Anyway, for those who can still eat lactose, Italian traditional Christmas desserts are delicious: pandoro, panettone, torrone, ricciarelli... you'd go on for days!
12) Family Christmas traditions.. We sort of lost them in the years. When I was a kid we usually met family and friends at my grandparents' and we'd stay there all day on 25th playing Bingo and cards and eating Christmas desserts and chocolates. We gave up this tradition when grandpa died in '97. We are now celebrating Christmas at my house, because I love Christmas and want to have some traditions going. Grandparents come to our house on Christmas day and we have lunch all together. I cook all traditional Christmas dishes (starting from cappelletti, to parmigiana) and we spend some time together.
Still the traditional thing I love best about Christmas is the midnight Mass, it's so special a moment and I would never miss it!
Can't you make the holiday desserts with lactose free milk and butter? We always make food and desserts from low lactose products for Octavian!
RispondiEliminaOh Miki, panettone and pandoro need some 48 hrs preparation and we don't homemake them. We rather buy them ready made and there's no lactose-free version unluckily, being the main ingredient on both of them butter... :-P
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