It is actually alot like Thanksgiving. There are alot more people at Christmas though. I usually go over around 1pm to help out. We usually eat around 5pm.
Well we properly awake up and start getting ready at 11 am or 12 pm. Breakfast and Lunch are really non existent on christmas day, we just snack until dinner.
It's a little different here in the Southern Hemisphere. It's Summer, we usually eat outside, lots of fresh prawns, oysters, cheeses, the usual turkey with stuffing, ham, copious champagne and imported beers strating at around 1-2 P.M. After Xmas lunch..hit the beach, it's fantastic, lots of other locals having a great day, the last day of peace before the tourists arrive en masse, so yeah, swimming to clear the head, bodysurfing, sipping more champagne and laughing, always laughing.
When I was a kid my parents always served holiday dinners in the early afternoon, around 2pm. But my family could eat all day. By 8pm we were into the fourth kind of dessert. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, whatever. Any excuse for a big meal. My wife and I usually eat about the same time we always eat dinner, around 7pm. She's the best cook in seven counties so we've had everything. Traditional turkey, stuffing and yams, which is way too much for two people. Chiles rellenos in hominy, one of my favorites. Chicken cacciatore, also one of my favorites. And her own invention, pizza (homemade crust) with turkey sausage and cranberry chutney sauce. That's the best Christmas dinner ever. And of course the homemade chocolate truffles, the pumpkin bread and all the other stuff. When I'm home anyway, which unfortunately I'm not this year. I have a friend out here who's in the same boat. We'll take the sage advice of Buzz Cooper, a con man on "Guiding Light" who traveled around with his daughter and was never home on Christmas: "No matter where you are, you can always depend on a really good Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant, because in every town they're the only place that's open."
Japanese places as well. That's why I go out to have sushi and sashimi at a local Japanese place on Christmas.
Traditionally, the folks responsible for cooking christmas food (in my neck of the woods) start early in the morning...perhaps 7am or so...this is because LUNCH also counts as an event. Friends and boisterous relatives visit at lunch, dinner is the more intimate family setting. ...Christmas lunch is the usual 12ish (sometimes 1ish dependant on how many dishes are made or the little leeway for kitchen mistakes), and dinner would be on time at 6. Maybe 7...either way, the food is already there for dinner.
Just me and the missus...we'll take our time cooking a nice meal which will probably be eaten around 7pm
I take it few of you get up at 4 am because the kids are awake and going through their stockings and squealing with delight over Santa's gift?
I think it would be rather nice to enjoy going out to eat. That way no one has to work at doing anything and everyone gets what they want.
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we have ours about 2:00, that way its over and done with, we can relax and open a bottle of wine, and just watch crap re runs on tv, and of course play with my sons new remote controle car! lol
oh wow Luci, you just described my childhood. I remember the race car tracks my brothers got and getting them set up. I remember getting a bike and not being able to play with it for 4 mths.
i am really going to enjoy this christmas, and i wll enjoy new years even more, i can then say good bye to this awful year
