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Unofficial Christmas Eve Culinary Traditions Thread
12/24/11 | traderrob

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food
KEYWORDS: christmaseve; food; traditions
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To: Kickass Conservative

Thanks! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!!


61 posted on 12/24/2011 2:38:04 PM PST by An American in Turkiye
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To: traderrob6

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.


62 posted on 12/24/2011 2:40:36 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: bigheadfred

Oyster stew here too. No rice pudding however.


63 posted on 12/24/2011 2:41:56 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Dear Santa....I can explain.)
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To: traderrob6

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.


64 posted on 12/24/2011 2:43:49 PM PST by bigheadfred (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
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To: Persevero

“Wow, over 60 posts and no one has mentioned prime rib?”

Yea, but how are you going to top that for your Christmas dinner?


65 posted on 12/24/2011 2:45:27 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: bigheadfred

You too Fred.


66 posted on 12/24/2011 2:48:06 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Conservative4Ever; traderrob6
Oyster stew here too. No rice pudding however.

NO RICE PUDDING????

How do you kill the taste of the stew??? LOL

67 posted on 12/24/2011 2:49:11 PM PST by bigheadfred (MERRY CHRISTMAS)
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To: traderrob6
Tonight is all about appetizers and dips. Tomorrow is Prime Rib, mashed garlic potatoes, green chile sweet potatoes, roasted veggies, Yorkshire pudding. New Years is homemade egg rolls, oyster chicken wings, homemade fortune cookies.
68 posted on 12/24/2011 2:50:20 PM PST by ladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)
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To: Persevero

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.


69 posted on 12/24/2011 2:51:12 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: traderrob6
leftover potato salad and cold sandwiches.

We've been snowed in for 3 days and it looks like we'll be snowed in for Christmas Day, too.

Yum...yum! LOL

70 posted on 12/24/2011 2:51:22 PM PST by moondoggie
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To: traderrob6
We used to open a few small gifts on Christmas Eve, leaving the rest to be opened in the morning. Around noon on Christmas Day, we would have a family reunion at my grandmother's. She would roast a turkey, but she was especially famous for her popcorn balls.

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.

71 posted on 12/24/2011 2:53:49 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: traderrob6

““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.


72 posted on 12/24/2011 2:54:38 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: jakerobins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTq20prt0K8


73 posted on 12/24/2011 2:54:49 PM PST by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: listenhillary

If you’ve got cable your gonna get 24 hours of that on TBS starting soon.


74 posted on 12/24/2011 2:58:57 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

We have communion, 10 beers and a pretzel.


75 posted on 12/24/2011 2:59:43 PM PST by coolbreeze (giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teen-age boys.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Normally prime rib. This year decided to go with tacos and other Mexican dishes to allow more informal dining/cleanup.


76 posted on 12/24/2011 3:00:13 PM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: bigheadfred
Cause oyster stew is to savor. Yum.
77 posted on 12/24/2011 3:01:12 PM PST by Conservative4Ever (Dear Santa....I can explain.)
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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.


78 posted on 12/24/2011 3:01:48 PM PST by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
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To: coolbreeze

Gotta love those Irish traditions. KIDDING, just kidding :).


79 posted on 12/24/2011 3:01:56 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: coolbreeze

Pizza, egg nog, kahlua...while the wife dines with her family across town; I enjoy some real eats.


80 posted on 12/24/2011 3:02:33 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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