Christmas or Christmas Eve Dinner

[Remyo]

I shall be keeping the kitchen clean for tomorrow, so pizza.

family always has pizza on christmas eve

[Perfect Night]

I'm usually the one that makes both since I have the most culinary talent in the family.

Christmas Eve Dinner: Homemade Tomato and Basil sauce, Homemade Penne Rigate with fresh mozzarella stirred through.

Christmas Dinner: Standing Rib Roast with Mustard Horseradish Sauce, Sour Cream and Chive Mashed Potatoes, Broccoli Casserole, Homemade Macaroni and Cheese, Deviled Eggs and a bunch of little things.

[Kiro]

Marry me.

[Ishido]

Tonight is

Roast Beast
Asparagus
Roasted Potatoes
Various Rolls

A 7-layer Dip for hors d'oeuvres, cheesecake for dessert.

Tomorrow

Beef Wellington
Carrot Souffle
Mashed Potatoes
Various Rolls again

Crab cocktails for hors d'oeuvres (probablyu dungeness), and Pumpkin Pie for dessert.

I'm at home so I'm kind of playing the sous chef, can't wait to start cooking and then of course eat!

[Anyway]

Prime Rib and lots of it!

[Elesirdur]

With my family it's been traditional to have a more formal dinner with guests invited over on Christmas Eve. Christmas day supper is just the family, a bird, the good china, and sweatpants heh.

For the last 7 or 8 years we haven't had turkey for either Thanksgiving or Christmas, but instead free-range chickens that are acquired through a golfing buddy of my mother. Since there's only three of us in my family a 7 or 8 lbs. chicken is just fine for one big supper, leftovers, and bones for soup stock.

The Christmas Eve supper menu derives a bit from French Canadian traditions my parents, who grew up in the Maritimes, which usually includes Tourtiere savory meat pies and buche de Noel (Yule log). But there's also more British staples like a Christmas ham, brusslesprouts, mincemeat pies and Christmas pudding. I think the idea of the fancy and luxurious Christmas Eve supper, compared to the more subdued and relaxed Christmas day, comes from Quebecois and French traidtions of Reveillon; but we never went to Midnight Mass or anything as we weren't a religious family.

[Naramaska]

With my family it's been traditional to have a more formal dinner with guests invited over on Christmas Eve. Christmas day supper is just the family, a bird, the good china, and sweatpants heh.

Likewise for us. Most of my mother's side of the family lives near us, so they all come over for dinner on Christmas eve with the rest of us, while on Christmas day it's just the immediate family.

Dinner tonight? Beef Bourguignon. Tomorrow night? My father plans to attempt to cook Beef Wellington :D

[Thoronas]

We're doing a mini buffet with my dad. Really nice Pork Chops with a Santa Fe spice rub, buttered chicken and my special blue cheese mashed potatoes.

[Foof]

My family always has a big dinner on Christmas Eve and we usually just eat leftovers on Christmas. We also usually have another couple/family over. My cousin and her boyfriend will be over tonight.

Our list for tonight:
Honey baked ham
Turkey
Stuffing
Sweet potato caserole
Green bean caserole
Corn bread
Potato latkas (some jewish dish that my mother ate growing up a guess, sort of like potato pancakes)
Cranberry sauce
Mashed potatoes
Gravy
Cherry pie

My mother makes an awesome hot buttered rum mix every year. We've also been drinking store-bought Eggnog and I'm sure my parents have some type of wine reserved for dinner. We've also been snacking on crackers/cheese/salami/chocolates throughout the day.

[Nirokun!]

this year was a pretty lazy year

we generally do the ham on christmas eve, and the prime rib christmas day. seeing as how i stopped eating red meat 4? years ago, i have roast chicken :D

this year:
ham
broccoli (sp?) casserole
scalloped potatos (idk why we have this, my mom wanted it)
buttered bread rolls
rice
roasted asparagus (<3)
roasted chicken (with a yummy herb mushroom gravy that i made)
apple pie
pecan tarts
chocolate mousse 3 ways (i made this for my mom :D, one way with raspberry sauce, one with andes chocolate mint chips, one flavored with espresso [<3])


its been a lazy year, we dont even have a tree this year

[Oxyminus]

being jewish my christmas meal will consist of marijuana and chinese food.

by the way that wine sounds good, Phelps makes some good stuff. Merlots are always kinda iffy for me. but I work in a wine shop and after spending 11 hours selling tons and tons and tons of wine if I never see a bottle it will be too soon.

[Kytele]

Niro's sounds teh yummies.

As for my family:

http://www.belizevakantie.nl/tamales.jpg

Lots of them.




And they are fucking DELICIOUS.

[Cheerios]

<3 Tamales and enchiladas.

[Plow]

Christmas eve supper:

Big roast turkey
Green Bean casserole
"Dressing" (stuffing? different people call it different stuff)
Mashed potatoes & turkey gravy
Dinner rolls
A spinach and red lettuce sallad
A pecan pie, and a banana cream pie.

All made from scratch except the rolls, which are the kind you buy already "raised" and stuff and just bake em.


Christmas breakfast is always a big bundt pan cinnamon roll thing, basically brown sugar on the bottom, frozen dinner roll balls rolled in butter and cinnamon+sugar with pecans layered in between, let sit overnight and baked when we wake up.



Christmas "dinner" (lunch)
Prime rib
My mom's "famous" cheesy potatoes, basically small potato squares cooked like a casserole in a thick sauce of cream of mushroom soup, turkey broth made from the turkey from the night before, onions, sour cream, and lots and lots and lots of cheeeeeese. mmmmmmmmm sooo good
Probably a turkey hash
More green been casserole and rolls
Same salad probably
Seven layer cookies
My sister's weird cookies that are basically like an almond pie crust cooked as cookies then drizzled with chocolate
More pie, fudge, all the christmas candies
Again all from scratch


All the meals have a big serving platter of veggies like broccoli, carrots, fresh uncooked green beans, yada yada.



And the best part is it's all cooked at my house by other people so I get none of the work and all of the leftovers \:D/

[Nightbreed]

Christmas Eve Supper:
Bread, crackers, sopressata, fresh mozzarella and tomato, spinach rolls, olives, seafood salad.

Dinner:
Linguini and clam sauce
Shrimp Scampi
Scallop Scampi
Mussels
Crabs

Dessert:
Strufoli
Cheesecake
Homemade Cookies

[Daahan]

Oh god I love having Christmas Dinner at my best friend's grandma's house. She makes some of the most delicious Italian food you will ever taste.

She starts off with some homemade salad which is so good. She serves it with bread and butter and mussels.

Next comes the main meal:
Veal Parmesan
Chicken Vesuvio
Steak Vesuvio
Lasagna
Pasta

for desert:
Canolies(sp?)
Homemade cake

[Falisa]

Christmas Eve at my parent's. Prime rib.

Christmas at my in-laws. Prime rib.

[Paulisdead]

Christmas dinner today consisted of

Roast Potato
Large joint of beef which turned out to be crap ;;
Large Joint of Turkey which turned out to be excellent
Brussels sprouts with Chestnuts
Yourkshire Puddings which were beutiful ( I make my own being a yorkshireman and all XD)
Pig's in Blankets
4 Mushroom stuffing wrapped in Parma Ham

And of course 12 cans of Becks's to help me cope with her family, currently all the Beck's are gone and I am on my second fosters now. After this I hit the southern Comfort

Merry Christmas BG

[Nightbreed]

Christmas Dinner today:
Baked Ziti
Loin of Pork
Turkey
Stuffing
Sausage and Peppers
Mussels/Crabs

Cream Puffs
Cheesecake
Lobster Claw/Tails
7 Layer Cookies


Between Xmas eve and day i think I gained 10 pounds lol.i