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It's filled with traditions! It's mostly family time, in some cases many generations, uncles and gran aunts etc. This year I go to my parents and I even take my chosen daughter with me (she's only 18 and doesn't want to visit he biological parents). My sister arrived yesterday already. Just adults nowadays, my other sister is staying at home with her family.

At noon the Christmas Peace was declared. It used to happen everywhere in the history - nowadays it's in one city only, I've seen it there live twice, but it's also shown in TV and radio. My goal is to not need to leave the house after that, except for going for the finner.

Usually I have rice pudding and plum kissel for lunch, maybe some gravlax sandwiches as well. (Today I fell asleep again and don't have time to cook the pudding.)
Christmas Eve dinner is quite a thing. Pork ham is the king in 75% of the families here. In our family not too big - I'd guess my parents only bought some 3kg ham this year. And mustard, even sauce today go with it.
We have potato, carrot and rutabaga casseroles that are very old tradition, from the time when the country was poor. They are rather sweet. Easy to do at home, but the store bought ones are good too and if you cook them yourself you end up with quite a lot...
Rosolli is a traditional salad made with cooked beetroot, herring etc, and served with whipped cream. Not my favourite, but brings nice colour to the table. @Cogan would recognise this I believe... The name is a bit different in Swedish, but I think the dish exists in Sweden too.
Maybe some liver pate. Fish. Roe, gravlax, cold-smoked salmon, maybe smoked fish, pickled herrings... But we save hot fish dishes for another day in my family.
Some families skip the fish. Some have other meat dishes as well - my late husband wanted meatballs, and some years I've made cheese myself.
Served with rye bread, the kind they do in the archipelago is popular. I make mine myself to get gluten free. I just tried a new recipe and tasted one bit yesterday, it's better than I expected!

And then some baked goodies for dessert, with coffee. The dessert part is less filled with traditions, and they also vary more from year to year and family to fsmily. My personal tradition is a yoghurt-lemon-cake. There is a certain kind puff pastry that is traditional, looks like a star with a jam heart (plum, or apple, usually). Gingerbread, you just can't avoid it 😁 If I have energy, I may try something completely nee. Many people do gingerbread houses, I am planning on a chocolate house this year!

We usually exchange gifts after dessert. After that people tend to switch to something comfy, or at least have woollen socks (maybe brand new ones?), some start reading what they just got. Have some glƶgi (may be mulled wine or non-alcoholic version) and maybe some blue cheese on a ginger bread at some point.

There was a time I used to sing carols with my sister while preparing the dinner, but now I am to hoarse to be able.
Yes, I know what that is. It's called Sillsallad here in Sweden. And I agree. There are more tasteful herrings. The rest is also quite the same here but without the casseroles. We have a red cabbage salad with oranges, apples and roasted hazelnuts instead. I love your root vegetable casseroles. They are very tasty!
 
Well, see, adventure is fun and fun is a sin, as is treating an animal as anything but an animal, and the only acceptable submission is to God. So…

ā€œI’m thankful for my new friends whom I occasionally take a new person to the movies with.ā€

Shit. Going to the movies is ā€œfunā€ too. Back to the drawing board…
Good luck.

Jesus is cool. But some of his followers...not so much.
 
Yes, I know what that is. It's called Sillsallad here in Sweden. And I agree. There are more tasteful herrings. The rest is also quite the same here but without the casseroles. We have a red cabbage salad with oranges, apples and roasted hazelnuts instead. I love your root vegetable casseroles. They are very tasty!
We are a long way from the ocean here. Some freshwater fish are seved as snacks (lots of people hone smoke salmon and trout), but the only other seafood that is really common is shrimp, usually served cold in a shrimp ring.

Turkey is king tomorrow. I smoked a turkey breast while the weather was still good.
 
Merry Christmas Eve & Day Chaos:
Today will be very busy for me, and I'll try to be here when I can. I'm not as important as the rest of you are, and I understand that. I haven't been on this thread that long. I love everyone here and I wish the Merriest of Merries. See you when I can. ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤ Stay warm!!!
 
Alright, first small leg completed.
Next, a six hour flight in 3 hours.
A three hour layover,
And a final 15 hour flight home.
Oof. Dah. This wolf is going to be exhausted.
Wolfy, please be safe and get what rest you can, because NEBS won't let you sleep when you get home!!!
Oh, and Merry Christmas!
 
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