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This question was asked on another forum and I found the answers interesting: What did your family have for Christmas dinner when you were a child? And how has that changed since you're an adult?
Mom usually roasted a turkey with all the sides for Christmas. As we all got older with our own families, the roast turkey dinner changed into a buffet with baked ham, potato salad, etc. She always did the ham, but I started making the sides and bringing them. It was too much for Mom to make it all. I'd even make dessert. My sister and I cleaned up after dinner....all she had to do was sit and supervise. It was usually a Christmas Eve thing because we had our own families and would stay at home on Christmas Day. Mom and Dad (and my paternal aunt) would visit with my sister's family in the morning and then come down to us for Christmas dinner.
At our house, Christmas dinner was usually a stuffed crown roast of pork. The usual sides. I would make something a little special for dessert.
With the Grands, Christmas dinner has turned into beef pot pie. That has become their requested dish. And what the Grands want, the Grands get. They have already put their requests in. Beef pot pie (my DIL is gluten-free, so my granddaughter and I make two batches, one with flour and one with GF flour). Applesauce, cranberry relish, freezer cabbage, and salad. Dessert is usually some kind of cheesecake for them and, for me, a white coconut cake. (One year, I did the buffet ham with picnic-type sides. They liked it, but said they missed the pot pie.)
If the kids come on Christmas Day, I'll make beef pot pie. If they visit on the weekend, then Rick and I will have a Christmas morning brunch. I'll make quiche. we'll have sticky buns, sliced ham or sausage, and a warm fruit salad. With mimosas. And we'll spend the day snacking on appetizer-type foods that I've made. I refuse to make two Christmas dinners. My mother would be appalled! But it works for us.
What do you do for Christmas dinner? What did your mom make when you were a child?
This question was asked on another forum and I found the answers interesting: What did your family have for Christmas dinner when you were a child? And how has that changed since you're an adult?
Mom usually roasted a turkey with all the sides for Christmas. As we all got older with our own families, the roast turkey dinner changed into a buffet with baked ham, potato salad, etc. She always did the ham, but I started making the sides and bringing them. It was too much for Mom to make it all. I'd even make dessert. My sister and I cleaned up after dinner....all she had to do was sit and supervise. It was usually a Christmas Eve thing because we had our own families and would stay at home on Christmas Day. Mom and Dad (and my paternal aunt) would visit with my sister's family in the morning and then come down to us for Christmas dinner.
At our house, Christmas dinner was usually a stuffed crown roast of pork. The usual sides. I would make something a little special for dessert.
With the Grands, Christmas dinner has turned into beef pot pie. That has become their requested dish. And what the Grands want, the Grands get. They have already put their requests in. Beef pot pie (my DIL is gluten-free, so my granddaughter and I make two batches, one with flour and one with GF flour). Applesauce, cranberry relish, freezer cabbage, and salad. Dessert is usually some kind of cheesecake for them and, for me, a white coconut cake. (One year, I did the buffet ham with picnic-type sides. They liked it, but said they missed the pot pie.)
If the kids come on Christmas Day, I'll make beef pot pie. If they visit on the weekend, then Rick and I will have a Christmas morning brunch. I'll make quiche. we'll have sticky buns, sliced ham or sausage, and a warm fruit salad. With mimosas. And we'll spend the day snacking on appetizer-type foods that I've made. I refuse to make two Christmas dinners. My mother would be appalled! But it works for us.
What do you do for Christmas dinner? What did your mom make when you were a child?