My oldest daughter does the Christmas meal of turkey or ham. I provide the side dish of Christmas tamales. The best tamales around here hands down are from El Modelo.

http://elmodelomexicanfoods.com/

as a kid we had 2 - my mom cooked the feast of the 7 fishes. My brother and I didn't like fish, so we secretly ordered pizza!!!

Christmas Eve- Prime Rib

Christmas Day - Turkey, Ham, Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Green Bean or Broccoli Casserole, Sour Kraut, deviled eggs, cranberry relish, cranberry sauce, dinner rolls, and some kind of pie for dessert.

Leftovers carry us until New Years.

Tamales have been our go-to Christmas dinner, usually from Grande Tamale in Tomball/Pinehurst.

Bit different this year, as we're going out of town (Galveston for the weekend) on Christmas day/evening.

Christmas Eve is all fish, Christmas Day is Italian - complete with homemade pasta and sauce.

Youse spics and wops can just keep your slimey fish, your so-called meatballs, and tamales? Jeez. I'm going to thunderson's for an All American Christmas dinner!

Christmas Eve: Church, then Chinese food!!

For as far back as I can remember...

We've alternated over the years between various cuts of beef roasts, but tenderloin for the past few have been their favorite. In the past we'd also done a locally produced whole ham. Sides rotate, and I've been making a warm Christmas Wassail with sherry, brandy, eggs, apples and spices to serve the family while I'm cooking in the kitchen.

I usually make a Christmas pudding around Thanksgiving and let it age until Christmas, then ignite some brandy over it and serve with hard sauce at the end of Christmas dinner. My father used to do this as well when we were kids and would read aloud the bit about Mrs. Cratchit making the pudding from A Christmas Carol as our pudding brandy was blazing.

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We usually go to a very disappointing restaurant.

^^^^^^^^^^^
That was funny! You leave a big tip even though service was lousy?

I always give 20% regardless of service. Very often I'll tip considerably more if the service was polite and attentive.

Anybody make Springerle cookies? They are a German cookie, anise seed flavor, and they are pressed with a decorative design roller pin or push forms.

My Mother made these every year.
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We love to watch A Christmas Story and eat Chinese food. "Let's all go out for some Chinese. "

We get a 5 or 10 pound bag of apples and sometimes some carrots. dice them up and put them out for the deer. A tradition for 60+ yrs, going back to the farm in NJ.

When I was a kid, it was my mom and her sister and my grandparents on both sides. My dad and uncle were each only kids and my mom and her sis each had 2 kids. All lived in a ~10 mile radius. So the same 12 people for every holiday, birthday and any other minor reason to get together.

Christmas Eve was ALWAYs at my grandmothers house and we had tamales. Then literally across the street to the church for Xmas eve service. Christmas morning was immediate family and a big bacon and eggs and biscuits breakfast. Later afternoon dinner rotated annually between my mom and her said every year, same 12 would get together. If at moms my dad would bbq a turkey and my aunt would always have a ham. Then the 4 cousins all got married off, had kids. The grand folks passed away and it’s pretty thin last few years. Now it’s just my parents and my family and my wife’s mom on Christmas Day and I’ll be cooking and my mom will make some sides and host.

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We are in our 70's and immediate family members are gone or live away from this area so it's usually just us and maybe one or two friends. Xmas eve we always cook a 3-4 rib prime rib with the typical sides and has been a tradition for around a decade. The left over roast is made into chili and stew or hoagie sandwiches in the days following.

WOW! Fits our family to a T!!!! We (wife, FIL, me) celebrate our Christmas on Christmas eve. Christmas day is devoted to son, his wife, and two grandkids. My wife prepares a "brunch" of Belgian waffles with various fruit toppings, chocolate sauces, and beverages. We follow this by an opening of the gifts! Been doing this for over 15 years!

Christmas Eve has always been pizza and looking at lights around town. We did the lights last night. Saw some incredible displays.



Tomorrow is turkey dinner with our snowbird friends.

The feast of the fishes begins in an hour! Along with many adult beverages.