Posted on 12/24/2011 12:03:05 PM PST by traderrob6
If you're one of the many families that has a Christmas Eve eating tradition please give us your best.
Personally my wifes family had one when we got married....Oyster stew and rice with raisins, it was vile! Thankfully I got her off that and for 20 years we've had Super Jumbo Atlantic wild caught Shrimp and Jumbo Stone Crab claws MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM gooooooood.
Please post what you'll be having
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!
Wow, over 60 posts and no one has mentioned prime rib?
Every Christmas Eve it is prime rib, mashed potatoes and gravy, and a vegetable.
Don’t mess with success. Man, it is good.
Oyster stew here too. No rice pudding however.
I think my family tradition arose from them being really poor. The closest they could come to seafood was a couple of cans of oysters and milk from the cow.
The food was never the most important thing. Sharing each others company, with love, is.
Merry Christmas Rob.
I got me a keeper too. 22 years in.
“Wow, over 60 posts and no one has mentioned prime rib?”
Yea, but how are you going to top that for your Christmas dinner?
You too Fred.
NO RICE PUDDING????
How do you kill the taste of the stew??? LOL
Beef is Christmas dinner at our house. Christmas Eve is seafood.
Tonight we are having sea bass pomodoro and salad. We will have snacks after church.
Tomorrow we are having shrimp cocktail, rib eye steaks with whiskey cream sauce, sautéed mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, crash hot potatoes and assorted English desserts (mince tarts, plum pudding and Christmas cake) Empty nest now, so the steaks are perfect. We do a rib roast when the kiddos are here.
We've been snowed in for 3 days and it looks like we'll be snowed in for Christmas Day, too.
Yum...yum! LOL
As Grandma's health declined, we would all go out to Bing's Cathay Inn, arguably the best Chinese restaurant in San Bernardino, because she loved Chinese food. Sadly, Bings, which specialized in Cantonese cuisine, is long gone.
““Wow, over 60 posts and no one has mentioned prime rib?”
Yea, but how are you going to top that for your Christmas dinner?”
Christmas Eve is Christmas for me. I’m a maverick that way, I guess, but it’s how I was raised.
If you’ve got cable your gonna get 24 hours of that on TBS starting soon.
We have communion, 10 beers and a pretzel.
Normally prime rib. This year decided to go with tacos and other Mexican dishes to allow more informal dining/cleanup.
On one of the weekly cooking threads, I think that’s where it was, someone posted an appetizer recipe for hot dogs wrapped in bacon and covered with brown sugar then cooked in an electric skillet til crisp and sticky. I can’t remember what it was called but would like to have that recipe for the Super Bowl.
Gotta love those Irish traditions. KIDDING, just kidding :).
Pizza, egg nog, kahlua...while the wife dines with her family across town; I enjoy some real eats.
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