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If you're cooking for Christmas, what's your menu? If you're not, what will you be having?
My FI is having jaw surgery dec. 20th so it'll be soft foods and ensure :)
We typically do Christmas Eve at DH's grandparents, and Christmas morning/breakfast at his parents. I think this year, since it is our first married Christmas, I might cook something that night just for the two of us! I am not sure what to make. We both love food and I cook a lot of variety at home, so nothing is very "special." Hmmm.....
My family doesn't do Christmas dinner. My mom always makes a good breakfast and then we just snack all day.
Breakfast menu:
breakfast bake (sausage/egg/cheese casserole thing)
hanky pankies (sausage/cheese on broiled mini pumpernickle toast)
orange rolls
champagne cocktails with pear nectar and pom juice
Then usually my mom will just have stuff for sandwiches, veggies, etc and we just snack whenever throughout the day.
I am having a Christmas party next week where we will be having appies and lots of baking.
For xmas day, we go to my family's house for Christmas dinner which is a very traditional English Christmas dinner. In the morning, FI and I make pancakes, sausage and bacon.
We're starting with a salad then I'm cooking ham with a brown sugar glaze, green beans, and potatoes. For desert, I'm making red velvet cheesecake. It's just me and my SO this year, so I'm trying not to do too much.
We had our first Christmas with just the two of us last year, and we made Shepherd's Pie together, and decided that would be our tradition. This year we are hosting both of our moms and his sister at our new apartment, and trying to decide what side dishes to pair with Shepherd's Pie :)
At my BIL's house we have steak (usually prime rib, sometimes flank) and potatoes on Christmas Eve. For Christmas day, we do a Thanksgiving dinner redux...turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, pie, rolls, etc.
@sarahbabs: You have all the sudden made me crave Shepard's Pie like crazy. I think I need to make one for dinner!
Normally my mom makes ham, scalloped potatoes, broccoli casserole, deviled eggs, and a bunch of snacks! But I won’t be getting to see my mom this year so we are going to my SO parents. They make breakfast. We are going to have homemade donuts, eggs, sausage, bacon, and fruit.
My parents invited us over for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so they'll be doing most of the cooking. I'll probably bring some delicious Mac'n'Cheese and some Ranch and Pickle Devilled eggs for Christmas Eve dinner. Mmm, delicious.
For Christmas eve we go to my cousin's house for my favorite meal of the year, The 7 fishes! :) I can't wait! Then for Christmas day we go to my in law's for a pancake breakfast . Then we all go to my dads for apps and back to my in law's for dinner. This year I'm helping my MIL make cornish game hens. YUM!
African chicken curry and rice. :D We do the ham and all that kind of stuff for Thanksgivng so we have our other favorite meal. My grandparents were teachers/missionaries in Liberia, West Africa for almost 10 years when my mom was younger and it is a meal they brought back with them that we all love. But it has to have the right toppings, one must have boiled eggs, peanuts, and bananas on top then cover with curry sauce.
Im making yams, potato salad, and greens. My mother gave me her recipes and I hope I do her justice :-). My fiance will be making chicken, meatballs, and mac & cheese. I can't wait!!
I make brunch and dinner.
Brunch: eggs, bacon, sausage, 7-up pancakes, buscuits and gravy, melon and grapefruit.
Dinner: Prime rib, twice baked potatoes, asparagus and rolls.
There is always all kinds of desserts, cookies, and appetizers around all day for munching.
Breakfast: ham and hash brown casserole, blueberry pecan french toast, and a variety of juices.
Lunch after church: Apple baked ham with pineapple, cranberry russian chicken, twice baked cheddar and broccoli stuffed potatoes, butternut squash, grean bean medley, corn, crescent rolls, cream puffs, fudge, Christmas cookies, and a Happy Birthday Jesus cake.
When I was little, my Grams would make pigs in a blanket and this egg/sausage/cheese casserole for brunch. That's my strongest memory of Christmas when I was young, smelling the casserole and sneaking the pigs in a blanket before brunch was served when Grams was turned away.
My Aunt does a snack/buffet meal on Christmas Eve night. Then my Grandmother does a sit-down prime rib dinner on Christmas Day.
I will be cooking lasagna and meat (sausage, stuffed steak rolls *braciole*, and meatballs) for the two of us.
ETA: I'm working Christmas Eve so I'll be home at 7:30 Christmas morning. FI would be responsible for breakfast if we were to do so.
Turkey, turkey, turkey! :)
We have turkey dinner with my MIL on Christmas Eve after church, then again twice on Christmas Day with FIL and my big crazy family. So much eating! But totally worth it...
DH and I will be in Vanuatu (a south Pacific island, just near Fiji) for Christmas so I guess our Christmas dinner will be dependent on where we go to eat! Probably something French though as Vanuatu has a heavy French influence.... yummy!
We'll be doing a lunch so I am either going to make a tune casserole or maybe some lemon chicken and veggies (im eating healthy:) )
This year I don't think I'm going to be cooking a feast like I did last year! I'm going to make a cheese and vegetable platter and probably get chinese take-out. I'm not feeling up to it, being pregnant and all...I'm going to want to take a nap!
@artbee: I'm a really bad Jew and an atheist (the two aren't mutually exclusive). I love Christmas dinner (and from my menu very obviously don't keep kosher).
We're definitely having a turkey and a ham joint for the main course with stuffing, sausages wrapped in bacon, carrots with honey and cumin, stir-fried cabbage with chestnuts and pancetta and my infamous roast potatoes.
I'm thinking of having either scallops with black pudding and cauliflower puree or pigeon, beetroot and walnut salad.
Then for pudding I'm making a Christmas pudding ice cream bombe.
I'm coming here for inspiration.
It's DH's and my first "married" Christmas and my sister will be visiting.
I'm going to defer to her on what she wants, but I'm thinking either turkey with stuffing, mash, gravy and Brussels sprouts OR roast beef with roast potatoes and veg.
Tamales!!!! We make them every year and DH goes cookoo for them!
We usually do that with a salvadorean style turkey. It really depends tho.
We will have the usual turkey , mashed potatoes, stuffing, veggies at his mom's place afterwards.
edit: his mom is croation so she will make cabbage rolls too... so excited!!!
@Caizn: Its so yummy, right? What side dishes do you think would work with it?
@KatNYC2011: I was going to do a very slow roast rib of beef until we got a Groupon-style deal on the turkey from a reputable butcher. Instead we're planning to do beef and probably pommes dauphinoise for Hogmanay (with vast quantities of mulled wine).
I'm not a fan of sprouts (although my mum adores them) so I'm avoiding them this year. It's our first Christmas together alone.
Two years ago I did a four bird roast (a goose stuffed with a chicken, stuffed with a duck, stuffed with a partridge) and the fat from the goose overflowed in the oven and almost deep-fried my feet! I was trying to show off to the in-laws but they just thought I was totally up myself.
@SpecialSundae: I am cracking up at the image of almost deep frying your feet!
I love sprouts (as does my DH and sister) especially when cooked with shallots and bacon... YUM!
I already cooked a turkey for American Thanksgiving in November but if that's what my sister really wants, then I will cook it again for her. I want her to feel happy and at home over Christmas since she's flying all the way from California to London to visit me!
@SpecialSundae: I think those crispy skinned with really soft middle potatoes are definitely a British thing. I've made them a few times here and LOVED them. I still need to try cooking them in duck fat as I've heard that makes them even better than olive oil.
When in the states, the roast potatoes I'd have would always been cooked underneath the roast. So you'd put the roast on a rack and let the potatoes and veg "roast" in the juices that dripped down.
@KatNYC2011: Definitely! It's lovely that she's visiting.
@KatNYC2011: I think I'm getting closer to the perfect roast potatoes. Last time I did them for dinner they were so crisp that they audibly cracked when we bit into them!
@SpecialSundae: The secret that's worked for me has been to cook them in a pyrex (glass) roasting dish rather than a metal pan.
That way they don't burn on the outside but just get really crisp and browned. When I cooked them on a metal cookie sheet instead of the pyrex dish the completely burned.
Also, I make sure to get the oil really really hot in the oven before adding the potatoes and I par-boil the potatoes first and then "rough up" the edges before dropping into the hot oil roasting pan.
I usually add a bit of pre-chopped garlic as well.
@KatNYC2011: I use a heavy roasting tin. Pop it in the oven with a few tablespoons of goose fat and 6-8 whole cloves of garlic for about 5-10 minutes at 200C. Then I throw in raw potatoes (which is a cheat, but it seems to work for me most of the time, when I can be bothered I do par-boil them but mostly I don't). I give them about 55-60 minutes with a few wee shoogles.
Usually it ends really well.
At my parents house, the standard Easter/Thanksgiving/Christmas meal is: turkey, stuffing, broccoli, cauliflower, corn, potatoes, carrots, dinner rolls, gravy, cranberry sauce, and maybe something extra since my brother doesn't eat meat and he sometimes makes a rice (or something) dish just for him. Oh, and there is always Smarties ice cream for dessert. :)
@SpecialSundae: I'm definitely going to try soon with duck or goose fat. The par-boiling REALLY helps the center become super soft. My oven takes FOREVER to heat up, so I can usually par boil the potatoes in the time it takes the onion and the fat to heat up. I will have to try adding cloves.
PS I LOVE the term "wee shoogles".
@KatNYC2011: Cloves of garlic (the little sub-partitions of the bulb)... Not sure what cloves would taste like!
I think par-boiling does help, but I'm lazy a lot of the time!
@SpecialSundae: Oh jeeze... yeah. Cloves of garlic. Ugh, this head cold has REALLY gone to my head.
Cloves would be... well... interesting.
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