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?

The hillbilly inlaws always want to do a nasty spiral ham.

I’m so tired of that


Prime rib sounds good

Might be a prime rib. Local market gives out a calendar every year with a discount coupon every month. This month's is for a standing rib roast, a whopping $10 off.

Not sure that's going to be enough to make it affordable this year, beef prices being what they are.

Might just have to see what nice cuts are remaining from the 1/4 steer we got this spring.

Or buy a ham. I like ham at Christmas. Even if I am celebrating the birth of a Jewish kid with a hunk of pork.

At Christmas it was always ham growing up. I’ve never changed. Cumberland Gap ham is one of my favorites.

Wtf is wrong with spiral ham?



Prime rib is a New Years tradition here

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.

I prefer to slice ham myself. I'm not a fan of little skinny slices. I like a manly slice of ham.

And I can make it sweet enough with some pineapple juice and slices and some maraschino cherries.

Sure sounds delicious to me.

We always do Christmas at my sister-in-laws.
Never look forward to it, especially this year.

She is hell for woke, and couldn't possibly ever be wrong. Got into an argument with her on the phone the other night concerning Bidet's energy policy, or lack thereof. Told me I'm full of crap, and everything is going to be great.

I told my wife this morning that I should do something on Christmas Eve to get myself thrown in jail for a day.
No other way out!

Did you just call me feminine?

Christmas Eve is always ham but Christmas Day is deer stew.

we do pizza for Supper, and have done brisket for lunch.
By the time Christmas comes we are tired of holiday foods

tzone;
Good morning again my cyber friend, I still hope all is well in your world.

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

Bill, Billy, Billy.

you do you,

I do me.

If you like little skinny spiral slices of ham....................well.................................

Joke, Geno…

as was mine!

and honestly, the spiral ones make for easy sammich fixins

We do prime rib for Christmas most years.

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.

We did prime rib for Thanksgiving. My eldest son was given a turkey at Thanksgiving so we will have it on Christmas day. Christmas eve will be Italian as usual. Both days will involve olives...

Jesus would have been eating prime rib of mutton at that time.

L.W.

Roast duck. Eggs Benedict for breakfast

Standing rib roast here.

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... ...

That’s exactly what I’m trying to avoid. The dreaded spiral ham cheesy potatoes, and green beans.

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".

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.

Or maybe Roast Leg of Goat.

The red cabbage looks damn good. Being at least partially Russian and German, we’ve had plenty of potatoes and cabbage.

Planning on smoking a brisket. 1st one was delicious, second one was dry, see what happens with this one?

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…

Christmas Eve: Sicilian Feast Of The Seven Fishes

Christmas Day: Prime Rib

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

I’ll be havin’ Mexican food.

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.

I do a venison roast in the instant pot.

You'all reckon you prefer biscuits and mustard or some of them thahr french fried puhtaters with it, emmm hmmm...

Probably a brisket. Because #America.

That sounds more Texas than America.

LOL

Fugging rib roast would be half the money right now.


And better.

Now that I think about it spiral cut hams ARE feminine. Borderline gay.

Not a fan.

I already have the brisket and smoked texas style brisket is better than any rib roast....ever.

Christmas Eve is usually seafood

Christmas Day is always similar to our Thanksgiving Day meal but with a few less sides and a ham or goose rather than turkey. Usually a ham for Christmas and a goose for NYD.

we're not very creative

We always have thanksgiving somewhere else so we have the traditional thanksgiving dinner - Turkey and Spiral ham

Best looking duck I ever saw.

I feel like doing something different this.

Yes sir.

Tell me about the roasted blue cheese tomatoes, sounds awesome.

Not even close.

Local store had some roasts that were essentially unsliced New York Strips. Bought a couple to try and make like a rib roast.

Son Jacob had covid over Thanksgiving, we plan on the turkey we got nearly free.

Son Jacob had covid over Thanksgiving, we plan on the turkey we got nearly free.

Spiral ham sucks

Christmas Eve gonna be kielbasa and pierogi

Christmas day gonna be lamb chops, baked potatos, asparagus, key lime pie and plenty of beer

That sounds delicious. I may have to give it go.

Romas cut in half and seeds/membranes removed forming boats. Marinade in olive oil, garlic, rosemary, salt, pepper, whatever else. Roast on a sheet pan at 375 for about an hour. Top with crumbled Blu or Roquefort and put back in oven real quick. They are good warmed up as leftovers too.

Roasted brussels sprouts ???

Uhhhh….



LOL

i'm doing dinner this year. well, a family effort i guess. i am making jaegerschnitzel and spatzle. not sure what else. probably roasted brussels sprouts, maybe mashed taters or squash or something. maybe something with cranberry sauce. see if i can find a good spatlese or auslese to go with.

When I was kid, it was goose with oyster stuffing. Later on it became prime rib.

I’ll brine and smoke a turkey. Mom and my aunt will makes pies and candy. Mom will probably make a ham and half a dozen sides plus homemade bread of some sort.

Christmas Eve we’ll probably either fry fish or make a monster batch of fajitas on the diskada.

Will be trying those, thank you very much!

Some of us aren't on the LT pay grade.....

Plus I just like brisket, LT.

Dam, i know we are boring. But this thread has me thinking
about calling the hotline.

Just a city ham, not pre sliced.
Candied sweet potatoes
Baked corn
Green bean casserole. (No thanks) or sweet/sour beans with bacon 👍
Usually some scalloped potato type thing.
Fresh rolls
Apple butter
Homemade pickles, beets...
Pumpkin pie, pumpkin rolls, some other pies, cookies.

Tamales.....Hot, spicey, fresh, pork tamales..

I roast a marinated saddle of venison. Will probably roast a duck too.

We had them last night, cooked in olive oil they are pretty good. But it does make your house smell like farts before and after you eat them. Guilty on the latter.

actually my office at work today is kinda gettin that way too

Turkey, mashed taters and gravy, stuffing, rolls and a veggie of some sort.
Got Butter Ball turkeys on sale for $.87/#...........where can you get a meat for 87/# ?
Had to buy small chest freezer to keep my turkeys in!

We normally have ham and the fixins......this year, changing it up......we are going to have a nacho bar/spread on our main kitchen island.....should be interesting.

Mexican food Christmas Eve and steak and shrimp Christmas Day.

Maybe I'll make a pot of borscht this year.

Rib eye………

And crab. Dungeness And king……

Spiral cut hams are dry as a Baptist picnic. I really don't get people standing in line to get that honey baked crap. My wife glazes a whole Farmer John gold foil wrapped ham. It comes out really good.
We usually do a prime rib and several different sides.

generally i avoid spiral hams due to the above reason. but if they are on a really good sale i will get one and smoke it for a party. load it up with brown sugar glaze and smoke in a pan with a couple cans of root beer and baste it once it a while. comes out good. kinda dry, but good.

We do Christmas brunch most years - make bacon, sous vide and sear a prime rib, an do eggs Benedict to order with your choice of base, middle meat, and home made hollandaise sauce.

Usually a beef rib roast. I’m pissed about the price of the shcitt at .19 plus for choice choice so eff that. Prob do the ollle pig in one of its many delicious incarnations. Crown roast. Maybe even just HAM. Why not. My kid just took a shine to it.

Who knows though. End to end beef filet going less than Ribeye, I may just buy myself a PISMO clean er up, tie er up, and grill that bitch off. Going to one way or the other.

Gonna get full sick on crab and beef tonight.

I bought one of these at Costco a few days ago. Prime grade, about 11.5 lbs.

Let me know how you plan to cook it, I’ve never done a NY strip loin.