Dec 24 (Christmas dinner in our house) I make one of the dishes my husband grew up with since his family celebrates Christmas. It’s called picadillo, and it’s ground pork, a light tomato based sauce, onion, a touch of garlic, salt, green olives, raisins, and chicken thighs and small cubes of ham. I like it with white rice, they eat it with French rolls, sometimes soft tortillas. I also will serve a seafood soup to start. It will likely be just my husband and me.
The week before we are doing Christmas/MIL birthday with my in-laws so if they serve the Christmas foods I might change my Dec 24 menu to honey baked ham, green bean casserole and new potatoes. Really, whatever my husband wants me to make, it’s not my holiday, he has the memories of the day, not me. I’m just craving the honey baked since we didn’t have it for Thanksgiving this year.
The 25th I plan on having Jewish Chinese for a late lunch.