Every year, Tim McGraw taps into his Italian heritage for an extended family Christmas Eve celebration. It includes his elaborate preparation of one of his family’s most anticipated meals every holiday season.

“Every Christmas, our Christmas Eve dinner is homemade spaghetti and meatballs. It takes me about three days to prepare it and make it, and I let it slow cook for a long time. And the girls, they’re just always excited when that time rolls around, and it happens once a year. Our whole family comes over, my family and Faith’s family, and we have a big ol’ Christmas Eve, sort of a noon meal, so everybody gets time to get home and take care of Christmas. But that’s always special, and that’s probably one of the dishes that everybody always looks forward to.”

What is a tradition that you and your family only do around Christmas each year?

By: Buck Stevens