What's for Christmas dinner?

[wdfifteen]

We are going it alone this year. None of our family wants to get together. Every family member has someone close to them who is sick.
I kind of like it, since we are "holiday central" for the family and spend a week cooking getting ready for the onslaught and were exhausted even before anyone showed up.
This year we are kicking back. This morning MrsWD made me ****onashingle. I haven't had it in years. Chipped beef gravy on a slice of homemade bread with a sunnyside up egg is a GREAT way to wake up on Christmas eve!
Lunch is baguette chips with raclette cheese and a small dollop of Major Grey's mango chutney with apple slices with a martini on the side. For dinner, we pressure cooked a pot of Great Northern beans and ham hocks until the beans were soft and the ham was falling off the bone. Now we're letting it slow cook for 4 or 5 hours. Gone drop some baking power egg dumplings in when it's meal time.
I've never had a Christmas that was so laid back.

[PorscheGAL]

We will do Christmas dinner tomorrow but our menu for 4 is:

60-day Aged Rib roast
Scalloped potatoes
cheese rolls
green bean casserole
Baked Alaska for dessert (red velvet cake and homemade eggnog ice cream)

[Scott Douglas]

We won't be home to cook Christmas dinner as we'll be down at our son's house early Christmas morning for the granddaughter's first real Christmas (3 yr old).
So this morning during the baking of cookies I got the spaghetti sauce together so all we need to do tomorrow when we get home is cook some noodles and it's done. Nothing special.

Brunch tomorrow will be the meal of the day as my son cooks quite a bit. Quiche and cinnamon rolls. Always good food down at his house. It will be nice not having a 'crowd' at our house but my wife is really missing the grandkids as the majority of them are still living in Japan.

Of course there's always cookies to eat...

[onewhippedpuppy]

Going out to dinner tonight with the family after mass at a nice local place, then we have filets on tap for tomorrow. My wife cooks a restaurant quality steak, I can’t take credit.

[stevej37]

When I was growing up at home...every Christmas my mother would cook a duck.
I think that is why I now appreciate dark meat so much more than white. Good stuff.

[Norm K]

Gumbo and crab legs are a Christmas Eve tradition in our home.

[craigster59]

We’re doing bratwurst and sauerkraut tonight.

Pineapple/orange glazed ham tomorrow with scalloped potatoes, asparagus and sweet potato casserole.

Just the two of us and the dog. I bought him a deluxe bed and a duck squeaky toy, but don’t tell him. It’s a surprise. Merry Christmas everyone and Bon Apetit’!

[74-911]

Christmas eve night will be our traditional assortment of tamales with queso and chips and ice cold beer.

For Christmas day, the traditional Turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans and rolls followed by a big piece of homemade pecan pie with iced tea.

The appetizer on Christmas eve will be jalapeno jelly spooned over a chunk of cream cheese and self-served on Ritz crackers.

There will only be the two of us but tradition is tradition.... had to really cut the recipe sizes however.

[Baz]

It all sounds so good! Well done everyone.....very creative!

Went over to Mom's earlier this afternoon.

We had:

Ham
Whole cranberry relish
Green bean casserole
Sweet potato casserole
Dinner Rolls
Apple Cider
Blueberry Pie

Everything was delicious and Mom really appreciated it, which was the most important thing.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[JavaBrewer]

Honey baked ham, a slew of extras, good Champagne and some Scotch and cigar to cap it. This is just the tip of the iceberg for us. The next week is one of extravagant gastronomic excess. In the next couple days homemade tamales, spicy eggs, and Bloody Mary's. The first week of January we pull it all in with salads and sensible meals.

[vash]

Costco lasagna tomorrow.

I’m not cooking.


Bourbon, salad, wine, bourbon.

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by vash

Costco lasagna tomorrow.

I’m not cooking.


Bourbon, salad, wine, bourbon.

Man with a plan, I love it! Dinner tonight had Blanton’s, I was in heaven.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by 74-911

Christmas eve night will be our traditional assortment of tamales with queso and chips and ice cold beer.

For Christmas day, the traditional Turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans and rolls followed by a big piece of homemade pecan pie with iced tea.

The appetizer on Christmas eve will be jalapeno jelly spooned over a chunk of cream cheese and self-served on Ritz crackers.

There will only be the two of us but tradition is tradition.... had to really cut the recipe sizes however.

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Holy cow! Sounds like our traditional Christmas dinner. I love it and really wanted to go traditional, but we thought too much effort. Maybe we’ll come to your house next year.
Tomorrow is a smoked pork tenderloin, green beans, sweet potato, it’s just the two of us plus out neighbor. We’ll spend good times together cooking it, but I don’t think anyone is that enthusiastic about stuffing ourselves. Times have changed.

[Evans, Marv]

I made salmon chowder for tonight. Tomorrow - who knows (but it's the wife's turn)??

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by vash

Costco lasagna tomorrow.

I’m not cooking.

That's good stuff. Please tell me it's the Italian sausage one not the vegetarian one. Merry Christmas!

[LWJ]

Take out pizza from a pretty top shelf place tonight. With merlot. Then, ice cream sundaes later.

Pizza is our tradition. Leaves more time for fun and merriment.

[ckelly78z]

We made blackberry sangria today, and letting it chill/age till overnight. Tomorrow, for dinner, we are having prime rib with anjou sauce, and homeade horseradish. My daughter is bringing her sweet potato casserole, we have hawaiian rolls, and asparagas.

[vash]

Originally Posted by craigster59

That's good stuff. Please tell me it's the Italian sausage one not the vegetarian one. Merry Christmas!

Absolutely. Meat!

Never had this lasagna, I’m intrigued, and lazy.

[dafischer]

Just the two of us tonight, and we had a beautiful, perfectly pink prime rib, with pan roasted little red potatoes, and steamed fresh green beans. For Christmas day, I'm picking up my 96 yr. old dad, and bringing to our place for a Vermont smoked ham dinner. I see leftovers out the wazoo.

[strupgolf]

Getting a case of White Castle burgers to suit the theme. A bit of wine, a bunch of Jack, a movie of

Christmas Vacation on the tuhe. Oh, what else could there be. By about 9pm I'll be running my trains by then. . I'll be done. Everyone, have a very merry Christmas and a happy New year.