I love to give things away, especially around Thanksgiving and the Christmas Holiday season. It makes me feel good to put a smile on someone’s face. You all know I like to sit on my back porch and partake in the enjoyment of Community Coffee each morning. My friends at Community Coffee sent me one of their holiday blends, Bread Pudding, to sample. The timing was perfect, as my next door neighbor just delivered a fresh bread pudding she made using the Mexican vanilla I brought her from our recent cruise. That little treat, along with the medium-dark roast Bread Pudding blend from Community Coffee hit the spot!
Community Coffee also shared with me the many discount codes and specials they are offering for all of you who are missing that little slice of Louisiana. The Christmas season here is like no other, and I will admit that this year we’re going all out like no other in my household. I plan on checking out the lights in downtown Baton Rouge, enjoy a Papa Noel deal at a New Orleans hotel (complete with a drive through City Park), and even make my way down to Lutcher to see the bonfires being built along the levee. The bonfires are unique to this area and is something one should see at least once in their lifetime. Bonfires are constructed along the Mississippi River levee and they aren’t your normal bonfire either. These are works of art that are lit on Christmas Eve to light the way for Papa Noel.
One item visitors should bring along on any of these outings is a fresh brewed thermos of Community Coffee. To celebrate this season of giving, Community Coffee is providing my readers (you) the chance to sample all of the holiday blends in your own, limited edition holiday tumbler. Just leave a comment with a holiday tradition that makes the holiday season special for you and your family. Once winner will be randomly chosen and I’ll contact you by email to find out where to send this comforting gift. Contest ends at 11:59pm CST this Cyber Monday, November 30, 2009. Winner will be announce on this site sometime on Tuesday, December 1, 2009. (US Residents only, 18 or older)
Can’t wait to see who wins? Check on this post all through the contest as new Community Coffee online deals will be revealed!
Deals and Specials:
Free Shipping on Holiday Gift Sets. Use promo code JINGLE
Tuesday 11/24 – $2 off all Private® Reserve coffees
Thursday and Friday (11/26-27) – 20% off all orders that include a holiday gift set (promo code GIFT)
Cyber Monday 11/30 – 20% off all orders AND free shipping!
Winner Update: Congrats to Cindy Merrill who commented “For the holidays I usually request venison from hunters ( the older the animal, the better) because Venison Mincemeat pies are delicious. I’m not lucky thus far, no hunter has offered me any.”
Cindy, when I was a little girl, my parents would bring me to Simpson, LA to visit my aunt Bonnie. She and her husband are big deer hunters. For breakfast she would make her big fluffy homemeade biscuits and serve them with fried backstrap and some fresh brewed Community Coffee. I hope you get some venison soon and enjoy the holidays with your prize.
I think our family tradition of doing a LOT of baking and distributing cookies is a wonderful way we make the season special.
This is one of the rare occasions I wish I was a US resident! I’ve heard so much about this coffee, I’m dying to try it.
Oh, well! Back to the Douwe Egberts!
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Well one Holiday tradition we have carried on for over 39 years, is that when we were first married and very poor. I couldn’t not afford a nice Christmas present for my husband so I bought him a box of Chocolate covered cherries and a can of peanuts. I continue to do this to this day and we always have a good laugh over it.
Coffee lover here. I’m a Christmas cookie baker. This year, I’ll be starting a new tradition of baking cookies with my two-year-old granddaughter. We’ll be wearing our matching Christmas aprons. Hers says “Anna.” Mine reads “Granny D.”
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Coffee is my life. Can’t live without it. Our family tradition for Christmas is making all types of fish on Christmas Eve, because we are Sicilian.
One of my most favorite Christmas Traditions is when my family gets to travel to the mountains and spend Christmas in a log cabin. We get our tree there and each family brings something for the tree. One lights, one hanging cookies, one candy canes, one bows. Ir’s a very simple look, but heart warming. We had around seventeen stockings on the mantle. On Christmas eve we go into Gatlinburg and we all buy stocking stuffers for each one. It usually snows while we are shopping. Each family picks a night to cook. I always cook gumbo and we bring Community Coffee m-m-m-m-m
My parents always took me out for a long drive sometime near Christmas to see all of the holiday lights in downtown Detroit and other places around town. It’s a tradition Tim and I still follow–we cruise downtown, then out along Lakeshore Drive along the Detroit River (where, in the past, there have been some pretty spectacular light displays at the massive homes there). The past few years, we stop at Fishbone’s for dinner–usually some gumbo and apps, getting an order of jambalaya to take home and split for dinner the next day (it was packed for a party last year, and we had to go elsewhere…but I’m hoping for gumbo this year again!).
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Each year we buy a new ornament for the tree and talk about the older ornaments as we decorate for Christmas.
Keith- Have you called Community Coffee to see if they’ll ship it to you? I’ve never had to ask. Of course it wouldn’t be cheap. But nothing good is! Lol
My family always gets new pajamas on Christmas eve so that we look nice for our Christmas morning pictures. We also have Æbleskiver’s for breakfast (our traditional Danish fare).
One of my favorite holiday traditions is to make Pies with my sisters Annie, Gwen and Minnie. We make sweet potato, coconut and lemon chess. We always have the coffee pot going with some good ole Community Coffee.
We always have a huge and very special Christmas brunch after we open stockings and presents. Very festive and fancy!
I love the New Orleans Christmas traditions which my husband’s family continues each year: Christmas caroling in Jackson Square, decorating the houses with gorgeous green trees and fragrant wreaths just after Thanksgiving, and a huge Christmas dinner of oyster dressing, gumbo, turkey, and all the trimmings! And CC coffee as a finish, of course.
Nothing like a feast with family in the Ozarks next to Mark Twain National Forrest overlooking the Bull Shoals Lakes. Happy Thanksgiving to all My Friends and Family
Detroit’s Thanksgiving parade.
We have game night at my in-laws’ house on Christmas Day with lots of friends and neighbors!
The coffee sounds so tempting but sadly Australians are excluded
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We have a nice sit down dinner and try to make it special – this is on a different day than xmas or the kid’s heads would explode. We just take our time and enjoy.
we make pecan pie together with directions from mom . nothing taste better when everyone is helping mverno@roadrunner.com
For the holidays I usually request venison from hunters ( the older the animal, the better) because Venison Mincemeat pies are delicious. I’m not no lucky thus far, no hunter has offered me any.
My mom and I make cookies and candies and send them to our family members far away.
Our family holiday meal is a special time to see people who live far away and enjpy their company. And of cousrse a tasty meal makes everyone happy.
Our son is four, so we love to go on the Polar Express train ride with him every year. This year will be extra special because my husband has been away for 20 months (military) – and now he’s home!!
WE LOVE COFFEE!!
We always try to cook treats every holiday season: chex mix, caramel corn, rice crispie bars, various cookies, puppy chow, lefse, etc…
The biggest tradition that has happened since I was child is for our family to gather together Christmas Eve morning and open gifts and then have a great turkey for lunch.
We pick one present from under the Christmas tree to open on Christmas eve.The rest we open Christmas morning.We also get new pj’s on Christmas Eve.
Thanks for the giveaway:)
Our special night is Christmas Eve. Everyone gathers at my house and we have pizza, exchange gifts, and watch one of my favorite movies, “A Christmas Story”. We always have such a great time.
We send a silly gift back (a really loud, awful-colored, ugly knit hat someone got one Christmas) back and forth among family members. Every year someone else gets this “gift.” I guess you would call it an inside family joke, but somehow it reinforces our connection as a family. You never know if you will get the “gift” or how it will arrive–sometimes as a mystery package, sometimes it just “appears” under the Christmas tree. Thanks for the chance to win!
We always have a Christmas Eve Hungarian goulash dinner with family friends (who have been friends so long they ARE family.) And we so love it!
Breadpudding is one of my favorite desserts – you have totally peaked my interest in the coffee!
Our family tradition when I was a kid was to count all of the xmas trees we saw on our way to Christmas Eve Church service. We lived in the countryside, so it was a long 30 minute drive into town – lots of counting!
We always drive around looking at the holiday lights and decorations. I always give my children calenders in their stockings.
Pie and coffee makes the Holidays fun
Each year we buy a new ornament for the tree and talk about the older ornaments as we decorate for Christmas
Our Holiday tradition is breakfast at my sisters on Christmas Day
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One tradition that’s special to us is hanging an ornament for each family member who lives too far away to come to our homes to hang it for him/herself.
Our Family Tradition was our late Parents Celebrated their Wedding Anniversary on Christmas Eve they were married during WWII in 1942 at 11PM so Christmas Eve we always had a special dinner then Christmas Morning a special Breakfast and you had to eat be dressed before you could open presents .
Our favorite tradition is on christmas ever watching how the grinch stole christmas and having popcorn
We like to drive to Frankenmuth, Michigan to look at the beautiful holiday decorations and visit the famous Bronner’s Christmas store where you can find every Christmas ornament imaginable. It’s very fun.
Tradition – the night before Christmas we go to my parents’ house, and exchange gifts. Then it’s off to home to put the little ones to bed, and wait for Santa
Our holiday tradition is to go out and cut down our own Christmas tree from a local tree farm. We’ve been going there for nearly 30 years, and it’s just not Christmas until we find THE tree!
Since our family lives far away–
it’s always a tradition to see them Every Holiday!
My cousins are muslim, Others Catholic and Christian
but we all get together anyway::just to be together~
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We open one present on Christmas Eve and it is always a jigsaw puzzle. When the puzzle is complete, it is bedtime.
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My favorite holiday tradition is watching all the animated Christmas specials with my children.
My fav family tradition is baking cookies the week before Christmas
We always take walks around the neighborhood to look at all the wonderful lights people put on their homes
A recent tradition I started was buying my mom a different Christmas coffee blend every year for a gift.
Community Coffee is the best. I grew up in New Orleans and there isn’t a better coffee anywhere.
Our holiday tradition is to drive around to see all of the Christmas lights.
One holiday tradition that makes the holiday season special for me and my family is popping open Christmas crackers, an English tradition. Then we each wear the paper hats that come inside. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love picking out the Christmas tree with my family.
My family always watches National Lampoon’s “Christmas Vacation”!
We always watch Frosty the snowman.
we have cookies for breakfast on Christmas morning… which reminds me… I better get baking! lol
We bake many different types of cookies. I can’t wait to start! hehe
My favorite holiday tradition is going to my Aunt’s house on Christmas Eve! It’s one of the only times of the year I see my mom’s side of the family.
Great giveaway!
When our children were very young, their Pop Pop would tease them on Christmas Eve by saying that he had lots of presents for them, but had given them to a little girl by the name of Mary! Our then 3 year old daughter cried and cried until Pop Pop confessed that he had not given away the presents, and that she would indeed receive something from under the tree. Now my daughter is nearly 30 years old and we still check to make sure that Mary has not made off with all the presents.
One my favorite holiday tradition is baking a tart from a recipe that has been passed down from generations in my mom’s family. My grandmother and mother would make it every holiday season and now I do too.
Our tradition is eating pizza on christmas eve
Singing in our church choir, which begins with an early service for kids at 5:30 on Christmas eve, and concludes with an 11:00 pm Christmas eve service, which puts us on the interstate around 1:00 am.
Love decorating the house and tree with our daughter, once my husband has all of the items out of the closet.
Like opening one present on Christmas eve, then opening gifts as a family early on Christmas morning.
we have a huge christmas eve party at my mom’s, always a lot of fun!
Even though my kids are almost grown, they get one of those kiddie advent calendars on the 1st of December every year, and then we buy and decorate the tree. Even though my son is in college now, he still likes this tradition.
We all watch “Its A Wonderful Life” on Christmas Eve
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Every year we go for a winter hike of sorts to pick out our tree – we make a day of it. Its a lot of fun
Every year our whole family rents a hall and wehave dinner with everybody and we also give out gifts.
The whole family gets together for Christmas at my sister’s house – her table groans under the weight of all the food! It’s a nice relaxing time, and the one time a year we are all together,
Thanks for the giveaway!
Oh, we love Community because we lived in New orleans for 8 years and just loved that coffee. Miss it so!
Anyway, our tradition is to make a cake called a drum cake which is a multi layer sponge cake with chocolate icing. So yummy!
The four of us in our family sneak surprises into each others stockings prior to Christmas morning. It’s always funny to see people peek in their stockings in the wk or two before Christmas to see if there are any early gifts there! We also love our Christmas mornings stockings that are filled to the brim and overflowing. Thanks.
Love Community Coffee! We always go to the Christmas Tree Farm and pick out are tree. The kids and I bake cookies too.
We put Chocolate Oranges in each Christmas Stocking, and the kids, big and small love it, and very much look forward to it.
We drink hot cocoa, open 1 gift and watch christmas movies all day on christmas eve!
My holiday tradition is decorating the Christmas tree.
Baking Christmas Cookies together
My wife and I put up the Christmas tree every year sometime between Thanksgiving day and the weekend. We have two trees–one for her ornaments and one for mine
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We enjoy giving to those less fortunate during the holiday season. We usually adopt a Salvation Army family or make care packages for soldiers and/or the elderly. It’s a good reminder for us and a great lesson for our children.
My family opens presents first thing in the morning together and spends the rest of the morning eating breakfast…but this year is the first year that I will be waking up to my husband in our own house and not in town just to visit. I love being back in my home town of NOLA!
Happy Holidays!
My family moved to Colorado from Louisiana when I was only 6 1/2 years old. My sister and I are now grown with children of our own. On Christmas Eve, we all go to my mom’s. We have a cajun meal with gumbo, jambalaya, and etouffee. We then exchange gifts and afterwards, all of us girls and our kids drive around town and look at all the Christmas lights.