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Post by 2peaornot2pea on Nov 28, 2016 19:42:48 GMT
Thanksgiving varies. It is usually the traditional meal, turkey and all of the trimmings, but we have varied the meal a time or two. Christmas is prime rib, garlic and rosemary mashed potatoes, salad, rolls and cheese cake. My FAVORITE holiday meal!
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Post by BuckeyeSandy on Nov 28, 2016 19:48:20 GMT
Thanksgiving -- roasted turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, green bean casserole, another vegetable (varies) and cranberry sauce/jelly. It's it is more of a late lunch, dinner is make your own plate of lefties.
Christmas Eve -- fish, meatless or fried chicken (the fried chicken was something we imported back with us from being stationed overseas) Christmas Day -- Breakfast - a breakfast casserole, early dinner - Roast of some sort, gravy or sauce, roasted vegetables, salad, and rolls
Our families growing up did almost a repeat of Thanksgiving for Christmas.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2016 19:58:34 GMT
The turkey might be smaller, because we add either a ham or roast beef to our Christmas meal. Everything else pretty much stays the same though. There may or may not be an addition of either mac & cheese or au gratin potatoes. And instead of pumpkin pie, we may have cheesecake instead.
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Post by gardengoddess on Nov 28, 2016 20:13:15 GMT
We usually don't have the same meal but this year I think we will. I have a huge Turkey Breast that I think I'm going to cook and maybe mix up the side dishes except for the stuffing. A different type of potato, vegetable, salad and dessert.
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Post by beachbum on Nov 28, 2016 20:24:17 GMT
Totally different - Thanksgiving is just DH and me, we have lobster and salad along with a good Champagne. Christmas we have kids come down (we're in SW Florida, DD1 is in Portland OR, DS is in TN and DD2 is outside Washington DC - kids all over the map) - DS and his GF and DD2 and her DH will be here this year, both bringing their dogs- should be fun! I'll do the whole turkey/stuffing, sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, mashed potatoes, gravy, yeast rolls, and a couple of apple pies. Looking forward to it, one day we'll get all 3 kids here at one time - DD1 has 2 little ones, I understand staying home for Santa, plus it's $$$$$ to fly from Oregon to FL.
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Post by beanbuddymom on Nov 28, 2016 20:36:40 GMT
No, we have different things. Traditional Thanksgiving food at Thanksgiving (turkey, pumpkin/apple pies, etc.) but at Christmas we switch it up and have ham some years, pork tenderloin, and a variety of side dishes - the desserts for Christmas are often more Christmasy, chocolate desserts and Italian pastries. The only constant is probably mashed potatoes, we have those at both, and I can't think of anything else that we have at both.
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Nov 28, 2016 21:25:58 GMT
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
That sounds delicious.
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Post by maryland on Nov 28, 2016 22:45:27 GMT
We are never home for the holidays, we always go on long trips. For Thanksgiving we travel to my husbands grandmothers and have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, mashed potatoes, etc.). For Christmas Eve we travel to my inlaws and they have a Spanish traditional meal, paella! Then for Christmas we go on yet another trip to my parents and have turkey, mashed potatoes, etc. We travel 5 hours for two of the trips and 4 hours for one of the trips, so we don't bring a dish, but we bring cookies for dessert.
Our family was home for Thanksgiving a few years ago because my daughter broke her wrist the night before Thanksgiving. My husband ran out to the store to get ingredients to make a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with his family recipes.
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Post by dulcemama on Nov 28, 2016 22:51:04 GMT
Thanksgiving is the traditional meal and more formal for us. Christmas is pretty casual. My Mom bakes a ham for sandwiches and we have chip and dips and cheese and cracker and that sort of thing.
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Post by drawkcab on Nov 28, 2016 23:21:11 GMT
Thanks Ladies! Growing up we had the same thing every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Once I grew up I changed Christmas to prime rib or some kind of beef and ham on New Years. Now with my SOs family, it depends on who cooks but often the exact same thing.
I think it would be fun to start doing international themes. Italian fried ravioli, Mexican tamales, Swedish meatballs, etc for Christmas.
I love traditions and adding an extra oomph to them.
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 29, 2016 0:20:36 GMT
Growing up the meals were pretty much identical turkey and traditional CDN sides (no sweet potatoes or green bean casserole). Only dessert might be different. When I married DH, ham was always on the table along with the turkey and great Greek additions (meatballs, spanakopita, etc.). After we moved to the US, things definitely evolved and we do turkey only for one meal, usually Thanksgiving, and something else for Christmas. We have had lamb for Thanksgiving and seem to have moved to beef and seafood for Christmas. Filet mignon and Alaska King crab is my favorite and likely to be on the menu this year. ginacivey I made a Beef Wellington a couple of years ago and everyone loved it except me.
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Post by valincal on Nov 29, 2016 1:41:02 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 Yep, same here and I'd be leading the revolt!
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Post by Dreamsofnyssa on Nov 29, 2016 14:47:26 GMT
On Thanksgiving we have Turkey.
Christmas Eve is celebrated with my family and we have Tamales (and potato salad :-) ). Sometimes my Mom breaks tradition and makes both Menudo & Posole too.
Sometimes the husband will make a prime rib on Christmas Day or if we go to my in-laws, we have ham.
New Year's is Menudo time!
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Post by PEArfect on Nov 29, 2016 15:06:24 GMT
Thanksgiving is formal with the traditional foods.
Christmas is informal with picnic foods (deli sandwiches, chips, pasta salads, desserts, deviled eggs, potato salad, fruit, and vegetables. )
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Post by Loydene on Nov 29, 2016 15:12:34 GMT
I am leaning more and more to hearty appetizers for Christmas. It seems that breakfast is always at odd times, snacks and Christmas treats go on all day, so a big meal is just overkill and redundant! So a meat and cheese plate - or peel and eat shrimp - for some protein ... freshen the veggies -- maybe some hot rolls. We are a small family and it is just us ... so that works for us!
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Post by winogirl on Nov 29, 2016 15:23:50 GMT
Thanksgiving is Turkey at my sister's
Christmas and Easter at my house. Christmas is whatever I feel like making that year...I've made Chicken Cordon Bleu, French Chicken En Croute, Pork Tenderloin w/ Béarnaise Sauce, etc. I haven't decided for this year yet.
Easter is Ham. Unless the weather is really nice, then I might have a BBQ instead.
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