{"id":140674,"date":"2016-12-27T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/140674\/christmas-often-means-special-palete-treats\/"},"modified":"2016-12-27T06:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T04:31:35","slug":"christmas-often-means-special-palete-treats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/opinion-edition\/2016\/12\/27\/christmas-often-means-special-palete-treats\/","title":{"rendered":"Juicy Tidbits &#8211; Festive favourites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The festive season is upon us and many homes are filled with delicious store bought or home-made treats.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas still remains one of my favourite times of the year; well for the most part. I don\u2019t enjoy the packed malls or Christmas carols playing on a loop, but I love the food.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>My favourite holiday treat has to be the simple and easy peppermint and caramel fridge tart, my grandmother taught me make years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Though it&#8217;s simple to make and ingredients are available, I patiently wait for Christmas day when I can enjoy this treat with my family as part of a yummy Christmas lunch.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to find what other people enjoy eating during the festive season, so posted the question on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some of the answers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Tamsyn Whitaker: \u201cI love roasted gammon with a bunch of roast potatoes; simply blissful.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Claire Erasmus: \u201cFruit cake with marzipan and royal icing; yummy.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Chane van Niekerk: \u201cI love eating gammon and mince pies over the festive season.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Kim Walton: \u201cI keep it simple with a piece of fruit cake and a nice cup of tea.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Caron Thomas: \u201cFruit mince pies are the best.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Amanda Hodgson: \u201cI can&#8217;t wait to have some roast gammon.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Hayley Hynd: \u201c Festive season pavlova is the best.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Samantha Keogh: \u201cI love plum pudding.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whatever you decided to tempt your taste buds with, I hope you have a very Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='19985668aef270f901cebe69abfcc82f'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The festive season has treats to tempt even the toughest taste buds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":140675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8518,509,6],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730],"class_list":["post-140674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-editors-note","category-opinion-edition","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Opinion","SubCategory":"Blogs"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}