Posted on Dec 14, 2015
What do you and your family eat for Christmas dinner?
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We are approaching the holiday season. With all of the sales being offered the tendency can be towards competing for gifts tends to build up the tension. Those of us who did or who are buying for young people who may want the most highly demanded doll, toy, set, electronic device or mode of transportation from tricycle through car can be distracted by the chase.
Many of us have family traditions which were handed down to us and others of us have started our own traditions. I try to help my family members remember that Christmas is a time we remember that our Lord and Savior came to earth as a babe and fulfilled the prophecy by becoming Immanuel "God is with us."
Food tends to be a part of Christmas from early morning snacks through a meal later on.
I hope that each of my rallypoint friends, contacts and others I interact with has a wonderful and merry Christmas season.
Do you have a family meal tradition?
Many of us have family traditions which were handed down to us and others of us have started our own traditions. I try to help my family members remember that Christmas is a time we remember that our Lord and Savior came to earth as a babe and fulfilled the prophecy by becoming Immanuel "God is with us."
Food tends to be a part of Christmas from early morning snacks through a meal later on.
I hope that each of my rallypoint friends, contacts and others I interact with has a wonderful and merry Christmas season.
Do you have a family meal tradition?
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With Paternal Grandparents and dad's side of the family:
Ham, Grandmaw's biscuits, orange cake, and tacos. Yeah, when we were young, she asked us cousins what we wanted, and we said "tacos!" "Why am I making all this traditional dinner if you want tacos?" So, we ate tacos. And now, it's our 20 year tradition!
With Maternal Grandparents and mom's side of the family:
Traditional Southern breakfast. Scrambled eggs, ham, grits, jelly biscuits, brown sugar biscuits, and chocolate cake.
With wife's dad's side:
turkey, ham, green beans, mac 'n cheese
With wife's mom's side:
Kalua pig, pineapple, sticky rice, traditional Hawaiian foods (that side of the fam is Hawaiian)
With everyone!:
BBQ, with school band fundraiser oranges, and fruitcake.
Thanksgiving is when we do the turkey, ham, green beans, mac and cheese, etc.
Ham, Grandmaw's biscuits, orange cake, and tacos. Yeah, when we were young, she asked us cousins what we wanted, and we said "tacos!" "Why am I making all this traditional dinner if you want tacos?" So, we ate tacos. And now, it's our 20 year tradition!
With Maternal Grandparents and mom's side of the family:
Traditional Southern breakfast. Scrambled eggs, ham, grits, jelly biscuits, brown sugar biscuits, and chocolate cake.
With wife's dad's side:
turkey, ham, green beans, mac 'n cheese
With wife's mom's side:
Kalua pig, pineapple, sticky rice, traditional Hawaiian foods (that side of the fam is Hawaiian)
With everyone!:
BBQ, with school band fundraiser oranges, and fruitcake.
Thanksgiving is when we do the turkey, ham, green beans, mac and cheese, etc.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you for responding LCDR (Join to see) and sharing the food choices of so much of your family :-)
I like the way the taco tradition started and has been maintained. :-)
BBQ, oranges and fruitcake is certainly a wide range of food to enjoy at one sitting.
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I like the way the taco tradition started and has been maintained. :-)
BBQ, oranges and fruitcake is certainly a wide range of food to enjoy at one sitting.
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We usually have ham, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, nothing too extravagant.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you my friend SCPO (Join to see) for responding so long ago and sharing what your family enjoys for Christmas dinner.
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When I as young my British parents who emigrated to this country took us from the Philadelphia area down US Route 1 to Bethesda, Maryland to spend Christmas with my mom's sister and her children/ Our requirement was to bring sufficient Habbersett sausages which were a family favorite. On Christmas teh young ones got up and ate whatever was in our stockings. We couldn't open the rest of our gifts until our oldest cousin woke up usually about noon. Later we sat down to a meal of Turkey, ham, sausages and breads and vegetables with a Christmas pudding and fruitcake.
In the military I ate Christmas at the mess hall until after I was married 13 years later. I merged some of my family traditions with my wife's traditions - that marriage ended in 1995. After remarrying in 1999 my wife and I started our own traditions. Sometimes we had turkey but since she is Cuban we had black beans and rice and some other dishes.
In the military I ate Christmas at the mess hall until after I was married 13 years later. I merged some of my family traditions with my wife's traditions - that marriage ended in 1995. After remarrying in 1999 my wife and I started our own traditions. Sometimes we had turkey but since she is Cuban we had black beans and rice and some other dishes.
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Don't recall seeing this before. I voted other because our traditional Christmas dinner is standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding and baby peas.
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Patricia Overmeyer
Lt Col John Christensen: And since you live in Florida, is that standing rib roast cooked on the grill? Since it's grilling weather in Baja AZ that time of year, I rub the standing rib roast in mesquite overnight and then hubby puts it on the grill. Sigh, won't be long and grilling season will be over until the fall.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Patricia Overmeyer We're 50/50 on using the grill since need oven for Yorkshire pudding anyhow. Glad to hear we aren't the only ones who don't grill out much during the summer months. Folks up North cant grasp that concept.
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Patricia Overmeyer
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen - Yeah, once it hits 100 degrees it's too hot to cook outside, especially when it's only cooling down into the mid 90s at night. You're right, Northerners don't understand that for us summer is like winter, stay inside next to the ac vents and use the crock pot to cook because you sure don't need any extra heat.
Wonder if you could do the Yorkshire pudding on the grill using the indirect cooking method? My husband uses the indirect cooking method with the standing rib roast and it comes out perfect. I have had him put a veggie casserole on the grill at the same time and it worked really well.
Wonder if you could do the Yorkshire pudding on the grill using the indirect cooking method? My husband uses the indirect cooking method with the standing rib roast and it comes out perfect. I have had him put a veggie casserole on the grill at the same time and it worked really well.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you, my friend Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen for responding and making us aware that "traditional Christmas dinner is standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding and baby peas."
That is a very delicious meal that my British parents prepared many times for my birth family in the 1960's.
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That is a very delicious meal that my British parents prepared many times for my birth family in the 1960's.
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LTC Stephen F.
Thank you for responding, my friend SSG Donald H "Don" Bates and making us aware you ALWAYS "bake a turkey in a paper bag."
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To conclude the Advent Season, we fast. For lunch on Christmas Eve, we break out the peanut butter & jelly. Nothing more 'til the more traditional ham for the first meal of Christ's birthday.
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Growing up "Boarder House Reach" my tradition has always been......A LOT ! Turkey, ham, sausage sage stuffing mashed potatoes with caramelized onions, brown sugar and maple squash, creamed Pearl onions, biscuits, glazed carrots
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Even if we don't celebrate Christmas, we usually have a dinner with some nice French food, staring escargots (snails), foie gras with toasts and fig jelly, lox, then coq au vins.
Finally, some Lenotre foret noire (Black Forest) cake.
That's only when I'm home for the end of the year, otherwise it's just some college crappy food..
Finally, some Lenotre foret noire (Black Forest) cake.
That's only when I'm home for the end of the year, otherwise it's just some college crappy food..
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Turkey I slow cook over night...Honey glazed Ham...Two kinds of dressing...regular dressing and oyster dressing, cranberries, green bean casserole, Mashed potatos and two kinds of gravy...country style creme gravy and a special brown gravy mixed with mushrooms, Grandma's Sour creamed raisin pie, and granny's banana nut bread and apple pie.
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We do surf and turf for Christmas dinner every year.
Shrimp and lobster, steak, sweet potato biscuits, veggie platter to munch on prior to dinner, squash, green beans, mashed potatoes (to make me happy).
Our real tradition happens on Christmas eve. The kids get to open one present (we pick it and it is always jammies), we load into the truck and drive around and look at the Christmas lights and then we go to service.
Shrimp and lobster, steak, sweet potato biscuits, veggie platter to munch on prior to dinner, squash, green beans, mashed potatoes (to make me happy).
Our real tradition happens on Christmas eve. The kids get to open one present (we pick it and it is always jammies), we load into the truck and drive around and look at the Christmas lights and then we go to service.
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