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Turkey and all that other junk only on thanksgiving, being 100% Italian Christmas eve all about the fish, mostly shellfish, been that way since I was a kid and I'm sure long before I was born too. Of course my mom also makes plenty for those that don't like seafood as well, mainly lasagna, chicken marsala, etc. Christmas day more of the same at in laws house and either a ham or a leg of lamb or a prime rib roast, whatever pops feels like doing. Thanksgiving dinner is over rated.
Germany: Most people are not interessted in Thanksgiving. It was a more important holiday many many years ago. But germans are not really religious. Teenage kids and People 35years and under do not really go to church. Only the old people go to church regulary (not all, but many). We dont have a special food on thanksgiving.
xmas: Many families serving potatoe salad and sausages on dec.24th. That is a very simple and easy dish for poor people but even much rich families serve potatoe salad and sausages on dec 24th, it is a dish to think about the poor people in the world which cannot afford lobster and beef tenderloin at holidays. Other dishes seved on Dec. 25th and 26th. Winter in germany is very cold and that is the classic season for goose roast, red cabbage and dumpings, or deer roast, duck breast dishes ....
Turkey for Thanksgiving, prime rib for Christmas, a big ham for New Year's, roast leg of lamb for Easter. That's how it goes in my family.
We must have been raised in the same or similar families, we do the same, but not the Leg of Lamb (only because our daughter and her daughters don't do lamb) I was raised with leg of lamb on Easter.. Chistmas eve is a light dinner, soup,chili, etc and lots of snacks if we eat at our daughters. If we eat here it is Mexican, but Christmas day is always Prime rib. We will have turkey some other time of the year, not Christmas. This year I thought we were doing a switch and having Prime Rib at our daughters on Christmas eve, I am getting old, I screwed it up. We are having it here on Christmas day.
Exactly how we do it.
I might have ham at Christmas if I have a lot of people, for budget reasons, otherwise roast beef.
Can't rep you but would love to: we do the prime Rib, but yes, the cost is so out of sight I am not sure how many more years this will continue..We only have 7 this year and 2 of them will not eat it I am sure, so a 5 lb roast will work, but you are still talking $50.00!!!
For us we do the traditional turkey day dinner with the ususal stuff. For Xmas we do a brunch that consists of: honey ham, pork, delived eggs, rolls, boiled egss, bagels, hot chocholate, rolled turkey and ham and wine/champagne, lol
I gew up having turkey on both Thanksgiving and Christmas. They were different, but both were good, as the cooks were different. My aunt cooked a fancy Thanksgiving meal for the whole family but my mother cooked the Christmas turkey for three. The latter meal was my favorite.
I am willing to have a Christmas meal without turkey but I insist on something special, something that takes hours and something I seldom eat. This year I'm torn between either a duck and a chicken with a mixture of both fat and pan drippings or corned beef and cabbage, possibly baked which I don't believe I've ever done before.
Christmas Eve is mostly constant. I'll have oyster stew and potato sausage with buttery mashed potatoes. If I can get some smoked chubs I'll have them (plus other goodies) on Winter Solstice. Assuming I don't have turkey Christmas I'll have one on New Year's Day.
I will receive 6# of Roquefort in about ten days and plan to eat it a bit at a time from Solstice to the weekend after New Year's.
Gordon Ramsey serves it in Hell's Kitchen every night.
Yabbut he's a Brit.
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