Christmas Dinner

[washerboy]

What's everyone cooking up for Christmas dinner? Actually I have a motive for asking the question..I'm going to fix the traditional turkey and dressing and I have a new receipe for green beans casserole (hot and spicy) but beyond that I'm at a loss; I'd like to do something a little different. I always make homemade mac and cheese and homemade dumplings, deviled eggs, black eye pea salad, creamed sweet potatos and cranberry sauce..usually a cake and a chcolate burbon nut pie.I'd like to get away from that this year..my partner is from the southwest and he always makes fun of me for making mac and cheese and dumplings...of course everytime his elbow bends his mouth opens and in goes a forkful of one or the other...LOL!! it's all in good fun. But on a serious note..what are you cooking??

 

[franksdad]

I'm doing

a rib roast, potatoes which are boiled for about 5 minutes, the skins removed, then scraped with  fork tines to make them krinkled.  Next you add the potatoes to the bottom of the pan you are roasting the rib roast in (right there in the juices and salt!) during the last hour of roasting.  I'm also doing homemade yeast rolls, two pecan pies, and a red velvet cake.  My wife is making her delicious asparagus bake.  We will eat about 04:00 pm EST.  Since it is just my wife and me, after the kitchen is cleaned up we will go visiting friends and relatives and taking them some pie and cake.  I hope you and yours have a very Merry Christmas!  Jim   

 

[whirlcool]

We are starting the morning off with Christmas Pudding (imported from London) and a few glasses of port wine. Then we will have a few friends arrive and go from there.

Then we are doing a standing rib roast with glazed carrots and roasted potatoes. this weekend we will make our annual Christmas Stollen and have that with the dinner. This year I think I'll krinkle them as Franksdad said he does his. We've never done that before but it sounds good.

Desert will be just our standard deep dish pumpkin pie.

Then the dogs will get a 3oz portion of the rib roast, potatoes and carrots. For some reason they love these huge dinners.

And by 4pm we will all be deep asleep with an afternoon nap.

 

[luxflairguy]

There's just 3 of us, so... Rack of lamb, hasselback potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic glaze, popovers and desert is baked pears with port, walnuts and blue cheese. We aren't big sweet eaters.

 

[maytagbear]

Just two here this year-

my friend Linn and me.

Strip steaks, cut by a local artisan butcher,

Roast asparagus--a light glaze of olive oil, some coarse salt.

Carrots in orange sauce,

Mashed potatoes,

and I am lazing out on the dessert, Pepperidge Farm Coconut Cake, which we both like quite well.

Then, we're taking in a matinee with friends, and having Thai for dinner.

Happy Holidays!

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[davey7]

Turkey, brussels sprouts browned with garlic and pine nuts, mashed taters, some kind of bread and an almond tart.

 

[countryguy]

Turkey, stuffing, turnip, glazed carrots, coleslaw, perogies with sour cream (for those that like sour cream), cranberry sauce.  One of my guests is bringing dessert so I have no idea what it will be.

 

Gary

 

[wayupnorth]

Every year my brother and I would go for Christmas dinner to this excellent buffet at Sheraton Four Points. But unfortunately, he passed away recently. My next door neighbors told me that I was coming there for dinner this year and would not take no for an answer. I have no idea what we are having but I am sure it will be wonderful and plentiful. I am going to make a couple dozen of my special rolls to bring.

 

[appnut]

IF I end up cooking it will be a boneless turkey breast roasted; dressing (made with home made white bread seasoned with herbs, sausage, and rice); broccoli with holandaise; and chocolate moose.  It will just be my sister and I and she's quite health conscious so I'm being quite "tamed" with what I"m preparing.  Notice no bread or gravy or cranberries.; 

 

[xraytech]

For me it will be an applewood smoked ham, scalloped potatoes, home made pierogies in butter, sauerkraut and onions, home made gnocchi in marinara, green beans, dinner rolls, mandarin orange salad, and assorted cookies for dessert

 

[washerman]

It will be our traditional dinner:

Beef Fondue - with a 1960's era set
Mashed Potatoe
Cole Slaw
Green Bean Casserole
Asst Cookies
Pumpkin Pie w/whipped cream

 

[michaelman2]

Pork Crown Roast with Apricot Glaze and Mushroom Stuffing

 

Cauliflower with Swiss Cheese Sauce

Green Bean Casserole

Cranberry/Cherry/Red Grape Congealed Salad

Creamed Corn

Yeast Rolls

Coconut Cake

...This was a food editor's menu that I read about years ago and adopted it.  Have done it so many times now I do not have to rely on the recipes she furnished....

 

[Ultramatic]

As usual, it will be Pernil (Roasted pork shoulder), 2 kinds of rice (white and yellow with pigeon peas), pesto pasta salad, potatoes poupon (sorta like scalloped potatoes made with white wine mustard), almojabanas (rice flour fritters with farmers cheese), mixed green salad, dinner rolls, apple pie with sharp cheddar cheese, flan, arroz con dulce (sorta like rice pudding with cinnamon, cloves and star anise) coquito (coconut eggnog made with 151 proof rum) and numerous other libations.

 

[frigilux]

Lots of great meals planned within the AW family! We'll all be well-fed, that's for sure.

Christmas Eve (when we open gifts and have our family get-together): Lasagna, French Bread, Salad, Cannoli

Christmas Day: Whatever's in the fridge, LOL!

 

[polkanut]

On Christmas Day we go 2 blocks up the street to my parents, there will be 11 of us for dinner @ noon sharp.  This year Mom is making chicken & rice with different salads, dinner rolls, a vegetable of some sort etc.  The menu channges every year, sometimes it's ham, or turkey, or duck.  I'm bringing the dessert, and this year it is an eclair dessert made in 10"x15" jelly roll pan.

 

[glenfieldmathk1]

Turkey, Stuffing, Pigs in Blankets, Roast Potatoes, Roast Parsnips, Caramelised onion bacon and Brussels sprouts, Tradition boiled Carots, boiled peas, cauliflower Cheese and meat juice gravy.
for desserts - chocolate Log Cake.

Brussels Sprouts recipe:
Part Boil Brussels in water
Fry of the onion in a little oil in the pan, once softened add the bacon, diced into extremely small cubes.
Flake the Brussels sprouts and add to the frying pan, add butter, and stop cooking!

Pigs in Blankets:
Wrap one sheet of smoked bacon round a Lincolnshire sausage, place a cocktail strick through to hold the bacon on.
Oven bake with the Turkey & Stuffing for about 30 minutes.

Or You could alternatively cook along with Gordon Ramsey on Channel 4!!

 

[kenb]

This year instead of our traditional German menu of Roast Goose we will be having:

Crab
Fresh Dungeness crab

Oysters
Oysters on the Half Shell

Relishes
Nuts, Radishes, Olives

Salad
Celery Victor

Soup
Consommé Célestine

Fish
Crab-Stuffed Sole Paupiettes with Sauce Vin Blanc

Roast
Slow-Roasted Prime Rib au Jus with Roasted Potatoes
and Creamed Spinach

Dessert
Strawberry-Cranberry Charlotte Russe
Mince Pies
Port-Glazed Walnuts with Stilton

It sounds like a lot of work...and I suppose it is...but this year we will be having an extra special great-aunt of mine who will be turning 105 on Christmas Day. She requested a menu that would be similar to the menu that she and her husband enjoyed on their wedding day, December 25, 1927 at one of the grand hotels in New York City.

 

[lordkenmore]

It sounds like a lot of work

Yes it does! But it's wonderful that you are doing this for your great aunt.

 

[washerboy]

yummy

I all sounds total yum!!!!! I've never had goose but I've always been told one has to know what they're doing or it's greasy.

I'm liking the brussel sprout receipie from glenfieldmath...sounds good and I love brussle sprouts.

What is a pierogie?