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

[COBOL2Java]

Christmas Eve tacos (Mexicali style, not Taco Bell kind). Tomorrow, roast goose.

[EagleUSA]

** PORK ROAST at the White House **

[JRandomFreeper]

Swedish Tea Ring. Mom, bless her heart and rest in peace, made them for years every Christmas.

I doubt the authenticity of the recipe, having been to culinary school now, but when I told the sibs what I was making, this first year without Mom at Christmas, all I got was a choked up: "aww...sh..."

/johnny

[ExCTCitizen]

Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.

[1rudeboy]

Kūčios.

I hate it. People started bringing me shrimp just so I could eat.

[JRandomFreeper]

Sis is doing tamales. 4th of July and Christmas. We're Texas WASPs, and have NO idea how that tradition got started, but I do it, too.

/johnny

[traderrob6]

My first year without my Mother. Know the feeling brother.

[bboop]

Ha, chicken soup with rice. We have that Christmas Crud/ cold and bronchitis. I will eventually make Norwegian Christmas bread, however, with candied cherries and slivered almonds, like Mom used to make. And ham.

[ExCTCitizen]

Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.

[Larry Lucido]

Just got a gift package from Zabar’s Deli in New York. Bagels, rye bread, pastrami, salmon, cream cheese, salami, deli mustard, cinnamon something-or-others, and some kind of cookies. That’s today’s breakfast, lunch and dinner!

[miss marmelstein]

My husband’s Sicilian Christmas eve: Marinated calimari salad; shrimp scampi with spagettini.

Tomorrow my tradition: Turkey with mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, brussell sprouts and beets, mince pies, and British Christmas cake.

[thecodont]

Did you have poppyseed milk too?

My Dad talked about (from his childhood) the special “Christmas Eve wafers” that some lady at church prepared, but we never had them ourselves.

[Larry Lucido]

Actually, tamales sound good. Might have to head down to Armando’s in SW Detroit.

[ExCTCitizen]

Sorry for the double post!

[NTHockey]

Baked Red Snapper with red potatoes, carrots and peas plus spinach salad on Christmas Eve; Baked stuffed shells with sausage and meatballs plus layered salad on Christmas Day and finally, black beans, yellow rice, roast pork and plantains plus tossed salad on New Year’s Day.

January 2 starts the starvation diet.

[JRandomFreeper]

Baked Red Snapper with red potatoes, carrots and peas plus spinach salad on Christmas Eve; Baked stuffed shells with sausage and meatballs plus layered salad on Christmas Day and finally, black beans, yellow rice, roast pork and plantains plus tossed salad on New Year’s Day.

I'm detecting a little island influence there. With some twists.

/johnny

[MarkL]

My first year without my Mother. Know the feeling brother.

My thoughts and prayers are with you both. I lost my mother Christmas Eve, 1985.

Mark

[Kirkwood]

Since in the old days we had to fast for half a day before receiving communion at midnight mass, there is no Christmas eve meal. However, the tradition was to have cold egg salad sandwiches on white bread after midnight mass as the first meal of Christmas Day. This is a very old tradition in the family that goes back into the mid 1800s and maybe further back with my European ancestors. Now that fasting is no longer an issue, the tradition has disappeared in much of the family, but I still keep it going because it brings back good memories of my aunts and uncles and cousins. Other than that, no one thing in particular stands out as a traditional food except maybe the koláče.

[LatinaGOP]

Traditional New Mexican Christmas food. Tamales, posole, red chile, empanaditas (fried pastry filled with sweet, spiced pork), chiles rellenos (not really rellenos, but roast beef cooked, ground in a meat grinder with roasted green chiles, dipped in egg batter and fried - delish.