Do you have a traditional Christmas Eve meal?

[Soft Georgia]

We get pizza delivered by Round Table. It's the best. Three or four pies. :9

[RUDUing2]

1. Baked Potato Soup and Fresh Baked Bread or rolls.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. Yes.

My dad always fixes a standing rib roast and King crab legs.

:)

[AlCzervik]

3. My husband is italian so i make seafood for him

i don't do the whole 7 fishes thing but i do my best.

[yvr girl]

4. Lasagna

Plus lots of other things. Served buffet style.

[johnnie]

5. When I was a child we would have it over my grandmother's

My grandparents were both Slovak and we would have what they said was traditional. My grandfather would pick wild mushrooms and make an awesome mushroom soup. We also had pierogies filled with three different fillings, sourkraut, potato and prune. These little dough balls with poppyseed called kolacky. We would start dinner with oplatky, which is an unleavened wafer with scenes of the birth of Christ and we would dip them in honey.
It was a fun time back then. I knew what a highball was before I knew what a baseball was. And the adults all doing polkas in that tiny basement still cracks me up with the thoughts of it.
After my grandparents passed away we started meeting and my parent's house and we still do the opatky and pierogies. Now my sister makes an Italian wedding soup in place of the mushroom soup.

[Soft Georgia]

6. sounds like good memories, johnnie

:hi:

[johnnie]

7. They are

We had 11 grandchildren and about 12 adults down there. When we were really young "Santa" would come by and give all of us children gifts. My cousins were all very funny and we would have a blast. As we got older we would participate in the drinking and dancing. I like it with just my immediate family now, but not like it used to be. :hi:

[Phillycat]

8. 7 different kinds of fish.

I'm Italian.

[Soft Georgia]

10. chimpsrsmarter mentioned something about italian & 7 fish

What's this tradition of 7 fish?

[Phillycat]

11. It's a Roman Catholic thing.

Edit: here you go

Feast of the 7 Fishes
It is tradition that the Sicilians (and Italians) have a 7 fish dinner on Christmas Eve. Some think that it is perhaps one representing each day of the week, but most traditions come from the observance of the Cena della Vigilia, the wait for the miraculous birth of Christ in which early Christians Catholics fasted on Christmas Eve until after receiving communion at Midnight Mass. In later years it became a penitential day, meaning that all foods except meat were allowed. Other theories include are that there would be served three fish dishes representing the three Wise Men or the Holy Trinity while in some there may have been as many as thirteen, one for each of the apostles plus one for Jesus. Each family and each sect of the Italian culture is different, (the fish they say is from a tradition those from Naples brought over), it also depends on what was available in various parts of Italy. In most of the southern coastal regions in Italy and Sicily, seafood was abundant and so the perfect opportunity to work fish into the menu for this festive day. Others have 9 Fish, and yet others 12 types for the representation of the original 12 apostles. In any case, its all fish, don't forget that.

http://www.sicilianculture.com/food/xmasfish.htm

[BigMcLargehuge]

9. Ham, noodles, sweet potato, basil peas, fresh crusty bread, red wine

[MsAnthropy]

12. What time should I be there?

[fluffernutter]

13. New Mexican food. it is a tradition since i was a baby.

it started with my spanish grandparents. my gram always put on a big pot of pinto beans and pasole in the morning, and made her red chili for the enchiladas and green chili shredded chicken stew. she made homemade tamales and tortillas. the house smelled divine for days, and everyone helped. the men made sangria too. we have done this all my life - it's such a great tradition :)

[ernstbass]

14. oyster stew here in the south

[Historic NY]

15. the fish thing........but I avoid all the weird things......n/t