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Family Holiday Traditions - What are yours? (lemmy.world)

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Hearing about other people's traditions is often interesting. When my wife and I got married we decided to start a Christmas Eve tradition where we'd pick a country and plan out a dinner consisting of items from it. We're making sure we've got the necessary ingredients for this year's meal and it brought to mind how comforting and fun family traditions can be.

So what does your family do this time of year (or any time of the year) that you look forward to and helps make the holiday feel like the holiday for you?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

We (my family) mostly stick to the local traditions. Both Christmas and New Year's Eve dinners got to have a potato-mayo salad, a fancier salad with dressing, some rice, another carb, one or two meats. Ah, and my fake tiramisù, folks love it. Drinks are generally beer or wine for the dinner, beer or sangria for the lunch (summer heat restricts it a bit), with either non-alcoholic cider or soda for my nephew.

I often prepare newer-ish dishes but always filling that template that I mentioned above. Moroccan couscous, for example. Never restricted by cuisine because that gets messy. This year I'm going to tweak Ur's palace cake to serve it as dessert alongside the tiramisù, my sister loves those cheese-based sweets.

New Year's Eve got to have sparkling wine. And rice with raisins for the folks here.

Typically we share gifts but we won't do it this Christmas, because we gifted ourselves with a family weekend in a city 600km from here.