This year I was in the states and it was just my mom, sister and I as my father passed away two years ago and my sister and I have not married or had children yet. It was pretty low key but keeping in tradition we did not have meat on Christmas Eve. Normally we would celebrate with the feast of seven fishes but with just three of us seven fishes would be overly gluttonous! Instead we had a chilled shrimp starter enjoyed with glasses of champagne. For our next course we enjoyed steamed clams in a lovely shallot, garlic and white wine broth served with crusty Italian bread to soak up the broth. Our main was fantastic steamed Maine lobster served with drawn butter and lemon with a side salad. For dessert we had beautiful chocolate and hazelnut tarts. It was very low key. All the presents were wrapped and the three of us just got to spend a lovely day together.