Every year on Christmas we make fried bread dough dipped in cinnamon and sugar, cook bacon or sausage, and have fresh fruit with sorbet. It's been that way for at least 7 or 8 years and yesterday was no different. Delicious!

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My wife and I always have lox and bagels. Om noms.

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It's all about the Yorkshire Pudding! A bread dish made with the drippings of the roast. It is not Christmas without it in my family.

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Our Christmas tradition is chile relleno casserole, a recipe handed down from my husband's grandmother. White bread, sharp cheddar, mild chiles and eggs all baked together. Yum.

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I've had them and here's a link for a gift set w/pan. They're like little round donuts and not quite as fluffy as Bienet's. (sp?). Anyway, here's the link to the wonderful world of Solvang
http://www.solvangrestaurant.com/giftboxes.html

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our tradition is to eat the leftovers from the 7 fishes dinner the night before for breakfast on christmas morning...that means reheated fried calamari, smelts, dough with anchovies, shrimp, codballs, and tums.

lots of tums.

does anyone remember what chocolate covered frozen bananas used to be called? they had a specific name and i cant remember or find it anywhere.

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I'm not sure if you're near one - But Williams - Sonoma has the pans on sale right now!! :D they're wonderful and can be used with any pancake recipe

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From my mom and her family, Christmas breakfast is old fashioned red beef hotdogs. They could only afford to plan on them once a year. The thought of my mom and her 2 sisters, my grandfather and grandmother sitting at a breakfast table eating red dogs out of the bun is of my greatest dreams. Right up there with my dad, mom, brother and I doing exactly the same thing. Sometimes the simplest things mean the most.

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We usually have a dish called "garlic pork", where the pork is cut and soaked in a mixture of vinegar, thyme, piri piri peppers etc for a few days and then fried on Christmas morning. This is a dish originating from portugal.

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Bloody Marys and eggs benedict.

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Breakfast caasserole (eggs, ham, cheese green pepper, mushrooms, etc) english muffins, bacon.

Oh yeah, Coffee and Bailey's

On a side note, my Mother in Law always makes something for the Dad in Law called Revel Cake. Looks like the driest, throat clogging thing I've ever seen. But he loves it. To each his own.

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Always always cinnamon rolls. And until this year it's been the Pillsbury Grand's kind... But in an effort to at least try and negate the trans-fats involved, I made my own this year. Success! They were even more delicious than those sumptuous, gooey, straight-from-the-can pastries we'd grown accustomed to. A new tradition is born!

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My mother always but always made brioche for Christmas morning, even in the throes of chemo.

In later years the traditional Christmas dinner cheese souffle became a breakfast dish as well, usually served with ham.

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For my family, it has always been pancakes with diced apples and bacon mixed into the batter. After opening presents in the morning, we have this simple and delicious breakfast treat. So easy, but such a good little tradition to have.

Justin Roepel
http://justinroepel.wordpress.com/

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It's all about the food... oysters, fried shrimp, and crab legs on Christmas Eve. Crepes w/ strawberries, eggs, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns, on Christmas morning. Ham, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and this is where it gets a little non traditional... spaghetti, meatballs, Italian sausage, Italian bread, toss green salad, for Christmas dinner. Cherry pie for dessert. It took my German husbad a while to get used to.

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For the last several years, my wife has made the sinfully delicious brioche sticky rolls from the cookbook "In Julia's Kitchen With Master Chefs."

Since her family is so far away, we always spend Christmas with mine - and these are a part of the Christmas tradition that everybody looks forward to!

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