What is on the menu for Christmas Eve dinner?
Here in Germany it’s customary to Celebrate Christmas eve with a small dinner or entree, on Christmas we enjoy the large meal usually a large Ham. On Christmas eve this year we will be eating fish and shell of various kinds and a fondue. There will be large prawns, scallops, fish from around the world steamed, three dips, garlic bread. Also olives black & green, baby sweet pickles and grapes picked to cheese cubes. The drink of the evening is spiked Nog, a little bourbo & cognac..:@) On Christmas day we will have eggs, bacon, hashbrown and fresh rolls. This will tide us over till 2 when dinner will be served!
The company my husband works for gives all of the employees a ham fro Christmas every year, so that’s what we always have. Christmas day is always casual (soup, sandwiches, etc.) so I always make a nice sit-down dinner on Christmas Eve using my great-aunt’s fine china. My parents always come over for Christmas Eve. We’ll have ham (of course), cheesy potatoes, steamed asparagus, cauliflower gratin, corn, and rolls. For dessert, I always make my grandmother’s cherry-walnut cake. My grandma made it every Christmas Eve, so when she died, I assumed the tradition. It’s a pain to make, so grandma only made it once a year, and that’s what I do now too, but it’s so yummy. We have it leftover on Christmas morning for breakfast. After dinner, my kids will open presents from my parents. They’ll open on Christmas morning from us, and we’ll go to my in-laws on Christmas day, so my kids get to spread Christmas out.
