I was listening to the radio today and the radio host was talking about Christmas dinner traditions. On Thanksgiving, people (for the most part) are pretty traditional in the sense that everyone has turkey, stuffing, green beans, etc., but she was talking about how nontraditional we are when it comes to Christmas dinner. I haven't really thought of that before but it's true, I mean, there's a Christmas ham but how many people actually do that? I know we don't. I don't know anyone who actually goes that route.
Ok, well...back home my grandma would do a ham, but she'd also do a turkey...no one ever ate the ham (except for my grandma because she's the one who cooked it), but everyone went for the turkey even though a month prior everyone got stuffed on it. John's family though is different which has made my new Christmas traditions different. Since being with John Christmas dinner has always meant smoked salmon and smoked salmon dip. It's one of the things I really look forward to when it comes to Christmas dinner. Smelling the smoked salmon makes it feel like the holidays in our home. Even though I've celebrated 5 (almost 6) Christmases with John and his family, no food stands out as much as the salmon. So that's our tradition.
But I'm curious. What is your Christmas dinner family tradition? Do you have a Christmas ham? Do you have seafood like we do? Are you Italian and have an Italian dinner? I'm intrigued, so please hit me up and share your family traditions :o)
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We totally do a ham because that's what I grew up with. Turkey is for Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteWe're not big ham eaters which is why my grandma always did both. I don't do ham on Easter either, but that's another holiday discussion ;) haha
ReplyDeleteSame here. We eat ham twice a year - Easter and Christmas. We never eat it otherwise Haha.
ReplyDeleteI decided to just write a blog post since there is a lot to Christmas for us. but you can read it!
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So after talking to some more people here's what I've heard. Some do ham (not many, but some); one girl I know has octopus for dinner (I guess it's a Tongan tradition), some other people have a breakfast dinner (aka: brinner), ^Alicia does prim rib... so I guess Christmas dinner is all over the board which I think is pretty cool.
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