... because my family seems to think that they must serve all the tasty food at just three days a year.
It started at the 24th in the evening. My Grandma made plaice in onion sauce, a special bavarian potato salad, field salad with walnuts and baguette. Later there was tea with rum, chocolates and, of course, a lot of plätzchen.
On the 25th we "celebrated" our christmas-raclette and the table was full of buffalo-mozzarella, raclette-cheese, fillets from beef, pork and chicken, fresh and pickled vegetables,honey-ham, sauces and bread. In the afternoon there was feuerzangenbowle, mustard eggs, "sandwiches" (there's simply no english word für "belegte Brote"...) with smoked meat at my dad's family.
Today we ate yesterdays leftovers for brunch, had tea and coffee, of course again with rum and plätzchen, with my moms family. The day ended with a big supper where we had different kinds of bread, a lot of smoked trout and salmon, a very delicious alpine cheese, salads, smoked meat, creamed horseradish and fresh vegetables. Now I'm not sure I can ever eat again....

....and yes, dragonfly_el, I'm typing all this just for you and your never ending hunger ;)