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 Hawty & Nawty
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| What will you be serving? I know most families serve turkey but I'd like to hear about your non traditional meals. Our family makes tamales and host a huge mexican buffet.
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  The Original Cyber Bartender
  
Location: Washington | Alaska King crab this year. |
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 Cinnamon Honey One
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Location: between here and there | I usually make a tenderloin! This year for Thanksgiving I made manicotti! lol I'm far from traditional. After a few other turkey meals, I need something else! |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| fatchance - 2013-12-17 9:11 AM Alaska King crab this year.
That sounds amazing. I love almost all seafood. My sister is serving steaks with twiced baked potatoes etc... and I think i'm going to do this next year. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Prime rib, potatoes, veggies, pies, etc |
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 Ima Fickle Fan
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Location: Texas | Alaskan king crab on Christmas Eve and prime rib for Christmas day. I'm so excited!!! |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| aggiejudger - 2013-12-17 9:29 AM Alaskan king crab on Christmas Eve and prime rib for Christmas day. I'm so excited!!!
I would be too and i'm coming to your house. Suddenly, tamales sound terrible! lol |
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Nut Case Expert
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | We have a come and go type party all day on Christmas day. My husband smokes meat. This year it is going to be brisket. We will have all kinds of other foods - meatballs in marinara, little smokies in bbq sauce, cheese dip, cold dips, chips, crackers, veggie tray, fruit tray, deserts, etc. |
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 Firecracker Dog Lover
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| Prime rib cooked on the grill, garlic mashed potatoes, and green beans cooked with bacon. I am making German Chocolate Pie for dessert. :) |
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Location: Colorado | W actually do Christmas Eve, but this year we are doing filets with lobster tails. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | Christmas eve is pot luck with the exteneded family (my husband's aunts, uncles, etc)...one year my husband became very ill....so I usually save my appetite for christmas day.  |
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Location: South Georgia | We always do a prime rib. |
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Location: North Central South Dakota, west of the Might Mo | If we are with my family, it's homemade, from scratch Enchiladas and Tamales with Posole for Christmas Eve and Prime Rib for Christmas Day, complete with cheesy potatoes or twice baked potatoes, strawberry pretzel salad, corn or green beans, and homemade rolls and pies.
If we are with my husbands family, it is ham or prime rib for Christmas Eve complimented with a whole variety of sides, and desserts and left overs on Christmas day. His family always has lefse (a potato tortilla type of thing, that you put butter and sugar on and rollup) and often has lutefisk (lye soaked codfish, that is then boiled and dipped in butter). These are both traditional Scandanavian holiday foods.
My family has also had smoked brisket for Christmas Day and it was phenomenal. That is what we did with my husband's family for Thanksgiving this year.
I'm all about a mix of traditional and non traditional and NO TURKEY! :-)
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Location: Georgia | We are doing a low country boil with my family this year. Yum! Then Christmas day we will be on the beach, cooking in the dutch ovens outside. |
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Location: In the Poet's Corner.... | fatchance - 2013-12-16 10:11 AM
Alaska King crab this year.
Same here !!! |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Reason1991 - 2013-12-17 10:58 AM We are doing a low country boil with my family this year. Yum! Then Christmas day we will be on the beach, cooking in the dutch ovens outside.
If you tell me you have steamed clams in those ovens...I'm going to cry. That is my absolute favorte food. Along with tobassco, lemon beer.
YUM and DROOL |
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 Dr. Ruth
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | fatchance - 2013-12-16 11:11 AM Alaska King crab this year.
Can I come to your house this year??? Yum!!!!   |
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Dr. Ruth
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | man you all have some yumminess!!!! I will be feeding carrots to my horses and will probably stick a pizza in the oven.
Hubby has to work starting at I think 3 and is also having to do overtime so I may fix him a yummy Christmas breakfast and that will be it for the fancy food. No great dinner.
Don't worry-I am thinking of sneaking in some ride time when he leaves...don't tell him that... |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| sassy&tessa - 2013-12-17 11:34 AM man you all have some yumminess!!!! I will be feeding carrots to my horses and will probably stick a pizza in the oven.
Hubby has to work starting at I think 3 and is also having to do overtime so I may fix him a yummy Christmas breakfast and that will be it for the fancy food. No great dinner.
Don't worry-I am thinking of sneaking in some ride time when he leaves...don't tell him that...
Put a Santa hat on your horse and try not to spill the egg nog on the ride!  |
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Dr. Ruth
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | RidenFly - 2013-12-16 1:41 PM sassy&tessa - 2013-12-17 11:34 AM man you all have some yumminess!!!! I will be feeding carrots to my horses and will probably stick a pizza in the oven.
Hubby has to work starting at I think 3 and is also having to do overtime so I may fix him a yummy Christmas breakfast and that will be it for the fancy food. No great dinner.
Don't worry-I am thinking of sneaking in some ride time when he leaves...don't tell him that... Put a Santa hat on your horse and try not to spill the egg nog on the ride!
Hey if I doctor that egg nog I will be sure to not spill it!!!! |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Since my brothers and step dad have ranches we always have prime rib for Christmas |
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Location: La Frontera | Posole, tamales and Christmas cookies! |
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Location: East Texas | We will do the traditional turkey/ham for one dinner, but the others will be steak, fajitas, or something else besides traditional. |
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 Some Kind of Trouble
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| One side of my family always does soup... chili, chicken noodle, seafood, and usually a couple of others. We all love it and there are a ton of us, so it's easy... just maybe appetizers, rolls, and then desserts. |
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Location: Haslet, Texas | Well I just called MIL and she is serving Ham, Potato Salad (store bought) rolls and chips and dip, lol. She insists on having Christmas Eve but just doesn't want to cook for it. I think next year I will try to take over. I offered to at least make a home made cake for dessert but she wouldn't hear of it, doesn't want anybody to have to do anything. I guess clean up will be easy!!!
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Hawty & Nawty
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| jlazyc - 2013-12-17 11:52 AM Posole, tamales and Christmas cookies!
Spoken like a fellow Arizonan. |
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 Dr. Ebay
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Location: Land Of Oz | At my sister's, we usually have prime rib. At hubby's parents' house we usually have turkey, posole and creamed chile. |
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Location: Kansas | fatchance - 2013-12-16 11:11 AM Alaska King crab this year.
YUM!!!! |
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 Living within my means
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Location: Randolph, Utah | Christmas Eve we do seafood, and we are finally staying home this year for Christmas Day and we got a prime rib for that. Sides are still up in the air. We debated for weeks over turkey or prime hopefully that won't happen with the sides! Lol |
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| We did lasagna with garlic bread, salads, tomato onion pizza on phyllo crust, and a bunch of desserts. Everything was homemade and delish! No concensus yet this year. |
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| Chicken enchiladas, a taco bar and Mexican beer! |
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| Butterfly shrimp and twice baked potatoes! |
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 Party Gal
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Location: fun meter pegged OK | Every year I do a cornish hen and a beef main. The beef I alternate with is standing rib roast prime rib, or filet mignon. It's filets turn this year.  |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | We're going Cuban this year! Arroz con pollo, ropa vieja, plantanos, deviled crabs and sammiches with real Cuban pork. 
I'm slobbering just thinking about it. |
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | We always do a traditional Thanksgiving dinner so for Christmas we usually grill steaks with baked potatos and some type of salad. We do bake Christmas cookies and fudge and pies etc.....Christmas morning we make egg lemon soup and toast. We make our children eat breakfast before they open gifts! LOL you have never seen kids eat and put their dish away faster! |
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