You need to try these sometime.
Posted on 12/24/2011 12:03:05 PM PST by traderrob6
If you're one of the many families that has a Christmas Eve eating tradition please give us your best.
Personally my wifes family had one when we got married....Oyster stew and rice with raisins, it was vile! Thankfully I got her off that and for 20 years we've had Super Jumbo Atlantic wild caught Shrimp and Jumbo Stone Crab claws MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM gooooooood.
Please post what you'll be having
I’m getting it all tonight. FRmail me if you are interested in finding some sources or recipes. I’ll do the best I can.
Tourtière, seafood newburg, pies: mincemeat and razzleberry, and Bûche de Noël
Chinese food! Egg Rolls,Pork Fried Rice,and some Lo Mein....MMMMM. Deck the Halls with Bows of HORRY FA RA RA RA RA Merry Christmas Everyone.
Me too, Christmas Eve the feast of the seven fishes: fried calamari, coconut shrimp, baked cod, mussels with white wine, crab legs, crab cakes and clam chowder.
That's so wild! When I got home from work the other night, there was a package waiting for me. My step-mother sent me a gift box from Katz's Deli in NY. Corned beef, rye bread, pickles, mustard, and 2 potato knishes!
Mark
Steak & Shrimp tonight. Turkey and traditional fixin’s tomorrow. DH has to have his holiday turkey. I’d like to try a prime rib or something but nope, it must be turkey.
6th Christmas without Mother here. First is very hard, doesn’t get much easier this time of year.
Family in Texas is have Tamales & fixin’s . . . not sure how that got started in recent years. Always been steak & shrimp. But tamales are popular with lots of folks in TX.
We used to do crab legs. Now that we no longer live in the dessert we have started a Thai food tradition. When back in the dessert next winter (God willing), we will go back to the crab legs. Go figure.
You made me cry, a little bit. I've already made plans to head back up to Las Vegas, NM between spring and summer.
I miss that food, and my friends there. Smiling Faces at the south end of town on Grand, and Little Saigon, at the north end of Grand, just east of the school and the Ford car dealership.
Both good places to eat, with good people that I will hug when I see them again.
/johnny
Hah I live in California and Christmas Eve is Open House night for family and friends with all the tamales, rice, and beans you can eat.
Sounds wonderful. I loooooooooove coconut shrimp! Merry Christmas to you.
Grew up in Albuquerque, but lived out of state for several years while DH was in the Air Force. Had my mom ship me green and red chile, masa seca and dried posole corn while I was gone so I could still prepare tradtional New Mexico food. I've only driven through Las Vegas, many times.....it's BEAUTIFUL!
Sea bass with pomodoro sauce and a salad.
After church snacks, cheese and crackers, sausage rolls, rosemary pecans, Christmas cookies, etc.
You need to try these sometime.
I really, really miss the roasted green chiles. I can't do them as well as the guys in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Stop at Happy Faces if you get the chance. The family runs the house, front and back. And they are good Christians. Good people, good food.
And what more does a human need?
/johnny
That’s what we have. Oyster stew and rice pudding for dessert.
Sounds like you married a really really good woman. Solid. And then ruined her. (teehee)
Merry Christmas.
(I guess you won’t be here for dinner. But the invite is always on)
I’m making Baked Spaghetti for Pan_Yan and our daughter to take to a beautiful Christmas Eve pot-luck dinner that they’ll be having with friends this evening.
Our son has pneumonia, so the two of us will stay home and he’ll keep me company while enjoying our appetizers of my holiday cheese ball with crackers and spinach dip on pumpernickel bread. We’ll keep warm while I bake dozens of cookies tonight.
All I want for Christmas is a healthy son.
This is my first Christmas without my father. He passed away last summer. I’m remembering the divinity that he waited all year for... and the pickled herring that he loved at Christmas. I miss him.
Prayers up for that.
/johnny
“Oyster stew...”
We have been on the Savannah waterfront today, and so far we have had a ceasar salad topped with Georgia shrimp while enjoying some house brews, and then a dozen oysters on the half shell with a good microbrewery beer (darft, of course). Tonight we are going to enjoy some good draft Guiness with some live Irish music. Perhaps we are beginning a tradition...
Thank you so much.
Merry Christmas.
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