Just wondering which type of meat you have at Christmas. We eat ham (we're usually turkeyed out from Thanksgiving).

Hubby wants to deep fry a turkey again

Saludos,
Caro

We have turkey because it's the only time my kids (from Canada) get to eat my stuffing, which is the ONLY stuffing they like in the whole world.

Our Canadian Thanksgiving is in October, so Canadians are ready for turkey again by December.

My hubby (the USC) would like to have prime rib roast one year, so maybe we'll fall away from tradition one year.

Our national meal is a fish soup (with male "sperms" and female eggs in it), fried carp (that´s a fish) and potato salad. That´s what I have had every single Xmas
Don´t know if I will wanna have it once in USA, cuz I have found a carp there and tried to make it and there they probly don´t breed it in good waters or I dunno but it was a bit smelly to me

(For the ones wondering...here we breed carps in good waters and it´s really delicious..yum yum yum)

we have ham and turkey. mom wants to make sure everyone is happy.

I think this is true of most Canadians. I know of no one in Canada that didn't have turkey at Christmas. Again, our Thanksgiving is in October, so turkey at Christmas is not too soon. My husband (the USC) has prime rib at Christmas, so that's what we're going to do this year. My in-laws are coming for a few days during the new year for a another little Christmas celebration, and we're going to have a spiral ham.

Carla

We have ham and turkey at my house for Christmas dinner. I'm not sure what we'll be having if I'm still in Egypt at Christmas.

we eat baked ziti and chicken marsala...oy, italian americans, when will they cease to be so ridiculous?

Roast beast.

Wow, I really do have a lot of edit time.

turkey..same as thanksgiving....new years is the big celebration in our home

We only do turkey for Thanksgiving, and MAYBE ham for Easter, but that's usually lamb. FOr Christmas my mum makes a fab standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding, potatoes, veggies, etc. It's just weird that my mum started making Yorkshire pudding years ago....LONG before anyone knew I'd end up marrying a Yorkshireman.

And this Christmas, IN Yorkshire, my father-in-law will be cooking a Christmas goose....no Yorkshire pudding.

My mom always makes a standing rib roast with various sides. Christmas Eve is usually a bunch of appetizers and snacky type stuff.

Christmas Eve is Chinese food of the authentic Szechuan type. Christmas Day is usually whatever my aunt makes and puts out at her house. Usually a lot of appetizers and glazed ham (YUCK).

takeout Chinese food so no one has to cook. Usually the extended family gets together twice, Christmas Day and another day during the season so that other family members can be there. One of those days it's Chinese food and the other it's a buffet kind of thing with appetizers, crackers and cheese, deli meat, wine, that sort of thing... we go to my cousin's house and there are a lot of people crowded in a small house, it's really easier not to cook. Leaves more time for talking to each other.

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.

Cool. It's interesting to find out what traditions others have. We do our dinner on Christmas eve with a Honey Baked Ham, au gratin potatoes, veggies, hot wassail, rolls, and salad. On Christmas Day, we just snack on all the goodies we've gotten for Christmas.

we just do a big buffet table w/ snack foods...couple deli trays, differnt types of breads, veggie tray, crock pot full of cheese dip, sausage balls, lil smokies, some desserts...etc. it works out pretty well & its not a big ordeal to clean up.

We save the ham for Easter and we eat prime rib for Christmas.

christmas eve we do a roast goose, roast pork (with the skin on it), red cabbage, potatoes, and gravy.

christmas day we have a traditional danish smorrebrod. hours and hours of food that include left overs from the night before, all kinds of cold salads with different herrings, shrimp salad, salmon salad, ham with italian salad, roast beef, sliced ham, sausages, liver pate, danish cheeses, breads, and so on.

i can't wait! i wasn't in town last christmas and missed it! i think this year i'll make a princess cake and some other scandanavian desserts.

Christmas at my mom and dad's house usually consist of a ham and cheese potatos. But the last few years she has not had that. Its been more of snacking over there. And for my husband we will probably just stay home and have whatever he would like to cook up. Nothing special for us, except that we are together finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

christmas eve my family has chinese take out

christmas day my dad cooks a prime rib roast.

Well, last year we had Turducken and Prime Rib (there were 16 people!), this year we will be having beef wellington just for 4

My Nan used to always make turkey, beef, lamb and ham. She died this time last year...WAILS!!! Now i'm in the US.....this will be my first christmas at the in-laws house.... i'm guessing they will make turkey (they bleedin better!)

We have both ham and turkey, so I voted for other.

...and also speaking of traditions...in my country Baby Jesus brings us presents on Xmas Eve (24th right? )...the whole day we are supposed to fast so we can see a golden piglet
then in the evening we have the festive dinner and also special kind of xmas sweets (lotsa different kinds) and pressies come after....Xmas Day (25th) and the day after are special holidays and we go visit other members of our family

The prime rib sounds pretty good. We may have to adopt that one year.

We usually make a HUGE pot of dolma, roasted chicken, rice with meat an pine nuts, salads, lots of appitizers, lots of alcohol, and ofcourse desserts.

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.

Cheese fondue for us:)

Goose on Boxing day, yummy!

That sounds very tasty. The cinnamon rolls and the schnitzel. I haven't had any schnitzel since last winter. My fiancée likes preparing German dishes and especially since I'm of German heritage myself.

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.

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.

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)

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!

Turkey with all the trimmings
MMM Yum!

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

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!!

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!

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.

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

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.

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).

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

Prime rib on Xmas Day.

We have brunchy stuff.

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.

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.

We do the exact same thing. As family gets more spread out, the number of seafood and pasta dishes has dwindled. Definitely not 7 fishes anymore ... more like 4 or 5 now. An antipasto to start and Italian pastires to finish round out the meal. I love the food on Xmas Eve so much that I would prefer to eat leftovers rather than another big meal on Xmas Day ... but hubby is looking forward to the prime rib this year

Hi,

Would have the Paneer Chilly with Hot Indian Bhaturas and also some starters.

Jigi

In Poland we dont eat meat on Christmas Eve, so we have mostly fishes, pierogi, soups and other traditional Christmas dishes (that we never eat on any other day besides Christmas Eve). On Christmas day we can eat everything we want. So we eat all the kinds of meats and other stuff.

Merry Christmas to all

My fiance is coming in one week!!!!!! Oh I cant wait

Roast beef (prime rib) must come under "Other -- please explain"??? SACRILEGE!!

We have had turkey on Christmas from time to time, but the killer traditional Christmas dinner in our family has and always will be roast beef, with Yorkshire pudding and the usual sides, plus plum pudding with hard sauce and a choice of pumpkin or mincemeat pie.
Christmas Eve is another thing altogether -- it's the big day (night) in Latin cultures, and Noche Buena is done up with pernil (roast pork). Plus sabajón (basically egg nog spiked with aguardiente). We used to just have a spaghetti dinner when I was a kid on Christmas eve . . . no more.

I voted other.

We always have a huge seafood feast on christmas feast on chirstmas eve. and then a late christmas morning brunch which includes ricotta pancakes, omlettes, whatever fruit we can find in season or imported that is good, Lebanese sauages, an assortments of baked goods- crossiants, scones, muffins usually.

Christmas night is all about leftovers.