What are your family's holiday traditions? Any special foods you have?

For example, it's traditional in my family to have sausage bread on Christmas day.My mom and I will make it usually the night before and then refrigerate it for the next morning. We all open one present on Christmas Eve, usually something for bed like pjs. We sleep as late as we can, which usually means we are up by 5 or 6 am.

We all open our stockings first, usually in bed because my "Santa", my mom, always places them in the bed with us. The rule in our house was always that we could open the stockings on our own, but we couldn't open the big presents until everyone was up and ready. Then the fun begins!

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We meet every christmas at 2:30 our family meet an my home (we are the parents) at 2:30 on christmas each to exchange presents and eat and eat. It lots of fun. We are not smokers are drinkers.

But we sure drink a lots of red cool-aide .

Some traditions remain, no matter what... Years ago, when I was little (when the dinosaurs were alive...), my mom found a suggestion for a Christmas salad that we have made ever since every Christmas. It is a 'candle' salad. The base of the candle is one slice of pineapple.

Balanced in that base is on half of a banana. The top is carved out just enough to fit a maraschino cherry and a slice of green or yellow or red bell pepper is the handle. It's on a bit of lettuce and, well, Christmas dinner just wouldn't be Christmas dinner without it!

One tradition I started by accident was baking a giant loaf of Basque Shepherds Bread for family events. It's a very simple, basic bread recipe but baked in a large casserole or Dutch oven or similar, so that this giant thing sits in the middle of the table and people just grab hunks out of it and slather it with butter. It really is good, though.

Another family tradition is a quiet Christmas Eve. When the kids were growing up there were two families to visit every Christmas day as well as all our own stuff to deal with. So Christmas Eve was declared quiet family time.No presents, no guests.

We ate a quiet dinner -- something simple like clam chowder and some veggies and crackers, and then we went into the family room where the tree was lit and we lit all the candles and told the Christmas story and sang carols as a family. All the kids are grown and gone now, and so my husband and I don't do all the singing, but we do light the candles and have a lovely quiet time ourselves in Bible reading and prayer -- with music later on the television or CD player. The grandmother of one of my best friends growing up also did something for us which I have continued.

She baked a Christmas Tree coffee cake for eating Christmas morning. It is essentially simply a sweet bread recipe with some nuts and candied fruits in it, but shaped like a big Christmas tree on the cookie sheet and decorated with stripings of white icing and some cuts of red and green candied cherries. I make it now for one of our daughters who lives close to us, and her family.

My husband and I also buy one special ornament a year for the tree. We can look back and remember why we chose each ornament we did and that's fun. That's our private tradition, although this year we did give each of the kids a special keepsake ornament for their trees, too.

Looking at it all, I'm realizing that sometimes it is very little things that you just get used to doing each particular holiday. I enjoy the continuity of it through the generations..

Latkes It’s Hanukkah at my parents house, and therefore it must be latkes. With applesauce and sour cream. My mother will break out the recipe from her old Temple Sisterhood cookbook, which I continually find bizarre because (a) she’s been making the same recipe for decades, and (b) it has about three ingredients in it.

Nonetheless, she feels better about double-checking against the recipe. Me, I just start pulling ingredients out of the cabinet and start heating the oil. One year the stores were all closed, as Hanukkah overlapped Christmas day, and only the gas stations were open.

They weren’t a grocery store, but they do stock baby food, and baby food applesauce is just smashed-up apples, right? It’s ground a little finer, but it’s the same things. Nonetheless, I passed on the applesauce that year..

About the same Well we usuelly have a family get together. One with my dad that is like a week or two before christmas, maybe after sometimes. Then we have one with my mom and her family on christmas eve or on christmas.

I like to cook so im usuelly helping my mom do all that stuff, yea a guy that likes to cook lol, and we make whatever sounds good. Turkey, ham, whatever. We then watch the best movie ever, Christmas Vacation, at night christmas eve and then we either go to bed or watch the santa clause or something.

Then when we wake up we open our stocking, together as we are not supposed to without taking a million pictures, then go open our presents. When I was a kid waiting killed me lol, now im like yea go when you feel like it ill just keep laying here. After that we have to get ready to go to a family party somewhere, so we just got all this new stuff and we cant even use it haha, and then come back and do whatever..

I'm an Italian-American, and we have a good luck food for New Year's. On New Year's Eve, for good luck in the coming year, we eat bagna cauda, which is a hot anchovy dip. We dips all sorts of fresh veggies into it.

Here's a recipe: gourmetsleuth.com/recipe_bagnacauda.htm .

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