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[Carousel96]

I grew up in a family that always had clam chowder. My mom was raised on oyster stew for Christmas Eve, and the chowder was as close as she could get my dad to go.

This year, I'm in charge of a ham dinner for 50. The last few years, we've had a dinner at our church on Christmas Eve. It's great for people who are alone, and the pastor and choir director who have to stay through 3 services and can't get home in between.

[mfirst]

It depends - if we're with my in-laws, we will have "roast beast" (aka standing rib roast) and all the fixings for a mid-day meal, then we follow with lots of "finger foods" in the evening as we get together with my husband's Aunt and his cousins.

If we're with my family in Cleveland, we'll have some type of simple pasta meal. We save our big feast for Christmas day when my mom's siblings and my grandmother and the whole kit n caboodle gather (35+ this year),

[Starbright]

Thanks for the ideas everyone We are alone for this holiday. No Family at all. I asked the kids and I think we will bbq some steak, and have food to munch on. Usually it was appetizer night but I want to keep it lighter. We love steak and the weather is so nice here, that we can bbq all yr around even with snow.
Christmas day will be the 4 of us again, but I will make all the turkey and fixings. We might end up going Cross country skiing instead of downhill skiing and have fun doing that.

[KMB733]

For year's my family would go to my grandmother's on Christmas Eve and we would always have finger foods. Now my parent's carry on that tradition and we do an open house.

[Kellymel]

We will be with my In-laws on Christmas Eve. We have done Spaghetti, Home made soup, hot dogs. This year we may do a big pot of chili beans.

We will be at my mom's for Christmas Day. This is our 2nd year without my dad...miss him so. We have traditional meal - ham, mac-n-cheese, beans, dressing, etc. I always make ham delights for breakfast while we open gifts at our house. Depending on when we eat at mom's, lunch or supper will be whatever you can find, if you want anything!

[thenewsmiths]

Duh, everyone knows you have pizza on Christmas Eve.

Our only stipulation is that it doesn't create leftovers because there will be plenty of leftovers to fill the fridge after Christmas dinner.

[Disneybine]

Here in Germany, Christmas Eve is the "main event" (instead of Christmas Day). We always have my parents and my grandma over. We start with cake in the afternoon, then around 5pm we'll open presents. After that, we have our big Christmas dinner.

This year, we're doing raclette. It's like a small stove/grill thing that you put on the table:


Everyone gets one of those tiny pans that you can fill with all sorts of things. We have a selection of veggies and fruits with plenty of cheese to put on top (so it melts with the other stuff nicely), plus you can make your own mini-pizza or scrambled eggs. On top of the grill, we put different meats.

It's great because the meal can go on for hours. Perfect for family time

[Ashli]

Originally Posted by Disneybine

Here in Germany, Christmas Eve is the "main event" (instead of Christmas Day). We always have my parents and my grandma over. We start with cake in the afternoon, then around 5pm we'll open presents. After that, we have our big Christmas dinner.

This year, we're doing raclette. It's like a small stove/grill thing that you put on the table:


Everyone gets one of those tiny pans that you can fill with all sorts of things. We have a selection of veggies and fruits with plenty of cheese to put on top (so it melts with the other stuff nicely), plus you can make your own mini-pizza or scrambled eggs. On top of the grill, we put different meats.

It's great because the meal can go on for hours. Perfect for family time

Wow, I've never seen one of those before. That's really cool!!!

[thenewsmiths]

Originally Posted by Carousel96

I grew up in a family that always had clam chowder. My mom was raised on oyster stew for Christmas Eve, and the chowder was as close as she could get my dad to go.

This year, I'm in charge of a ham dinner for 50. The last few years, we've had a dinner at our church on Christmas Eve. It's great for people who are alone, and the pastor and choir director who have to stay through 3 services and can't get home in between.

I remember having "vegetable oyster" soup at my grandma's when I was little. My cousins and I always just ate cheese and crackers because we weren't eating anything with the word oyster in it.

[HiddenMickey]

For the last few years I've served lasagna, bread, salad.

My parents no longer eat wheat products, so this year I'm doing Beef Tenderloins, green beans, mashed potatoes and jello salad.

[HiddenMickey]

Sabine-
That raclette thing is very cool. I just looked it up on Amazon and they have MANY choices. This is something to think about getting.....

[lexiemom]

That is really neat, Sabine!

[num1DVCfan]

I've never heard of raclette before, it's really cool! I can see how it would be a lot of fun for a holiday gathering.

We go to my in-laws for Christmas Eve and do appetizers and dessert. Everyone opens presents and then on Christmas Day I have dinner at my house and my family comes over.

[Disneybine]

Thanks guys! Raclette is VERY popular over here Virtually everyone has one. It's great for when you have friends over, too. Oh, and lots of people do raclette on New Year's Eve.

Depending on how many people we are, we'll have between 2 and 4 types of meat, 3 or 4 choices of fruit, at least 5 veggies, 2 or 3 types of cheese, plus pepperoni, tuna and ham for the mini-pizzas, fixings for the scrambled eggs, and lots of different sauces, of course.

[kasian]

very nice I love it.