Xmas Eve/Morning Food Traditions?

[starxlr8]

For christmas morning the big breakfast is really awesome but it takes so long to cook - make sure you don't end up a slave in the kitchen while the kids and your dh are lounging kwim? You want to get to enjoy the holiday too and be a part of it. So if you cook all that, make them help.

If we made the full breakfast, DH would probably do most of it. I would monitor the addition of cheese to the eggs (I prefer late in the process), but he's the bacon and potato-fryer. And then we would both clean up. I'll clean the dirtiest of dishes, but not the bacon grease.

 

[starxlr8]

We don't have set dinners for either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, but Christmas breakfast has been "cinnamon bears" for as long as I've been married. It's sort of like monkey bread and very easy to do. You take Pillsbury biscuits, dip them in melted butter, then roll them in cinnamon sugar. We make a drizzly "icing" to put on top when they come out of the oven. So NOT our healthiest breakfast of the year, but it's been a tradition too long to stop now!

I'm not a big fan of regular monkey bread, but this option sounds great! I wonder if you could do it with the Pillsbury cinnamon rolls instead of the biscuits.. and then it comes with the icing!

 

[starxlr8]

Christmas Morning we usually have sausage gravy & biscuts and eggs.

I hadn't thought of biscuits & gravy. That sounds awesome!

 

[Paula]

For Christmas Eve, we always get new pajamas and slippers. We open them, then have hot chocolate and take some photos. We always watch White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve as well. We also have homemade tamales and enchiladas for dinner. Yummo!

On Christmas Day, we always open our presents, then we have a nice big breakfast of buttermilk pancakes and sausage. We also spend the morning playing games, this year it will be Twilight scene-it! LOL Then we usually eat our big Christmas dinner around 2:00 and spend the rest of the day with each other. I usually get a Charles Wysocki puzzle, and I'll probably be working on that. =)

 

[Kiki]

For dinner we wouldn't have anything special, but we'd have this strata for breakfast that my mom called the Christmas Morning Wife Saver. You make it the night before, put it in the fridge and bake it the next morning. It was made with white bread, eggs, ham, spinach I think and lots of cheese. Yum-o.