One more day after this ladies and gents! Not really a question per se, but you get the gist. 
Describe your perfect holiday dinner...
Mine would go as follows...
Appetizers:
Relish tray with my grandma's special dip...i'm not sure what's in it other than cottage cheese, but it's delish!
Those big pickles with the cream cheese and dried beef on the outside. (am i the only one who eats these or knows what they are?)
Deviled eggs
Main Course:
Baked Ham with pineapple
Deep Fried Turkey (i've only had this once but it's awesome!)
Corn casserole
Sweet potato casserole
Homemade mac & cheese
Green Beans & bacon
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Cranberry jelly
Crescent rolls
Broccoli salad
Dessert:
Chocolate crinkles
Pumpkin roll
Puppy Chow
Larry's cupcakes (these are awesome cupcakes from my fav bakery back home)
Any kind of pie...but rhubarb
And last but not least...I'd love to have all my family and friends, sugars included of course, sitting around a big table laughing and having a ball feasting on the delicious meal in front of us. I can imagine us all sitting in a living room with a big fireplace, listening to some Bing Crosby, playing scrabble, chinese checkers, and other board games when the meal is all through. Lovely!
Dress for Less
Alrighty, mines short mainly because it doesn't take much to make me happy.
I want ham, mashed taters, milk, and for dessert some special k bars. ((The good kind.))
1It doesn't make much to make me happy either Laura...i'm just gluttonous.
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2My wife puts out a spread to die for every Christmas Eve. We have 20 to 30 folks over every year. Dolmades, Tiropitas, Spanakopita, taramasalata, about 6 different kinds of cheeses, black and green olives, a couple of different kinds of salami, 3 or 4 different kinds of crackers, strips of pimento, anchovies, stuffed mushrooms, lumpia, a plate of shrimp to feed an army, with home made cocktail sauce (ketchup, lemon juice, and horse radish). Generally two different white and two different red wines, and of course Meade, beer for the peasants (my daughters friends LOL. Dinner is turkey and ham, stuffing, potatoes, a couple of green vegetables, and either a Greek, spinach or caeser salad. Dessert is apple and pumpkin pies, baklava, and various chocolates. It is something folks look forward to every year. Then the family, and those friends who are catholic, go to midnight mass. Christmas days we eat leftovers (poor us LOL)
3My perfect Holiday dinner is with my family. I don't care what we eat, as long as we eat it together.
4Usually we are away in South Carolina for the holiday and its whatever restaurant is open. But this year it will be up here and with friends so I am having a big Italian Christmas. For me a perfect holiday meal would be turkey, deglazed gravy, herb stuffing, mashed potatoes, carribean sweet potato pie, corn, baby peas, boozed up cranberry sauce, fresh made rolls and for dessert cookies and cake served with champagne. Most important a lot of people making a lot of joyous noise.
Now a typical NY Jewish Christmas day means a movie and chinese food.
Gramps does your wife make loukamdes (not sure if I got the spelling right)
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Loukamades, yes but more often finikia, also koulouria, or almond cookies. My wife has already started on her assortment of various frosted Christmas decorated cookies. My granddaughters love helping her. My favorite Christmas movie is "A Christmas Story", I watch it every year. Your mentioning "Chinese food" reminded me of how it ends. How do you know you are in a Jewish neighborhood? They have decent Chinese Restaurants.
6So true!!!!!!
71 order of greek food to go please. Extra cookies please.
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All of your dinners sound awesome, though to be honest I don't even know half of the foods Grandpa wrote. I thouroughly enjoy the thoughtfulness and sentiment that each of you have expressed. Good eating and good friends and family. Does it get any better?
8What is carribean sweet potato pie??
I wish my Christmas dinner this year would be at my mom's house!
But its here and I have to cook it, so I will be making turkey, sweet potato casserole, glazed carrots, stuffing and probably red velvet cake!
Hope my hhubby is hungry since its just the two of us!
9hausfrau if you lived near us, you would be invited to our house. Christmas is to be shared. You have any similarly situated friends, that you can get together with, share the meal preparation.
10Cooked SP, peeled & mashed up with crushed pineapple (depending on how many potatos 1/2 - full can), and some (or all) of the juice from the can. Add brown sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon & sometimes I add allspice. Sometimes instead of the brown sugar I use grade b maple syrup (better for baking then A). You can top it with butter and brown sugar as well. I just bake it in an 8" greased square glass baking dish (no crust). Bake at 350 until hot.
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Grandpa! That spread sounds amazing! I'm coming over
I'm Cuban/Colombian so my ideal spread goes hand-in-hand with spending my Christmas with my big fat Cuban family:
Pernil (roast pork), white rice, yuca con mojo, platanos fritos (plaintains), and flan.
The three non-Cuban things I'd add to the list:
12Hawaiian sweet rolls
Brownies
And my grandmother-in-law's sausage balls
Chanc, do you make pasteles or is that just Puerto Rican?
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Fried turkey!
(anyone notice a trend)
and my grandma's rice dressing.
Those two alone would make me one happy lady!
14A Big tray O Cheese and Crackers and Deli Meats
Smoked Salmon Quiche Bites.
Relish Tray, Pickled Okra, Cheese and Garlic stuffed olives
Sweet and Sour Red Cabbage, Big old Spiral Brown Sugar Ham with Ham Gravy, Mashed Red Potatoes with Skin left on mixed with fresh herbs, Pearl Onions in White sauce, Creamed Spinach, Roasted Veggies (brussel sprouts, carrots, onions, peppers)
Krumkake, almond Cookies, Moms Apple Pie
Coffee. Dunkin Donuts brand.
15I have no friends here yet Grandpa! Thats ok though, it will be nice to just have some good QT with my hubby!
Sam - That sounds awesome, I'll have to try that sometime!!
16We have a big roast on Christmas Day - so yummy. With my mom's cajun potatoes - basically scalloped potatoes but much spicer. My favorite part has always been dessert - we have grasshopper pie. Makes it feel like Christmas to me when we have that.
17I knew I forgot something...stuffing!
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18I would trade all of the usual holiday fare for one big ole tray of sushi. Preferably eel with cucumber and cream cheese and a little spicy tuna thrown in for some pizazz.
19piper, if i was to have a last meal, it would probably be sushi, but not on Christmas, Easter, or Thanksgiving. On those days I want traditional. Oh BTW, the best freshest, cheapest (though never cheap)sushi is found on the west coast, from Seattle south.
20I am all about the traditional too. BUT if I had a choice in the matter, I would go with sushi. I don't even know if I've ever had good sushi because my choices here are so limited. But what I have had, I like. I'll have to check out west coast sushi one day. Skipping San Fran though, for personal reasons.
21There is a sushi place about 20 or so minutes from me, where you sit at a table, and the sushi comes by on plates, the plates are color coded as to price. It is a conveyor belt that circles the restaurant. That's the place for variety. You watch the sushi makers in the center making dishes. They put the sushi on the belt at various points, so everyone has a chance to be first and also last.
22Sounds like sushi heaven! A conveyer belt of sushi literally at my fingertips... wow. South Carolina isn't really known for its sushi. I once was served by a "sushi chef" wearing a nascar shirt.
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24Served with grits too, I bet
25Of course! Now our grits are something to behold. No conveyer belt needed. Maybe some heartburn medication would be nice to have on hand though. Specially for the newbies.
26never gave me heartburn, looked forward to grits with my meal, while i was camping in the Great Smokey's.
27I used to go to a local sushi place regularly untill the sushi chef started making lewd sexual comments to me.....which would have been okay if they were followed up by "and here is a complimentary spicy tuna roll" afterwords, but no joy, so i stopped going there.
28EEEEW dirty fish guy!
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I love grits but y'all will laugh or go eeeew when I tell you not with butter (which i think makes them greasy) but with maple syrup.
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What a selfish sushi chef. I mean the least he could do is give you a little something-something while he gawked. Typical. Of sushi chefs.
31sam thats not EW at all! I do the same!
BUT i am also a ketchup on eggs gal. sooo
32YEAH! because they always look at me when i ask for it and pour it on and stir. I was beginning to think I was the only one and I taught hubby to eat them that way.
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I went to WVA on a ski trip and that's how they served my grits. I was seriously like - what the hell! I thought it was a joke, but no, that's how some freaks, oops, I mean people, eat their grits.
34Cart pleeeeease go back to the doll from the land of lost toys. BO in clown make up is too creepy for the holiday. I hope our votes helped hubby.
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CAT not Cart - sorry
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Kiss My Grits!
I miss that show
37For you sam!
38Me too CG! mmmmm.... but only scrambled eggs.
As for grits, i don't know if i like them or not...but my bf LOVES them. He was in the Army way back when
and developed a food crush on grits. I think it's funny because he was raised on the west coast, in the middle of LA and I'm a total country girl who should've
grown up on grits but didn't. 
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39whatever happened to flo?
Piper how DO YOU eat your grits?
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whoa, my comment was waaaay behind.
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41I miss that show too...
42With lots of butter and sometimes lots of cheese. I don't like soupy grits. They have to be thick. Like Mama makes them.
43My mom used to make the best cheesy grits.
Our holiday dinner with Pat's family is prime rib, garlic mashed potatos, sweet and sour green beans, dinner rolls.
With my family we have turkey, ham, stuffing, mashed potatos, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole, 7-up salad, rolls.
44CaterpillarGirl, I gather you went to that sushi place with out your hubby. I would love to see the guy flirt with you with him next to you.
45Definitely NOT soupy. Never had them with cheese. Any particular type?
Brooke no grits as a country kid? Call child services!
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One sushi guy roll with side of pickles.
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Lets see according to IMDB "Flo" or Polly Holiday is still alive, She was in Gremlins (old lady who gets it on the stairs) SHe was in Mrs Doubtfire and a bunch of other TV shows as an old lady or so.
Do you realize that Alice was on for NINE SEASONS. holy crap.
48I think that typed dirtier then I meant it to be
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7......up......SALAD? what in tarnation is that?
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