What's Everybody Eating for Holiday Meals?

[Marilyn. 340]

well around these parts they usually have tamales..

and I usually bring some kind of salad and appetizer...

LOVE tamales for Christmas!

David's dad usually makes them and even David says he doesn't make them quite.. I did like the filling part but not the corn part ... David says his dad makes the corn part too thick or something...

this year they are having them made by someone else.. so I will give them another try..

[jundp 191]

According to P Christmas Day is the 24th....so for Christmas we're having Schnitzel Holstein (schnitzel with pineapple slice on top with a peach half on top of that, on toast with egg) and for the 25th, probably ham.

New Year's Day we have corned beef, cabbage, and black eyed peas. Cabbage is for financial wealth, black eyed peas is for emotional wealth, and the corned beef is for physical health. No idea where that tradition started but my dad always cooked it, so maybe it's a southern thing or an amalgamated British thing? Or just some thing he cooked up and slapped "tradition" onto

[jundp 191]

Oh yeah, I forgot to add we're making a giant Brezel for New Year's Day too. It must be the size of the cookie sheet

[Marilyn. 340]

for News Years my Grandma would always make New Years cookies... basically a raisin fritter and then we would eat them fresh dunked in icing sugar ... mmmm

[tom&tata 2]

New Year's Day we have corned beef, cabbage, and black eyed peas. Cabbage is for financial wealth, black eyed peas is for emotional wealth, and the corned beef is for physical health.

My FIL also cook cabbage & corned beef on New Year's Day. I have no idea either but it is good food for winter

[Sandrila 1]

I definitely was raised on the Christmas Eve 7 fishes

however now that I am older I have no idea what to make cuz most of those fishes I did not like at all

ok crab w/red sauce...fine

shrimp cocktail...fine

smelts........ewwwwwwww

sardines.....yuck

i cant think of the others...it was just a weird array of foods most of what I always looked forward to

any other fish ideas???

i will take indian fare anyday including christmas eve...love it and i am can cook it good too

oh yeah TUNA BALLS...that's right, tuna fish balls (as in meatballs) in red sauce

how many is that?? 5

there has to be more

brocolli rabe definitely

green beans with oil and red wine vinegar

sauteed mushrooms

wedding soup

pizelles

it's all coming back to me now

[Amby 490]

for new years eve I will probably drink so new years day will be spent looking for my shoes on the streets of NYC and puking and complaining

[Jasman0717 8]

We are going to my daughter's and they usually barbeque

[Nessa 23]

turkey

potato salad

green salad

greek rice (rice with veggies and raisins)

cranberry sauce (for hubby, i hate it)

for dessert i think i'll make peanut pavé

[tsunamihart 0]

This is the first year in many where I won't be cooking but just enjoying. Christmas eve is at our house but Cristina's brother is making the Spanish Cocido, a soup stew eaten as a soup first and then a 2nd course of it's meats and veggies, as Rachel Ray says "Yummo" and then on Xmas day we've been invited to a friends house for Roasted Pork Loin and Smashed potatoes, I am providing the salad and a fruit salad for that meal...

[JeanneVictoria 55]

We're having shrimp cocktail, tomatoes with basil and fresh mozarella cheese, standing rib roast, cornish hens, roasted vegetables, baby new potatoes, cornbread stuffing, caesar salad, apple pie and cheesecake.

I love the holidays!

[Laura+Tom 2]

Christmas Eve it'll be whatever I can be bothered to make as I'm on my own.

Christmas dinner we have for starters prawn cocktail, then traditional turkey, with gravy, cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts (yuck), peas and whatever other veg. For dessert it's either trifle or christmas pudding with brandy sauce. Then in the evening we usually have a buffet followed by some christmas cake.

Boxing Day is normally a ham buffet or something.

[Autumnchik 6]

I definitely was raised on the Christmas Eve 7 fishes

however now that I am older I have no idea what to make cuz most of those fishes I did not like at all

ok crab w/red sauce...fine

shrimp cocktail...fine

smelts........ewwwwwwww

sardines.....yuck

i cant think of the others...it was just a weird array of foods most of what I always looked forward to

any other fish ideas???

i will take indian fare anyday including christmas eve...love it and i am can cook it good too

Sometimes we had scungilli salad (which I hated as a kid and have not tried as an adult), calamari (yummy!), sole.