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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 28, 2016 4:15:31 GMT
Nope!
We do have turkey on thanksgiving (almost always)
And we have standing rib roast or other nice beef (filet, steaks, prime rib) at Christmas plus ham
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Nov 28, 2016 4:18:14 GMT
Thanksgiving is our "traditional" dinner with turkeys, mashed potatoes, etc. Xmas is always something different with my family and usually prime rib if DH and I are hosting. This year SIL is hosting and MIL tells me she wants brisket baked in the packet of onion soup mix. Wth? We usual spend around $150 for a 10lb boneless rib eye and SIL is going to feed us with a $15 slab of tough brisket for xmas? I feel your pain! If we host, we have to provide everything , if we are guests, we have to bring a dish. This year we did not host thanksgiving and both hubby and I after tasting the turkey were discreet in discarding it as it tasted raw! 😝
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Post by scrappinmama on Nov 28, 2016 4:19:08 GMT
I'm Mexican American Christmas Eve and Day are all about making and eating tamales. We eat them for Christmas Eve dinner, then eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner the next day.
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Post by LeaP on Nov 28, 2016 4:25:36 GMT
Traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that goes with it.
Christmas is a ham holiday for my husband. I would prefer a hunk of beef, but he really, really, really likes ham leftovers so I go with ham. I might do beef for New Years, but then again fish is nice. One year I did the feast of the seven vegetables (instead of fish or meat).
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Post by gmcwife1 on Nov 28, 2016 4:28:05 GMT
We don't do dinner on Christmas. Our big celebration is having everyone spend the night Christmas eve. My mom will make a pot of chili, a ham or something that we can eat as we all get there at different times.
Christmas morning we have waffles, eggs, sausage/bacon/ham and fried potatoes.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Nov 28, 2016 4:35:24 GMT
Growing up we had ham at Christmas and everything else was very similar. Now we go out to eat for Thanksgiving with my mom and have a traditional Christmas dinner at his parents' house.
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Post by papersilly on Nov 28, 2016 5:23:44 GMT
Thanksgiving is our "traditional" dinner with turkeys, mashed potatoes, etc. Xmas is always something different with my family and usually prime rib if DH and I are hosting. This year SIL is hosting and MIL tells me she wants brisket baked in the packet of onion soup mix. Wth? We usual spend around $150 for a 10lb boneless rib eye and SIL is going to feed us with a $15 slab of tough brisket for xmas? I feel your pain! If we host, we have to provide everything , if we are guests, we have to bring a dish. This year we did not host thanksgiving and both hubby and I after tasting the turkey were discreet in discarding it as it tasted raw! 😝 Same. When DH and I host, we provide everything too. But when we go there, we have to bring something. Every time, and I mean every...time...any ILs have hosted and served prime rib, it always came out too raw so they would MICROWAVE the sliced meat. You know what it's like to eat meat that's been "cooked" from raw to well in 5 minutes? Blech! I think this is why they gave up and opted for brisket instead this year. We've had it in previous years and it's not tasty no matter how packets of onion soup you drown it in.
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Post by crittsmom on Nov 28, 2016 5:44:52 GMT
Because we go to family's house for Thanksgiving and Christmas the meals are identical. I try to talk sis in law into serving something else so she isn't in the kitchen for hours but her DH won't have anything but the traditional dinner. Makes it hard when there are 6 grands running around wanting to open presents but have to wait until after dinner. I would love to do a buffet or just grill that day.
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Post by kristi on Nov 28, 2016 5:50:50 GMT
Turkey and ham for thanksgiving & brisket for Christmas.
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Post by hop2 on Nov 28, 2016 10:56:51 GMT
Different! Traditional Thanksgiving dinner and for Christmas we have lasagna with a nice wine salad. What is a wine salad??? Sounds like my kind of salad! Yea River wine salad recipe needed
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Post by camcas on Nov 28, 2016 11:10:32 GMT
Aussie here...so no thanksgiving for me For Christmas we do baked ham,turkey roll and prawns.....with Roasted veg or salad depending on weather forecast ...hot or bloody hot!! Dessert is plum pudding or trifle or bombe Alaska...once again depending on weather. Afterwards there is chocolate ,mince pies and Christmas cake.....and sleeping or sitting in the pool or a walk on the beach! I think it would be VERY strange to have a winter Christmas 🎄
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Post by cakediva on Nov 28, 2016 12:07:03 GMT
Usually turkey for both.
But in Canada our Thanksgiving is in October - so there is a bigger stretch of time between these celebrations!
Christmas Day is usually at DH's sisters, and her DH sometimes will do ham instead of turkey. Or he'll do both.
I'm on deck for dinner the following day (Boxing Day in Canada) and I am making turkey for my side of the family that day. Mom has already ordered a fresh turkey (I believe he's still walking around) and I'm doing the cooking.
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Post by littlemama on Nov 28, 2016 12:10:03 GMT
Never. Thanksgiving is Turkey, Christmas is ham. Christmas Eve at MIL' s house varies, but is never what the "kids" want, which would be appetizers or Chinese food.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 28, 2016 12:24:10 GMT
When my side of the family (parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings) gathers for Thanksgiving we always have turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy, plus other stuff. When we get together on Christmas, it's potluck and everyone brings whatever they want to contribute. One year we did soups, but we usually have casseroles and sides and salads, no theme or real plan for the meal. This is our family also. Thanksgiving is pretty traditional, but Christmas is more casseroles usually with a ham or turkey cut up. Although I think last year we had a deli meat platter in place of the ham or turkey.
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Post by dawnnikol on Nov 28, 2016 12:25:30 GMT
We do basically the same foods for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but we might toss in a ham on Christmas (with the turkey because I hate ham) and some cakes with the pumpkin pie. I'm very lucky to have my Mom nearby to split the cooking and cleaning up. My husband's Mom used to get them their "favorite food" on Christmas eve and then Christmas dinner was traditional.
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Post by Scrapbrat on Nov 28, 2016 12:27:33 GMT
Different. Traditional turkey dinner for Thanksgiving. Christmas is ham, Cajun roasted potatoes, a couple of other side dishes that vary from year to year, and dessert is Chocolate Truffle Pie.
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Post by Tammiem2pnc1 on Nov 28, 2016 12:44:08 GMT
The sides are usually the same, though sometimes I do mac and cheese and others mashed potatoes, depends on our mood for the holiday. We always have ham for Christmas and turkey for Thanksgiving.
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Post by sweetpeasmom on Nov 28, 2016 12:45:54 GMT
Our sides are mostly the same. But we have turkey at Thanksgiving and ham at Christmas.
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Post by schizo319 on Nov 28, 2016 12:46:00 GMT
We do turkey for Thanksgiving and Ham at Christmas. Sides are mostly the same except that we don't do dressing and cranberry sauce with ham.
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Post by tiffanyr on Nov 28, 2016 12:57:13 GMT
We do the same thing for both holidays which is actually a traditional Thanksgiving meal. We have Turkey and Ham at both.
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Post by leannec on Nov 28, 2016 13:00:04 GMT
Here in Canada Thanksgiving is in October so we have turkey with all the trimmings on both Thanksgiving and Christmas There would be mutiny in our family if we didn't do turkey for both
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Post by River on Nov 28, 2016 15:17:48 GMT
Different! Traditional Thanksgiving dinner and for Christmas we have lasagna with a nice wine salad. What is a wine salad??? Sounds like my kind of salad!
I don't have an exact recipe as it's my mothers and she's never written it down. It's a tossed salad with Lettuce, tomatoes, radishes, red onions, green onions, bell peppers (seems like I'm leaving something out) all cut up with a dressing made up of Red wine (of your choice), red wine vinegar, olive oil, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, garlic salt, salt and pepper. The key to this salad is to mix in each ingredient of the dressing separately. It's messy but I use my hands to mix it thoroughly after each ingredient. I've yet to find an exact match to even the dressing portion online. Mom never measures anything and just adds until it taste right. It then sits in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to soak up the dressing. It's a really big hit in our family and I take it to a lot of dinners at work by request.
I listed the ingredients in order that I put them in the salad. I do a large one that requires two heads of lettuce because it's so popular. For my real red wine, I usually do a Red Moscato and I'd guess at a half cup maybe. Not enough that children couldn't eat the salad.
Tagging hop2
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Post by ginacivey on Nov 28, 2016 15:31:47 GMT
i'm making beef wellington for christmas this year
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Post by gracieplusthree on Nov 28, 2016 16:17:28 GMT
nope totally different...
Thanksgiving== turkey, dressing/stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas, corn, rolls, olive plate, stuffed celery, cranberry sauce, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and this year we had pumpkin muffins with a cream cheese filling
Christmas== sliced baked ham, potato salad, chips, baked beans, mixed nuts, sandwich fixings(different breads, lettuce, sliced tomatoes etc as many will eat the sliced ham on a sandwich) my aunt always makes these kifli cookies which are FANTASTIC and a family tradition for us, various other cookies and cakes/pies etc but not pumpkin or pecan .
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Nov 28, 2016 16:30:18 GMT
We do turkey on Thanksgiving and prime rib on Christmas
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 28, 2016 16:30:28 GMT
I prefer to have the same huge turkey dinner, but since for Christmas it is just us 4 and maybe a girlfriend, I do a much smaller meal of ham, potatoes, 1 or 2 veggies, cranberry sauce and rolls. Of course there is mince and pumpkin pie for dessert!
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Post by mtscrapper on Nov 28, 2016 17:59:14 GMT
Christmas here is a ham with more appetizer-type sides - vegetable tray, cheese and crackers, meatballs in barbecue sauce and jelly mixture, maybe a fruit salad, etc. We have this on Christmas Eve and have a large breakfast on Christmas morning with leftovers the rest of the day. I'm not cooking more than I have to on Christmas.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Nov 28, 2016 18:02:30 GMT
Christmas here is a ham with more appetizer-type sides - vegetable tray, cheese and crackers, meatballs in barbecue sauce and jelly mixture, maybe a fruit salad, etc. We have this on Christmas Eve and have a large breakfast on Christmas morning with leftovers the rest of the day. I'm not cooking more than I have to on Christmas. That's exactly how do Christmas Eve.
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Post by kimpossible on Nov 28, 2016 19:19:59 GMT
We do different, usually Turkey and the works for Thanksgiving.
Christmas Eve, Italian, if I don't make a lasagna, its some other kind of pasta dish.
Christmas Day is a big breakfast and usually a ham, scalloped potatoes and other sides.
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Post by Sue on Nov 28, 2016 19:37:18 GMT
I do the traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey etc. at my home for daughters, spouses, grandchildren and my sister and her husband. My oldest daughter hosts our family Christmas dinner and she serves prime rib, ham, twice-baked potatoes, roasted asparagus, salads, and other assorted sides. I love that I don't have to cook for both holidays anymore.
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