What do you serve on Christmas Eve?
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Anonymous
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My DH and I are hosting Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner this year. We would like the dinner on Christmas to be more formal and are looking for a cozier and easier option on Christmas Eve. Our daughter is almost two so we will all be going to the early service (5:00) at church and then coming home to eat, get in pjs, put out cookies for Santa, have a fire, etc. Any ideas for something that could be yummy but not fussy? FWIW, there will be ten of us (including our little one). Thank you!!!! |
Anonymous
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Do you have any family traditions you'd like to follow or want to come up with your own?
My parents are from Eastern Europe and Christmas Eve is a no-meat dinner. Since my husband doesn't eat some of the dishes I improvise and make our own dishes, but still keep it no-meat meals. |
Anonymous
| My mother always does antipasti, mozzarella incarrozza, and ciopinno (we are Italian). However, i'M thinking that's more work than you want to do. Maybe make your own mini pizzas? |
Anonymous
| Italian Christmas Eve - 7 fishes for the 7 sacraments. I don't think you want to go there. |
Anonymous
| We always do cheese fondue and salad followed by chocolate fondue and spiked hot chocolate. Always a hit. |
Anonymous
| Giant meatless Polish meal, Dh's family tradition. Also don't recommend it for low key. Christmas Eve is my birthday, so when I was a kid, my mom always made my favorite, lasagna, and we had a carvel ice cream cake. That would be an easy way to go! |
Anonymous
| French-Canadian tradition here: meat pies, lentil soup, champagne, buche noel. |
Anonymous
We do cheese fondue as well. It's my DH's family tradition. |
Anonymous
This made me smile. I'll be making a meatless Polish meal by myself for the 1st time this year. It's definitely no low key dinner. 
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Anonymous
| We spend Christmas day with DH's family and typically have prime rib or another meat, so for Christmas Eve, we typically have either crabcakes or a shrimp dish. |
Anonymous
| Big pot of beef stew. |
Anonymous
| English. We have ham, roast potatoes, and salad. Ham can be done in advance so it is easy. |
Anonymous
| Last Christmas Eve we had paninis and heavy hors d'oeuvres (a lot of appetizer type things from Trader Joe's). We also had a full bar and egg nog (just family that night, not a party, but we all enjoy boozing now and then). All of it was a hit. Christmas Day we had a more formal meal with a roast and potatoes, etc. |
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| Christmas Eve has always been grilled steak and lobster |
Anonymous
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My family makes pasta with sauce out of a jar, just because it's easy and everyone likes it.
DH's family has stone crabs. |