Multimedia Director Julie Ellerton hit the Malibu streets to ask locals about their family’s traditional holiday fare.
![“Every year on Christmas morning my mom makes peaches and cream french toast. I’m going home to New Hampshire ... my mom will make it for Brody [Jenner] and Linda [Thompson] and it will be the whole group of us on Christmas morning.”](https://i0.wp.com/malibutimes.com/wp-content/uploads/./2014/12/25/ff8bcb3558f6428528b5edc70a3af535.jpg?ssl=1 "ff8bcb3558f6428528b5edc70a3af535.jpg")
“Every year on Christmas morning my mom makes peaches and cream french toast. I’m going home to New Hampshire … my mom will make it for Brody [Jenner] and Linda [Thompson] and it will be the whole group of us on Christmas morning.”
“My grandmother … instead of potato latkes being straight potato she tried to make it healthier, if that’s possible, by adding a lot of vegetables. She would grate carrots, zucchini, whatever vegetable happened to be in her pantry at the time and she would just add that to the mix of the potato pancake and then that’s what she’d serve us for Chanukah, so that’s what has become the traditional thing that we do.”
“One of the traditional dishes in our family was green beans with Campbell’s mushroom soup and the French’s dried onion rings. It brings back memories from when I was a little kid. We traditionally served it on Thanksgiving and Christmas.”
“My grandmother and I used to make traditional sweet bread for the holidays around Christmas time. We’d take it over to my uncle’s house and have a party on Christmas Day and it was just a wonderful experience to bake with my grandmother while she was alive. Today, I still try and make it myself but it’s never the same.”
![“[My mother] would work two jobs and raised three kids but she always made cookies. My favorite were the sugar cookie cutouts. She would make all these different colored icings and we would get to paint snowmen, stars, holly berries and camels, that was our art ... my sister has carried on the tradition. When I opened the box I was transported back to my mother’s kitchen, I can smell the smells.”](https://i0.wp.com/malibutimes.com/wp-content/uploads/./2014/12/25/e1dd6c47c62a34cf4387c891ef78caf4.jpg?ssl=1 "e1dd6c47c62a34cf4387c891ef78caf4.jpg")
“[My mother] would work two jobs and raised three kids but she always made cookies. My favorite were the sugar cookie cutouts. She would make all these different colored icings and we would get to paint snowmen, stars, holly berries and camels, that was our art … my sister has carried on the tradition. When I opened the box I was transported back to my mother’s kitchen, I can smell the smells.”