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Christmas Honey Glazed Ham
Christmas is the perfect time of the year to cook a honey ham for your family. It is so easy to do and delicious. This recipe comes together with just a few basic ingredients but the results are going to be a hit with everyone at your holiday party or any time of the year. Consider buying a larger ham than you need for the people coming to your holiday dinner, so that you can use the leftovers in a Mac and Ham Casserole or any of our leftover ham recipes. Even on a sandwich, this honey ham would be delicious! Be sure to check out our entire list of amazing Christmas Recipes.
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We have a buffet style dinner at my parents home. Since there are more than 30 of us, we decided to go with simple, make ahead foods. We have Hamburger Bar-B-Q, Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Deviled Eggs, and all the fix’ns. Yum!
For the 8 yrs. we’ve been together, my boyfriend and I celebrate Christmas with both families in one day….so, this amounts to alot of family,food,and fun!!! We, therefor, do appetizers at both gatherings.Everyone brings their A-Game so the food is fabulous and we always exchange recipes with all!My Mother’s Swedish Meatballs are beyond compare and the variety of spreads, cheeseballs with homemade crackers, and cookies,fudge, and candies keep us coming back for more!But, the best thing that everyone brings is the Love and comraderie that we share as a family.It truly is “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”!!!
We like to have ham, mashed and sweet potatoes, salad, veggies and lots of desserts!
My wife is Bahamian so as well as whatever traditional British fare we are eating there’s always peas and rice and mac and cheese on the table!
We have Thanksgiving dinner on Christmas. No matter how many times we try to change it, we hear it is tradition and will stay the same.
We have turkey and dressing and all the trimmings.
we started a new tradion of deep frying a turkey!
We have over 50 in our family so Christmas dinner is a covered dish meal, not necessarily on Christmas day.
Everyone brings something for our Christmas dinner even though there are some variations there will always be: turkey, ham, my Mom’s stuffing and beets, my Dad’s applesauce and mashed potatoes with gravy.
We have turkey and ham. Mashed potatoes,gravy corn, cranberries rolls. The list goes on and on. Pumpkin pie, cheesecake and chocolate torte for dessert!!
We are having lasagna and either cornish game hens or prime rib… Havent really decided yet.
We have a honey roasted ham, yams, mashed potatoes, green bean cassorole,homemade biscuits, and pumpkin and pecan pies. But most important of all, we have the family together!!
We do simple finger foods and nosh all day long. This seems to easiest and we have left overs from Christmas Eve. What’s better than ham and cheese sandwiches?
I always do the cooking, no matter how many people are here for the meal. I always cook a ham, and I have to make ham gravy with it too. I make turkey and turkey gravy. I make stuffing, green bean casserole, greens, some type of roll, carrot souffle, mashed potatoes and sometimes twice baked potatoes too. I make some type of sweet potato but it never includes marshmallows. I also make a variety of desserts.
I love to cook Baked Ham, Homemade Mac and cheese and asparagus!!!
I always cook turkey for Thanksgiving so when Christmas comes we like ham and biscuits and tomato gravy. Nothing elaborate just enjoying the true meaning of Christmas,Christ with us.
Turkey, Ham Sweet Potatoes and Stuffing and Mashed Potatoes Buffet Style
We change it up every year, this year we are having ham, corn, green beans, whipping potatoes, salad and rolls.
I have always baked a ham because my family doesn’t like turkey. We also have mac&cheese, deviled eggs, corn, cornbread dressing, cranberry sauce, rolls and sweet potato pie. Yummy!!! Makes me hungry just thinking about it.
we have ham for Christmas Eve, so Christmas daY WE USUALLY VEG OUT & EAT LEFTOVERS. Oops
My kids are requesting lasagna this year, I know it isn’t traditional but it will be a whole lot easier to prepare and I am all about easy.
We have Ham and a Roast Beef and Sweet Potatoe Pie and Filling Balls
Ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls… pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate cake…. then we have a meal!
Always have ham and mashed potatoes and gravy. It’s a tradition in out family.
We usually have ham with trimmings.
We have a huge carry in, every year we are assigned our “usual” goody (specialty) as well as you can bring anything you want. I am always assigned to bring a LARGE crockpot of Spinach/ARTICHOKE dip, along with the bread pieces you dip in. YUM!!
i make nothing because i eat at my parents house. but turkey mostly and stuffing. and the usual and cookies.!
we have ham and all my kids annd their kids come over i love it
most years we have a little of everything we cook a turkey and a ham we have mashed potatoes mac and chesse green beans eggs and much much more but this year we plan on getting together and doing a breakfast for a brunch type thing. i hope it turns out good….
We have ham with candied yams and homebaked rolls as well as pies for dessert, pumpkin and apple.
We never have a set menu for Christmas day. We’ve had pizza to Chicken Kiev. My favorite Christmas dinner is a buffet including kielbasa and sauerkraut, Swedish meatballs, ham, potato salad, veggie tray and of course, Christmas cookies.
We always have a ham especially after I found Alton Brown’s recipe for country ham…it rocks!! This year we’re gonna have German potato salad, veggies and broccoli rice & cheese casserole and mostly likely homemade rolls. Cheesecake for dessert which is also Alton Brown’s recipe…mmmmm!!!
We always have HAM,mashed potatoes,red gravy from ham,green beans cooked with ham,sweet potatoes,brussel sprouts,corn,rolls,pies,red velvet cake,fruit salad……
On Christmas we have turkey and ham, a potato casserole, green beans and rolls. I am of Crotian decent so we have a traditional nut bread. For dessert this year, a cherry crisp.
I love to use the traditional foods that were passed down to me by my grandmothers and mother. We make roastbeef and ham along with stuffing, candied yams casserole, fresh vegetables, mashed potatoes, a few Italian dishes including lasagna and eggplant and cranberry mold, fresh baked pies and cookies (including Strufoli)
I like to make something different each year meat wise this year it will be oven baked ham covered with pineapple juice and pineapple , home made mac and cheese with panko bread crumb topping ,stuffing,mashed potatoes,egg noodles,deviled eggs,desert pies …caramel cream cheese pecan pie,pumpkin pie,blueberry pie and of course anything anyone wants to drinks
I do the cooking for my 93 y/o Dad! He loves the recipes from RecipeLion! Something different, something good, something healthy everyday! Thank you!
For our family gathering on Christmas Eve/Day, we have a nice buffet of hot roast beef, ham and meatballs for sandwiches, baked zitis or lasagna, potato & macaroni salads, and delicious cookies and pies for dessert. This makes the day easy and fun for everyone!
Christmas eve my husband makes kabobs (with marinated chicken, beef, pork and all kinds of veggies yum!) we serve with several kinds of salads. Christmas morning I make a breakfast casserole with muffins. Christmas day we have a hame and salads, chips and veggies with different dips cheese and crackers…..it is an all day feast for family and friends that drop by! Can’t wait!!!!
After a huge Christmas Eve dinner of Seven Fishes and all the trimmings. Christmas Day Dinner is more than likely a roast of some sort, veggies and a salad.
We have a huge rib eye roast, mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, dinner rolls and lots of gravy. Yum! Really looking forward to it again this year.
My daughter and I are turkey lovers, so we have to have that. However, my husband loves ham, which we don’t care for, so we cook a ham for him. Our son likes both, so he’s satisfied no matter what!
We have a buffet style meal between brunch and supper… Turkey, dressing, ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potato souffle, pecan pie, green bean casserole, potato salad, watergate salad, ambrosia… sometimes more, sometimes less, but we always enjoy some time together.
I make the desserts – pumpkin and mince pie, banana bread, cookies of all sorts… And we have ham, beef rouladen, potatoes and veges (cook’s choice), and all food is cooked by my five sisters.
Ham and garlic mashed potatoes. Creamy sweet corn. Dressing and squash. Basically the same as Thanksgiving dinner but switch out the turkey with the ham. =)
I host Christmas dinner with approx. 7-10 people (friends and family) with a pork roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, asparagus and hot spiced apple cider that simmers in my slow cooker.
We do a crown roast with homemade applesauce and apple rings and mashed spuds and green bean casserole and sweet potato with marshmallows and cheesecake for dessert and there is only 4 of us
Always have ham and fried turkey. I make fruit salad, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and rolls. For dessert, it’s been a mix of pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, cookies and a red velvet cake.
We have Ham, mashed taters, gravy, corn, green bean casserole,sweet tater crunch, homemade yeast rolls, apple pie, pumpkin pie and REAL Key Lime pie
We have prime rib! We make a big enough one so that we can have another meal out of it and then French dip sandwiches. (There are only 3 of us) we have a potato casserole, raspberry salad, and then other parts of the meal vary. Dessert is always Grasshopper Pie.
we usually have turkey,meat pie,pinaplle ham,wild meat pie,mashed potatoes,gravy, mixed vegetables and homemade pies.
I am not cooking dinner, mother-in-law is and I am making the best deviled eggs and #1 potato salad!!! Can’t wait!!!! LOVE Christmas!!! happy Birthday, JESUS!!!
Cornish hens stuffed with rice (brown, basmati & wild, celery, onion, crimini mushrooms & herbs), grilled Brussels sprouts(evoo & sea salt), & fresh cranberry relish (cranberries, orange, walnuts & sugar). For dessert, French apple pie…yum!
Turkey with all the trimmings plus some red Chile sauce to pour over everything (on top of the gravy of course). We live in New Mexico and red or green chile pretty much go with everything here. In fact when you use both red and green chile we call that “Christmas”.
Usually its ham, cheesy potatoes, green bean casserole and yummy crescent rolls!!!! And top it all off with pies for dessert.
Both my husband and I have large familes so for Christmas we have our own tradition. We stay at home by ourselves! This is the one day of the year that I will fix my husband whatever he wants to eat, which usually consists of baked shank Ham, fresh cranberries, baked yams, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls and for dessert fresh homemade cherry pie.
We always have a prime rib roast with Yorkshire pudding, creamed spinach, ceasar salad, twice baked potatoes and a big bowl of trifle. The prime rib is cooked med rare. We also enjoy a good bottle of Cab with dinner.
the multi-family christmas dinner is actually on christmas eve. with at least 3 entrees (like beef roast, turkey, ham, kielbasa+kraut) plus a mess of side dishes and LOTS of desserts and cookies.
I always make turkey with stuffing, of course, and sweet potato with pecan glaze, cranberry sauce and for dessert cranberry pudding with vanilla sauce (searched all over the internet for that recipe.)
for years, I cooked a hugh turkey and all the trimmings,and everyone came to my house. but now I go to my daughters, and have whatever she fixes, and enjoy it all.
We have Turkey, mashes potatoes, stuffing, salad, veggies, a rice dish, buns, and cherry cheese cake!
We have dinner on Christmas Eve at my mother’s house and there are usually about 25 of us. We have the traditional Christmas dinner, turkey, mashed potatoes, turnip, parsnips, carrots, stuffing, gravy and of course cranberry sauce. There will be several desserts, plum pudding, squares, cake, pie and ice cream. It is a wonderful time with family and friends, catching up on family news and just spending an evening together.
The mountains are covered in snow here in Colorado. Great sking for everyone.
Merry Christmas to you all
We go out to eat. It is just 2 of us
so we get Turkey, Ham and all the good stuff that goes with the meat. Love cheesscake.
We always have a Prime Rib, Twice Baked Potatoes, Fresh Tossed Salad, Home Made Hot Rolls, Watergate Salad, and for Dessert a Pecan Pie W/Topping. Coffee or wine to drink.
Since me and my son is alone we have regular food then go to a movie after. Really not a good day for us
We have sandwiches as there are a bunch of us. Chicken salad, Ham, Pimento cheese, and lots more. then we get down to the childrens christmas.
Mexican; tacos, enchiladas, nachos, taco salad. Simple to make, easy to eat and lots of leftovers for later.
We decide at Thanksgiving what Country we will visit for Christmas. By way of food. When the kids were little we would have to research traditional food from that country to try. Sometimes it was good and sometimes not so good. But I would always hear, “We are going to have Ham & Mac & Cheese for dinner, right. We can have the other stuff but we have to have the ham.” So we always had ham along with the Chinese, or Mexican, Or Italian, or Greek, Etc.
It’s all about the family sharing….we start with lots of appetizers…each year they are different…followed by Prime Rib, Lasagna, green salad….much later we will have some Cranberry Pecan Pie with whipped cream…
I always fix a turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cornbread dressing, rolls, cranberry relish from scratch, and rolls.
we go to grandmas house and have ham turkey and everyones favorite brocolli cheese casserole. we all bring a dessert. i usually make mini pineapple upside down cakes and this year were taking tiramisu.
My husband smokes a rib roast. And we make all the trimmings to go along with it. It is so good! But he calls it Roast Beast. After the Grinch cartoon.
Mac-n-hot cheese and red velvet cupcakes.
TURKEY WITH STUFFING , BROCCOLLI , MASHED POTOTAOES WITH GRAVY , CORN,BAKED YAMS WITH MELTED MATSHMALLOWS ON TOP(YUM) BRUSSEL SPROUTS AND OF COURSE CRANBERRIES, AND PUMPKIN PIE AND ICE CREAM FOR DESERT
We always have turkey,lots of taters and gravy, cranberries, oyster dressing, pie and lots of odd and end goodies.
My Aunt, who hosts Christmas every year, makes a ham, and every family brings a side or dessert (or several)
Since I live alone and family lives in another state, I plan to ‘keep it simple’. Will be making potato salad which will accompany a ham sandwich and… maybe, just maybe, a glass of egg nog. Should taste real good while enjoying the football game. Will talk with family later in the day. I am truly blessed.
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We have an international dinner. Everyone brings dishes from their countries. It’s great sharing and learning their traditions.
Our perfect Christmas dinner consists of ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn pudding, scalloped oysters, hot rolls, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, Kentucky Jam Cake. with plenty of iced tea to go with the meal itself and hot coffee to go with the desserts.
My boyfriend and I look forward to making prime rib every Christmas! Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
Every year I make Christmas POSOLE, I go to our local bakery and buy bolillo bread, can’t have without the bread. Hominey, pork, and beef in a red chile base topped with cilantro, onions and lemon juice, cut bolillo in half butter it and bake in the oven. Yum.
We have ham or turkey with all the trimmings, but one thing we always have is chocolate pie served hot. It is so good.
I plan to ‘keep it simple’. Will be making potato salad which will accompany a ham sandwich and… maybe, just maybe, a glass of egg nog.
We start with Poinsettias (like Mimosas but with cranberry juice). My son-in-law grills steaks, my daughter & I cook potatoes & other veggies, pies, ice cream, Christmas cookies for dessert.
Our Christmas is pretty much like Thanksgiving – turkey, dressing, etc. Depending on how many are there, we may add a ham.
Am going to keep is simple… a nice ham sandwich with homemade potato salad… and maybe a glass of egg nog.
Stuffed Turkey with Cranberry Salsa.
Ham, Yams, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, pineapple slices with cottage cheese….eggnog and sweets for dessert…don’t know what yet…
My husband and I have started the tradition of having a small prime rib with baked potatoes, rolls and salad on Christmas since there is just the two of us. We also have Swedish sausage on Christmas Eve.
I will have a Honey Baked Ham (gift from son-in-law), sweet potato casserole with brown sugar & pecan topping, green bean casserole, stuffed celery, sweet peas, corn & pecan tarts for desert and of course rolls. Will have to take a walk weather permitting after we eat.
We have a roast beef for the past few years. We decided to follow the Grinch and serve the “roast beast” I make hot harvard beets, peas, mashed potatoes and white corn with it. Also the gravy and of course pumpkin and/or apple pie.
We have the same as thanksgiving. Turkey and all the trimmings. on christmas eve we have a ham and scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole with desserts
We order in for Thai food which is open. But, I usually get eggnog, and make some type of dessert. Either that or chocolate.
We always cook Christmas dinner which is the turkey and all the trimmings. My mother in law always makes the desserts.
It’s the one day a year I cook up a prime rib. We splurge. Twice baked potatoes, homemade rolls, fruit salad and whatever vegetable grabs my fancy that day! Sometimes it’s just the 2 of us, and sometimes we have a housefull. But I always cook the same thing. You can’t beat the leftovers!
This will be our first Christmas without my dad – but we want to make it a special one – He let us know he was ready to go – so it shouldn’t be a sad occasion – Mom will spend the night with us – and we’ll start the day opening gifts and having a special breakfast – and end the day with a ham dinner in the afternoon before taking our naps
I have ham and smashed sweet potatoes and a spinach-artichokes hearts casserole. Mincemeat pie for dessert!
We usually have a very traditional Christmas similar to Thanksgiving, with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, creamed pearl onions, broccoli,turnips, carrots, holiday potatoes (made ONLY for Christmas) and of course pumpkin and apple pies for dessert.
We have a buffet style. For the different times the people arrive. Some hot and some cold food. We have ham and this year I will be making lasagna too. Plus all the extras.
We have regular food on Christmas Eve, but have a repeat of Thanksgiving on Christmas Day, complete with turkey, trimmings, and of course ham with its trimmings. At Christmas, we recognize that the birth of Christ is what we are celebrating.
My Spouse, fathre-in-law,three adult children and two grandchildren have a Pinapple glased spiral ham at X-Mas. We tend to have Mashed potatoes and Grandmas hashbrown cassarole and creamed peas and several differnet desserts. It is nice to cook for only 8 after a Thanksgiving that I usually have for 28-35 people.
We have stuffed shells, meatballs, braciole and a salad. Always, lots of Christmas cookies for dessert.
this year i am taking mac and cheese, corn casserole and a 7 layer salad. big dinner with all my family.
Boy do we love ham!!!
We go to a movie and then come home and have a Prime Rib dinner!
Ham and cookies of course!
We really love to ham it up on Christmas, so this would be the perfect way to start the Holidays off! Yum! Yum!
At my in-law, we have turkey & the works. Then early in the evening, my family has Prime Rib and Yorkshire pudding… Everyone lives in the same county… so we make out like bandits, except for doing dishes twice…
At one time I cooked Christmas Dinner for 5 teenagers and some of their friends and of course my Mom. Mom has passed and all of the kids have families of their own. Its hard to cook small meals now. I am going to North Carolina to visit one son, grandkids, and great grandkids. Will help with cooking there. Making candie and goodies to take. We will have Ham and all of the trimmings and of course my potato salad that they always request.
We have turkey and ham with all the all time favorites of our family, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing, twice baked (huge) potatoes, cranberries. Yum! Can’t wait! Of course we have lots of desserts, cherry delight is our favorite, it wouldn’t be Christmas without it. Pecan pie, chocolate silk cream cheese dessert. And, for the nibblers…we have huge displays of home made fudge, peanut butter balls, sugar cookies, chocolate covered cherries, and anything else we show up with. We like to eat, and…we enjoy eating with the family.
I make ham, mac-n-cheese, collard greens, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, hawaiian sweet rolls, veggies and dip, sweet potato pie, and I always make a special Christmas dessert of either holiday themed cake or cupcakes or cookies.
On Christmas Eve, we usually have some type of pasta, mainley lasagne.
My sister makes lasagna meatballs and sausage. My job is to bring the bread
My brother (the chef) makes appitizers
We have our Christmas day dinner on Christmas Eve. It is our tradition to order Kentucky Fried Chicken for our dinner lol. I started doing this when my husband passed away and I really didn’t want to cook a big dinner. And now with two grandchildren to add to the mix it has become a tradition that we all love. This way we can enjoy the day with all the relatives and no one had to do dishes.
We usually have ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, greenbean casserole, broccolli casserole and of course plenty of desserts for everyone.
We follow the tradition my Grandmother had; Christmas Eve we have chicken salad sandwiches and chicken noodle soup. Christmas day we have turkey, dressing, ham, green bean casserole, yams, and lots of Mom’s pumpkin and pecan pies!
We always have a roasted beast (beef), yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes and vegetables and a flamming figgy pudding to top it off!
We have deep fried turkey, ham, creamed potatoes, greens, deviled eggs, strawberry congealed salad, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, stuffing and lots of appetizers.
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Cookies! Lots and lots of cookies!
this year will be a sirloin roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, crescent rolls, veggies, salad, ham, various desserts and what ever else i come up with 🙂
Ham is the meal for Christmas, with sweet potatoes and veggies
We always have turkey and ham all the trimmings.
We are having mealoaf, candied sweet potatoes, mac & cheese, green bean casserole, apple salad and Key Lime pie, grape pie and spiced pear pie as well as red velvet cake, fruit salad and cheese & bologna tray for snacks
We always have HAM.
We have baked ham, sweet potatoes and green bean casserole. Of course it wouldn’t be complete without cherry pie!
We have a Christmas Breakfast at my husbands parents house. Then when we have our Christmas we have different things like Sub sandwiches, BBQ. It depends on what the kids want. They are all grown up and out on there own, but they each have there favorites that I try to fix.
We have ham, mashed and sweet potatoes, gravy , salads, fresh corn, and usually apple pie for dessert.
We have roast beef for most of the family and some vegetarian meal for me.
We try to do something different every year. With Thanksgiving just behind us, and we usually do traditional for that, we change it up, one year we had omelets and had everyone bring the favorite ingredient for that, we had Mexican one year, homemade Chinese one year…I think that for this year, we are doing Ham and all the traditional things you usually have with it.
This year we are having fried chicken, brisket, potatoe salad, cole slaw, macoroni salad, and lots of desserts.
As a single mom of 3 kids, I let them decide on out traditonal Christmas dinner,understanding that the meat and potato dishes would remain the same throughout their growing years, but each year they would have input and the ability to change the side dishes and the special dessert. They decided on Ham with a pineapple-cherry glaze and homemade scallopped potatoes. Even to this day, with my children grown, they stick to the same tradition, as do I.
Hi, we have roast turkey or roast beef, mashed cauliflower, green bean casserole, rolls and french silk pie. This year we will be looking at a different menu, my son can not eat gluten (autistic) but it will be great whatever we choose 🙂
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We have turkey,dressing,ham,green beans,corn,squash,collards,salad,rolls,gravy,mac and cheese,pies,cakes,and whatever else kids and grandkids bring.
We have thirty people participating inour holiday dinner so we do both a ham and a turkey with all the side dishes. It’s wonderful to see everyone together.
We have brunch with local family.
Then we travel for an evening celebration. We also celebrate my Christmas Birthday.
With turkey being the traditional Thanksgiving dish I fix ham with pineapple,cherries,cloves,and brown sugar. Then there is the potato salad,green been casserole,baked beans,sweet potato casserole,mac&cheese,and whatever anyone else wants to fix.
We have cornish hens, ham, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatos with a couple of turnips thrown in for a little kick, yams, rolls, and whatever green vegetable we feel like. We usually have some sort of pie for dessert. Our gathering is very small, just my husband and I. I grew up with big family gatherings, but alas, most of the family is gone now. I keep the tradition going with loads of leftovers.
We usually have Swedish Sausage abd Swedish Meatballs. Also Lefsa, Vaked Potatoes, our own 24hr salad, cranberries, and mincemeat pie. When times used to be good, we enjoyed a Prime Rib Dinner, however I don’t think we will see that again.
we do either turkey or ham plus i make a chiffon pumpkin pie that my family love,s i have either make it for thanksgiving or christmas or both .gene
Mostly prime rib, but it varies with turkey, ham and crown roast of pork also in the running.
Our Christmas menu varies each year but since moving to Florida in 2006 seafood or shrimp is likely to be on the menu. I like trying new recipes so something “new” will also be on the menu. I also am thinking of doing a sweet potato pie this year. If we invite or have any guests, I would ask that they each bring a dish to share. Happy Holidays!
Since we celebrate hanukkah, we eat anything anyone who invites us prepares for dinner!
We go to son’s on Christmas Eve so that we can be there when Santa leaves all of the toys and see grandchildren on Christmas morning. After having breakfast with son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren we come home. Since we only have a few remaining family members, we go out on Christmas Day to have dinner with my 2 sisters and spend time together.
One of my most favorites is corn casserole souffle!
My husband and myself carry on my Mom’s tradition (she died 7 years ago) and invite the entire family to our house for great food, great drinks and an abundance of love and sharing. We usually ask everyone to bring a dish or a dessert and we provide all the rest.
Ham and or turkey (sometimes deep fried) with potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, dirty rice, cranberry sauce, dressing, sweet potato casserole and various homemade desserts: fudge, pumpkin pie, cinnamon hard candy (“Stained Glass”), pumpkin bites, and many more. This is all if I am cooking…if I get to go to the family dinner, it’s just a smorgasboard of good food!
A standing rib roast, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn casserole, green salad.
Usually other things too, but those are standard.
Since it is just the two of us and both senior citizens and all of our family live in other states and unable to be home with us, we will probably have a peanut butter sandwich and some tomato soup.
Turkey dinner is the usual but last few years have mixed it up a bit with Alaskan King Crab legs, prime rib and steaks.
We have an apricot glazed ham with sweet
potatoe casserole that has cinnamon apples in it and scalloped potatoes along with asparagus and a fruited cornbread stuffing. I do all the cooking at my dad’s house and then we go and have dessert at my son’s house .
Our family usually does potluck with ham, scalloped potatoes, sweet potatoes, salads, rolls, etc. and desserts.
I make cheese cake , and chocolate pies.Everyone seems to love them.
we have chile soup christma eve and ham on christmas daY
For Christmas dinner we make a glazed ham, hellzapoppin rice, a jello salad, soufled sweet potatoes, cauliflower and cheese gratin and white chocolate raspberry swirl cheesecake. Yum, can’t wait.
We usually have a brunch at home with breafast pizza,coffecake and other things an then we go to my mom’s for a buffet later in the day.
We usually have a variation on Thanksgiving for Christmas dinner. Turkey, oyster stuffing, mashed and gravy, and of course, deviled eggs. Then we vary the other dishes. We keep the same colors though. We had broccoli for Thanksgiving so will probably have green salad (maybe with shrimp)for Christmas. Instead of Sweet Potatoes we’ll either have acorn squash or glazed baby carrots, etc. Dessert is up to the kids (teens) I always look forward to seeing what they come up with each year.
We usually have ham for Christmas (one of those spiral hams). mashed potatos, sweet potatos, Christmas jello salad, green bean casserole,corn, a great onion casserole and deserts of all kinds.
We are in our 80″s and we will be alone for Christmas this year. So a fully cooked ham would be a treat for us as we won’t have to do any cooking. Looks and sounds great.
I started a new tradition several years ago. Instead of the usual turkey or ham I make a prime rib, baked potatoes, and shoe peg corn,salad and I make home made bread. The dessert consist of home made New York Cheese Cake and a Rum Cake.
Our family celebrates Christmas with ham, potatoe salad, mac and cheese,baked beans, cheese balls, dips, and lots and lots of sweets.
Our Christmas dinner is Fondue. Cheese Fondue with at least one-half dozen various vegetables, and toasted bagettes. Desserts vary… cheesecake, pumpkin or squash custard pie, or even tiramisu.
My 88-year-old widowed neighbor & I have a tradition of going to our Clarion Inn for their holiday buffet. I cook throughout the year for different holidays, so this is our treat. We pig out on turkey, ham, prime rib, dozens of salads, veggies, and desserts as far as the eye can see.
We have spiral sliced ham. Christmas is casual at my house.
It’s breakfast all the way here. Omelettes, sweet rolls, hot cider and cocoa.
We do a turkey with all the trimmings and apple pie for dessert.
we go traditional – turkey & all the fixin’s
Ham,Sweet Potatoes, sausage stuffing,@ green beans
Ham, Au Gratin Potatoes, Buttered Corn, Roasted Green Beans, Berry Pie.
I make Lasagna & Meatballs and a roast.
Always, Lamb Shanks, mashed potatoes, peas, and a nice salad.
I make roast “beast” (prime rib), mashed potatoes, gravy, corn,rolls, and plenty of desserts.
It depends. We have a huge gathering of friends and family at my mom’s house and different people bring different items. I prepare a family dinner at my house the night before Christmas and try to make something different from what we are going to have the following day. One year, I made a Mexican feast. Another year, I made a smoked turkey. It varies from year to year.
ham always on Christmas, wonderful for the main meal with mashed potatoes and even better later in the evening on rolls for a nice snack!
I usually do my cooking on Christmas Eve. That way we just reheat and eat on Christmas Day and have our family time. We always have a glazed ham, dressing and gravy, sweet potato casserole, fresh green beans, and cranberry sauce. Since I bake too, we always have cakes, pies, fudge, and cookies and truffles for munching on. Christmas time is family time, with lots of love for all.
This years’ Christmas dinner will be decided by my two grandchildren, ages 9 and 7. We are starting our own holiday traditions since the passing of my husband two years ago. He was the one who cooked a large turkey and ham with dressing, potatoes, collard greens, green beans,baked macaroni with cheese, sweet potatoes, salad, dressing, and homemade rolls, and a variety of desserts. This year will be pot roast with potatoes, green beans, salad, and key lime pie, choices made by the grandchildren. Although this is not the traditional dinner,it will be something that everyone will enjoy.
It is just me at home. I used to have everyone here. Now I go to my Childrens homes. Still wonderful day!! I love all the company & I don’t have anymore hard work!!!
We have a large family buffet. My son-in-law roasts the turkey and makes cornbread dressing. My daughter makes a beautiful glazed ham. I make a big pan of hot dinner rolls and several kinds of candy. Everyone else prepares the vegs and loads of desserts.
We have a Christmas brunch with breakfast items and also lunch items. We have a large group, usually around 25-30 with ages running from 1 to 76. It is usually quite noisy and add in cats and dogs for a very happy day.
We have Prime Rib with Chile Potatoes.Yum Yum!
COOKIES! LOL! The kids get to eat Cookies for Breakfast… only on Christmas! Then we usually have ham sandwiches or something along those lines… everyone is too tired for much more than that! =)
ham,pineapple, greenbean casserale,mashed potatoes,home made bread,dessert of some kind.
For the first time this year we are going with a low country boil, easy and good
When my children were tiny (just old enough to talk)I started the Christmas Eve tradition of letting them pick, prepare and clean up the Christmas Eve dinner.(This way I was able to relax and enjoy the evening and could concentrate on whatever we were having on Christmas day.) The only rule was there had to be a meat and there had to be something green. We ate many Christmas eve dinners of summer sausage and olives. Now at ages 22 and 28 we get excellent meals on Christmas Eve.
we have Ham with pineapple sauce, and candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes pan gravy with white wine, green beans with bacon, pumpkin pie or/and cherry pie
…. but this year only hot dogs and broth
no desert or breads or vegys, but we are very thankful we have this food, Thank you God bless all who are in need…Amen
we have turkey with all the trimmings
and because my husband is from
germany we have rouladen.boiled potatos
and sweetsour red cabbage christmas
dinner and family togetherness
is all we need to make the day
merry and bright
Our family has grown so much and when we all get together there are about 30 of us. Christmas dinner is a combined effort where everyone brings something. We always have turkey and ham and then the special dishes like Mexican Potatoes (I bring those and can’t show up unless I do) and The Orange Stuff. My son, who is now 21 still refers to Orange Cream Jello as, The Orange Stuff. It’s a great time with lots of love and eating.
We may have ham, turkey or roast beef, but there is always a cranberry salad, a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie, a green salad, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, a good loaf of Asiago Bread, and lots of butter.
Christmas dinner at our house has always been turkey, gravy, potatoes, squash, rolls.
i eat baked turkey, fried turkey, bar-b-q ribs, honey glazed ham,cornbread stuffing.sweet potatoes, mustard greens, potato salad.dirty rice. green bean salad, warm dinner rolls, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie,double chocolate cake.and a mint
Ham or pot roast, with “all the trimmings.” My husband would eat turkey every day, especially holidays; but I like to change it up!
We always have ham, deep fried turkey, potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, corn souffle, rolls and some type of dessert. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it! Yummmmmmm.
We have the seven fishes on Christmas eve, Italian tradition. Christmas day, baked ham, scalloped potatoes and string beans almondine. Dessert is Ricotta cheese cake and biscotti with Espresso.
ever since my mother passed away I invited my father over to my house with the rest of my family and we have barbeque and all the fixings along with whatever else anyone wanted to bring.My mom and dad both loved barbeque so that became our way to remember my mom and have her with us at Christmas.
We usually have a turkey and ham.My wife wants a roast beef(prime rib) this year
My Family and I do a pot luck for Christmas. Everyone brings the recipe they make the best. We all bring one main dish and one desert.MMMM cant wait
We always have our big Christmas meal on Christmas Eve. The traditional meal for us is a huge and very cheesy lasagna, tossed salad and a great big Oreo dessert. Not sure how it started but we have done this for at least 25 years.
I make ham and scalloped potatoes. For dessert, we have cheesecake.
I make reservations!! At a restaurant that serves ham. 🙂
On Christmas I fix both Turkey and Dressing along with a spiral Cut Ham. Therefore, I then have ham left over for the News Year’s tradition of black eyed Peas and Ham. Have a wonderful Christmas and God Bless.
I cook ham turkey with all the sides .
We have always kept it simple (as opposed to Thanksgiving!) with ham, potato salad, veggies, dips, etc. Everyone is busy playing with their presents, catching up on news, etc so we prefer to spend the time together instead of in the kitchen.
This year, we are having a pork roast and a ham, with all the trimmings that go with it, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, gravy, a must is green bean casserole, and cream cheese corn, and for desserts we have a variety of pies,
but have to have at least one dessert that has chocolate included. Have a blessed holiday everyone.
For Christmas we have ham (honey baked of course), sweet potatoes, veggies of some sort, dinner rolls and dessert…usually pecan pie.
Christmas Eve is our special day. We are Polish so we have a tradition of 13 meatless dishes on our table and they include everything from shrimp,scallops,crab cakes,salmon patties, fish, clams all done assorted dishes. Its something my whole family looks forward to every year. And trying to make new and exciting dishes with these main stays is always fun.
Roast duck (home-raised),scalloped potatoes, baked acorn squash (home-grown), all the trimmings & different pies for dessert.
I make something different every year. This year I’m making Pork Crown Roast, Pork Gravy, Hamberg & Sausage & Mushroom Cornbread Stuffing, Roasted Potatoes & Onions, Candied Carrots & Parsnips, Fresh Peas, Mashed Sweet Potatoes w/Cinnamon, Squash w/Honey & Nutmeg, Steamed Asparagus w/Red Bell PepperStrips, Applesauce,Cranberry Sauce,Rolls & Butter,Chardonay Wine,Coffee, And for Dessert-Black Forest Cake w/Friendly’s Pepprmint Stick Ice Cream-plus all the other Goodies-An Assortment of Cookies, Pastry, Brownies,Truffles, Dipped Caramels, Dipped Pretzel Sticks, Eggnog, Cocoa w/Whipped Cream, Etc. Happy Holidays Everyone! : )
We have ham, cheesy potatoes, pie, strawberry pretzel jello dessert, green bean casserole, and rolls 🙂
This year we will travel east and spend Christmas with our son and his Jewish wife. So it will be her mouthwatering tender brisket. I’ve tried to make it and it never turns out as well as hers!
We have over 50 family members at my parents for dinner so we have a ham and a turkey, stuffing, sweet potatos, mashed potatos, noodles, veggies galore, many desserts, and tons of appetizers.
I’ll be making a Mixed Berry Crisp in my brand new crockpot this Christmas
We eat Chinese food. It’s our only day off work, as we work in retail. So, we get Chinese take-out, and go to a movie.
We are going to our son’s house so it is whatever my daughter in law cooks.
Sounds good to me!
Our new tradition, as my 3 children are now adults and have families, is we have a buffett at my oldest’s home. I bring a Christmas Tree cake decorated for the children and my kids favorite, Mom’s Mac n cheese. There are plenty of apps and other goodies to share. The only other thing I bring are Egg White cookies, (chocolate Chip Kisses) as these are my kids favorite cookies. I only make these for Christmas. I also try and make “Goof balls” for my Mother as she does not bake anymore. There are many little traditions we have and they are always a joy to do or prepare. Besides, it is all about the loved ones we are with on our most cherished day of the year!
When my best friend (she died of complications from diabetes in 2004) was still alive we used to go to her mothers house for Christmas dinner and her grandmother would make these wonderful homemade noodles that she would cook in a big pot of turkey broth and a turkey breast that she cooked for this recipe. We offered to make these noodles one year because her grandmother said she was getting too old to roll them out anymore. We followed the recipe exactly how grandma wrote it down. When we woke up in the morning somehow they had turned “green” when drying. Still to this day I don’t know how that green tinge got into those noodles. I still continue to make this recipe as it keeps me close to her memory! LOVE AND MISS YOU JACKIE!
We are having Stuffed Pork Loin, mashed potatoes, carrots, homemade red cabbage, homemade cranberry sauce, green bean casserole & corn. For dessert Pumpkin & apple pie and of course Christmas cookies.
We have the traditional Ham, Homemade “MomMom” Hot Rolls(recipe handed down from my Mom). The best corn pudding, sweet potato casserole, fresh greenbeans, Mashed potatoes, gravy, my daughters famous deviled eggs and plenty of desserts
We usually have Cornish game hens with wild rice, fresh cranberries, french green beans with almonds, fresh home made rolls. Walnut Rum torte for dessert
We always have a Roast Beef with oven brown potatoes and roasted beets with a wonderful tossed vegatable salad with gorgonzola cheese….we also have strawberry shortcake for dessert from strawberries we pick in June and freeze topped with homemade whipped cream and homemade shortcake. We start with a wonderful warm spinach and artichoke dip with tortilla chips and celery stuffed with cream cheese and olives. On to Oyster Stew and then the main course. Wonderful day and 70 years of the same food from my Mother to myself (I am 75)
We have Butterball stuffed turkey,Ham, mashed & scalloped potatoes.rolls vegetables,pie and pudding.
I enjoy a good ham loaf on Christmas day. I grind the ham twice, add my particular spices, bake and baste with a cider-brown-sugar glaze. Yum.
My son and I like to get away from the traditional dinner for Christmas. This year, we are having Tri-Tip and all the fixings. Although I’m going to try to sneak a Turkey Breast in the menu while he’s not looking! 😛 And, we don’t dare go too far from the typical desserts either – but we definitely put our own twist on things!!:-P We make Upside-down Pumpkin Mousse Pie and Apple Crumble.
We have around 25 over for Christmas Eve and I make Turkey and Ham. Everyone brings a dish potluck style and my wife does a bunch of sides like good stuffing and homemade cranberry sauce!
Our Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners are about the same, only big difference is my immediate family must have hot tamales. South Texas tradition. This is not the easiest easiest food item to obtain in northeast Indiana.
This year we wll be having a venison ham,herb and cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy,candied yams, rolls and apple pie.
For my Christmas dinner, I eat Roast Turkey with Water Chestnut and Cashew Nut Stuffings and Honey-Baked Ham.
After the families have been with the in-laws we all get together later Christmas day bringing together all the leftovers from whatever they had. A combination of Mexican-American, traditional turkey to sub sandwiches!
with such a large family we each bring a dish. after thanksgiving dinner we sit around the table and plan christmas dinner. Dinner always includes 2 turkeys, 1 baked the other deep fried. Mamos famous ham, and all the fixins. plus you have to make or bring a dessert.
We have either Ham or Turkey, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Corn, Deviled Eggs, Jellied Cranberries, Rolls, and Coconut Pie for dessert.
I always cook ham and turkey,sweet potato casserole,mashed potatoes,steamed carrots,green beans,(not green bean casserole)greens is a must,deviled eggs,watergate salad,a black olive green olive,pickles,for nibbling ..then apple ,coconut pies,and cookies for dessert..
Delicious,yummy,amazing all kinds of FOOD!!
Christmas Eve is appetizers – Christmas Day is roast beef and cheese fondue 🙂
Since my family is Mexican, on Christmas Eve we celebrate with all of our families. My parents love to make pork and chicken Tamales which taste amazing along with some fruit punch.
Christmas is my favorite time of year so I go way out. i cook 2-3 turkeys, 2hams, Louisiana Roast, chicken and dumplings, and other meats. Dressing, mac and cheese, greens, green bean casserole, corn, yams, potato pies, buttermilk pies,pineapple cream cheese pie, mint pie, red velvet cake, 7-up cake, pound cake, and jello mold, fruit salad, chocolate cake this is my menu so far for this years dinner it may increase.
I make whats called chicken stack-up.the base is deboned chicken shredded and mixed w/cr of chic soup and white wine.you then stackon top of this with rice,pineapple celery water chestnuts toasted coconut gr onions tomatoes cashews shr cheese and chow mein noodles and chopped hard boiled eggs.WE then have a fruit tower and xmas cookies after unwrapping gifts:)
It has always been lasagna but in the past year I have become a vegetarian… so this year… I was thinking of sweet potato ravioli with pecan maple sauce.
We have ham, hashbrown casserole,mashed pototoes for the grandkids, ham gravy, peas, green beans, fruit salad, celery stuffed with piemento cheese, cranberries,pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and raspberry pie, sweet tea,and peach tea, and some coffee to go along with the pie.
we have ham canded yams,mac and cheese and stuffing and different assortment of pies and cookies
We are having turkey,ham,mashed potatoes,& gravy with homemade cornbread dressing,homemade rolls and veggies what ever the kids bring plus pies and a fresh apple cake.
gravy
I will be alone so it will be simple: I have a small Pork Loin in the freezer and will cook that with gravy, Cornbread Dressing, French Style Green Beans, maybe a Corn Casserole my friend had for Thanksgiving if I remember to get the recipe; good bread of some kind (store bought rolls) and Pecan Pie.
Seafood Gumbo
I like to mix it up a little each year, but ham is always the main focus…and of course spuds, spuds, spuds. The dinner is followed up with a scrumptous cheese cake. Yum!
I tend to do either duck or ham. This year it is definitely ham.
I’m very fortunate to have 2 chefs in the family so the food is tremendous! We have turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, veggies (sometimes pasta)The dessert is always the prize, and it’s always great!
We have baked ham,sweet potatoes,green beans hot rolls and sweet potato pie
We have turkey and all the trimmings.
we are having honey ham,sweet potatoes,crowder peas,corn,seafood gumbo,seafood delight,yum yum yum…
We always have ham and turkey mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole, cranberries,lots of differant salads, and for dessert we have chocolate lust dessert made with chocolate pudding, sometimes called robert redford dessert. there are usually about 80 of us at christmas. I always bring the dressing and the dessert.
I usually let my husband cook the Ham and i cook the rest of the meal. He cooks the ham on the Grill in a roasting pan. The only difference is you get that smoky taste from the grill. Ve
We have either Ham or Turkey, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Jellied Cranberry Sauce, Deviled Eggs, Corn, Rolls, and anything else the family requests along with several different desserts, especially my favorite homemade Coconut Cream Pie.
Because we have a HUGE Thanksgiving meal, we decided a few years ago to just do “munchies and crunchies” on Christmas Eve. Since I am a gramma, I like the idea that the grandkids don’t have to leave their toys to come over for a big dinner on Christmas Day. The one thing that they all agree on is that I HAVE to make my no-bake cheesecake pies. There is never a piece left over!
We usually have ham but this years my brothers decided they wanted pizza so we’re having homemade pizza.
pork pies
Our Christmas includes everything….turkey, dressing and gravy, ham, sweet and irish potatoes, several veggies, many great sweet salads, numerous deserts. We try to have something for everyone.
We like to repeat Thanksgiving. Turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy and pumpkin pie.
Glazed ham, homemade rolls, fresh corn, grnbean cas. And a few other items that family bring. Then homemade cinn. Rolls and pies!
We have ham and turkey, along with all the fixins and whatever special dish each family member brings.
We serve Ham, dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, Green beans, rolls, deviled eggs and Mac and cheese. And it wouldnt be Christmas without Coke salad!
We go to others peoples houses so it’s what ever they are having usually turkey or ham with fixins
I usually make pies and cookies
We do steak, shrimp, baked potatoes, salad and all the trimmings. We buy a Christmas ham and have it with black eyed peas on New Year’s Day.
Never a partridge in a pear tree.Ham,sweet potatoes,dressing,stuffed eggs,sweet potato pie,buttermilk salad and a big ole glass of sweet tea.
Our family makes a honey sprial ham mashed potatos with gravy corn dinner rolls Lasgna, spagetti salad. Candy cane pie, apple pie, cup cakes for the kids. and hot and cold drinks.
On Christmas morning, we start cooking a 10-15 lb Ham in the oven, on 250. Then open presents. With the ham we make sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, and anything else my daughter & I can come up with that will satisfy my grandchildren. We also make homemade cookies with them & have flour everywhere.
We have a traditional southern meal. Ham,collards, jams, peas and cornbread. Lots of desserts.
We have the turkey or ham with a Vensison roast. The stuffing, and all the trimmings that each member decides to bring.A table load of sweets that each person fixs and brings. IT’s just a Yum Yum family meal !!
We have honey burbon glazed ham. Sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and corn pudding. Along with assorted pies and cookies.
we have turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, dressing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, turnip, carrots, broccoli, squash, peas, carrots, cranberry salad, allkinds of pies, etc
We tend to have different things each year. This year we’re having lasagna & garlic bread.
we have a cassarole so no one has to do much after a full day of traveling from hse to hse. This year my sister is in town and needs a very warm/hot house due to a medical condition. We are going to have a luau to keep in line with the tropical feeling.
Fruit salad
We do a traditional dinner, ham, turkey dressing, potatoes,gravy, etc. My daughter and I do all the cooking.
Ham..Potatoes…green beans…salad
We always have Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy Yams that my husband make, Rolls, Vege Tray to include Pickles, and olives. Then we have pie for desert.
We have Mexican dinner. Shredded beef tacos, burritos, Spanish rice, quesadillas, chicken enchiladas, salad, salsa, chips, lots of good food.
I usually make baked ham, mashed potatoes a vegetable biscuits and different desserts
We always have dressing, potato salad, mac and cheese, collards, green beans, swt potatoes, ham, turkey, red velvet cake, pecan pie.
I never liked cooking much but my daughter does. And its just my small family of 4. This Thanksgiving my daughter had to do the cooking due to my back problems. I just had back surgery so cooking for Christmas will be by my husband my 6 yr old and my 16 yr old. This will make for an interesting Christmas dinner this year.
I am a ‘Cajun’ from south Louisiana. We always have gumbo and rice for all holidays. For Christmas we will also have jambalaya, potato salad,green bean salad, cream potatoes, oyster dressing, peas and corn,and of course ham. We have baked bread and butter. For dessert it is usually an assortment of homemade and store bought cakes cookies and pies, especially creamcheese pies. We are a large family and everyone contributes something.AND we eat dinner at noon here in Louisiana. Supper is our evening meal. So there is lots left over for supper too!!! Merry Christmas from the Dufrene family!!!!!
Since Thanksgiving is a turkey day with all of the trimmings, my families tradtion for Christmas was a banquet/potluck style meal. My mother pretty much raised her siblings (she was 2nd oldest out of 7). Her father was extremely abusive to all of them and her mother was very passive so my mother took on the fight to keep them all together. After her father died and most of the siblings were close enough to travel easily Momma would have all of the families come to our house on Cristmas Eve. She always tried to have a present for them under the tree even if it was something so simple as a framed photo or a hand-stitched dish towel. Our kitchen would be the meeting place…Baked Ham, home-made biscuits, chips with home-made dips, nuts, punch, apple pie, cherry pie, pumpkin pie, cookies, home-made carrot cake, cheesecake…the list goes on. Family members would come and go all day and night. The children’s presents were left for the end of the night and once those were opened everyone would head for home;but not without a plateful of food.
We usually have ham for Christmas dinner.
I love deep fried turkey with all the fixins—which include red-hot pickles made with redhot cinnamon candies–yum.
We have ham Christmas eve and turkey on Christmas day.
We will have turkey, stuffing, scalloped potatoes, broccoli, butternut squash and a few other vegetables. Dessert will be homemade cookies.
We have prime rib, Yorkshire pudding and asparagus. When I was a teenager, one of my best friend’s mothers made this for us and the memory stayed with me for life. We get enough turkey at Thanksgiving, so we like to go with something a bit elegant for Christmas.
we have ham, turkey, mashed potatoes,veggies,sweetpotatoes,stuffing,and way too many different desserts to name! its the holiday when wego all overboard!
we make homemade pizzas
ham, rolls, corn, lefse, herring, beets, veggie, tray, and jello with cool whip
Ham with all the trimmings!
we always have ham, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberries and bananas, raspberry jello salad with sour cream, fruit salad and pumpkin pie. YUM!
I always make prime rib, yorkshire pudding, twice baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, creamed onions, green bean casserole, and of course, a variety of Christmas cookies.
Ham is mandatory. mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry. And then whatever else family brings. Oh and lots of desserts is always nice.
we always have turkey, stuffing, the works, and ham.
For our Christmas dinner Im planning on making a spiral ham and a roast too. I will be having sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes as well. We will also be having deviled eggs, gravy, corn and for dessert I will be making a chocolate pie and a pumpkin pie as well.
We make an attempt to change it up every year. Usually the main dish is either Turkey (fried or bbq), Prime Rib (roasted or bbq), or Honey Baked Ham. However, this year we’re thinking out-of-the-box and grilling a Christmas Goose asian style!
We get together Christmas Eve. There will be a spread of appetizers;Sweet & sour Meatballs, cracker, cheeses, chips, dip & ussualy homemade cookies & candies.
My mom bakes a large ham with pineapple glaze and pineapples, she also makes chocolate pie I bring homemade baked beans and mac and cheese. Other family members bring their favorites including deviled eggs, broccoli salad, potato salad and a variety of desserts. We celebrate Christmas Eve with my parents and Christmas morning with the in laws. Left overs are snacked on all Christmas day.
I like to have a traditional turkey dinner prepared in a healthier way. Turkey, mashed taters, veggies, pumpkin custard and probably a jello salad that is traditional in my family.
I bake a Ham, potato salad and green bean casserole with every kind of cookies I can think of for desert and egg nog.
We usually have a turkey dinner for Christmas and a ham dinner on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the giveaway.
My family has always had Ham for Christmas dinner. The sides may change but ham satys the same. We have added another staple to our Christmas (and Thanksgiving) dinner; that is a no bake pumkin pie. It’s the double layer pumpkin pie (recipe from Philadelphia cream cheese).
i make ham and eggs, mashed potatoes , potato salad and a chef salad and homemade cakes and pies
I make a Prime Rib for xmas every year. A bit cashy but full of love. My family loves it. Twice baked potato casserole and Brussel Sprouts with bacon. Mmmm.
We have a buffet dinner at our house. It is open to anyone that doesn’t want to be alone on Christmas. A glazed ham is always
present along with roast beef and turkey. All leftovers are sent home with the college kids or anyone that is elderly or alone.
We have a very non-traditional Christmas meal, but a staple in southern cooking. With so much turkey and ham floating around, our family opted years ago to have a huge pot of pinto beans, fried potatoes and onions, coleslaw and homemade biscuits. Growing up in a family with lots of love, but not lots of money, we ate many meals like this, and this just grounds us back and helps us realize it’s all about family, not the meal!
A good ole’ southern traditional Christmas with ham, turkey, dressing, gravy, deviled eggs, green bean casserole, watergate salad, candied yams, corn pudding, collards, cranberry sauce, rolls and yummy desserts. I grew up that way and have continued the tradition since my mom passed away.
Our Christmas dinner always has ham and my famous pasta salad. Everyone is always happy to sample the desserts. Merry Christmas to everyone!
We used to eat roast duck, we’ve had finger foods when the kids were small and this year a turkey.
We try to have a variety of finger foods of different cultures. Such as tamales, nachos, egg rolls and such. We munch most of the day. In the evening we generally have orange baked ham, scalloped potatoes and green bean casserole, rolls and desserts.
We don’t have the money to buy all the things for Christmas dinner so we go to the Senior Center it only cost us a side dish and can of something for the food bank.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS………..
Our family tradition is to serve ham biscuits, potato salad, deviled eggs, tossed salad and cole slaw for our holiday gathering Also all time favorite eggnog punch and several good deserts. This is a buffet type meal so everyone can mix and mingle. DELIGHTFUL.
Then of course after throwing away the nice paper plates we exchange gifts and lots of love and blessings to all.
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THE CHEESY SCALLOPED POTATOS WITH THE HAM OR THE OYSTER STUFFING WITH THE TURKEY
We usually have turkey, ham, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, potato salad, green bean casserole, pecan pie, and various other desserts.
We have lasagna, turkey and all the trimmings. This satisfies everyone
We usually start with wine and appetizers. We grill a whole turkey on the gas grill or bake a ham with a wonderful glaze in the oven. We usually serve the meats on fresh breads for sandwiches. Our favorite thing however, is to make the most massive Antipasto Salad you could imagine, made with my homemade marinated mushrooms and served with my homemade creamy italian dressing.
I make the pies! Family Favorites are pecan and buttermilk, and then the surprise baker’s choice! Everybody loves pie!
We have a Mexican dinner on Christmas Eve and then turkey, ham, cornbread dressing with all the trimmings, several fruit salads and many delicious desserts—-which we never get around to eating until hours after dinner.