For me it is the stuffing!! Yum!
Especially apricot, orange, cranberry and chestnut stuffing.
And now I am stuffed!
Depends where I’m eating it!
Cabbage rolls if I’m at Grandma’s, stuffing at my Aunt’s (my Uncle makes this awesome apple/raisin stuffing… mmmm… a few hours and I’ll be eating some!).
The food is secondary to the sweetness of being at the table for my 65th Christmas dinner with my Mum.
Turkey! Also mashed potatoes. And hot pie with ice cream for later. goes into blissful food daze
…Oh, and family. That’s the ticket. whistles innocently
Turkey and stuffing and gravy. Mmmm…
Then mashed potatoes and I even like Brussels sprouts.
Best is turkeystuffinggravypotatoesBrusselssprouts semi-mashed together.
I’m drooling, and dinner’s not 'til 5 or so.
A good ol’ Field Kentucky Legend ham, baked to perfection with apple cider poured over it. Mmmmmmmmm… Just ate 2 slices of it!
Does the dessert count? My grandma always sends fudge.
Tonight, we enjoyed a classic Christmas family feast- pizza from the little place down the street from our hotel! It was awesome!
At the moment, it’s the goose, because it’s making the whole house smell so fan-friggin’-tastic.
I might change my mind once I’ve eaten… we’re also going to have latkes and stuffing and green beans and salad and fresh rolls and meringue and sorbet. Mmmmmm.
We never have a set menu for Christmas, though my mom usually does roasted root vegetables which I adore.
The wadding.
My favorite part is when the last dish is put in the dishwasher, and I can see light at the end of the tunnel, and escape is only an hour or so away. Not that I don’t love mom, Christmas, and apple pie, but the meal has to be at mom’s. I have to shop for the food and there is a long, noisy, tedious afternoon of both of us crammed in the kitchen cooking and getting in each other’s way. Eating. Then the long, noisy, tedious cleaning up process. You have to be there to see it and appreciate it. My every suggestion - eating out? pizza? a lovely cheese/shrimp/cold cut platter with an even more lovely Italian pastry platter to follow? - my every suggestion is shot down. We must have a big, mediocre, work-intensive meat/taters/gravy meal every single year. I am hot and exhausted and irritated and can’t wait to just go home and finally relax. Never changes. Same thing at Easter and Thanksgiving. … Oh well, I bite my tongue and tell myself I’ll miss all this some day and mom enjoys the commotion. (But I tell my own daughter when it’s her turn? I’ll go out to eat on any holiday, anywhere! Burger King! Chinese Buffet! No More Cooking!)
Well we’re supposed to celebrate Christmas on the 6th of January but we celebrate it on the evening of the last day of the year and on through the 1st of January. Yep, we basically lump in the Christmas celebration with the New Years celebration. My favorite part would have to be the champagne. I drink it so rarely (maybe 2 or 3 times a year) that it’s sort of a treat. Plus the food usually is pretty mediocre.
OK, now that I’ve eaten, I have to say that the stuffing won the competition hands-down. The goose was awesome, of course, as was the rest of the meal… but the stuffing was simply awesomer than everything else by a power of ten.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to drift off into a food-induced coma. Nom nom nom.
I have two favorites and they are both “puddings”, but not in the american sense. Yorkshire pudding for dinner and Sailor Duff Pudding for dessert.
this year it was the carrot pudding with rum sauce. For those not familiar with the dish, it’s a steamed pudding in the tradition of English plum pudding. One of these days I’m actually going to buy a mold, but this year we just steamed it in quart jars (like is tradtional in my mom’s house. 
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Beef tenderloin, for me.
Last night at my sister’s house it was the cheesy potatoes. And the pecan pie.
I love it when the Grinch carves the roast beast
Pumpkin pie.