Probably the most popular Christmas dishes in given European countries.

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  1. > bacalhau com couve

    Please follow a recipe that doesn’t include ‘make it look like shit’ next time, ty

  2. I know people who eat that fish soup (even in my extended family), but in my immediate family our traditional meal is fried fish with creamless, vinegar-only potato salad, and “mákos guba” for dessert.

  3. The UK one is funny.

    I don’t particularly like turkey and it’s hardly eaten at any other time of the year, but it’s been ‘traditional’ for a fairly long time – as I understand it was an ‘aspirational’ food in the Victorian era and the idea kind of spread. Other than that it’s basically a roast dinner with a few add-ons like pigs in blankets (small sausages wrapped in bacon) and the like.

    I had goose last year which was fun and tasty but incredibly messy to cook, had fat basically spraying all over the kitchen. This year I’m doing slow roasted mutton leg which isn’t christmassy at all but it’s my favourite roast

  4. Wow, that fish soup looks nice – this type of soup I would eat without any problem, unfortunately the Christmas soup is really different…

  5. In Romania Sarmale is more of a Christmas food . Pomana Porcului is something you eat after you kill the pig and that in winter happens on an ocassion called Ignat.

  6. Cod fish in Croatia is Christmas eve food, and only in part of it, smaller part, so big miss.

    I’d go with purica s mlincima, or turkey with specific homemade pasta…

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