What are your traditional dishes for Xmas?!
Thank you for your answers!
Baci
Answers: I'm italian and I want to find out your tradition!
Thank you for your answers!
Baci
My grandmother always did ham and turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc. Very similar to an American Thanksgiving meal.
My husband and I started our own tradition several years ago - deviled crabs, crab legs, shrimp cocktail, baked potatoes, and cheddar biscuits.
We use the white dishes with the red trim.
usually the same sutff u would serve on thanksgiving addin a few extras *turkey,ham,mashed potatoes & gravy, green bean casserole, celery casserole, stuffing, deviled eggs, xmas cookies, beans, veggies & dip (usually ranch), dinner rolls, pies (apple, chocolate mousse)* those are some but i myself am i fan of italian food oh its amazin so have a question for u. if u had the ability to make food that most people in america haven't tasted, why would u want a traditional xmas dinner? i mean go ahead with whatever u choose to make as the dinner but i think it would be a good idea to add some of ur favorite dishes from italy no?
Tossed salad;
A standing rib or a prim rib;
Mashed potatoes;
Green beans;
Plum pudding with brandy sauce;
Ice tea.
I am very italian, in my family we have antipasta first, then pasta, then meat then fish, its an orgy of food, but sooooo good.
Christmas eve is always appitizers, Christmas is like thanksgiving food.
Christmas Eve: Spinach lasagna rolls. It's lasagna noodles filled with traditional cheese filling, only rolled instead of done in layers.... such fun to make, and it doesn't make a mess cooking or "eat up" the sauce like traditional layered lasagna does. It's done in the same size pan. I use whole wheat lasagna noodles (no one even notices). That's with a homemade Italian sauce. I make 2 batches... one meatless and one with meatballs and sausages as my daughter is vegetarian. I use the meatless in the dish and put out a big bowl of each sauce when serving. I serve that with homemade garlic bread and a nice salad.
Dessert will be something I found years ago called "Death by Chocolate", a layered chocolate concoction served layered in a trifle dish. It looks nice, and is always a hit.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
● 1 (18.25 ounce size) package chocolate cake mix
● 1/2 cup coffee flavored liqueur
● Home made whipped cream (I think most recipes call for the thawed Cool Whip.. I just prefer the real deal)
● 2 packages (5.9 ounce size) instant chocolate pudding mix prepared as directed
● 6 bars (1.4 ounce size) chocolate covered English toffee (you can buy the crumbled toffee [w/o the chocolate] pcs. in that baking aisle of the market if you prefer). Reserve about 1/4 to use as topping with chopped walnuts.
● Chopped walnuts for topping
Directions:
Bake cake according to package directions for one 9x13 inch cake. When cake is cool poke holes in the top and pour the coffee liqueur over it. Break up the cake into 1 inch cubes (by hand is fine) and set aside. Mix the pudding mixes with the milk until thick. In a nice trifle dish layer 1/2 of the cake cubes, 1/2 of the pudding, 1/2 of the crushed candy bars, and 1/2 of the whipped topping. Repeat layers following the same order. Sprinkle top wityh chopped walnuts and reserved toffee pieces, if desired. Cover and refrigerate for several hours before serving.
(NOTE: Depending on the size of your trifle dish, you might like to try arranging the ingredients in 3 layers. That's what I usually do.)
Christmas Dinner: Colossal baked stuffed shrimp, filet mignon, baked stuffed potatoes. Green veggie will probably be broccoli and cauliflower in a cheese sauce. Again... nice salad, both garlic and nice Ital. bread, with a choice of a seasoned olive oil for dipping, or butter.
Dessert will be chocolate cappuccino cheesecake topped with homemade whipped cream, made with kahlua instead of vanilla.
Olives-the only constant for 50 years
Prime rib roast
Stuffed mushrooms
Shrimp-made different ways
Calamari
Sometimes crab claws
Dips with raw veggies,chips
For sweets we have a bunch of special things we don't have around the house the rest of the year-Cheesecake, nut rolls, poppyseed rolls, cookies, tiramisu, baklava, pumpkin rolls, boxes of chocolates, nuts, Clementine oranges.
We also have bottles of alcohol and wine, champagne that we normally don't have for around the holidays.
Turkey and Ham
Cranberry Sauce
Mash Potatoes & Gravy
Yams
Green Bean Casserole
Ostyer Dressing (aka Stuffing)
Fruit Salad
Vegi Tray
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Crisp
Rolls
My fathers side is Swedish. Every x-mas eve, we eat a very ugly, grey dinner of white fish, traditionally Ludifisk, which we switched to Halibut, white potatoes, white sauce, and potato sausage, a mix of veal, pork, beef, potatoes, and onions. The only color is a side of lingonberry jam. I hated it when I was a kid, now I love it, and we started making the sausage ourselves, so that gets us together a week before x- mas. He recently moved, so our tradition has changed some now that we all have our own families.
pretty much the same as Thanksgiving:
turkey, dressing, gravy, greens, corn pudding, candied yams or sweet potatoes, fruit salad, sweet potato pie, and cranberry sauce.
we usually have appetizers before the main meal while preparing and watching football that consists of either raw, steamed, or pickled veggies, chips and dip, & olives.
ham; mashed potatoes; corn/carrots/cauliflower/brocollie medley; cranberryy; rolls; and appetizers...