What is your traditional Christmas meal?

We usually center ours around a roast: beef, goose, lamb or turkey. Sometimes Christmas duplicates Thanksgiving, but often it goes astray. It’s not so traditional. We have more friends, since many of our friends are Jewish and are not available on Thanksgiving, but have no family obligations on Christmas. Other friends don’t have much family around.

For sides, well, whatever. It changes. Nothing traditional except creamed onions.

For dessert, maybe mince pie, or maybe a special apple tart or something else. I usually go all out and make a really complicated dessert that I never should make because it takes too much work and never comes out as well as I think it should.