So what are your Christmas dinner plans/traditions?

[redhen]

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[debilorrah]

Mickey da MAN!!!! All my watches are MM watches, and I have more than just a few. My dining room wall is covered with Disney Lenox collectibles. I am a fanatic.

WOW we got way off topic here....

 

[English Chick]

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ROFL.......

 

[maplesky7]

My mom's having a ham dinner on Christmas.

One sister is living with her and another will come from out of town later in the afternoon...the other lives further but we saw her on Thanksgiving day and settled our gifts to each other's kids then.

I will invite my mom, aka Grandma...to spend the night and watch my children open gifts in the morning like we did last year.

My hubby will be home from Iraq in Jan. so I have reserved 2 small but special gifts (from daddy) for our girls and hid them away until then...so we can have a small celebration with daddy and he can check out his stocking and have a gift to unwrap when he gets back home.

me,
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oh and me and my sisters used to make naughty cookies before we had families...that was always a fun tradition. Nothin like seeing dad eat one that looked like a poo.

 

[maplesky7]

ha ha...i put ya back on topic.

 

[Stumpy]

Well, we have to have three meals, one with DH's family, which we are hosting this year, one with my father and one with my mother. We used to do brunch with my mother's side, but this year we're doing lasagna, pizza, salad and butterscotch pie for something really different, all on disposable plates, etc. to save work.

At our house DH's family will have turkey, dressing, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, lima beans, yeast rolls, coconut cake, Christmas cookies, chocolate pie, candies and snacks using the good china, crystal and silver. We entertain so rarely, we have to take the opportunity to use it.

These won't all be on the same day, of course.

 

[onebuggirl]

2 years ago I tried to start the tradition of Christmas Goose. It was yummy but very expensive and hard to find...last year was ham...blah and this year perhaps a new tradition begins...Prime rib/mashed potatoes/sweet potatoe fries/biscuits/broccoli/and key lime pie.

 

[AhBee01]

We celebrate Christmas Eve dinner with my family. We have a traditional Slovak dinner.
We set the table with an extra plate that stays empty to remind us of family that has passed away, and also to represent a place is always open in case someone should come knocking and need a warm place and a hot meal. We Serve sauerkraut soup, made with mushrooms and rice and juice from the sauerkrut, it is to remind us that life is sometimes bitter.
We also bless our foreheads with honey and a clove of garlic. The soup also is served with Oplatky. Which is a wafer bread like that for communion.
Bobalky is served which is small bread balls fried in sauerkraut and it too symbolizes life is bitter and sweet. Pierogi is also served which is a noodle dough filled with potato and cheese, with melted butter and sauteed onions on top.
We light a candle during dinner which is represents the light of Christ and it is then blown out and relit for each family member, it is to see if you will go to heaven or if you need to work on it!! If the smoke goes up you are ok, if it goes down you need to work on it.
There are more, but we have a hard time remembering everything now that the elders are gone, but we try our best!!!
We exchange gifts, and then eat yummy Kolache. Sing songs and have a few drinks!
Brenda

 

[onebuggirl]

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Could you post the recipes for all that I love saurkraut!!! Pierogies I have the recipe for but others might want it.

 

[gumpsgirl]

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What a great thing to do! I love that and will have to include that in our dinner for now on.

All of your traditions sound wonderful!