Favorite Holiday Meal: Main Course – What’s the Star of Your Feast?

[casportpony]

Favorite Holiday Meal: Main Course
What’s the Star of Your Feast?​

When it comes to holiday meals, it’s the main course that truly steals the show! Whether it’s a golden-brown roast, a tender glazed ham, or something unique to your family’s tradition, the main course is what everyone gathers around the table for. It’s the centerpiece of the celebration, the dish everyone’s waiting to savor.

So, what’s your go-to holiday main course? Is there a dish that makes your holiday meal complete, or do you mix things up every year? Share your favorite recipe, a funny holiday dinner memory, or just tell us what makes your main course the best part of the meal!

Check out our other holiday season favorites below:

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[muddy75]

This year is turkey breast and ham but we’ve had duck, roast beast, turkey, ham,and chicken in past years

 

[Pigeony]

I make bouillabaisse every year to carry on a family tradition and specifically in honor of my grandmother, who also cooked it every year in honor of her foremothers. Typically we do it for Christmas Eve dinner because Christmas itself is treated as more of a morning and lunch thing while Christmas Eve dinner is the more formal/extravagant meal. For actual Christmas, we usually do a roast or turkey lunch with traditional sides.

 

[AntiqueB]

We also do a big Christmas Eve meal of seafood. A couple kinds of fish, scallops, shrimp, and crabcakes were usual growing up, but as I work (unlike my mother), it's been vastly scaled down over the years. This year, it's going to be salmon and scallops.

Christmas Day dinner will likely be ham.

 

[Sally PB]

I think we'll have ham this year. It's too soon for another turkey.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Thanksgiving the bird, Christmas a Virginia spiral cut honey smoked ham and New Years a pork roast. I think I heard somewhere that pork on New Years is good luck. Stillll waiting.

 

[sourland]

Either turkey or a standing rib roast

 

[AGeese]

We also do a big Christmas Eve meal of seafood. A couple kinds of fish, scallops, shrimp, and crabcakes were usual growing up, but as I work (unlike my mother), it's been vastly scaled down over the years. This year, it's going to be salmon and scallops.

Christmas Day dinner will likely be ham.

This is us too with the seafood. My mom makes capellini served with stewed Merluzzo medalions in red sauce, fried halibut, and breaded califlower. But since we can't get whiting medalions anymore, she'll add scallops, we might try whatever cod we can get this year.

Still have the halibut, and I sautee shrimp, and scallops on the side too. Then a salad, garlic bread, but yes scaled way down... there used to be wine

 

[Altairsky]

One of the most traditional Christmas food we have in Veneto is boiled beef with pearà sauce. We boil beef and pork meat, beef tongue, and a hen for several hours, then we make a sauce with bone marrow, bread crumbles, the broth from the meat and a lot of black pepper.

Unfortunately every Christmas I am forced to go to my stepmother which is almost vegetarian. The only meat she eats is ultra processed tasteless fish drown in cinnamon, so my xmas are all pretty much disgusting every year.
I'll probably have salt-preserved fish, with canned stuff and other processed things out of jars or plastic boxes from the grocery store.

 

[AntiqueB]

One of the most traditional Christmas food we have in Veneto is boiled beef with pearà sauce. We boil beef and pork meat, beef tongue, and a hen for several hours, then we make a sauce with bone marrow, bread crumbles, the broth from the meat and a lot of black pepper.

Unfortunately every Christmas I am forced to go to my stepmother which is almost vegetarian. The only meat she eats is ultra processed tasteless fish drown in cinnamon, so my xmas are all pretty much disgusting every year.
I'll probably have salt-preserved fish, with canned stuff and other processed things out of jars or plastic boxes from the grocery store.

I wasn't sure if I should love this for the first part, or sad it for the second!