What do you guys have for Christmas dinner? We don’t do anything special on Christmas Day. But I think I’d like to fire up a prime rib this time.
Any traditions for you guys?
When I was a kid at home, we always had lutefisk.. I love it. But it's gotten to be the same price as lobster.
Nothing traditional now - but when the (grrr) inlaws come over I'm making lasagna.. And I make damn GOOD lasagna...
For our own family, it'll be a slow-roasted (and heavily seasoned) pork loin - done to 130 degrees - sliced at 3/4" with gravy, mashed potatoes, home-baked rolls and chocolate angel pie..
I'd love to do a rib roast - but the prices here would have me calling the bank for a loan... ...
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I don't know. Was trying to get my girls to commit. We've got elk, deer, ducks, a few geese, a turkey and a ham. Something out of that will get cooked. Probably have roasted blue cheese tomatoes, oyster casserole, green beans, rutabaga puree, and some others.
Christmas eve is always Swedish meatballs, spinach balls with spicy dipping Mustard, oysters and Christmas cookies.
Rutabaga puree? As in mashed like taters?
I sure like them, the wife not so much. A Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner staple at our house growing up. I have to make a small pot for myself every year, or life is just not "right".
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Christmas eve i make linguini with butter,a little garlic,scallops,shrimp,lobster. Salad,And a small Boars Head baked ham with mac n cheese on the side for the kids/non seafooders.With mabey some corn if i remember. Christmas day we do large prime rib roast with twice baked potatoes with cheddar on top,and roasted brussel sprouts with onion and bacon. Apple pie with ice cream,or apple pie with Vermont cheddar for the Welsh still with us.
" ... I like ham at Christmas. Even if I am celebrating the birth of a Jewish kid with a hunk of pork.
Jesus would have been eating prime rib of mutton at that time.
L.W.
Or maybe Roast Leg of Goat.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
At the risk of repeating myself many times over...
Because my mom was born and raised in (what used to be) Czechoslovakia and her family had been living in what used to be Germany for a few generations before that, we eat what used to be traditional there, even for Jews. Roast duck, red cabbage and potato dumplings are our Xmas eve dinner. Sorta weird since we don't do anything else Christmasy, but it became a tradition, I can cook a damn good duck/dumpling dinner and it's delicious.
The red cabbage looks damn good. Being at least partially Russian and German, we’ve had plenty of potatoes and cabbage.
Christmas dinner will probably be a standing rib roast, baked potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, some other stuff…. my wife will make pumpkin and apple pies (scratch). A really good bottle of wine for dinner…
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While I grew up eating roast goose for Christmas, since we've been married we've done a turkey.
When our girls came along, when one of them was younger they coined Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas to be "feast days" and that's sort of stuck.
Off the top of my head then it'll be roast turkey, whipped potatoes - with garlic and butter, mixed vegetables, creamed corn, mounds of stuffing, Brussels sprouts - because my good wife and son in law believe they're food and a bunch of pickle varieties.
Desert will be a pumpkin pie with whipped cream and either an apple or strawberry rhubarb pie with good vanilla ice cream - both always as one daughter likes one and the other, the other!
Thanks for the fun thread and for letting me remember feast days from years past and look forward to them in future as well.
All the very best to you all tzone as we head into Christmas.
Dwayne
I’m not opposed to Turkey either. I’d rather have all the other fixins instead of the bird. Lol. My wife and girls can whip up some sides. Especially the pie. Maybe we can just have pie. Hahaha
Hard for us to get good seafood here, but I'll get a piece of tuna or something out of the freezer if I can remember what day it is.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)