Unofficial Christmas Eve Culinary Traditions Thread

12/24/11 | traderrob

[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

[BlackVeil]

LOL! Triple LOL!

More seriously, I prepare food in advance, and usually have a vegie stew with white jasmine rice on Christmas eve.

Away with diets and heathy eating! I eat wholemeal rice for the rest of the year.

The left over jasmine rice appears the next day made into a rice salad, served with roast meats.

[trisham]

I'm a native of New England, but my husband and I love Southern cooking and traditions. He's a wonderful cook, whose Swedish grandmother began teaching him when he was a very, very young child.

I also like root beer. :)

[traderrob6]

Kinda the same situation we ran into when me moved from Iowa to Moultrie, Ga. Grits and fried backfat.

[trisham]

Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us. And Joseph rising up from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him, and took unto him his wife. And he knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

Prayers are on the way, friend. A blessed Christmas to you and your family!

[trisham]

Wow!

Just...Wow! :)

[susannah59]

Today and tonight it's a Posole-style soup (not really authentic Posole, I made it up, but we all liked it) and tamales I bought from a Tex-Mex bakery. I have some empanadas, too, and cookies (I made the cookies).

I don't remember if we had a Christmas Eve tradition when I was growing up. After all of us were grown, the family usually had our Christmas meal and gift unwrapping on Christmas Eve then everyone went to in-laws for Christmas Day. Since we've lived far away in Texas it's varied from year to year.

Tomorrow it's all Southern, with ham, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green beans, sweet potatoes, and deviled eggs. Pumpkin pie and a chocolate pie, and of course cookies. I'm the only one who eats fruitcake so I don't make that. I've got some frozen dressing I made for Thanksgiving I'm going to thaw and bake, too.

The macaroni and cheese and deviled eggs may not sound like traditional holiday food but my mother always made those for Thanksgiving and Christmas when her grandchildren were small because they all liked those, and my sons still want them for the holidays.

[Domestic Church]

Crab and cheddar fondue from mid afternoon and then pizzas this evening.

[trisham]

It's a long family tradition for us to have seafood on Christmas Eve. We're having shrimp gyoza "potstickers", and baked stuffed shrimp. We often have lobster and oysters on the half shell as well, but by the time my husband got to the grocery store, the line was at least 45 minutes long. Still, his potstickers are unbelievably delicious.

Tomorrow we'll have roast stuffed turkey, sweet potatoes, asparagus and pumpkin pie with whipped cream.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Thank you for the prayer.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Thank you.

[sayuncledave]

Our Christmas Eve fare is pretty dull. Jamnet and I opted for Christmas Eve Vigil Mass this year, with three of the five 6 and under. Two six-year old girls can be a challenge to hold up simultaneously at Midnight Mass. ;)

Our family get-togethers start tomorrow, and that’s when the food fun happens for us. But all of these sound so good.

Pan_Yans Wife, JRandomFreeper, you’re in my prayers tonight, as are all here, but especially you two. God bless you all.

May you all have a Merry, Blessed Chrsitmas.

Dave
who will see you guys later.

[fso301]

Bacon and Cinammon swirl french toast for breakfast. A lobster for lunch. Dinner is “The Sandwich”. Capicola, Proscuitto, Ham, Genoa Salami, Provolone on Itialian bread, with very old balsamic, EVOO, lettuce and tomato.

We will come over to your place.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Thank you.

May you have a merry Christmas too!

[Red_Devil 232]

I do love a good Creamy Root Beer myself!

[Red_Devil 232]

Macaroni and cheese is good with a meal any time of the year!

[heylady]

Merry Christmas to you . Dinner is over, the kids have gone home and it was a wonderful night. Life is good.

[grey_whiskers]

Grass Fed New York Strip steak, cooked in 100% cream and onions and then flamed in Bushmills Irish Whiskey.

You don't have to flame *all* the Whiskey if you'd rather not waste it :-)

Cheers!

Oh, and Merry Christmas!

[grey_whiskers]

Prayers up for your son.

[grey_whiskers]

Not long after getting married, my wife and I moved from Ohio to Houma, LA where I had taken a job with an oil services company. That was where both of us had out first experience with the regional delicacy okra. At first, it was nauseating! Over time, we both developed an ability to eat it in order to not appear rude and better fit in amongst locals.

As Southern comic Jerry Clower would declaim, "MMmmmmm! Good ol' slick, slimed bawled okra!"

Cheers!

...oh, and Merry Chirstmas.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“We will come over to your place.”

I’d love to have everyone over. Always nice meeting FReepers.

Have a happy and a healthy.