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thanksgiving is usually turkey & venison (lobsters and poker the night before)
Christmas is prime rib ....one of my all time favs.. I cut my own 7 rib...bone and tie it,,,roast it for medium rare mmmmmmmm I put dibs on the bones.....they are like beef baby back ribs,,,, so flavorful!!
sometimes we compliment the prime rib with a ham, or lamb leg, or pork crown roast (I make that)
Thanksgiving is turkey, Christmas is Prime Rib, Easter is ham or lamb, St Patrick's Day is corned beef and cabbage, New Years Day is pork and sauerkraut.
They're never the same. Thanksgiving has usually meant turkey and all the trimmings (though not any more) and Christmas is whatever sounds good at the time.
Christmas dinner is usually just the two of us, and we usually have steak with mashed potatoes and a vegetable and call it good. In the past we've served prime rib when we had guests, but it's gotten terribly expensive.
Thanksgiving meals have switched from turkey to ham, but we still provide a small turkey if we have any guests who "must" have it.
Thanksgiving is turkey, Christmas is Prime Rib, Easter is ham or lamb, St Patrick's Day is corned beef and cabbage, New Years Day is pork and sauerkraut.
you could be part of our family. Growing up, yes, it as Turkey and dressing for both meals and if I remember right ham for New Years, but now we have our own traditions.
Thanksgiving is turkey, dressing and the whole thing, including sweet potatoes, and green beans or asparagus. We usually have a large crowd, this year, we have 17 including 2 infants.
Christmas is always Prime rib, the gathering is usaually smaller as our one granddaughter, hubby and kids go to his parents for Chirstmas and our kids from out of the area, normally do not come. There will be 11 of us this Christmas. We never have sweet potatoes; just the traditional Prime Rib dinner.
New Years is left over from the holidays, sometimes we get together with just our daughter and hubby, sometimes just us and yes, probably some kind of pork and greens.
Easter is, like you said, Leg of Lamb or ham, depending on who is coming and how many.
We do the Turkey thing for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. New Years is a nice leg of lamb if we can find one at a decent price. Easter is Ham. I would love to do Prime Rib but I like it rare and the hubs likes it well done to beef jerkey. So that doesn't happen.
Thanksgiving is Turkey and Ham. Xmas is 9 course meal, I've trying to recreate the Xmas I had in France. Lobster usually is one of the 9 courses. New Year, I usually make prime rib. Easter is rack of lamb.
Once, we deviated at Thanksgiving and had lobsters. My theory is, if the Pilgrims could have had it, then it is OK. We still had to have the turkey extravaganza a few days later.
This year, we aren't having company, but having guests tonight, so tomorrow is leftovers, and I'll make a turkey on Sunday.
Thanksgiving is turkey and Christmas is ham, usually a Honeybake. Potato’s are mashed for turkey day and I make a cheese potato casserole for Christmas. Same dressing and rolls and assorted veggie sides and appetizers. Pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving and chocolate cream for Christmas. And of course Christmas cookies, divinity, and assorted other fudges and sweets.
All of this was the way it was before my parents died and later I got divorced. Occasionally I do cook on these days and do it all the same and invite a friend over, but usually I’m invited to other people’s homes and I bring a dish. My potato casserole is always a hit so I bring that a lot.
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