L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
With turkey being a thanksgiving tradition (The US being the only country on the entire planet to celebrate), what is on the menu for Christmas - as a tradition?

Glazed ham. Spiral sliced, usually. Same sort of sides we have for Thanksgiving just not as much. And I don't think we do much cranberry sauce/relish on Christmas.

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
With turkey being a thanksgiving tradition (The US being the only country on the entire planet to celebrate), what is on the menu for Christmas - as a tradition?

For X-mas, its always been a seafood extravaganza for us.

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
With turkey being a thanksgiving tradition (The US being the only country on the entire planet to celebrate), what is on the menu for Christmas - as a tradition?

Canada celebrates thanksgiving as well, just a month earlier. It's not quite as big of a deal, but its certainly still a celebration.

We've hosted the last two years because my parents come up from the states and we're the only ones in the family with enough room for everyone, so I've insisted on traditional thanksgiving foods. I think my first canadian thanksgiving was at my in-laws and I was completely thrown by a non-traditional pork loin and other non-traditional veggies spread, I thought I was going to get lucky and have two thanksgiving dinners. Now I make sure I do.


Christmas is typically a ham, unless you didn't have turkey for thanksgiving, then you have turkey. Or both. If you're particularly weird or adventurous, goose.


My parents have always done turkey pot pie, and lasagna for my sister at christmas. Now that we're both moved out and they don't see the rest of our family anymore I don't know what my mom will do this year.

sospix wrote:
I've been in trainin' for a month now, eatin' at least a whole punkin pie a day  .  .  . 

SOS

Pumpkin pie sounds great.

Blue Cube Imaging wrote:
I LOVE THANKSGIVING DINNER... Glad it's only once a year because I'm usually so full I sleep the rest of the day away.

On the car radio yesterday (yes, I'm old and still listen to the radio) the question came up, "what is your first bite of food?"

For me, stuffing. Yum

What about you?

I listen to the radio too.  Satellite radio, Sirius XM
I also like stuffing!

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
With turkey being a thanksgiving tradition (The US being the only country on the entire planet to celebrate), what is on the menu for Christmas - as a tradition?

Another day of over eating... Garlic crusted prime rib and a flame finished spiral ham plus all the fixins'.

Jun Weaver Photography wrote:

Pumpkin pie sounds great.

Sweet potato pie is MILES better.

Model Sarah wrote:

Sweet potato pie is MILES better.

Haven't had one myself.

You know what? I'm gonna buy one!

Jun Weaver Photography wrote:

Pumpkin pie sounds great.

My pumpkin pie looks more like this...

Blue Cube Imaging wrote:

My pumpkin pie looks more like this...

Ah... tears of joy.

Can't wait!

Blue Cube Imaging wrote:
What's your first bite?

the thumbprint cookies with the hershey kiss in the center, at least three for starters...

Blue Cube Imaging wrote:
On the car radio yesterday (yes, I'm old and still listen to the radio) the question came up, "what is your first bite of food?"

For me, stuffing. Yum

What about you?

Stuffing-Fried Turkey Tenders

Blue Cube Imaging wrote:
Glad it's only once a year because I'm usually so full I sleep the rest of the day away.

Being a Canadian/American couple my wife and I are lucky enough to get 2 thanksgivings a year!  We're about to head to her parents' place for second thanksgiving (Thanksgiving is in early October in Canada).

I'm trying to remember what my first bite was last month.. probably mashed potatoes.

I might try the stuffing first this time.

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
According to the history books

Thanksgiving Day can be traced back to the 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the religious refugees from England known popularly as the Pilgrims invited the local Native Americans to a harvest feast after a particularly successful growing season.

The previous year's harvests had failed and in the winter of 1620, half of the pilgrims had starved to death.

Luckily for the rest, members of the local Wampanoag tribe taught the Pilgrims how to grow corn, beans and squash (the Three Sisters); catch fish, and collect seafood.

There are only two contemporary accounts of the 1621 Thanksgiving, but it's clear that turkey was not on the menu. The three-day feast included goose, lobster, cod and deer.

So in other words, Turkey has nothing to do with Thanksgiving Day

Turkey is traditional now!
My turkey is in the roaster now.  It's almost done.

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
According to the history books

Thanksgiving Day can be traced back to the 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the religious refugees from England known popularly as the Pilgrims invited the local Native Americans to a harvest feast after a particularly successful growing season.

Or, perhaps it was 60 years earlier in Florida: 

http://www.history.com/news/did-florida … anksgiving

http://www.jaxhistory.org/timucua_first_thanksgiving/

Anyone here serving traditional alligator for Thanksgiving?

L o n d o n   F o g wrote:
With turkey being a thanksgiving tradition (The US being the only country on the entire planet to celebrate), what is on the menu for Christmas - as a tradition?

Goose or suckling pig of course.

Today, however, as there are only two of us it's:
roast duck breasts;
German style potato salad;
devilled eggs;
bread dressing;
apple sauce;
ice cream with fresh berries

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David Shinobi  wrote:

For X-mas, its always been a seafood extravaganza for us.

Just a by-the-by, the Festa dei sette pesci [Feast of the Seven Fishes] is an Italian traditional Christmas Eve meal, also known as also known as La Vigilia [The Vigil]

I miss, in many many ways, the area where I grew up because I got to share the varying style of Christmas celebrations associated with a number of our local ethnic neighbourhoods; Italian; English/Scots/Irish; German; Greek; and some other eastern European cultures including Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, ect, in smaller numbers that lived in the area and who were mostly first generation post WW2 immigrants. I went to school with all of their children. Multiculturalism has a very personal meaning to me, especially at the holidays.

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