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SWMBO and ours is kind of a rolling seafood feast. While I like little about living where I do, access to good fresh seafood is a plus. This year;

Lobster bisque
Fried Smelt with some homemade tarter sauce (hint use capers instead of pickle relish).
Seared Scallops over spinach, basil and cannellini beans with some lemon.
Olive Oil roasted gulf shrimp with lemon and pepper.

A little warm focaccia bread and a nice glass (ok, several) of a Kiwi Sauvignon Blanc (high grapefuit notes)

We do this while watching White Christmas and Polar Express. It's relaxing and enjoyable after the stress of the last few months. I hope everyone has a great Christmas Eve and treasures the family and memories they have.

King Crab,champagne, fresh salad and Chocolate Eclairs here Pugs.

Have a good holiday!

Tri-Tip and loaded baked potatoes...

Fried smelt sounds interesting..

We're having chili...

Steak and a squash casserole with bacon and cheddar (idea shamelessly stolen from Mannlicher). Little bit of Jim Beam.

beans?......

No comment.

Fried Smelt is one of those things that take me back to growing up in Chicago and being in Boy Scouts. We would gill net them on Lake Michigan on the sea wall under the John Hancock tower. A fire, oil and a pan and roll them corn meal and eat them in place.

No. These are not as good. Just as deer tenderloin is best cooked en' place at deer camp, but they are good nevertheless.

http://steamykitchen.com/15666-fried-smelt.html

Home grown prime rib beef, horse radish, twice baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, pomegranate cheesecake. Prairie Fume wine.

I had KFC tonight.

As a kid, dad always used to get a cheese/sausage box from his clients - we'd eat that. Dinners, fancy ones, never were a priority in my family.

As a reminder though, Christmas is the only time of year that you can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of a sock without people calling the cops.

Jesus! A cheese and sausage box? Ain't gotta be fancy, but damn!

Merry Christmas to ya!

Allen,

Thank you for not including me in for the strange food that comes out of the water. I have no idea how anyone can eat that stuff. I use it exclusively for bait, and even then some fish won't touch it. I'm in their league.

Best to you and yours for Chritmas.

Steve

It was good stuff - big box with a lot of different kinds of fancy cheeses and the like. Box probably weighed 40lbs. Mom and dad always seemed to have to work Christmas Eve - we'd gorge all day on cookies and sweets anyway. Dinner was the cheese/sausage/cracker deal until it was time to get ready for Mass.


I worked today till about 3 - still sick but craved the KFC. Sitting home, sucking on some Vicks 44 and surfin the fire.

Elk lasagne..

Send me the leftovers.

We have had grilled steak on Christmas eve since my wife and I started dating. It's more than a few years.

Sounds lovely, Pugs, we're having messkin' tacos. Years ago, the kids decided that's what they wanted, so we have that every year since. Now my folks down in Miami on the other hand, are having the traditional roast pork with all the trimmings on Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas to you all! j

Tacos, our traditional family meal since I was a kid. I ask my daughter what she wants for dinner every time. She says 'Uhhh, Tacos!', like I lost my mind.

Kent

How the Hell can you live on the Chesapeake and not eat seafood? Oysters, clams, crabs, rockfish, eel, mussels, redfish, bluefish, speckled trout, flounder...the list could go on and on.

I live on the Great Lakes, spend a ton of time fishing. Used to live on Monterey Bay too - I can't even tell you how to fillet a fish.

I can do shrimp, perch, walleye and pike but outside of that - I don't dig seafood either.