What is/was on your Christmas feast table?

I’m of Filipino descent, and holidays are a wonderful time for food coma. Share your cultural table, your favorite food traditions, etc. Here’s this year’s meal… Complete with traditional Filipino Lechon… Whole roasted pig.

Prime Rib roast last night. Went to my in-laws today, they are from southern France and really know how to eat! I am still stuffed 6 hours later. Going to my parent’s tomorrow for another Christmas meal.

we had Chinese takeout–it’s just my wife and me, the rest of our families have all passed on and we have no kids.

Big italian family so it was lasagna, meatballs, garlic bread, and spiraled Ham.

A rib roast on the eve, and turkey with all the usual suspects this evening (to me it’s still Xmas Tuesday)…

@Mouse, all the Chinese restaurants here in Seattle’s Chinatown have the coolest banquet menus on Christmas and thanksgiving. :slight_smile:

I roast two ducks and a honey/clove glazed ham every Xmas. The sides and desserts vary, but the ducks and ham are always there.

It was duck for me - but only one of them.

I have no idea why, but my wife’s family tradition is to have oyster stew. So we brought my Mother in Law over and you guessed it, Oyster Stew for Christmas dinner. She has Alzheimer’s and were hoping to stir some memories. Good, but certainly not anything like what I grew up with…

@stogie, here’s a writeup about the origin of oyster stew on Christmas eve: http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing061704.htm

Thanks @Mouse!!!

Chinese food for lunch, Jack-In-The-Box for dinner. It’s my favorite holiday tradition.

There were nine adults and my two year old for Christmas dinner, so we had a selection of meats: turkey, gammon, duck, haggis and the obligatory Pigs In Blankets.

Roast beef and chicken, and Stilton, lots of red wine, port and some cognac.

These all sound scrumptious… Even the jack in the box! (i have a weakness for sourdough jacks) :slight_smile:

There were nine adults and my two year old for Christmas dinner, so we had a selection of meats: turkey, gammon, duck, haggis and the obligatory Pigs In Blankets.

that took me aback till I finished reading the sentence, lol.

Pardon my ignorance. What is gammon?

I looked up gammon… Sounds so tasty! http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/gammon

We always cook a gammon on Christmas eve, glazed with mustard, dark sugar and whole cloves. We have that for tea with egg and chips. Then Christmas day its stollen and bucks fizz for breakfast with a roast turkey, pigs in blankets and all the usual trimmings for lunch with Christmas pudding and rum sauce. Later on if we can manage it its cold turkey and stuffing sandwiches with bread sauce. I love Christmas food…especially all the leftovers.

Chilli was in the cauldron. I dined alone. Just another day in the life