A Christmas Question!

[Aela]

I wish everyone on HWO a lovely christmas!

I love hearing about traditions around the world, so out of interest, what do you eat for christmas?

I’ll be having the traditional Danish christmas dinner as always. Stuffed roast duck and pork sausage or roast pork with crackling (not yet decided which!) with both boiled and caramelised potatoes, plenty of duck-based gravy, red cabbage salad, stuffing and potato chips. Then there’s risalamande - cold rice pudding turned in whipped cream, vanilla and chopped up almonds topped with hot cherry sauce - for dessert as well as a box of chocolates to the person that finds the one whole almond in the pudding. :D

[PiperBella]

I was born in the USA so i will eat a Christmas dinner of, eggnog, turkey, ham, roast beef, pudding, pies, cakes, pastries, deer, fish, berries, beets, vegetables, and other treats. For my horses they will get the best hay in the most fertile part of Egypt imported to them for a Christmas present, carrots and oats, for supper, and a gift of bran and mash made by my grandmother, along with new shoes.

[buzzy]

I wish everyone on HWO a lovely christmas!

I love hearing about traditions around the world, so out of interest, what do you eat for christmas?

I’ll be having the traditional Danish christmas dinner as always. Stuffed roast duck and pork sausage or roast pork with crackling (not yet decided which!) with both boiled and caramelised potatoes, plenty of duck-based gravy, red cabbage salad, stuffing and potato chips. Then there’s risalamande - cold rice pudding turned in whipped cream, vanilla and chopped up almonds topped with hot cherry sauce - for dessert as well as a box of chocolates to the person that finds the one whole almond in the pudding.

Me and my fam eat a big roast and have all the fixins!

[Silverine]

I'm from the USA, but have a bit of an unconventional family situation. My mother is Catholic and my father is Jewish, so we do a bit of mash-up around Christmas time. On Christmas eve we generally have a sit-down dinner with really nice steaks, mashed potatoes, green beans/asparagus, etc. Then on Christmas day we usually do a 'traditional' Jewish Christmas which means heading out to a movie and stopping at a Chinese restaurant for dinner.

Things will be a bit different this year because my sister is coming down for the first time since her kids were born (the oldest just turned five, the younger is two - since the first was born we've been going up to visit her during Channukah) so we can't really do the movie/Chinese as my father refuses to sit through any movie that would be appropriate for their age-group. So we'll see what happens. XD

[Tisha]

Hiya, I hail from Singapore and we do celebrate Christmas here, especially because I grew up in a Christian household, since we aren't exactly from the west, we don't eat the same kinds of food as you do, I guess ^~^

I remember my family and I would go to our pastor's house for a Christmas party. There would be a table laden with food there, some meagre slices of turkey with cranberry sauce, a Christmas log cake, some pasta, Bee hoon, maybe some chicken wings, fried mashed potato with meat and veggies. Oh yeah and potato salad. But hey that's only on the day itself lol, the rest of the season we eat normal food, which is rice and some veggies and meat dishes.

[Tjigra]

I am from Latvia, and the most traditional Christmas food here is grey peas with bacon and onions, bacon buns and gingerbred. There is an old tradition that says there should be 12 dishes on the dinner table at Christmas (but we count them separately, like, peas and bacon is two dishes already), that also usually includes some sort of fish. We celebrate Christmas on 24th with the dinner and presents from Father Christmas, and that's mostly it, 25th is just a day off, used to rest from the dinner and visit friends.