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I would like a ham tradition, but my mother mixes it up. Christmas Eve we have family, and sometimes a ham, sometimes tourtiere (pork pie), this year I think she's doing pulled pork. So I guess we always have pig? Turkey on Christmas, because we don't have Thanksgiving at home.
None of those are especially onerous to make, aside from time and pulling the pork.
I was actually looking at shrimp scampi recipes. Part of the problem is negotiating between what I would like to eat (TJ's appetizer dinner is right up my alley!) and what my 73 year old in-laws from Cleveland would like to eat (Honey Baked Ham is right up their alley.)
My family often does a standing rib roast. Pricey, but we only have it once a year or so. Other years we've had a ham.
How old are the kids? If they always have pizza, I you might have it, at least for them. Then the grown-ups can have something more adventurous.
Ham is nice. Then you can have ham and eggs for breakfast one day, ham sandwiches for lunch another, and in the end use the bone to make split pea soup.
Mmmm... ham.
My family's Christmas Eve tradition is the great Irish/French tradition of...cabbage rolls. Made earlier in the month and frozen. Turkey always for Xmas day.
Around here one of the traditional things is Dungeness crab...
That's a family tradition around here as well. Doesn't happen every year, but it happens on the good ones. I'm thinking about making a rib roast on Christmas as I used to make them for my MiL and I'm missing both.
I have been meaning to make tourtiere for years, ever since Dani told me about it. Maybe New Year's, although we always seem to get stuck in the kielbasa tradition.
The kids are 10 and 13, and the way they eat is ridiculous. They actually make a pizza that is just dough and cheese for them, because they don't like pizza sauce. I think they have probably never eaten a vegetable in their entire lives. The only things I have ever seen them eat are peanut butter on white bread with the crusts cut off, applesauce, sugar cereals, turkey and mashed potatoes, and hot dogs, hamburgers, and french fries.
I am pretty sure there is a Honeybaked Ham store INSIDE MY KROGER. How handy would that be. Maybe we could do ham AND appetizers. With some little buns to eat the ham on.
Honeybaked ham is both awesome and easy.
We have a family recipe version of touriere that makes frequent Xmas eve appearances.
Ham, little buns, a little bowl of mustard, and Bob's your uncle! I need to see if there is a reasonably-sized ham on sale at the super market this weekend.
I think I'm getting tourtiere for my birthday this year, which would be good.