Should this be in recipes? Oh well. As the festivities are just around the corner, have you planned your Christmas dinner yet? We are going to my mums on the 25th as we do every year and she is doing a turkey. I will provide all the veggies from the allotment, and I have made 2 different types of Christmas pudding and have some delicious sloe gin to help the evening go with a swing. I am also make a Christmas cake which will be 3 Christmas crackers. The reason I make 3 seperate smaller cakes is because the cake travels with us, so Christmas weekend/eve we have friends in and the first cracker will be cut, the second cracker will be left at mums and the third travels with us to the inlaws on Boxing day. So, what is on your menu?
We can't have a traditional Christmas dinner at our house so I do a buffet for everyone instead. I have to feed vegans, raw-food vegans and fruitarians as well as ourselves so I have everything from fresh fruit, halva, nuts and tahini to veggie curries and roast duck!!!
Sounds interesting Eileen - I wouldn't mind coming to lunch! I assume fruitarians only eat fruit? Very complicated for you. Can't they all bring a dish?
We will have baked ham, potato salad, veggies and desserts, nothing fancy. I don't cook all day like I do for Thanksgiving. New Years will probably be a gumbo.
I will cook the 23rd and 24th and morning of the 25th and then go to work.I will have pies a cake perhaps Turkey and dressing, Giblet gravy,Sweet Pea Salad,Green Bean casserole Whipped potatos ,Not sure what else.
We are having a non-traditional Christmas dinner this year. Usually we get a 10 to 12 lb. fresh turkey at Thanksgiving and cut it in half and have turkey each day. But this year I had a 5 lb turkey breast for the 3 of us. So for Christmas we are having rotisserie BBQ'd ribs. I have 2 slabs for the 3 of us!
We go to Lisa's on the 25th. I used to make cinnamon bread for breakfast after gift opening but since my oven went out two years ago, I haven't done any baking and I really have not missed it. :-D I usually take a spiral cut ham, Lisa does baked potatoes and a salad. Not a lot of cooking involved makes it easier on everyone.
I always make stollen for breakfast but I'm not sure what we will have for dinner. Usually beef but maybe a crown roast of pork. A crown roast of pork would get stuffed with an apricot stuffing. Dessert is usyally a cream puff cake made with sugar free pudding and cream cheese. Usually it's chocolate fudge but one year I layered it with pistachio pudding because it's green. It is covered with cool whip and drizzled with chocolate. Dooley
Wow all of these are very tempting. Funny how for you guys, you did what we would consider a traditional Christmas dinner on Thanksgiving, then on Christmas you enjoy the sort of meal we would love on Boxing day or new year.
I have totally changed my menu. Seafood Gumbo Baked Hen Cornbread dressing, or Richard would divorce me. Gravy Corn Field peas and maybe potato salad Banana pudding for dessert along with what ever cookies and such I get made.
Our Christmas dinner was last night. Ham, shrimp, turkery, dressing, baked beans,deviled eggs,pickles, vegetables and dip,cheese and crackers, and for dessert a variety of cookies. Glad it is done and the cleanup was finished before we went to bed. Today and tomorrow we enjoy the leftovers.
I want to eat a Sharon and Richard's. I've never had a seafood gumbo but I KNOW I would like it. muddy
