The pleasure of Holiday eating!

@marguicha (223099)
Chile
January 2, 2012 11:08am CST
On Holidays, we often eat food we don´t eat normaly, either because they are too expensive or because they are too difficult to cook.This New Year I ate one of the most beloved fish dishes in our country: cebiche. It is made with raw fish partially cooked with lemn and raw sliced or diced onions. But this cebiche was VERY special. My friends have a sort of adopted son who is a rapanui (he omex from Eastern Island). He was with us this New Year and brought tunafish From Rapanui. The boys made an awesome tuna cebiche, the best I have eaten in my life. Did you eat something very special for the Holidays? Have you ever eaten cebiche? Share!
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
funny but you "cebiche" sounds and seems to be similar to our " escabeche" , maybe because of our similar Spanish influence, but from what I know and from what we cook. " escabeche" has Chinese influence and could be bought mainly in Chinese restaurants, I think the Spanish influence is mostly on the spices but it's the usual poached fish in sweet and sour sauce, and the most commonly used is the large "lapu-lapu" or red grouper but any large coral dwelling fish would do just fine
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
Escabeche is another dish we share. But the fish is fried and then boiled in vinegar along with some yummy veggies such as onions, carrots and cauliflower. In cebiche the fish is raw and only a little bit "cooked" with lemon. It only has onions, minced parsley and hot chile paste if you wish. Everything is raw.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
2 Jan 12
No, i have never eated it but i love fish so bet i would like it. Glad u enjoyed it. custom here for new year's day is black-eyed peas cooked w/hog's jowl for good luch & cabbage for money.I didn't have either yesterday. Too much going on for me to get to the grocery to get them.So if i'm broke all year & have bad luck i will know why, lol.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
3 Jan 12
Awful, huh/lol. no, it does not have to be cooked a special way.
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
3 Jan 12
My friend made me eat some awful cooked lentils for good luck! I live lentils, but this were with no salt or spices. Next year I´ll make some cabbage. Does it have to be made in a special way?It seems we all need the cabbage recipe
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@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
Shrimp tempura - Very crispy and tasty
I've not tried cebiche. In fact this is the first time ever that I've heard of that. But if given the chance to taste I think I'd also enjoy it because I love fish a lot. In our home I did not eat hard to cook food. I just choose those easy to cook food because I would cook a lot so I decided to make finger foods which are easy to cook but not ordinarily served on the table shrimp tempura, sweet and spicy buffalo wings, potato-chicken balls and also spicy crabs in coconut milk, hot and spicy chicken sisig,sweet and sour lapu-lapu along with fruit salad, potato salad, leche flan buko pandan and creamy gelatin. We truly enjoyed that Holiday eating!
@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
You made a lot of things! That shrimp tempura looked awesome! There are some dishes that I will have to check at the web though. It is interesting how language takes some words from one source and some from another. Leche flan (flan de leche) is spanish.
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@alottodo (3056)
• Australia
3 Jan 12
I have tried cebiche in my Peruvian friends house I know is good but I Am not very fond of it I like smoked salmon and sushi...but then I never tried tuna ceviche may be that would make a difference! my daughter made a delicious rainbow trout with mango that was delicious and special as we don't have that often.
@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
Tuna is my favorite fish but I can´t afford it even on Holidays. I only eat it when someone treats me to it. And, by far, this is the time I have seen more tuna around. Johann brought a big chunk of it from Easter Island.
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@tkonlinevn (6438)
• Vietnam
3 Jan 12
I know that you're in the New Year holidays. Wish you and your family the best wishes! We'll welcome our Tet holiday on January 23rd, 2012. We'll eat Banh Chung and Banh Day and many many other special foods. They're really too expensive and difficult to cook. I love them very much. My weight is usually increase after Tet holidays. I hope that you won't :)
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
Do tell us about your holidays, friend! I have learnt a lot about other places since I am at mylot!
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• China
3 Jan 12
I have not eaten cebiche ,even never heard of ,but the feeling will be very delicious ,must have the opportunity to taste , this year I have for many years not to eat "Goubuli"our hometown specialty , is especially good ,there are scrores of taste,I only had one part,this year I must put all the taste eat again .Ha-ha.
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
Cebiche is very easy to prepare. It has raw fish (cut it bit size), lemon, salt, pepper, onion thinly cut either lenthwise or diced and minced parsley. It is a popular dish in Chile and Peru, because we have a big Pacific coast.
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
8 Jan 12
Belated Happy New Year...marguicha! sorry so late! In the West Coast of Canada...we have the same, but is translated to "ceviche" (pronounced "seveshay") basically made the same way...but with added diced tomato and garlic...but we use Lime Juice for the preserving acid! Yes, cooking is a huge issue during the holidays (I think I make it so) For Sweets, it is Truffles, shortbread, pecan tarts, mince tarts, thumbprint cookies, Nanaimo bars, Rum Balls...etc., etc., and of course, Christmas pudding (a fruity dark pudding--made from fruit of a Happy Pot, with a Hot Rum Sauce!) And finger foods, are mini-sausage rolls, spicy chicken meat balls, mini-quiches, mini-samosa's, gravlox, smoked salmon, antipasto, and fresh prawns! And always trays of fresh veggies and fruit with dips! One of the real times we go overboard with food! The nice thing is that I can send all the sweets home with my son...and don't have the temptations left over! I heard from the Clinic on Thursday...and I am good to go for another 3 months, so that was a nice way to start the New Year! Hope you are getting to eat more, dear one! LUV & HUGZ
@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
9 Jan 12
Here we use different ways of spelling it as it is not an Spanish word but maybe a quechua one. Cebiche, ceviche, seviche, sebiche. They are the same and they are all wonderful. Some people add tomato if they have. I always add a bit of crushed garlic to anything I cook. I think that garlic and fish go together in reasonable amounts. I am eating almost everything now, but I eat small quantities. That is good, I hope. I went down 5 kilos in the 2 weeks I was ill. I shouldn´t have, not while in chemo. But as long as it was done, I´m glad to keep it that way. I went up 10 kilos in a little over a month when I quit smoking. Shouldn´t have done it, now that I think of it. Oh well!!! Noone can predict the future.
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@shaggin (72141)
• United States
17 Jan 12
I've never had cebiche. I've had normal tuna in a can lol but I am a vegetarian so I havent eaten any kind of meat since I was 7. Its been 21 years now. I love holiday eating as well. I dont like to spend much money on food so I buy all generic and dont splurge to make nice desserts or big dishes since its just the two kids and I and they are very picky. For holidays I like to make special things since I get to go to family dinners and share what I have made with others. And I get to eat all the yummy things everyone else brings to share as well. I put on like 5 pounds between thanksgiving and new years lol.
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Jan 12
I have cebiche once in Mexico. It was OK. My special thing for the holidays is mint M&Ms. :D
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
17 Jan 12
I didn't get to eat at all over the holidays this year. I have never heard of cebiche. Is it safe to eat raw fish? I've heard that it is safe if it is prepared properly, but I wouldn't know how to do it. I think it is interesting to hear how people eat in different parts of the world. I would like to try it some time.
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@megamatt (14292)
• United States
2 Jan 12
Never ate cebiche but it might sound rather interesting. The holiday does cause us many changes to really spurge. Perhaps a bit too much. I actually think that for me personally this year was just one of those years where I ate perhaps a bit less than I might have normally done. However, there have been times where I have discovered some intriguing dishes but none come to mind. Naturally a lot of them would not be something that I would eat every day.
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
2 Jan 12
Cebiche is one of those dishes that are almost always present in our holiday meals. We serve them either as appetizers or as an entree. But this is my first time of a cebiche made with such a fine fish.
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@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
Never been try to eat this cebiche.It is my first time to hear about it and never been see it in my entire life.I look at it at the net and find it yummy and delicious.I hope I could try and taste it in the near future or maybe I should try to learn to make it.
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
5 Jan 12
It is very easy to make. It has raw fish (cut it bit size), lemon, salt, pepper, onion thinly cut either lenthwise or dices and minced parsley if you want. If you like it hot, add some hot chile paste. Yummy!!! Can be prepared hours ahead and keep cold.
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@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
2 Jan 12
I haven't tried cebiche. It was actually new to me. I tried to search it on the net and I think it looks yummy and healthy as well.
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@marguicha (223099)
• Chile
2 Jan 12
We chileans share with our peruvian neighborgs the love for raw fish cooking in lemon. I like it with hot chile and diced tomato, but I don´t dare eat hot peppers yet.
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@enelym001 (8322)
• Philippines
3 Jan 12
Oh now I'm thinking we have the same one here... and we call it Kinilaw in my country But normally what we do with the tuna or any cubed and deboned fish is to put vinegar on it, chili peppers, minced ginger, minced onions, and lemon too. With some salt and pepper too I like spicy foods but I can't also eat any food which is sooo spicy
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