What is on Your Christmas Menu? (Giveaway)
It is just 48 hours until the big day, Christmas 2010! I can hardly believe it is here. I know, you are thinking the same thing. Where did the year go? It has been an amazing one though.
Since this is a food blog it is only natural we should talk about food at the holidays, right? I am curious, do you have a big Christmas Eve meal? Christmas Day meal? Day after Christmas Meal? Between Breakfast and Christmas Dinner meal? :)
For us, our big meals around Christmas are Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas morning breakfast. It has become a tradition for us to get together with my mom and that immediate family on the Eve of Christmas for a big meal. Our meal selection usually includes a baked ham and then a bunch of our favorite sides (scalloped corn, sweet potato casserole, pickled beets). Then, on Christmas morning my husband’s family has a tradition of fixing sausage gravy over biscuits for Christmas morning. Even when we are not with them we have kept this tradition.
I know for us we tend to want the same things for our holiday meal. What about you? Do you like those traditions or do you look for something new to make each year?
The National Pork Board has recently been working with celeb Chef Michael Symon to mix up seasonal flavors by pairing pork with unsuspecting holiday favorites like cinnamon, chocolate and pumpkin. Chef Symon shows how pork can be enhanced by almost any ingredient with recipes like “Cider-and-Beer-Braised Pork with Chocolate Mole” and “Coriander and Cumin Roasted Rack of Pork with Five Spice Pumpkin Puree.” Mmm, doesn’t that sound good? Chocolate? Yes, please!
It won’t arrive in time to help you with your Christmas meal, but perhaps your New Years meal? I have a holiday pork kit for one of you! FULL of great products and ideas to spice up your holidays (and your dinner)! Here is what is in the gift pack:
- An exclusive holiday recipe from Michael Symon
- A $25 gift card to conveniently purchase your favorite pork cuts online
- A large assortment of seasonal spices to inspire flavor-rich holiday pairings
- A chic holiday serving platter to reinvigorate your holiday dinner style
- A signed copy of Michael Symon’s new cookbook
- Two festive aprons to prepare your holiday feasts
- A digital meat thermometer to ensure that your holiday meals are delicious yet safe
Here is how you enter to win:
1. Leave a Comment telling me which meal is most important for you during the holidays and what do you eat?
Additional ways to enter:
2. Tweet or Facebook this contest – use @onceamonthmom & @allaboutpork. (Maybe something like: Let @allaboutpork & @onceamonthmom spice up your holiday w/new recipes:http://bit.ly/eW3WeH) And don’t forget to leave a comment below stating you have done so.
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This giveaway ends Tuesday, December 28th at 9 pm (EST).
This post is linked at Things I Love Thursday at Diaper Diaries.
Disclosure: The National Pork Board provided me with a pork kit and one for giving to a reader. All the opinions in this post are mine, want to know more about how I facilitate reviews, view my full disclosure policy!
The dinner is most important because you get to sit down with your loved ones. And this year my kids want ham, but I want turkey. So I will be making both!
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I’m a FB fan. We like ham & baked potato casserole on Christmas Eve. I make overnight breakfast casserole for Christmas morning.
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I really cant say that I have ONE favorite meal, as being a foodie, means enjoying them all! We always have friends over for a Mexican feast on Christmas eve. I like this because everyone participates by bringing their specialties! We enjoy homeade tamales, Tortilla Soup, a Taco bar, queso, salsa, dips…. Such a fun theme! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I made leek and potato soup every Christmas Eve. It’s my favorite holiday meal!
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I really like the casual Christmas morning breakfast the best well the kids open gifts!!
I can’t pick just one! Christmas Eve Dinner: Korean Steak with veggie stir fry. Christmas morning; cinnamon rolls and omelets. Christmas lunch; ham and homemade macaroni and cheese. Christmas dinner; yummy snacks so I don’t have to cook or clean up!
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The most important meal is always Christmas Eve and we have home made Chinese take out. A family tradition.
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How do you pick a most important meal? We always have brunch while opening presents and I make my sausage cheese strata and we have candy cane bread. Christmas dinner is either turkey or ham (turkey this year). We are Pennsylvania Dutch so we always have pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day. That’s my favorite because I just LOVE pork and sauerkraut!
I’m with you on the pork and saurkraut but my immediate family members don’t agree. :(
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My favorite is turkey and dressing. It seems there is never any leftovers.
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We don’t actually do a meal during Christmas, we always do munchies all day. Meatballs, cheeseballs, spinach dip, cookie trays galore…
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I make our family tradition of Ham Loaf: made with 2# ground ham 1#ground pork with a spicy mustard sauce- we all fight for the last piece its delish!!!
I love Christmas morning dinner. We’ll be having scones, breakfast burritos (thanks), and OJ.
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Santa pancakes on Christmas Eve. Morning!!
I make homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast very year. I was son excited whe. My 5 year old daughter asked about them a few weeks ago. It is officially a tradition now :-)
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We are actually having pork roast for Christmas this year (because the vegetarian will not be there for dinner). Ina’s recipe, with Sagaponack Corn Pudding and Christmas Cookies for dessert – what else? I’m already an FB fan and get the feed there.
Our most important meal is breakfast. We do it big!
My favorite holiday meal is a late lunch/early dinner/eat so much you can only eat once today meal we do. We traditionally have “meaty” vegetarian lasagna, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce & lots of pies!
Christmas Eve is our family only meal (just the four of us). We are having a standing rib roast, baked potatoes, mushrooms and sauteed spinach with pine nuts & goat cheese.
Christmas morning tradition is everything bagels with cream cheese and lox!
Then we will go to my parents house for dinner- turkey and ham!
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For years I have selected traditional Christmas Eve meals from foreign countries. We have done Mexican, German (as this is mostly our ancestry), Swedish, English, Irish, hmmmm, maybe a few more. But this year, due to money constraints I did a OAMC meal. so the sliced turkey and broth are thawing as we ‘speak.’ We will have garlic green beans, sweet potato gingerbread cake, green salad, that darn good chocolate cake from the Cake mix doctor’s recipes, Sweet potato recipe from Saving Dinner, and oh, the turkey will be served with a Pumpkin chutney. Not a fancy meal this year. But should be good. I already prepared a Holiday Breakfast Casserole that is in the freezer for Christmas morning and have cinnamon rolls in the freezer to take out and let rise and bake that morning also. Most important will be the family gathered around!
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Our important meal is dinner, we dine early somewhere around 4pm. We go out and see lights and have a fun evening. We do not consume meat, so veg lasagnas it is.
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Our most important meal is Christmas Day. We cook a ham, pineapple stuffing, homemade bread, veggies and of course desserts. We don’t do it on Christmas Eve since we are at church. I also have an open door policy and anyone that needs a place to go can come over. I always cook too much so I always welcome visitors and people without family to go to.
Any meal that my family and I are together is the favorite meal for me. This year we don’t know what we are going to eat due to the fact my husband was laid off last Friday.
Christmas dinner is our favorite we eat early in the day and we have honey ham, Green bean casserole, potatoes, Corn and more.
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Christmas Eve dinner/snacks We always get together to visit and either have a sit down meal with ham or we do various snacks and Christmas movies. Christmas morning, we always have brunch at meemaw’s. This year we are having hashbrown casserole, sticky buns, bacon, eggs and sausage balls.
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This is our first year at home with our kids on Christmas – so I’d say it will be breakfast, just because it’s going to be fun to watch them squirm while they wait to open their presents!
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In my family the only “meal” with must-have traditional dishes is Christmas Eve. It’s just a bunch of finger foods that we can munch on as we please throughout the evening.
Christmas breakfast this year will be either cinnamon rolls or sticky buns. I haven’t decided which. I love using the Challah dough for them from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day plus it’s super easy to make them up the day before and then bake that morning.
Christmas dinner varies from year to year. This year my MIL is making lasagna.
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We focus our attention on Christmas Dinner. This year we’re having Roasted Tomato and Feta Shrimp, pan fried Tilapia, Greek salad, mac n cheese, french bread and Red Velvet cake.
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My favorite CHRISTmas meal is on CHRISTmas day in the afternoon. We get together with my mom and dad and usually have turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean caserole, gravy, cranberry sauce, stuffing, pies, fudge…etc., etc! LOVE IT!! Thanks! Lori at icalledonjesus@aol.com
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We love Christmas dinner with turkey stuffing yams and mash potatoes! I can’t wait!!
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Christmas breakfast/brunch. My favorite holiday breakfast will be serve this year which includes from scratch biscuits, pan seared trout, farm fresh eggs with peppers & onions, hash browns, fruit salad and a jar of the pear preserves put up this fall…..
We do Christmas eve dinner, then a big breakfast and a late lunch/early dinner. We used to always have thanksgiving type meal at christmas, but have been shaking it up the past few years.
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Chanukah dinner is important to me. I love having my family with me and cooking for all of them. Lots of lattkes and kugel!
Our favorite is breakfast on Christmas morning – Hubby makes waffles or pancakes and we all get to eat and watch kids play with toys.
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We don’t celebrate Christmas but any meal that I am able to enjoy with my family is important. I love cooking them healthy food that they love and enjoying my family! We’re looking forward to family time on Saturday!
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Dinner is usually when everyone can get together at the same time. Either roast or ham(this year ham), roasted potatoes with garlic and onions. Brocolli, glazed carrots & red velvet cake.Yum!
We do Christmas Eve dinner and a big breakfast.
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My favorite meal is our Christmas Eve dinner with my side of the family. My mom is making turkey, mashed potatoes and stuffing and banana cream pie for dessert.
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Every Christmas is different because my family lives around the world. I never know where I’ll be or with whom. I think the most important meal, however, is Christmas morning, when we all sit around and enjoy being together, wherever we are.
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Our favorite meal is Christmas Lunch/Dinner We sort of combine the two and eat this all together. It is all of us from the tallest to the smallest. We have 4 generations all together! My aunt always brings the best honey baked ham! Yum!
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Christmas dinner is the most important holiday meal for us. We will be having a ham and all the fixings.
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Our Christmas Eve Meal is most important with a big pot of Chili and a big pot of Potato Soup. Then we all play games and everyone gets to open one gift. It is special because my daughter and my son’s family are both in attendance.
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We have been a military family for several years, so Christmas isn’t always on the specific date. It’s not the date that is important, it is the traditions and gathering together. We have a prime rib, with pan roasted potatoes, brussel sprouts, and wine… lots of wine :) Growing up Christmas breakfast was always blueberry muffins, sausage, bacon, and butter, lots and lots of butter for those tasty muffins!
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The Christmas breakfast is the most important to me. Eggs, some sweet bread (cinnamon rolls, coffee cake, etc), and sausage and bacon. We never established a family tradition for Christmas Eve or later on Christmas day, so we’ve had everything from lamb to turkey to ham to steaks on the grill! Perhaps my husband and I will come up with something…
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I spend the most energy putting together the plan for Christmas dinner but really it’s the snacking through the day that I love. It’s fun to find out what other people enjoy and decide to bring to share.
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Christmas Eve dinner is important. We serve ham and turkey.
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My favorite is the Christmas dinner- and we love ham or turkey with all the sides!
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Mostly I look forward to the sweet treats! but as far as a meal, I love Christmas breakfast with waffles, eggs, cinnamon rolls….yum!
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Dinners are most important meals during the holidays for us. We usually have sweet potato casserole, roasted turkey/chicken, salmon, green bean salad and pumpkin soup.
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Our most important meal is lunch on Christmas Day. The requested items this year include: roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, cherry salad, yeast rolls, and pumpkin pie.
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We have two important meals. First, I make a crockpot breakfast that I put together on Christmas Eve and we all join at the kitchen table for breakfast before opening presents. Then later in the day we have a 3:00 PM dinner ish. Let’s see the crockpot breakfast is an egg, cheese, potato, meat strata and dinner is ham, rice, vegetable, salads, homemade bread and some apples sliced with cinnamon sugar. I may decide to glaze the ham this year. In the past my husband always discouraged me, but now I know it is just because he thinks it isn’t worth the effort. What does he care, if it is my effort? I want to try it, and so I may, as long as I am not crazy busy. Have not had a chance to do any baking though this year. :( WEll, not quite, did make one batch of M&M cookies so far.
Our most important meal is Christmas Eve dinner. We make a Christmas pasta (a Rachael Ray recipe) that is delicious! It has become a tradition at our house.
I wish there was a meal that i made it to every year but my family is very large, not including my in-laws i have 3 different families to try to get to at the holidays. I wish it was more simple, but if we want to see everyone we just go to whatever we can so we dont care what we eat. This year we are aiming for a Christmas day breakfast with one family and Christmas dinner with another and a Day After Christmas dinner with the parents lol. Great giveaway!
Christmas day dinner because its when all the family gets together. We have a trasditional meal with Ham, mashed potaos, yams rolls, green beans, pumpkin pie and whatever any one else brings~!
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We always eat Italian on Christmas Eve
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We have tamales for Christmas!
I love a relaxed Christmas dinner. Ham/turkey with trimmings.
Turkey will be the center of the dinner, but ham will be served alongside. Mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, corn pudding, green bean casserole, hot rolls and too many desserts, cookies and candies to list.
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The Christmas dinner is the most important because it’s when the all the family gets together. We have a lot of finger foods, sanwiches and sweets. Thanks!
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Christmas Eve is when our family gets together and has our big Christmas dinner. Ham, turkey and all the trimmings-corn casserole, dressing, cranberry sauce, green beans & more. I’m a FB fan.
The Christmas dinner is the most important because it’s when the all the family gets together. We have a lot of finger foods, sanwiches and sweets. Thanks!
My favorite meal is always the Christmas dinner that my mom makes – I don’t cook it myself, yet! I love eating yummy food and spending time reflecting with my extended family about the past year.
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We have christmas day lunch since both my husband and my father work the afternoon.
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We had leg of lamb, asparagus spears and steamed carrots picked fresh from our garden!
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Hmmm… our of all our holiday meals, I’d say probably Christmas is the most important, mostly because I always make prime rib and that’s the ONLY time I ever make it! LOL I also make an awesome cream cheese, dried beef, onion and pineapple dip that is a must-have for Christas. Along with the prime rib, I made loaded mashed potatoes, spinach, sauteed mushrooms and yeast rolls.
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I love Christmas morning. Coffee first thing, then the smell of homemade cinnamon rolls through the house as we open gifts.
Our can’t-miss meal is the one we have at Grandpa’s on Christmas evening. He always serves frozen pizza, but it’s not about the food. It’s about the person serving the food. :-) Thanks for the giveaway!
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I subscribe to the Once A Month Mom blog! For X-mas eve we do lasgana, salad, x-mas bruch french toast bake and x-mas dinner is always ham! This would be great to win though because New Year’s is always pork!
The biggest for me is all Christmas day! Cinnamon rolls and coffee in the morning. I love how the aroma wakes everyone up! and thenhaving a prime rib roast in the oven all day. Homemade mashed potatoes ( I loike the homemadeness the lumps give it!), gravy and buttery rolls and maybe asparagus. We also always have a cake for Jesus. Since it is his birthday we are celebrating!
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New Year’s Eve we always have Gumbo with shrimp and crab meat in it. We love it!
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