What do you have for Christmas Dinner

[Lou Lou 1]

We volunteer at a soup kitchen so dinner if often pickings from there and a few bottles of wine when we get home. I'm really glad we do this as it takes all the pressure off Christmas and a chance to give back in the community. It is very humbling to see how many homeless people there are who survive the atrocious VT winters.

[chri'stina 190]

We usually have Italian food for Christmas day, mixed with a few other things. The Italian food consists of some kind of pasta, with homemade fettuccine and tomato sauces, and meatballs, and locatelli romano cheese to sprinkle on top. There might be some ham on the side, salad, bread, and now we also make something Indian, samosas usually. My grandfather(now in heaven) started the Italian food at Christmas tradition I think, he was fully Italian. His family passed down the most delicious meatball and tomato sauce recipes which are made on Christmas and sometimes on Easter too.

We don't have a special meal on Christmas Eve. For about 10 years now we have gone to a close family friends house on Christmas Eve, it's really fun, and they have a lot of finger foods and desserts there.

Edited December 12, 2007 by stina&suj

[Saddle Bronc 124]

For me, the ideal meal would be chicken biryani, matar-paneer with side of chapatis.

(I can get the biryani and chapatis easily, but Pras doesn't really like ricotta cheese (paneer), so veggie or chicken korma will be substituted)

[lubezee 0]

Roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, cauliflower and broccoli with cheese sauce, sweet potato or butternut, fluffly white rice. And off course, real good red wine.

Yum, i'm hungry already!

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Turkey with all the trimmings

MMM Yum!

On New Years day we usually have prime rib or ham with scalloped potatoes

[jodee 30]

When I am home in Australia, its is usually, seafood, like king prawns, and garden and pasta salads, bread rolls, lots of beer, and wine,...maybe even cold ham and chicken cooked the day before,..and we are either sitting inside to enjoy airconditioning, or out in the yard under the shade of a tree, or around a pool or at the beach,..kids are usually playing cricket, or running around in the yard,..no better way to spend christmas!!

Edited December 12, 2007 by jodee

[sereia 0]

We usually have Italian food for Christmas day, mixed with a few other things. The Italian food consists of some kind of pasta, with homemade fettuccine and tomato sauces, and meatballs, and locatelli romano cheese to sprinkle on top. There might be some ham on the side, salad, bread, and now we also make something Indian, samosas usually. My grandfather(now in heaven) started the Italian food at Christmas tradition I think, he was fully Italian. His family passed down the most delicious meatball and tomato sauce recipes which are made on Christmas and sometimes on Easter too.

We don't have a special meal on Christmas Eve. For about 10 years now we have gone to a close family friends house on Christmas Eve, it's really fun, and they have a lot of finger foods and desserts there.

wow i love this post and hearing all about everyone's traditions!

stina, would you please please please give up that recipe? i'm so curious!

[Nessa 23]

turkey. I'll probably cook arroz a grega maybe mashed potatoes, not sure yet. I'll cook for husband those cranberries with the real fruit ( I don't eat that ) and I guess that's enough. I had frozen the leftover of Thanksgiving's stuffing but we lost power so I'll be trowing away and I don't know if I'll cook more of that.

[Queen Jenn 0]

We don't do dinner for Christmas. We do brunch with French toast, omelettes, cookies, croissants, cookies, bacon, cookies, sausage, and, oh yes, some Christmas cookies.

Yum.

Well in years past it's usually been a Christmas ham. On Christmas day, late lunch. This year I'll be in Germany and it will be Schnitzel Holstein on Christmas Eve (according to P the "real Christmas"). I suppose we'll do Schnitzel Holstein on 12/24 and ham on 12/25 in future years to make everyone happy

And almost always homemade cinnamon rolls Christmas morning.

Mmmmmmm, I haven't had a good schnitzel in ages!! Now I'm craving it!!

[Mary Lou 681]

Turkey, mashed potatos, gravy, squash, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, 2 veggies, probably corn and beans, deviled eggs, black olives,.....then pie and cookies for dessert. I pretty much stick to the menu my mom use to make for Christmas.

[jundp 191]

We volunteer at a soup kitchen so dinner if often pickings from there and a few bottles of wine when we get home. I'm really glad we do this as it takes all the pressure off Christmas and a chance to give back in the community. It is very humbling to see how many homeless people there are who survive the atrocious VT winters.

I like that. I've worked at a soup kitchen before but never during Christmas. It's something I'd like to do with my kids (they actually wanted to do it this year at Thanksgiving but there wasn't any openings when we called...surprisingly enough).

[no name 1]

We do Italian seafood + pasta on Xmas Eve (part of the traditional Italian 7 Fishes Meal)

Prime rib on Xmas Day.

[caybee 21]

We have brunchy stuff.

[chri'stina 190]

We usually have Italian food for Christmas day, mixed with a few other things. The Italian food consists of some kind of pasta, with homemade fettuccine and tomato sauces, and meatballs, and locatelli romano cheese to sprinkle on top. There might be some ham on the side, salad, bread, and now we also make something Indian, samosas usually. My grandfather(now in heaven) started the Italian food at Christmas tradition I think, he was fully Italian. His family passed down the most delicious meatball and tomato sauce recipes which are made on Christmas and sometimes on Easter too.

We don't have a special meal on Christmas Eve. For about 10 years now we have gone to a close family friends house on Christmas Eve, it's really fun, and they have a lot of finger foods and desserts there.

wow i love this post and hearing all about everyone's traditions!

stina, would you please please please give up that recipe? i'm so curious!

I'm sorry I don't have it at my house. My mom(who is not Italian but is good at making it!) and aunt have it. If I get a hold of it sometime I'll let you know.

[Caladan 19]

My mother always gets one of those awful glazed hams. We're doing Christmas on our own this year and we haven't decided the entree yet but NO HAM.