What are you making for Christmas Eve Dinner?

[peainapod]

 

[dismom115]

Our tradition is beef tenderloin, asparagus, twice baked potatoes! Makes my mouth water thinking about it! Thinking I'll do oysters for an app this year in addition to mussels.

 

[kydisneyfans]

Homemade pizza is tradition here.

Christmas dinner is a deli tray with some sides.

Not a fan of doing a ton of cooking for Christmas, it's the 36 hour period of the year where we reflect and spend time exclusively with family.

 

[3boymthr]

I'm not - we have a family potluck. I'll make chicken legs but I have no idea what else will be there.

 

[roflclaw]

Christmas Eve is the day my mom cooks Christmas dinner at our house.

I think this year we're doing prime rib, twice baked potatoes, rolls, and green beans with bacon and onions. And some kinda pie, always pie!

 

[MomToOne]

I'm not cooking anything either - my brother does it all in our case. But tradition is that we have crab dip as a munchie during the late afternoon, followed by gumbo as the official at-the-table appetizer, then a huge Prime Rib, Knodle (not my favorite but others love it - not sure where he got the idea to do these, we're not German ) and some sort of veggie. Sometimes he throws some other sort of meat in there for fun too - we've had leg of lamb, pork roast, Turducken, etc. Dessert is homemade truffles and pound cake my sister-in-law usually gets from one of her nurses as a present.

 

[emttink]

Believe it or not we order Chinese food. This started back when my husband and I first got together living in the dorms and it was either Chinese food or Chow Hall for dinner. After the first year we just kept doing. It is a running joke with many of our family members to this day. But hey a tradition is a tradition

 

[msmama]

We have Chinese, too!! Actually, I think last year we branched out and had Thai food. We have our celebrations on Xmas and Boxing Day (the day after xmas) so I take off Christmas eve.

 

[luvmy3]

Believe it or not we order Chinese food. This started back when my husband and I first got together living in the dorms and it was either Chinese food or Chow Hall for dinner. After the first year we just kept doing. It is a running joke with many of our family members to this day. But hey a tradition is a tradition

We'll probably do that or order pizza. I will be cooking and baking on Christmas Eve Day for Christmas Day so I'm not really going to feel like cooking dinner for that night. Dh will probably take the kids out shopping so he can just bring dinner home with him

 

[dpswift]

We do snacks and watch A Christmas Story. It is the one tradition we have kept doing each year since the kids were small.

For the snacks we have shrimp, pizza bagels, beef log, pepperoni, cheese, crackers and a few others.

 

[peainapod]

Beef Tenderloin Roast
Sweet Potatoes
Salad
Brown Gravy
Corn Casserole

Bacon Ranch Cheeseball
Homemade hot cocoa with homemade peppermint whipped topping

 

[jen73]

chick fil a nugget tray!! YUM, already looking fwd to it and prob some cocktail shrimp, sausage dip and whatever baked goodies I will be baking that week

 

[Gigi22]

Tortiere, a meat pie. Tortiere is quite rich, so it doesn't need anything heavy. I'll also serve coleslaw or another salad, homemade ketchup, and a veg. If we have room, we will have fruitcake and shortbread for dessert.

 

[Robinrs]

We open our presents at the stroke of midnight (have since I was a little girl) so our tradition is lots of appetizers and egg nog!

This year:

Bacon Feta Pinwheels
Fried Green Beans
Chicken wings
Crab Cakes

and whatever else I find at Sam's Club!

 

[scrapquitler]

We have a buffet at my Mom's house. There will be tons of appetizers, then for the 'main course' there will be rolls and cold cuts, spiral ham, macaroni and cheese (which I will bring...it's a decadent homemade mac & cheese with about 5 or6 types of cheese in it...a far cry from Kraft or Velveeta), lasagna, swedish meatballs, salad, veggies, some other things depending on what people want to bring (and who comes), and tons of deserts, cookies, pies, cakes, etc.

I'll be bringing some kind of appetizer, the macaroni and cheese, and some deserts.

 

[xbatman]

We usually just have appetizers and snacks, but we'll be eating at Be Our Guest this year!

 

[jillbur]

We eat at my sisters, but we have a traditional Slovak dinner. We do not eat meat on Christmas Eve, but after midnight, it's on with kielbasa and ham . We start with wafers, bean soup, and salad. Our main meal is fish, mashed potatoes, pierogies, green beans & mushrooms, and cauliflower. I am in charge of the bean soup and fish. My sister does everything else except the salad and green beans.

I absolutely love our family tradition and hope my kids pass it along as they get older.

 

[mrsksmithvt]

Beef Wellington
Mashed Potatoes
Mesculin Salad

Blackstone or Rosemont Wine
Sac de bon bon with fresh fruit

 

[DaisyD]

We order out chinese food. Later at night we watch a movie and eat my hot crab dip I make. There is so much food for christmas day that I don't bother going overboard the day before.

 

[The Princess]

Italian tradition ~~ 7 fishes!