I don't rememebr holiday meals...it was always so different and different foods i grew up eating mostly italian and vietnamese cooking so was very different at times looking in from the outside...i know for one thing we always had food leftover for weeks and would send food home with people. personally i make a lot of rum cakes around the winter season and let them soak and sit for 2-3months than they are ready by christmastime.
i think it should be all about different kinds of deserts...but than again i went to culinary school so yeah i love food but desserts my specialty!
one thing i don't like though is when people make the same recipe every holiday i like to try new things and mix it up...but that's just me.