christmas time at our house runs for about 3days. Lots of food, drinks, and laughter. Making new memories with family and friends. Looking forward to our expanding family enjoying old traditions. Must have everyone favorites. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!!!
Our favourite holiday food tradition involves several President’s Choice products. I browse the frozen hors d’ouvres section and pick out some to please everyone, including the vegetarians and those with food allergies. Then on Christmas Eve, while DH and I are at church, whoever has stayed behind gets everything ready. We enjoy the goodies with a glass of wine while everyone opens one gift 🙂
My favorite holiday traditions include putting together and decorating the gingerbread house, which my daughter decorates how she likes.It doesn’t matter how it looks as long as we get to see her smiling face while doing it.We bake date squares and hay stacks just like my Mom did when we were kids. We also make sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies.My daughter chooses which shapes she wants and cuts them out and decorates them. On Christmas Eve we make a special batch of cookies and decorate them with paintbrushes for Santa and his elves. which means Santa has to take them back to his workshop when he goes.
We really don’t have a food tradition because we both really enjoy trying new and different recipes. It’s really the one day that we both can get into the kitchen and have fun cooking. Last year I decided to start making Christmas goodies(cookies and bars) to share with friends and co-workers.
Our family food tradition includes homemade family recipe butter tarts and homemade filled chocolates. When my mother was alive she would bake & create for the month leading up to Christmas, and taught me how to make lovely chocolates with as many flavoured and tasty centres as one could imagine. Our entire family especially loved her butter tarts, which she could not keep safe til Christmas even in the freezer so would have to make and remake many dozens of them. Before she passed away she gave me her ‘secret family recipe’ as she called it, and to this day whenever I make them or her chocolates it feels like she’s not really gone, just in another room where I can’t see her.
My favorite holiday food tradition is making Christmas cookies. When I was still living at home I would do all the baking on Christmas Eve, while making French Onion Soup and doing fondue with my Dad (My Mom always worked on Christmas Eve)
To this day I still enjoy baking for the holidays. Last year I found the most amazing spicey ginger cookie recipe and can’t wait to make them again!
Christmas is all about cookies and hors dourves! We eat both of them non-stop during the month of December. My favourite cookie is my Grandma’s recipe for soft gingerbread, even people who don’t like gingerbread like this stuff!
our favourite holiday traditions are a big tin of Cadburys Roses chocolates, with mums homemade mince pies, Aunty Bren’s homemade Christmas puddings, and my dad’s wonderful Christmas dinner; turkey, chestnut and cranberry stuffing, sausages wrapped in bacon cooking around the turkey and roast potatoes with lots of yummy veggies, including sprouts! Sorry I couldn’t stick to just one!
There are so many delicious traditions that surround Christmas for me.
The standard turkey dinner, the old standby.
My mom’s Christmas baking that is certain to transport me to memories of my childhood with one small sprinkled chocolate ball or one marshmallow square.
Ever since my daughter was a toddler and able to “help” in the kitchen I think my favourite Christmas food tradition has to be the making,baking and decorating of sugar cookies on Christmas Eve to leave for Santa with his cup of milk.
Not only is it a fun couple of hours in the kitchen, the innocent amazement my daughter displays that we are making these cookies for *Santa* represents the pure love and excitement we all feel during this magical season !
My favorite about the Christmas holidays was taking turns between my sisters and cooking pot luck style, the hostess would prepare the Turkey and the rest would do their specialties…mine was and still is perogies. Takes a full day and all of my counter space but I love making them. The other fun tradition that I have started with my daughter is teaching her how to bake, and how to read a recipe correctly. Her 3rd attempt at shortbread cookies finally worked but we had fun and lots of laughs trying to get them right.
I love all PC products, they make great meals even better!
We always go to Mom’s on Christmas Eve. There’s always one present opened and even though you know it’s your new Christmas jammies, you are excited none the less! But the best part, is we forego the dinner and make lots and lots of snack foods and appies!
I have two. My favorite thing to do at Christmas is fill A hamper of goodies for someone who needs it. It reminds me to be thankful that I am not hungry and have so much. My favorite Christmas tradition is getting new pajamas for Christmas Eve. Everyone looks fantastic in the morning pictures!
Fruitcake! People usually give fruitcake a negative connotation but that’s because they haven’t tried my dad’s fruitcake. It’s dark and moist and delicious! Every year in mid-November my dad bakes a few cakes making sure one gets mailed to the East Coast to his sister, one for his colleagues at work, and one for entertaining at home. People do ask about it with anticipation. It wouldn’t be Christmas without my dad’s fruitcake.
My favourite tradition is my Christmas baking day! Once a year the kitchen is all mine for a day, I strap on my apron, crank the Christmas music, pour a hot chocolate and get to work baking all sorts of Christmas treats. I’m not much of a baker (or a cook at all!) the other 364 days of the year, but I truly look forward to this one day each holiday season!
I love the all the baking involved at Christmas. What I especially love it the final hour or so when the turkey is almost done and the potatoes have to be peeled, and veggies prepared and there is suddenly so man people in the kitchen and it’s total chaos! The house smalls of yummy turkey and kids are running around and everyone is talking. Then suddenly everything is done and everyone is sitting down eating, and it’s quiet.
We have a layed back Christmas eve with munchies and watch Santa Claus 1 & 2 and sometimes three and then Christmas was have the traditional turkey and all the fixings.
My favorite hoilday food tradition is, baking with my grandma. We always make her whip short bread cookies together
Great contest and awesome giveaway! My fav’ holiday food tradition (aside from the Turkey dinner with all the fixin’s on Christmas Day) would have to be poppin’ in the French Toast casserole (made the night before and chilled in the fridge) and smelling it bake in the oven while the kids excitedly open their gifts on Christmas morning. Once gifts are done, we devour the casserole with some fruit and more coffee (of course, for Mom)! 🙂
Each year at Christmas, I make a stuffing for my turkey that I learned from my Mom. There is no recipe, but it starts with white bread that is left out to dry out overnight, then broken up into pieces. As I melt the butter, crack the eggs, chop the celery and onions, I think of her. She was a fabulous cook but most often cooked without a recipe.
My daughter now likes to cook and realized that the stuffing is not documented in any way. So this Christmas, we are planning our first attempt to document the ingredients and quantities. We may even video this.
Another memory to collect….passing on a tradition to my daughter.
My memory is everyone shows up Christmas morning and we all have toasted ham sandwiches and coffee. While we all sit around we discuss what we hope to get for Christmas and let the suspense build until we can’t take it anymore. This tradition has been on going since I was a kid and now I’m carrying this on with my kids. It just isn’t Christmas without those sandwiches. I know it’s silly but what can I say. Something so simple as a good ham sandwich to make a good Christmas go figure….Just thinking of it makes me sigh and smile.
Our favorite holiday food tradition are the foods prepared by my husband’s parents on Christmas Eve 🙂
All of his family, and sometimes a few of my family, get together for a big Christmas Eve dinner…
One of my favorite traditions is spending Christmas Eve with friends and family. Lots of laughs, food and drinks. Making new memories…
My absolute favourite holiday food are the traditional meat pies my Mom and her friends make every year. After midnight mass we slice up a delicious meat pie, topped with molasses or mayonnaise. A wonderful Prince Edward Island treat!
We always went to grandma’s for Christmas Dinner. Good times with grandma and grandpa. Miss those days. The whole family in their small house!
My Favorite holiday food is shortbread cookies. I usually only make them in the Christmas season. I enjoy how they melt in my mouth when I bite into them. My kids love them too.
I miss the days of going to my Gramma and Grampa’s too, Kathy 🙁 Gosh, those were some of the happiest times of my life! I miss all my Grandparents so much, and carrying on the traditions they made special helps to keep the memories of them alive too 🙂
My favourite holiday food tradition is enjoying my Mom’s turkey dinner! Nothing beats it!