Baked ham or a roast....

Yup, we have turkey again.

Since our family is far away, we will probably be two this year for Christmas Day. I am advocating for a honey and Guinness glazed pork tenderloin with colcannon and carrots and a Dublin cake for dessert.

Definetly not, usually something homey but more modern.

We have Dungeness crab, since it's crab season in San Francisco.

My uncle always made venison... now that we're all spread out we have ham

usually someone has turkey. last year the "big" dinner at the boyfriend's mom's house was a goose with all the trimmings...and right now, i'm wishing we had one for this year. holy wow, was that a tasty bird; it's just not worth the money we spent on it.

ah well. we have hunting licenses now. next year.

We usually do a beef tenderloin/other beef roast. Although one year we made a mean coq au vin...

Yes. Love that turkey. I'd have it every week if it wasn't such a hassle or so durned big.

My parents often served ham for Christmas dinner, or sometimes for Christmas Eve dinner (in which case I usually make ham and eggs for breakfast).

But my (vegetarian) husband and I started a new tradition: Christmas fondue! I make a pot of creamy, cheesy, winey fondue and serve it with a huge platter of accompaniments: roasted squash and potatoes and sweet potatoes and carrots, blanched broccoli and green beans and asparagus, grape tomatoes, chunks of apple and pear, grapes, and plenty of bread. We dim the lights in the living room, sit on cushions around the coffee table, nibble our fondue, open presents, and steal kisses from each other. It's a great tradition!

Strangely enough, my family eats knackwurst and potato salad for Christmas every year. I don't know how or when it started, but we've been doing it for as long as I can remember and I can't imagine having Christmas any other way!

My grandmother still does Christmas dinner, and usually there are 2 proteins: lamb and beef or pork. Turkey is strictly a Thanksgiving thing for our family.

If I were making a Christmas dinner it would be red wine braised short ribs. When I get a nice grill someday I'll do lamb marinated in yogurt and spices. Then the week after I'd have a seafood feast for New Years.

We do turkey these days and we all love it! But I should mention that I'm Canadian so Thanksgiving is loooong gone by the time Christmas rolls around.

My family is from the east coast (Nova Scotia) so when we lived there we had lobster for Christmas dinner. Yum!!

Roast beef with Yorkshire pudding instead of turkey with stuffing. The rest of the side dishes are the same -- scalloped potatoes, mashed potatoes, spinach artichoke bake, and green bean casserole!

We do a huge Italian feast (being Italian) - sausage, meatballs, lasagna, braciole, ziti, lasagna, garlic bread, roasted veggies - for about 16 people. It is probably my favorite meal of the year.

Gigantic family so we do it all: turkey, roast beef and ham!

I started a tradition with my children years ago and as adults they always ask me if I am going to cook again for Christmas. They want my home lasagna! This weekend I will be making the sauce and letting the flavors meld in the fridge during the week. Then I will build two large pans layered with cheeses, noodles and my sauce. MMMMM!

Nope. Growing up it was something differnt, usually ham, and as adults, we have chosen to do something different as well. This year will be ham but in years past its been rack of lamb, fondue, and even crab. This year we are doing a country ham.

Ham and homemade egg noodles or gnocchi with red sauce. My husband is Italian and we are both traditional :)

turkey again. I would be happy to do something else but my parents wouldn't hear of it. We do ham for Easter though.

Christmas Eve we have Dumpta Greeta - ham, corned beef, and sausages boiled together, then rye bread dipped in the leftover juices/water. Christmas, though, is typically turkey. It's easy, and feeds a crowd!

My family is of Mexican descent, so we eat tamales throughout the Christmas season, but especially on Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

We ate different things every year for Christmas. It was just an extra-nice meal. Having the same food every Thanksgiving got old when I was a kid, not sure why anyone would want two or three holidays like that. And indeed when it's just my mom and me, who are more fussed with being together than with traditional food, we get sushi.

We also have our Christmas meal on Christmas Eve because that way no one's full off candy and we can just have a lazy Christmas Day with no stress.

For our Christmas party we let guests vote online every year, then we have 2 main courses based on the results (one vegetarian or seafood and one meat). This year it looks like we'll be having Mushroom Risotto and Beef Tenderloin.

With my family on Christmas day we usually have ham or a pasta dish, no turkey.

my husband and i host a traditional thanksgiving. my mother hosts christmas, and she makes banh xeo spring rolls, a vietnamese crepe wrapped in rice paper. yum!

We always have a roast beast for dinner on Christmas. I can only handle turkey for one holiday of the year.

It's usually a combo meat, so this year it's gonna be slow roasted pork shoulder, salmon + stuffed chicken. Gotta mix it up during the holidays. I have relatives who insist on bringing the same things for both holidays. Variety is the spice of life!

Honeybaked ham- eh. Cannot escape it. I love the idea of crab.

Yep, same stuff. Turkey and ham and mashed potatoes and gravy and dressing and and and and...all the same as Thanksgiving, just more. There's always way too much food.

Prime rib for us!

HAM!

I think we're having ham.

We're having fish.

A soup, salad, roasted beets, various veggie sides, a potato dish and barbequed salmon...we're in LA:)

Gumbo.

Christmas is ham. Sometime around New Years is a rib roast (*NOT* NYE, that's apps & Champagne, nor NY Day, *that's* black-eyed peas & collards....). Just don't love turkey enough for more than once a year.

We go out for sushi every Christmas. We call it sushi Christmas, and we love it! :-)

Yes, we do and I wish we didn't (I don't control the Christmas meal). My older sister & her family always have an ultra-luxe cut of beef, which sounds great to me, but they are hundreds of miles from where I spend the day.

I'm having a large crew of family over on Boxing Day and I am fixing a really high quality ham. I am sure it will be a relief after all that turkey PLUS I get a bone for split pea soup!

Vegetarian lasagne. We can make it in advance and spend Christmas day enjoying time with each other rather than cooking-cleaning-fussing in the kitchen. Sometimes, I really like the kitchen part of a holiday, but Christmas isn't one of those times.

One year, when we were expecting a lot of guests, I doubled my recipe and made lasagne for 24. One of my SILs decided to bring a beef lasagne... She doubled her recipe, too, and we ended up with 48 servings of lasagne for about 18 people. :-)

We actually have Chinese Food take out. Our family's homage to A Christmas Story, and so that no one has to cook at all.

For Christmas Eve dinner we have Spinach and Squid Pies (two types) and then for Christmas day Dinner we have Beef Tenderloin cooked medium with green beans and mashed potatoes, it might be my most favorite meal of the year

traditionally, in Portugal we eat codfish, cooked in a very simple fashion...just boiled with potatoes, and cabbage! some people are innovating and adding other ingredients and using other ways to cook, but tradition is still strong, and in my house we eat, around midnight (another tradition), just codfish, potatoes and cabbage...merry christmas or us we say around here, BOAS FESTAS

We have prime rib for our Christmas Dinner.

No turkey on Christmas, thank goodness. Not really a fan. We either have a beef tenderloin or prime rib.

we're having pheasant, standing rib roast, and ham this year. (well, the rest of them are. as the vegetarian, i'm sticking with pie.)

Yes AND no. My family always had turkey and Swedish meat balls for Christmas dinner with most of the same sides as Thanksgiving, but not all (no sweet potatoes, for instance).

I now live far away from my family and my boyfriend's parents always do homemade lasagna. Which I find kind of ordinary and boring, frankly, but it's yummy and apparently lasagna at Christmas is a New York thing. And no, his parents are not in the least bit Italian. *shrug*

We do turkey about once every three months, so don't do the repeat at Christmas; this year we'll be doing beef tenderloin, Pepin potatoes, and some sort of salad or greens.

All three meals of Christmas have become a set tradition for us. Breakfast is eggs benedict (only day of the year we make it), lunch is an assortment of artisanal meats and cheeses and some good crusty bread, dinner is a roast with various sides and always always Christmas pudding with creme anglaise for dessert.

Prime rib, yorkshire pudding, and plum pudding for dessert. So much better than Thanksgiving dinner.

We are usually 30 at my christmas dinner so we make 2 mains, one of them is always turkey. This year I've been working on different holiday mains: turkey osso bucco, beef wellington and moroccan lamb. Check out my blog for the recipes!

While I am making a turkey again I'm switching it up by making a soy sauce turkey and other asian-american sides as opposed to our traditional western thanksgiving menu.

We keep it super-casual and do homemade pizza!

Never turkey--we're vegetarian.
This Christmas we're going to an Indian buffet.
For Thanksgiving we went to a vegan Chinese buffet.
My father's an awful (and very slow) cook and always insists on cooking alone if we do a holiday meal. So it's just easier to eat out.

Thanksgiving was always the time for family to gather, so we would have the big turkey dinner with all the trimmings etc. It was very traditional and easy to expand for any size party.

Christmas, on the other hand, was just the immediate family. And we're all cooks. Somehow Christmas became the time to experiment -- time to pull out the old cookbooks and look through your browser bookmarks for all those recipes we wanted to try but didn't have the time or ingredients for. Now, we have "planning day" on Black Friday where we all argue over what we want for Christmas (eve breakfast, eve dinner, day breakfast, day dinner) and we spend both of those days hanging out in the kitchen and cooking!

Cornish hens are an option or a good beef roast or prime rib if I can find it