I'm from New York. We have ham, turkey, potato salad, macaroni salad, green beans, shrimp, lots of breads and desserts (plus some other things that people decide to bring). We don't do a sit down dinner. Just lots of noshing.

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I'm from America, but live in China.

My school gave us a Christmas dinner that included sixty different Chinese dishes. The idea with such a dinner is that you just take a bite or two of everything.

The most interesting/local dishes were probably the sweet and sour wedding fish ((which is amazing)), stinky tofu (not as bad as it smells.), and seasoned pork fat (sort of revolting, actually.). Oh, there was also something very like french fries, but made with lotus root rather than potato, which I need to learn how to order.

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I have to work today. So I'm going to have smoked salmon with wasabi, a tomato-mozzarella salad, some bread, and a lot of wine tonight. Currently located near Cologne, Germany.

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We're having turkey, beef, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, mash, roast potatoes, vegetables and a pudding of Christmas pudding and a chocolate pudding for me. The day after we're having the leftover turkey and beef with boiled ham for sandwiches :) I'm in the UK by the way.

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Sausages and potato salad ;) nothing too fancy cause nobody should spend Christmas in the kitchen :)
Upper Bavaria, Germany.

Merry Christmas!

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Panierte Schweinswürstchen und Kartoffelsalat heute abend :) und klassische Weihnachtsgans mit Blaukraut und Kartoffelpüree morgen. An Traditionen rüttelt man nicht :)

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Ah yeah, Oberbayern natürlich :)

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Weincreme mit Nudeln heute zum Mittagessen.
Die Weihnachtsgans, gefüllt mit Maronen/Esskastanien und Rosenkohl als Beilage gibt's bei uns traditionell immer erst am 25., also morgen.
(wohnhaft: Dorf bei Mainz in Rheinland-Pfalz)

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Could one of you Weihnachtsgans people please post the recipe for gefuellt gans? Danke!

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Sadly I'm the wrong person to ask since I don't know anything about cooking and my mother (^^°) is doing all the work. Hey, but I will see if I can get my mother to tell me the Christmas goose recipe!

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This year, it'll be raclette because we're just too many people with too different tastes in food.

The usual menu of stuffed turkey, potatoes, and red cabbage with red fruit jelly and vanilla sauce as dessert lost its appeal when I stopped eating meat.

I'm from Northern Germany, btw.

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NRW
Bei uns gibt es schon seit 40 Jahren immer das selbe an Heiligabend:

<Rindfleischsuppe mit selbstgemachten Nudeln, Eierstich und Markklößchen <Pastete aus Hackfleisch, Hühnerleber und Pilzen <Ragout fin < Pfirsiche mit Quarkhaube Merry Christmas :-))

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Today: Potato salad with filet tips.
Tomorrow: Beef olive with braised red cabbage and potato dumplings.
I'm from Vlotho, a town near Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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We had sausages and potato salad for lunch, tonight it's only cookies and canapes. Tomorrow: some sort of roast with dumplings and Spätzle. No idea about the 26th, but I've been promised ice cream for dessert :D

Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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I was in Stuttgart, Tübingen and Esslingen some weeks ago!!!
You live in a pretty beautiful place!

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I'll have dinner with my sister and her family. We have lot of things to eat: all kind of canapés, good ham and cheese, cured loin of pork, tons of seafood, smoked salmon, all kind of sweets, panetone...
And tomorrow we have lunch together, too: a seafood soup or cream and cut of beef filled with fruits. I bought a glühwein bottle to show this german great invention to my family...But it fell and broke! T_T
I'm from Madrid, Spain.

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Christmas Day mittag: Baked ham, mashed pots, feld salat mit meerrettisch und apfeln, and Grandmother's White Fruit Cake (a mix of American south - where I'm from - and German). We're in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Christmas morning: American cinnamon rolls and scrambled eggs with Tabasco! Best EVER!

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USA: Boston, Massachusetts. A traditional New England Christmas Dinner:
Roast Turkey with Giblet Gravy
Herbed Bread Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes
Butternut Squash
Green Beans in Casserole with French Fried Onions
Celery sticks
Cranberry sauce
Apple Cider
Coffee
Squash Pie
Fruits and Nuts and Cheeses and Mixed Olives and Pickles
Plus: my own additions -- a lemon cake, an orange cake, and a lemon meringue pie, plus a big dish of apple crisp. Vanilla ice cream and whipped cream as toppings for squash pie, apple crisp and cake.
Later in the evening when neighbors stop by for late dessert: sparkling cider from Martinetti's, served in flutes.
Christmas Eve: Salmon in yogurt and dill sauce, couscous, aparagus. No dessert (the tradition is to fast before the feast).

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this sounds so good :D

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I'm having:

Homemade lentil soup
Chicken, roast poatoes, sweetcorn, stuffing and gravy
Eves Pudding

Then I'm going to lounge on the couch with a bottle of wine :)

I'm from Scotland BTW!

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i am from florida, US:

roast chicken with new mexican green chiles and tomatillo salsa (sometimes known as salsa verde)
twice baked potatoes
green beans
corn
fresh tortillas

scottish shortbread, but the recipe is german

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Pennsylvania, US. We're having:

roasted goose
roasted apples stuffed with raisins and rum
red cabbage (with cranberry, orange, and apple)
potato dumplings
chestnuts glazed with honey and cream
kaesespaetzle(sp)

and cookies for dessert!

Frohe Wein

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Interesting, this is pretty much my family's traditional menu in (northern) Germany.

We make goose breasts (or a whole roast goose for a big dinner with extended family), potato dumplings, red cabbage with apples and cinnamon, chestnuts and baked apples. Dessert usually is walnut icecream with warm vanilla sauce.

Are you from Germany originally?

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I am not. However, my husband lived for several years in Germany (Erlangen, but traveled to northeastern Germany a lot) and brought many customs back with him. We celebrate a lot holidays with our German friends, and have fun blending the two country's customs.

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Raclette + Dornfelder wine

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Ich komm aus Thüringen und lebe jetzt in Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.

Heiligabend: Mittags: Kartoffelsalat mit Wiener Würstchen (meine Tradition aus Thüringen), abends: Hühner (dieser Jahr Hasen) frikasee mit Pasteten (die Tradition meines Mannes aus Baden-Württemberg)
1. Weihnachtsfeiertag: Entenkeule, Thüringer Klöße und Rotkraut (das ist immer so)
2. Weihnachtsfeiertag: Kalbsnierenbraten mit Blumenkohl und Broccoli, dazu Spätzle (der Tag ist frei und man kann kochen, was man mag)

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I live in Michigan, but I'll be in Hamburg by January 4th! I had lots of Filipino food with one family and potatoes, etc with my other family. There was ham, but I don't eat ham. I just don't have a lust for eating it anymore... I'm not sure why.

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Just came back from 11 glorious days in Berlin. Despite the freezing cold, the Christmas markets all over the city were in full blaze. Can't go wrong with a Schaumkuss and a Gluehwein! Or Gruenkohl and a Gluehwein. Or a Krakauer/Bratwurst and a Gluehwein ;)

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Australia

*cold sliced meats - turkey with cranberry, ham with tomato relish
*prawns
*various salads
*bread
*pavlova
*fruit cake
*plum pudding
*custard

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