Holiday Menu what will you serve?

[Rpg]

Seems like everyone makes different holiday meals. Some stick to turkey or ham. Others serve more idiocincratic things.

Christmas Eve, we have deli coldcuts and dungenous crab.

Christmas Day I make standing rib roast, Yorkshire pudding and horseradish (from the root, not the bottled stuff).

New Year’s Day, roast goose.

In between I’ll make some matzah ball soup.

What will you be serving?

 

[StakeOut]

Assorted Appitizers
Prime Rib Roast from Costco
Baked Asian Sweet Potato from Whole Foods
Batter Dipped Cuarzo Squash Slices from Sprouts
Texas Craft Beer
Chocolate Cream Pie/Key Lime Pie and Single Origin Whole Bean Coffee brewed at 205F

 

[SweetMK]

Cookies,,, this is our 12 quart Hobart mixer,,
my daughters like to make a batch of cookie dough on occasion,,,

A dozen eggs, a dozen sticks of butter, 2 pounds of brown sugar,,,etc...,,,

YES, the whole bag of chocolate chips,,,

Actually, one of my daughters was invloved in supplying cookies for a retirement home dinner,,
we started out to make one batch,, and ended up making three batches,,

My wife developed this method for freezing cookie dough over 30 years ago,,, we should have patented it!!

Two year old Eliza wanted to make ANOTHER batch!!

Believe it or not, those three batches were made last weekend,,
and EVERY cookie is GONE now!!

I do not remember the exact quantity,, well over 700 cookies,,,

It was fun!!

 

[zzzippper]

I'll make the same spiral cut ham with a cherry and port wine glaze that I've been making for years. One side will be smashed (not mashed) potatoes. Both recipes are from Cook's magazine. Along will be any other sides the wife decides to make. It is just the two of us as always so I am trying to limit the amount of food we make.

 

[arjay]

Sis and I are roasting a goose.we'll have mashed potatoes,gravy,cranberry sauce,salad and trifle for desert.If we time it right,should be ready when our other sis rolls in from WY Christmas Day.My daughter arrives the 26th from NY and gramma wants to make her a quiche.Should be several days of food and catching up.Ive been baking Christmas cookies I remembered from my youth.Google is handy!

 

[CajunBass]

Reservations

 

[oneounceload]

Pizza on Christmas Eve is the tradition I started when my kids were young.
Now, just the wife and I - whatever I feel like making.
Since my wife gets a Honey-Baked ham as a gift from a vendor, we'll be having that for a few days.

 

[JayCeeNC]

Honey Baked ham on Sunday, with green bean casserole and bread dressing and turkey gravy. Pumpkin pie for dessert.
Prime Rib on the smoker for Christmas day, with leftover casserole and dressing, along with mashed potatoes. And pie, if there's any left!

 

[pawngal]

Didn't have a family Thanksgiving get together so Christmas will be
turkey, sage dressing, taters & gravy, sweet taters, fresh cranberry relish, scalloped corn, some kind of jello salad and cheesecake with assorted toppings. And wine.

 

[UncleEd]

Finish up the corned beef and
cabbage left over from St.
Patrick's Day.

 

[ladder13]

Just got to the in-laws, cooking is on them.
My BIL will be doing his usual La Vigilia aka Feast of the Seven Fishes, salad, antipast, and assorted homemade pies and cookies. That’s Christmas Eve.

Christmas Day is manicotti, meatballs, sweet and hot sausage, salad, and assorted homemade pies and cookies, once again.

I’m already missing my gym routine.

 

[Bill Bates]

Funny, I always cook a rib roast on Thanksgiving but I buy a small turkey then too.

It seems that prime rib is always cheap then. This year the local market had choice grade prime rib roast for $4.88/lb. The stores also would sell you a turkey for $7 if you spent $50 or more. I bought a couple of rib roasts on different shopping trips and picked up a cheap turkey each time.

I cut about 3 ribs worth of roast and cooked it for the me and the wife for Thanksgiving dinner. The rest I cut into small roasts and steaks.

The kids are in town for Christmas so I'm putting a turkey in the pellet grill loaded with mesquite pellets.

I also have some wild chanterelle mushrooms that I'm going to make into cream of chanterelle mushroom soup as a first course. The main course will be turkey, stuffing, Brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes and green peas. Momma will bake a apple pie for dessert.

Somewhere between dinner and pie I plan on pouring a large whisky and smoke a cigar from an island south of Miami.

 

[Onomea]

Main dish is a roast beef that I cook in a Weber kettle every year. Everyone loves that charcoal cooked taste. (I buy the beef from a local Japanese butcher, not sure what the cut is, but it is very high end. Maybe tenderloin with the end cut off, but a 4+ lbs hunk of it — an annual extravagance for our family of five adults.)

Got Canadian smoked salmon from my bro and some frozen and ready to just heat and eat French (naturally) escargot for appetizers from the supermarket. Will buy baguettes from a local bakery. Wife’s gonna make macaroni of some sort, salad, etc. Beer, wine, name your poison.

Jeez! Gotta get on the dessert!

 

[BigBill]

Christmas Eve bash. Tradition.

King crab legs
Mussels
Stuffed shrimp
Stuffed cod filets
Pigs in a blanket hotdogs wrapped in crosant.
Sausage in a blanket sausage links sliced wrapped in crosant.
Chicken livers wrapped in bacon, baked
Scallops wrapped in bacon
Scallops baked with butter and seasoning.
Clams casino
Stuffed mushrooms
Crab cakes
Stuffed clams
Kielbasa simmered in grape jelly and ketchup. Awesome.
Italian spaghetti with garlic, olive oil anchovies. Hot pepper and cheese optional.
Pepperoni, mozzarella, provolone Stromboli
Sausage n pepper Stromboli
Pepperoini, cheeses platter crackers

Imported Russian candy filled with cognac
Imported Russian candy filled with vodka
Imported Russian candy filled with nuts.

Most boozes you can think of.

I was buying trays of seafood every year but the placed closed up. Ever since I had the firewood business we poured on this tradition every year the menu grows.

 

[GKC]

This is the first Christmas I won't be cooking in many years. We have moved into a retirement community, and the dining room serves a scrumptious dinner with all the standard fare. Since it will just be the two of us (our kids aren't able to come home this year) we are just going to eat there instead of going to all the trouble. They will serve: ham, turkey and dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, peas, green beans, corn, and all the side dishes (pickles, garden salad, potato salad, beets, cranberry sauce, macaroni salad, and so on.) The meal includes tea or coffee, rolls, and several kinds of desserts. The price: $7.50 per resident. I couldn't begin to cook all that for that price, and the biggest bonus of all...no clean up!

My wife is disabled, and can't stand long enough to cook. She's an excellent cook, and has taught me a lot over the years. Of course, we don't get the left overs this way, but I'm not a real fan of holiday food (one meal is enough for me) and when it's just the two of us, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go to all the trouble and expense.

 

[BigBill]

Christmas Day dinner at my sons house.

Baked manicotti with hot sausage, meatballs
Prime Rib Roast with veggies.
Salad

Left overs from Christmas Eve finger food.

Desert
Pies

 

[BigBill]

This is the first Christmas I won't be cooking in many years. We have moved into a retirement community, and the dining room serves a scrumptious dinner with all the standard fare. Since it will just be the two of us (our kids aren't able to come home this year) we are just going to eat there instead of going to all the trouble. They will serve: ham, turkey and dressing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, peas, green beans, corn, and all the side dishes (pickles, garden salad, potato salad, beets, cranberry sauce, macaroni salad, and so on.) The meal includes tea or coffee, rolls, and several kinds of desserts. The price: $7.50 per resident. I couldn't begin to cook all that for that price, and the biggest bonus of all...no clean up!

My wife is disabled, and can't stand long enough to cook. She's an excellent cook, and has taught me a lot over the years. Of course, we don't get the left overs this way, but I'm not a real fan of holiday food (one meal is enough for me) and when it's just the two of us, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go to all the trouble and expense.

I’m disabled and can’t stand or sit for too long. I keep on telling the misses and family it’s there call to stop and eat out.
Merry Christmas.

 

[BigBill]

I been dying to have roasted duck maybe New Year’s Day. New Year’s Eve we make the finger food and a roast beef.

 

[Marshwheeling]

It’s usually porketta, but we had three over the long Thanksgiving weekend, so for Christmas it’ll be linguini and clam sauce.

 

[ContinentalOp]