When all of the presents are unwrapped and all the relatives have returned home, you're left with a kitchen full of leftovers. Put them to good use with these no-fail ways to enjoy your holiday favorites in original, healthy recipes.
Ham and Swiss Bread Pudding
Can't eat another ham sandwich? Use your leftover smoked ham to add savory flavor to this casserole. And though the recipe calls for Hawaiian bread rolls, you can use French bread or any slightly sweet bread to bring out the salty ham or nutty cheese flavors.
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portion of a longer timeout. A national holiday, the day after Christmas (also
called St. Stephen's Day) has come to be known as Boxing Day. The origin of its
name is largely unknown. One theory suggests the date was a day off for servants
who would receive a Christmas box from their employers to take home to their
families. Another proposes that great ships setting sail would have a sealed box
full of money onboard for good luck. If the voyage was a success, the box was
given to the church and the contents donated to the poor on this day.
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Whatever its roots, its quintessentially British traditions are steeped in
history, of which soccer is the centerpiece for many.
The tradition of soccer
on Boxing Day dates to 1860, when the world's oldest and second-oldest clubs the
first interclub match constructors. Hallam and Sheffield played a game under
Sheffield Rules, to 19th-century interpretation of today's modern sport that
still permitted participants to catch the ball with their hands.
Derby matches were once contrived to fall on Dec. 26, bypassing the computer
that randomly decides the schedule for the rest of the season. That particular
tradition is now neglected in the upper echelons of English soccer. The past two
seasons have had only two genuine derbies, with Fulham drawing with Chelsea in
2011 and West Ham winning at Craven Cottage the year before that. Only Arsenal
and West Ham represented such a clash this year, until planned London
Underground strikes for Wednesday forced a postponement.
These local games
were devised to ensure that supporters would not have to travel long distances
at a time of the year that revolves around the home.
Those who perhaps would not or could not attend their local team's games for
a majority of the season would go to the Boxing Day derby, in much the same way
some Christians might attend only Christmas Eve services.
Perhaps it is an
indictment of modern soccer's precedence that this consideration is now
dismissed. Or maybe the authorities simply decided that holding feisty derby
matches fueled by alcohol was probably not the best way to mark the holidays.
(At one game between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United in 1979, players
and supporters took Boxing Day a little too literally, and more than 50 were
arrested.)
The most remarkable Boxing Day occurred in 1963, when 157 goals were scored
in 39 games, with Fulham registering at 10-1 win over Ipswich Town. Liverpool
defeating Stoke City, 6-1; Blackburn Rovers West Ham routing, 8-2; and Burnley
topping Manchester United, 6-1.
Surprisingly, when United met Burnley again
two days later, it scored five goals. Likewise, Ipswich defeated Fulham, 4-2,
and West Ham also completed an unlikely turnaround, beating Blackburn by 3-1.
As far as the rest of Europe is concerned, sports on Dec. 26 is a uniquely
British. In Germany, the Bundesliga takes a six-week break in December and
January. France similarly enters a state of hibernation, and some Eastern
European countries changed all sporting endeavors until March.
But in Britain
(Scotland's Premier League also has a full slate of games), the festivities are
a time honored and much-loved highlight of the sporting calendar, despite a
degree of clamor from some for a continental-style winter break.
Outsiders question why the most games are played at the most volatile time of
the year. (Many lower-level teams will be unable to complete their schedules for
months because of unplayable fields.) Insiders might not have an
answer.
British Boxing Day sports, in general, has a long and storied
history. Dog-led fox hunts were a popular pastime, particularly among the upper
classes, until the sport was outlawed in 2005. Horse racing was also a Dec. 26
staple, with the King George VI Chase still hosted every year at Kempton
racecourse.
Rugby once operated a schedule similar to soccer's until adopting a summer
season in 1996. One Boxing Day tradition that has withstood time along with
soccer is the urge to take to the sea, as participants don novelty costumes and
plunge into the icy waters. That custom puts typical British eccentricity on
full display "all along the shoreline.
But no other sport can claim a
stronger influence of good will over the holidays than soccer. Even during World
War I, British and German troops called a temporary truce over Christmas to play
a game with each other between their trenches.
Festive traditions tend to outlast their practicality; the explanation for
the name Boxing Day is a testament to that. Although the custom of soccer on the
day after Christmas might have been diluted somewhat over the years, its place
on the calendar is still marked.
Soccer and Christmas have changed
significantly since Hallam and Sheffield played for the first time in 1860, but
some traditions are seen as worth preserving.
