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We'd hang stockings on Christmas eve as I recall. There was usually a fire in the fireplace below.
Lots of excitement with 7 kids running around LOL.
Big dinner on Christmas (if mom and dad weren't fighting). Yeah it was great. Last one like that was 1966. Dad flopped over the following July.
[MENTION=45739]Jughead[/MENTION] - you who loves a good meal.
We'd hang stockings on Christmas eve as I recall. There was usually a fire in the fireplace below.
Lots of excitement with 7 kids running around LOL.
Big dinner on Christmas (if mom and dad weren't fighting). Yeah it was great. Last one like that was 1966. Dad flopped over the following July.
But what was on the menu?
When my dad started making enough, we had lobster every Christmas eve. Buffet Christmas Day. Now, my family is pretty splintered and there are no traditions, but Christmas Eve I will be with my daughter's in-laws, having prime rib. Christmas Day, back here with my sister, and we are having lobster.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - what was your family tradition, and what is it now? Who made it? Did you have to travel to get to it?
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - what was your family tradition, and what is it now? Who made it? Did you have to travel to get to it?
I make Turkey and all of the timings.....
The thing that makes it "christmas" for us is we purchase a st. honore cake.
I'm an old man. In over over a half a century I have experienced Christmas dinners which included main courses of turkey, lamb, chicken, goose, lobster, standing rib roast, even meat loaf and a few other things. But the dinner I remember the most was hot dogs.
My dad was a steel worker. When he was working times were good, really good. But when he was on layoff -which was a common - times were tough, really tough. One Christmas, in spite of being laid off dad had managed to get a duck and all the kids were anticipating a roasted duck dinner. Mom did her duty. She awoke in time to roast the beautiful bird, but she was hungry, exceptionally hungry, and little by lite she picked at the bird until there was nothing left. The word quickly spread throughout the neighborhood and a number of people invited us to eat at their homes. But one thoughtful person, whose family was even poorer than were were apologized for not having anything good to gives us and offered us a pack of hot dogs which we gratefully accepted. Not everyone,may appreciate the kindness I felt at this gesture but the memory has been with me and enriched me for a long, long time.
This Christmas I plan to make my wife grilled baby back ribs, grilled corn on the cob, twice baked potatoes, a simple salad and pumpkin pudding topped with chopped walnuts and whipped cream followed by a cup of coffee with Kahlua. But when the day is over, it will be the hot dogs I remember.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - what was your family tradition, and what is it now? Who made it? Did you have to travel to get to it?
I make Turkey and all of the timings.....
The thing that makes it "christmas" for us is we purchase a st. honore cake.
Did you have a traditional meal coming up?
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - what was your family tradition, and what is it now? Who made it? Did you have to travel to get to it?