Your Traditional Christmas Foods

Do not remember what we had for dinner...I have a vague memory of lasagna or stuffed shells though. Maybe ham too,
I do remember our dessert Princess Pudding Here goes:
1 tub Cool Whip thawed

1 large and one small box of strawberry J-ello
I package frozen strawberry slices thawed
1 angel food cake. break into pieces

Night before you actually make the desert, prepare the small box of Jello per package directions. Set in a 9 x 12 cake pan One for sheet cake
OK, day of prep:
Slice the set jello into 1/2 to 1 inch cubes
Put the Cool Whip in a bowl, and mix in the second box of Jello..pour the powder right into it and Mix
Then mix in the cubed jello, thawed strawberries and cake pieces. Spread into a cake pan and let set over night.
It will look similar to this, but cake pan shaped


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Bella said:
For Christmas dinner, start with a butternut squash bisque, then a boneless lamb roast, or a bone-in center-cut pork loin roast. With either, I serve a sun-dried cherry sauce, a side dish of scalloped potatoes, asparagus, sauteed wild mushrooms, and a salad of sliced fennel, red onion, Cerignola or oil-cured olives, and mandarin oranges. Dessert is a flourless chocolate tart with fresh raspberry sauce, whipped cream, and a lovely plate of Christmas cookies. Perhaps espresso or an after-dinner liqueur with dessert, if anyone is interested.
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What time did you say dinner was?
 

We had traditional Swedish food at Christmas. Ham, Swedish meatballs, lutefisk, herring in cream sauce, limpa bread, various sides and rice pudding for dessert. Pepparkakor cookies were always on the table. The adults also had glögg after dinner, but sometimes let the older kids have a sip or two!

I never could stomach the lutefisk or herring. Everything else was delish.
 
Christmas: Turkey, ham, roast spuds, stuffing, any veg other than the evil green balls of death (sprouts) - and gravy. Maybe cranberry sauce.

Followed by way too much cake - several very good craft beers and later on too much expensive single malt whisky :)

New Year : Corned beef and potato pie with a thick crust on.
 
As I recall, it was either like Thanksgiving-

Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, veggies, relish tray etc.
Or/
Baked Ham, scalloped potatoes, veggies, roast carrots, etc.

In Both cases, there was always our families own recipe for homemade Kielbasa links with side of horseradish and also pirogi stuffed w/ mashed and onions and others with farmers cheese.

The only dessert I recall was my Aunt Dicey's pineapple ice box pie. I never ate the other sruff.
 
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caroln said:
We had traditional Swedish food at Christmas. Ham, Swedish meatballs, lutefisk, herring in cream sauce, limpa bread, various sides and rice pudding for dessert. Pepparkakor cookies were always on the table. The adults also had glögg after dinner, but sometimes let the older kids have a sip or two!

I never could stomach the lutefisk or herring. Everything else was delish.
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I love a good cup of glögg. Although, haven't had a cup since the 90s. I guess I should make some. Pepparkakor are delicious yummy!

Once upon a long time ago, there was a restaurant within a university campus that had international buffets for the holidays. We always enjoyed those.

Found out that they no longer offer this service nor the hospitality courses there, so that wonderful restaurant is now gone. Very sad!
 
As a late teen and most of my 20's I had Christmas eve with my almost adopted Italian family, my man and my child. The Feast of the 7 fishes plus every kind of salad, baked good, etc. Lobsters, steaks, clams, shrimp, calamari, pastas... you name it, it was there.

Also, the traditional Italian pies; apizza gain and apizza doge.
One was a sweet rice and ricotta cheese pie with lemon or orange. The other was a deep dish sort of quiche, bound with eggs, chunks of salami, mozzarella, provolone, ham, bacon, Parmigiano-Reggiano. Maybe that's just a Connecticut thing.
 
caroln said:
We had traditional Swedish food at Christmas. Ham, Swedish meatballs, lutefisk, herring in cream sauce, limpa bread, various sides and rice pudding for dessert. Pepparkakor cookies were always on the table. The adults also had glögg after dinner, but sometimes let the older kids have a sip or two!

I never could stomach the lutefisk or herring. Everything else was delish.
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I love Pepparkakor cookies! Our neighbor would send some over. I do love pickled herring in the wine sauce... that was part of our Good Luck on New Years Eve.
 
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