[kansas13]

Well, for Christmas we usually go by my husbands families house and have the same old, same old: turkey with all the fixings.

My family on the other hand is Italian and in the Italian tradition Christmas Eve is more important. While the true Italian tradition is that you should only have fish on Christmas Eve, we veer away from that.

On Christmas Eve my great aunt takes us all out for dinner (usually between 15-20 of us). Our appitizers are all fish: clams (raw and baked), calamari, oster rockerfeller, shrimp (fresh and fried), and crab legs. Then we have salad followed by some kind of pasta. For the main course we usually have chicken, roast beef, green beans, and potatos. Then for dessert all the aunts and cousins bring in homemade Italian cookies (yummy!). To me our Christmas Eve dinner is bigger then our Thanksgiving dinner. By the end of the night we are all stuffed!!