What kinds of food do you have?
2006-10-11 15:54:08 · 20 answers · asked by DeborahDel 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
My family is swedish and dutch, so when I was a child my mum would make headcheese(trust me you don't want to know what it is) and pickled herring.
My uncle would bring the swedish version of peroghies, with salt pork in it. Those would be the appetizers for the adults. My dad would make up his own tobasco sauce for the shrimp ring. And there'd be cookies, chips and dip. Christmas music playing.
My mum would cook at least a 30 lb turkey with sage stuffing, have mashed potatoes and mashed turnips, a jello salad, kernel corn, for the main meal. Gravy of course too.
Then we'd have christmas cake and cookies and coffee of course.
We'd go to Lutheran candlelight services at 11 pm come home they'd have more coffee and cookies and I and my brother went to bed to awail Santa Claus.
We'd open the ' family' gifts christmas eve in between the meal and going to church. It was a wonderful time.
Now I just make turkey and all the fixings for myself. Watch the Crystal Cathedral Christmas services and then Christmas movies until I get tired and go to bed.
2006-10-11 16:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On christmas eve its a really exciting time in our home, the turkey is slow cooked in the oven, and any other meat i m having for the christmas meal, then after dinner the children have a bath and put their new pjs on i always buy some new 1 for christmas eve have done since the kids were born, then we will open 1 small present before the kids go to bed this is so exciting for them i will have a few glasses of wine or beer then i will wait until they are asleep which is normally midnight then i wrap any last minuet gifts and put the presents under the tree i love christmas its so special its a shame its over so quick. Oh and not to forget we always leave a carrot , a can of beer and a mince pie for santa even tho the 2 eldest know the truth my youngest is only 3 and does not really relize yet i still do it then i drink and eat the beer and pie and chop the carrot up and leave little bits on the plate as tho rudolfe as been eating it there.
2006-10-12 00:22:39 · answer #2 · answered by vicky s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On Christmas eve we sit back watch some Christmas shows on the telly burn like 4 or 5 blunts open Christmas presents and all the cookies before morning. And maybe some ham or something in there not sure though I forgot. I know its the same stuff every year.
2006-10-11 17:06:25 · answer #3 · answered by § Queen Ganja § 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whatever the hostess plans - we all bring something sort of like a potluck dinner. We'll have a huge roast with all the trimmings, roast turkey, cured deer meat, cured buffalo meat - or even spaghetti one time when the hostess was weary! We eat until we can't eat anymore, and then we open presents. Christmas AM we open one special gift that has been reserved from Christmas Eve and our Christmas stockings - and then a marvelous breakfast...and then we spend the next year losing all that weight!
2006-10-11 15:59:03 · answer #4 · answered by sunflowerjean63 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One Christmas Eve I go to my sister's house and we eat a reagular dinner, it is Christmas Day we have the big dinner. But on Christmas Eve we have a family home evening and sing some songs and my sister reads the birth of Jesus to us, and then she usually reads a couple other short stories and we exchange 1 gift (we draw names around Thanksgiving for the exchange gifts for Christmas Eve and Day) and then open that gift and 1 other one.
It is a time for family and since I live alone, I go to her home with her family and on Christmas Eve and Day, my son joins us.
I stay at her home that night, and the kids try go get me in trouble, by waking me up so I will wake up everyone else. Hey, when I was a kid, that is what my sister and 3 older brothers did to me. They would wake me up and say "Go see what Santa brought you." of course my mom knew they put me up to it, then she would have me go back to the room until Dad got a fire going. So you see, my sister is getting payback.
2006-10-11 18:42:36 · answer #5 · answered by nevada nomad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Work, and if I'm lucky, I get off early. Then squeeze in a quick (fast-food) dinner before heading to church (my favorite part) for Carols and worship songs to our rock band. For the last song we light candles, which everybody gets (except the little kids) and we pass the flame until every ones candle is lit. After the song we blow out the candles, visit a little and go home. We have some dessert when we get home and maybe the kids get to open 1 gift before bed time (early enough so they can play with it). I spend the rest of Christmas eve wrapping the gifts that I couldn't find time to wrap (without the kids around). If I'm lucky, I can get some sleep before sunrise. (I wrap slowly when I'm half awake.)
2006-10-11 16:25:00 · answer #6 · answered by J Z 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We usually go to church. Food is usually snacking from all the yummy treats we have been given or made. We let the kids open one present.....usually Jammie's and new slippers (so they will look cute on Christmas morning). Then we put on music and finish all the last minute stuff and go to bed. We always have our big meal with family on Christmas day.
2006-10-11 19:42:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We watch some version of A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonder Life and eat Italian take out. I usually order lasagne.
2006-10-11 16:03:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a nice family gathering, with all kinds of foods, everyone gets a gift, We do a grab bag before hand, and then that person has to buy for the one they picked,, it can get interesting..
Then santa comes and delivers the stuff.. We sit in front of the fireplace and enjoy ourselves..
We get a bunch of munchy food, all different stuff
2006-10-11 16:49:56 · answer #9 · answered by debbie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no real tradition in our family....we used to go to my Gram's house on Christmas Eve. I get to open one gift on Christmas Eve.
2006-10-11 18:30:28 · answer #10 · answered by Michael R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋