Holiday food traditions

With Christmas and New Years right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to see what some of your families food / Meal traditions are. These days it hard to come up with a holiday food tradition in our house. My Daughter has decided to become some version of Vegetarian and my wife is not a big Fan of seafood, so a lot of the traditional holiday meals are out ( Crablegs, Surf and turf, Prime rib, smoked salmon, Ect. ) These days I do most of my favorite food eating when the wife and daughter are out of town. Then I binge Eat all my favorites

We do crab legs and twice-baked potatoes on Christmas Eve. Which reminds me that I need to go buy my crab!

With my side of the family, it’s shrimp cocktail, cheese platter, assorted veggie tray, and a relish tray for appetizers/snack. Main is a American Waygu Prime Rib that I get from a local farmer. Still pricey but it’s once a year. That is paired with crab legs, or lobster tails. This year is lobster tails because that’s what my dad got. We have all the typical sides. Garlic mashed potatoes, corn, roasted asparagus, cracked wheat rolls. Dessert is whatever my sister makes. She used to work as a pastry chef so it’s always something good. My brother-in-law is a sous chef so he does most of the cooking. My wifes side is a brunch at a local restaurant since her family doesn’t get along all that great. It’s easier to force everyone to be civil for a couple hours while we eat.

for our christmas with the kids its a season rolled pork loin over charcoal, twiced baked taters, cream peas, coleslaw and wild rice. been that way for alot of years.

for new years we have no tradition as i am usually up north spending it in my spearshack and clam. with the lakes as they are, thats out, so momma and i are debating on hitting a couple pubs and the last one a burger or staying home for refreshments and having crablegs, for her and a hunk of cow on the charcoal for me.
the thought of even being on the roads new years nite scares the hck out of me.

for our christmas with the kids its a season rolled pork loin over charcoal, twiced baked taters, cream peas, coleslaw and wild rice. been that way for alot of years.

for new years we have no tradition as i am usually up north spending it in my spearshack and clam. with the lakes as they are, thats out, so momma and i are debating on hitting a couple pubs and the last one a burger or staying home for refreshments and having crablegs, for her and a hunk of cow on the charcoal for me.
the thought of even being on the roads new years nite scares the heck out of me.

We’re doing brunch on tomorrow since all the family has the day off. I might smoke some wings or fry walleye in the afternoon if everybody is still hanging out.
Christmas day we’re doing smoked pulled pork and a huge table full of finger foods, cookies, etc. Pretty much end up grazing all day long and feeling miserable the next morning.

It used be oyster stew Christmas Eve with my parents. My wife and kids won’t eat it so now we do prime rib most of the time and a ham on Christmas Day. I miss the oyster stew.

My contribution is large pearl tapioca.

Tom Sawvell wrote:

My contribution is large pearl tapioca.

I love me some Large Pearl tapioca – The small Pearl quick cook is cheating !!!!

85lund wrote:

It used be oyster stew Christmas Eve with my parents. My wife and kids won’t eat it so now we do prime rib most of the time and a ham on Christmas Day. I miss the oyster stew.

Like you my wife and Daughter would not touch Oyster stew – But it does sound yummy to me. I could live with the prime rib – My daughter would once again be out and my wife is not much of a fan

we had 1 xmas yesterday and we had walleye, got 1 more Wed. and got to fry up some more

We always have a ham at my parents, but it wouldn’t be Christmas without plum pudding slathered in brown sugar syrup.

I made brownies for the weirdos who don’t want plum pudding this year, new recipe I’ve never made before and topped with a new chocolate butter cream frosting I also have never made before (had a bunch of aging chocolate squares that needed to be used up for my inspiration). If the brownie tastes half as good as the frosting they won’t be dissapointed.

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Just getting back into town from visiting family in Texas. Got in on some Christmas tamale making and eating while there. The tamales where pretty good but the best part was making them. Very easy to see why its a tradition down south.

We do meat balls and gravy on Christmas Eve. On Christmas day it is prime rib. On Christmas night it is the meat sweats.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone

Egg Rolls and Fried Rice on Christmas Eve.

Tiger meat/beef tartar for us

Lutefisk for us tonight. I don’t get to eat much fish during the year so sure enjoy the Lutefisk at Christmas time.

Almost forgot the swedish meatballs for tonight to. Salli makes them and for a number of years now puts rain deer (venison burger) in them. They are fantastic.

Back in the day and for many years it was pork roast and venison roast side by side for Christmas dinner.

One of our new or recent traditions is getting invited to a friends family Christmas Eve. It is a Mexican family with 10 girls, each with a Mexican dish specialty. It is an incredible night of eating.

43# of cut up chicken today on the bigger flip flop grill. 12 birds. The family ate good.

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SuperDave1959 wrote:

One of our new or recent traditions is getting invited to a friends family Christmas Eve. It is a Mexican family with 10 girls, each with a Mexican dish specialty. It is an incredible night of eating.

Now that would be an extremely interesting experience! So many dishes to try. Sounds like a very good time.

Buffalo Fishhead

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My Grandpa always used to serve us home cooked slow roasted prime rib and cheesy hashbrown potatoes. Plus a bunch of appetizers before hand and lots of beer. He passed away in 2012 so my uncle (his son) has taken it over now, and it is on Sat, Dec 29 at his house this year. I intend to consume a lot of food.

We mix it up from year to year, but I usually end up making pickle roll-ups at some point for an appetizer. That’s the dill pickles, cream cheese, and slice of ham rolled up and sliced. For the first time this year I heard not only one but two different people call them “Minnesota Sushi”. I hadn’t heard that before!

Christmas morning-Pillsbury cinnamon rolls and grape juice since I was a little kid. Turns out one year Christmas morning my parents didn’t have any food in the house(they had some really lean times) to speak of…all she could find was a tin of cinnamon rolls and a can of frozen grape juice concentrate. The next year she was more prepared, and we all threw a fit because there weren’t cinnamon rolls and grape juice; and so the tradition began. We lost Mom this past October, but the cinnamon rolls/grape juice carries on with my own kids.
Another weird one in recent years developed the year no one wanted to cook a “real” Christmas Eve dinner. Someone mentioned hot wings from Sully’s(a local bar with the BEST hot wings in the area) sounded good. Phone calls were made and a runner was assigned; 12 dozen wings later a Christmas Eve tradition was born…
Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

KP wrote:

Tiger meat/beef tartar for us

I use top sirloin, will grind some up for New years Eve.

85lund wrote:

It used be oyster stew Christmas Eve with my parents. My wife and kids won’t eat it so now we do prime rib most of the time and a ham on Christmas Day. I miss the oyster stew.

I’ve missed it too…but this year my Dad came here for Christmas so we had an excuse to make it again. It was delicious!