what items would be included in a "traditional" american christmas meal?

Answer 1

everything you would have on thanksgiving although replace the turkey with a ham.

actually i live in texas, beef is a big thing down here.

Most people serve the same side dishes for Christmas as they do for Thanksgiving however, the main meat dish is usually different.

my parents have cooked bone-in rib roast :) we've had duck, cornish game hens, rack of lamb you name it.

Christmas dinner is a time to get creative with the main dish. Your not stuck with the usual Holiday feast.

Check out foodtv.com they have some new episodes concerning Holiday Feasts.

Answer 2

Christmas doesn't have as much of a traditional menu as Thanksgiving. Families eat what they love, and often eat foods from the country that they originally immigrated from, even if it was generations ago. There usually is a large roast of some kind in Northern European families, turkey, ham, in my family roast beef, usually prime rib. Here in the southwest, in Mexican families, it wouldn't be Christmas without tamales, corn shucks spread with a cornmeal dough and meat or fruit filling, then rolled up and steamed. Whatever we have, it is something fancy that isn't usually eaten.The side dishes can be just about anything, but the deserts are often traditional- pumpkin pie, mince pie, apple pie, pecan pie, fruitcake, which some people hate (with good reason, because there is some awful commercial stuff out there) and some people love, gingerbread, especially gingerbread men, cookies of all sorts, and some people have cheesecake. One year we made plum pudding, but I don't know anyone else who has done that. That is an English thing. The one traditional food we always have on Christmas is Stollen for breakfast, which is a German sweet bread with fruit and nuts in it. My husband's family is ethnicly German, and this is something that has remained even though the last to immigrate here came almost a hundred years ago. They would never have Christmas without stollen. My family identified with their English roots (although that's pretty tenuous) and had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with creamed peas every year, along with other misc. goodies, and pumpkin and mincemeat pie for dessert.

Answer 3

A Christmas Story :3

Answer 4

Roast Beef/Prime Rib, Turkey, Ham, or Rack of Lamb, Salad (simple), Mash Potatoes (gravy), Green Beans or Corn, a Desert Salad (Ambrosia), Apple Pie (with vanilla ice cream)/ or some other type of pie. This is a traditional old fashioned Pie (Minced Meat)

Answer 5

A traditional American Christmas meal:

ham, turkey, mashed patatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, macaroni and cheese, stuffing, and what ever else you want to make. Don't for get for desert you can make a pumpkin pie, and gingerbread man cookies for the kids (if there are any).

Answer 6

Ok....I am from the south and our traditional Christmas dinners are as follows....
cornbread dressing w/ giblet gravy
turkey
ham
sweet potatoe casserole
mac & cheese
potatoe salad
green beans casserole or just the beans
bread
corn
cranberry sauce
usually another veggie...this one varies
then we have desserts...different ones every year

good luck and Merry Christmas

Answer 7

Prime Rib Roast
Mashed potatoes
Shrimp
Greenbean salad
Salad
Cherry Cheesecake
Coquito
Wine

Answer 8

For Christmas I just make one of our favorite easy meals like Baked Ziti.....I am pretty tired after all the Christmas hype....NOT big like Thanksgiving at all!!!!

Answer 9

Shrimp cocktail, crab dip with crackers, rye round with dip, veggie platter
Ham, mashed potatoes & gravy, sauted green beans, applesauce, relish dish, rolls
Chocolate Triffle
& lots of wine!

Answer 10

For my family it's Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, yeah...basicly thanksgiving over again for us...except we eat on christmas plates. Heh.