What did you and your family have for your Christmas eve dinner? Or for your Christmas lunch?

[Former President tack50]

Basically what it says on the title. Since Christmas is usually a time where families meet and what not (covid permitting) let's see what Atlas posters had today for dinner

Feel free to add your Christmas lunches tomorrow too if you want.

Anyways in my case here is what I had for dinner:

Entries:
-Grilled Prawns
-Cheese (Queso semitierno)
-Pork loin slices (Lomo embuchado)
-Jamón serrano
-Small pieces of bread with anchovies and olives; or salmon

Main dish:
-Roasted lamb legs
-Roasted potatoes

Dessert:
-Turrón
-Polvorones

[Damocles]

Appetizers:

Obložené chlebíčky (Open-faced cheese, ham, egg, tomato, and gherkin sandwiches)
Pickled hardboiled eggs with red beets and onions

Entrées:

Breaded and fried carp filet with lemon
Potato salad with ham, gherkins, and eggs
Pirohy with fresh farmer’s cheese filling

Desserts:

Vánočka (braided bread with raisins and almonds)
Several types of Czech cookies (linecke inter alia)

Alcohol:

Zonin 1821 DOCG  
Pilsner Urquell lager
R. Jelínek anise fernet
Becherovka

[RINO Tom]

Kind of switch it up each year, actually!  This year is beef tenderloin.

[YE]

Food.

[MABA 2020]

Meatballs? Is Christmas dinner not for Christmas Day?

[RINO Tom]

Meatballs? Is Christmas dinner not for Christmas Day?

For us, Christmas Eve has generally been a special dinner, church and It’s A Wonderful Life.  Christmas morning takes up most of the spotlight on the 25th, and Christmas night is kind of a more casual meal.

[Continential]

Food.

[John Dule]

I made tacos.

[Del Tachi]

Christmas Eve day is always for our second big Christmas party, with friends and neighbors casually coming and going.  We usually serve breakfast burritos, cheese grits, assorted chips and dips, candied bacon skewers, bourbon milk punch, bloody marys and some light desserts.  People usually clear out between 6-8pm, so we don't do a big evening meal.   

Christmas Day starts with a big breakfast, which we switch up from year to year.  This year its orange-cranberry scones and sausage and cheese pinwheels.  We open presents and lounge around all day, and then traditionally indulge with prime rib in the evening.   

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Antipasto
Calamari
Cozze (Red Sauce)
Gamberetti Fritti
Shrimp Salad
Sopressatta
Salami
Muzzadell
Selection of 7 Hard Cheeses
Quiche di Carciofi
Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Lard bread 😍😍😍
Olive bread
(No Crab Leg this year )

Pasta: Linguine alle vongole (white wine sauce)

Secondi
Lobster Tail
Branzino
Baccala
(No flounder this year )

Quite the dessert course


My poor mother doing all that alone XD

[Mr. Smith]

Roast Duck.

[Battista Minola 1616]

Antipasti
Calamari
Cozze (Red Sauce)
Gamberetti Fritti
Shrimp Salad
Sopresotta Soppressata
Salami
Muzzadell Mozzarella
Selection of 7 Hard Cheeses
Quiche di Carciofi
Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Lard bread 😍😍😍
Olive bread
(No Crab Leg this year )

Pasta: Linguine alle vongole (white wine sauce)

Secondi
Lobster Tail
Branzino
Baccalà
(No flounder this year )

Quite the desert course


My poor mother doing all that alone XD

FTFY
Happy to help with the language.

But why the incessant flipping between Italian and English? XD

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Antipasti
Calamari
Cozze (Red Sauce)
Gamberetti Fritti
Shrimp Salad
Sopresotta Soppressata
Salami
Muzzadell Mozzarella
Selection of 7 Hard Cheeses
Quiche di Carciofi
Spinach-Artichoke Dip
Lard bread 😍😍😍
Olive bread
(No Crab Leg this year )

Pasta: Linguine alle vongole (white wine sauce)

Secondi
Lobster Tail
Branzino
Baccalà
(No flounder this year )

Quite the desert course


My poor mother doing all that alone XD

FTFY
Happy to help with the language.

But why the incessant flipping between Italian and English? XD

Sopressatta was a typo (I really should be just written "supersod" given how we actually say it) Muzzadell is not (Typical New Yorker) I only type it the way we refer to each lol. Hence why shrimp is used differently on both plates. Blame it on our mixed raising.

[Mike88]

Christmas dinner (24 December)

-Cooked Octopus (although the majority of the table ate cooked cod, but I don't like cod)
-Vegetables
-Bread
-Wine

-Rabanadas (French toast)
-Aletria (Vermicelli)
-Bolo Rei (King's Cake)
-Chocolates
-Porto wine

Christmas lunch (25 December)

-Shellfish (goose barnacle, shrimps and crab)
-Roasted capon with potatoes, salad and crumbs
-Bread
-Wine

-Rabanadas (French toast)
-Aletria (Vermicelli)
-Bolo Rei (King's Cake)
-Chocolates
-Porto wine

[Santander]

Chinese food, like a good Jew. But we Asians just call it food.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Christmas brunch consisted of a breakfast buffet and a mimosa. (My in-laws tradition.)

[Badger]

My folks postpone coming here from Pittsburgh until tomorrow due to the heavy snow in central Ohio and bad road conditions. Are go for Christmas Eve and Christmas it was just the four of us. We've just done picking bits of leftovers rather than anything big minus some nice sausages my wife cooked up for brunch.

 And you know what? Haven't minded a bit. So laid-back.

[Orwell]

Prime rib

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Mexican takeout in my hotel room. Thanksgiving is for family, Christmas is for vacations (abnormal, godless cosmopolitan).

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Baccalà alla napoletana, baby. Also a stir fry of winter root vegetables and some cold-weather mixed drinks (White Russians, hot toddies, etc.).