What's for Christmas Dinner?

[achtung_circus]

As requested by RUDUing2 here:

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Which do you think is a requirement for Xmas dinner?

Inquiring GI tracts wanna know.

[Dr.Phool]

1. Vodka, beer, and champagne.

[MissBrooks]

14. Fresh Crab... yum

Freash Crab and champagne....

With Pumpkin Cheesecake for dessert!

YUM!

[madmom]

2. We're doing a seafood thing...

if I can get to the grocery store that is.

[Xipe Totec]

7. We always do Codfish Stew for Christmas

Old Spanish recipe called Bacalao a la Viscaina.

[achtung_circus]

3. Triptophan overload.

[outraged2]

4. roast beef and yorkshire pudding mmmmmm

[RUDUing2]

5. we do ham and baked potato soup (and clam chowder too this year).

[Beware the Beast Man]

6. Pork, Dumplings & Saurkraut

I'm going to my wife's grandmother's place for a traditional Czech dinner.

[LiberalEsto]

8. veggie lasagna

It's very festive with the red tomato sauce, white ricotta cheese and green grated zucchini.

We do the Estonian roast pork, sauerkraut, potatos, etc. on Christmas Eve.

[RebelOne]

9. None of the above.

Tofu turkey.

[Kellis]

10. Turkey!

or maybe roast beef.I don't know yet.

[AlCzervik]

11. Lasagna and meat balls and some eggplant.

I wanted to make turkey, but nooooo "We're sick of turkey."

[madinmaryland]

12. Other - Chinese,

and then go to a movie. And we're not Jewish either, but thats what a lot of our jewish friends do (at least in NYC)

[yellowdogintexas]

13. My mom often had pork loin roast for our family Christmas

dinner.

My personal requirement is that it just be a really good meal, maybe featuring things you don't serve on an everyday basis.

Turkey/ham not requirements.

One of the best Christmas dinners I ever had was the year someone gave my grandfather a huge batch of quail, fresh from a hunting trip. My grandmother braised them in butter sauce, and we just gorged ourselves.


Special desserts are important too:
my other grandmother always made a chocolate cake with ground brazil nuts in it

my mom ( and later I was the"baker") always made a jam cake w/caramel icing, a fresh coconut cake, and a german chocolate cake at Christmas. Then no matter which family meal we were attending, there was a plate of sliced cake we could take along.

This year is still up in the air, just me and my daughter. May be a steak!