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Main holidays that my family commemorates are Easter (lunch), Christmas (dinner, lunch), New Year (dinner, lunch). They usually include things like this:

• Meat: roasted ham, roasted chicken, or some barbecue
• Carb 1: rice pilaf, or a simple white rice. Got to have it because of my mum, otherwise she bugs us to no end.
• Carb 2: cornmeal or yucca meal farofa, usually filled with sausage bits. If we're roasting chicken it goes inside the chicken.
• Salad 1: potato-mayo salad, made with homemade mayo
• Salad 2: green leaves, white cheese, bacon bits, some dressing
• Desserts: fruits salad, gelatin, tiramisu, ice cream

For reference, I'm in the Southern Cone; that's why the desserts are biased towards colder stuff. (Christmas and New Year are hellish here.)

EDIT: aaaaaaand now I noticed that I'm a muppet and the question was about who or where, not what. My bad.

I usually commemorate those holidays either in my home or my sister's home, with the family and one or more friends. Making the meal is a big deal for us, and even the cats get parts of it (Kika gets shredded chicken breast, Siegfrieda gets some of the yoghurt of the salad dressing.) Usually around 8 people.