Kauno/Lithuania

On Christmas Eve all dishes are strictly meatless: Kūčiukai (small Christmas Eve cookies), mushroom-filled dumplings, herring and other fish, boiled potatoes, poppy seed milk, cranberry pudding

               İstanbul/ Turkey

Table design is very important for us (at home or outside). We pay close attention to the concept. Appropriate plates and napkins are used. Usually turkey or chicken is cooked. We have a special stuffed rice and the turkeys are filled with this chestnut stuffed rice. We definitely have olive oil appetizers. We prepare cheese plates and most importantly we make cookies. In the past, it was not so important, but now the new generation really pays attention to this visual feast.

                     Beli Manastir / Croatia

There are small differences by regions whose roots we find in tradition.Christmas Eve is most often celebrated with fasting meals, fish dishes and various salads. It is not an exaggeration, because the next day, on Christmas Day, a rich table awaits us, where you will usually find more sequences of dishes, with the inevitable baking and many types of fine cakes.

                        Adana/ Turkey

Just days before the New Year, preparations for the New Year's menu started. Many people want to put a Christmas turkey on the table for New Year's Eve.

Marcela Urs

Colegiul Tehnic 'Traian Vuia' Oradea

Oradea/Romanya

During Christmas, Romanians bake various special dishes, including desserts and sweets. Romanians most usually bake Cozonac(spongecake), made of flour, yolks, yeast and many other ingredients, flavors, condiments and additions. There are several types of spongecakes, with hundreds of recipes. You can either knead it for hours to be ready in 6 hours, or you can let it rise for 12 hours to avoid kneading it. You can fill the sponge cake with walnuts, cocoa, raisins, Turkish delight and in Transylvania: poppy seed paste (cozonac cu mac). Plates of small pastries and cakes are prepared in advance to serve to carollers when they call.

Our Christmas dish is turkey stuffed with minced meat, rise, raisins, pine nuts and chestnut. The traditional Christmas sweets are melomakarona (baked with honey sirup and nuts) and kourambiedes (With almonds inside and powder sugar outside). There is no Christmas If all the houses and homes don't bake melomakarona and kourambiedes. And it is always a battle between people what is better. The Quesyion is melomakarona or kourabiedes?

Gül Güleç

Seyhan İsmet İnönü Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi 

Adana/Turkey

The most important thing for us is to be together and make chestnuts at night. For dinner, traditionally baked turkey, salads and appetizers are made. Sweet is an indispensable food. But the main hero of the day is the warm chestnut ...