What's on your menu for Christmas??!!

CaptainGordo

Tamales on Christmas Eve, but we're planning on making this little gem on Christmas Day: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/360696-if-you-re-a-fan-of-crockpot-cheeseburgers

Still debating whether we'll add the pepperoni this time or not, and whether we'll use macaroni or tater tots.

Thomasm198

In my family we have the same every year

Starter:
Homemade vegetable soup

Main Course:
Turkey
Orange Glazed Ham
Roast potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Mixed vegetables (peas, carrots, brussels sprouts)

Dessert:
Sherry Trifle

After dinner:
Copious amounts of alcohol.

BrettPGH

A whole lobster.

shanolap

I'm sure it will be a big bowl of "Mom visiting too long with that damn yappy little dog", a huge plate of "Entertaining said relative that talks wayyyy too much", a side of "why is our son ALWAYS late to breakfast/dinner/whatever & why are his eyes so red?" followed with a dash of humility because you realized that you may have had a bit too much eggnog.

I actually am looking forward to it.

entranced

Turkey and HAM.

Katielou112

ahhh I love Christmas dinner!

I always have some sort of breaded cheese with cranberry sauce to start, omg it is so good. My mum and Dad have fish but I'm not really a fishy fish person ( I like tuna and salmon) so I stick with the cheese . After that turkey, roasties, and my mum's roasties are the BESTTTTTTTTTT, asparagus, crackling, gammon for mum and dad but blergh not me, broccoli, carrots, green beans, yorkshire puddings of course and gravy and bread sauce - mmmm love bread sauce.

My mum and Dad will have something like tiramisu, I'll have cheesecake or something and mum and dad will have xmas pud later but euch not me. Then cheese and biscuits way later with a film oh and throughout the day we'll have champagne and snowballs (advocaat and lemonade) I frikkin LOVE snowballs - so fattening though

Haha sorry for the rant I'm pratically salivating now I can't wait, love Christmas

Deckershann

I'll be home alone for Christmas (all my family is in Texas and my hubby's deployed) so ummm...vodka sounds good to me. Just kidding though, I'm going to make my own self a little Christmas dinner with salmon, spinach tomato salad, fruit salad, and a cake bite..they're like the homemade version of Starbucks cake pops...my mom was making them years before Starbucks xD

poustotah

If it were up to me, I'd eat Kringle all day. KRINGLE!

AH2013

Christmas morning breakfast will be a large glass or two of Bucks Fizz, croissants, fruit salad platter and yoghurts - sausages and bacon for the meat eaters. Then this year we decided to have Christmas lunch out as I didn't want leftovers lying around the house for days on end!

In Dubai they have a terrible thing for healthy folk called Friday Brunch, all the hotels do a 4 hour all you can eat and drink marathon buffet each and every Friday, and some evenings and of course special occasions! They do it soo, soo well! So, we're going to a restaurant that serves a buffet with 7 live cooking stations plus a traditional christmas food one. My Christmas lunch will probably consist of salads, I'll definitely have some bread and suffer the consequences later, and some Italian food, followed by several small deserts and copious amounts of fizzy stuff!! We're having lunch with my inlaws (lovely people), friends (lovely people) and my friend's mother in law (nightmare!!) so we will all doubtless have too much fizzy stuff!
My husband bought a tonne of biscuits and goodies from Marks and Spencer so no doubt after lunch we will come home get into our lounging clothes, pop a few christmas films on and start making our way through some of that. I'll try to be as good as I can but, I'll have a day where I'm not stressing too much about what I eat....I'll probably log it just to know what I've had, but it may take me half the evening..............................

So excited already.....only 5 more days!!!!!

Cathleenr

just so everyone knows...
i am SO stopping by all your houses.....so.....plan accordingly!

healthybabs

Christmas Eve at Mom and Dad's-
-Ham, lasagna, roasted root veggies, coleslaw, rolls. Desserts will be traditional Czech stuff like kolachki, poopockie (that is how you say it, I have no idea how to really spell it. They are these lovely yeasty rolls soaked in poppyseeds and condensed milk), and of course MY BIRTHDAY CAKE, yes my birthday is actually on Christmas Day!

Christmas Day at our home-
-Standing Rib Roast, garlic mashed potatos,brussel sprouts, gravy, rolls, egg nog and MORE BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!

and of course, homemade Christmas cookies all weekend!!!

bethvandenberg

Christmas Eve

Tamales
Albondigas
quac
chips
salsa

Christmas Morn:

strata

Christmas Dinner:

Prime rib
potatoes
green beans
mushrooms
salad

and lots of wine!!!!!

cabaray

Christmas Eve at my parents (brothers, nieces and nephews)
Ham and various side dishes, chips, cheeseballs and such. Trying to see if my husband's friend is cooking tamales. She makes the best.

Christmas Day, we have dinner at our house with my parents. My brothers go to their inlaws and such. My inlaws are in Mexico, so that is not an option, so we have my parents over for dinner. We have roasted duck, scalloped potatoes, lima beans and pie.

sweets2001

After presents are opened we have overnight blueberry french toast. The adults have mimosas and the kids have oj. Then there are various appetizers throughout the day (pigs in a blanket, stuffed mushrooms, shrimp cocktail, beer bread with spinach dip. Dinner usually consists of Ham, garlic mashed potatoes, honey glazed baby carrots, yeast rolls and key lime cheesecake for dessert.

wren176

Christmas Dinner in the South

Honey glazed ham
Roasted turkey
Homemade cranberry sauce
Hashbrown casserole
Mashed potatoes/gravy
Broccoli with garlic cashew sauce
Sweet potato casserole
glazed carrots
Cornbread dressing
green bean bundles
deviled eggs
oreo pie
homemade rolls
lots of homemade chocolates- my favorite is turtles!
banana pudding
apple/cherry pie
fruit salad
pumpkin roll

There should be about 25 of us at my parents for Christmas dinner and I can't wait to see everyone!

Silverkittycat

To Start
Crusty Italian Semolina Dinner Rolls
with Herbed Olive Oil for Dipping

Appetizer
Puff Pastry Stuffed with Mild Italian Sausage, Parmesan Cheese, Fresh Parsley,
Breadcrumb and Baked

Salad
Fresh Greens with Grilled Pear, Spicy Roasted Pecans, Stilton Bleu Cheese Crumbles
and our Fresh House Vinaigrette

Entree
Roasted Prime Rib Encrusted with Pink and Green Peppercorns and Served with a Cabernet Pan Sauce

Vegetable
Steamed Asparagus with a Touch of Butter,
Salt and Pepper

Starch
Thinly Sliced Scalloped Potatoes Baked with Cream,
Asiago Cheese and Fresh Sage

Dessert
Chocolate Mousse with Fresh Whipped Cream
and Shaved Chocolate

and a bottle of cabernet.

MariaAlbinaxoxo

Being Italian, we have what's called 'feast of the seven fishes.' So much seafood! I love it!

ajball90

Christmas morning - eggs, ham, hashbrowns, tomato, avocado etc

Christmas lunch - ham, prawns, chicken, greek salad, cabbage salad, fruit...yummm

Christmas dinner - nothing, too full!

haldeman5

Beef Tenderloin w/ roasted shallot and bacon wine reduction
twice baked potatoes
asparagus w/ hollandaise sauce
yorkshire pudding

chocolate molten lava cakes with ice cream and caramel sauce
chocolate kahlua pecan pie

capriciousmoon

Probably diet soda and popcorn, same as any other day. Feel free to invite me to your house! :bigsmile:

imalikat2

One of my MFP friends asked what's on our menu for Christmas dinner and I thought, what a great topic. Depending upon where you live you may have a different tradition or types of food other than the usual turkey dinner.

I love our Christmas dinner... we have rib roast, yorkshire pudding, fresh veggies, mashed potatoes and some type of decadent homemade dessert.

So... what's on your Christmas menu??

I must correct my menu.... It's prime rib for dinner, not just a rib roast! Hubby wants creme brulee, I'm thinking of homemade cheesecake... who knows, maybe both

kapeluza

Ponche
Pozole
Bunuelos
Atole
Churros
Capirotada
Gelatina con rompope

ahavoc

Christmas Eve - Lasagna (I make)
Christmas Day - Roast Beef, Baked Potato, veggies (At brother-In-Laws)
I'll be making Pecan Pie and Chocolate Pudding Pie
and I'll get Lobster for Lobster salad rolls

sewedo1

Roast turkey, potato salad, mashed potatoes, mixed cooked greens (turnip/collard/kale), green beans, mixed fruit ,butterscotch pie---in moderation for me

Learnin2LuvMe

I'm having turkey with my hubbys family,they are Salvadorian,and use different seasonings that are so yummy! N my family is Mexican,so my mom makes tamales with rice and really fatty foods! So im in for a treat!

Learnin2LuvMe

Ponche
Pozole
Bunuelos
Atole
Churros
Capirotada
Gelatina con rompope

Mmmmm my mom makes bunuelos for New years!

CaptainGordo

Ponche
Pozole
Bunuelos
Atole
Churros
Capirotada
Gelatina con rompope

Bendito sea Dios.

Also, bunuelos w/o atole would be a crime.

significance

My family does a very traditional Christmas day feast of baked ham, turkey, baked vegetables, yorkshire puddings and gravy, followed by Christmas (plum) pudding and custard. It makes no sense at all in the 40C (>100F) heat of a typical Perth Christmas day, but I love it for the tradition anyway.

An increasing number of Australian families (perhaps most now?) do a cold seafood and salad feast on Christmas instead, often as a picnic on the beach. The seafood shops always have very long queues on Christmas Eve as people prepare for the day.

And it's quite common to do a "Christmas in July" as well, to enjoy all that hot roast food in winter.

morrishem

Turkey, stuffing, whipped potatos with butter and cream, turnip, carrotts, quash with butter...this works out to just under 1000 cals! Add the apple crisp, ice cream, baileys and whipped cream and you have just over 1300!!! And I am gonna eat it all:) Could probably cut back on the portions a bit...and I am probably counting more for the potatos than i will actually eat...whatever, its chritsmas!

vs1023

Christmas Eve Dinner;
-Spaghetti with clam sauce
-Scallops
-Fried Sole
-Calamari
-Shrimp
-Various deserts

Christmas Day
-Turkey
-Sweet Potato pie
-Salad
-Various deserts

I miss all the fish we used to have on Christmas eve when we lived closer to family. Shrimp scampi, lobster, linguine with fish sauce, clams oreganato.

Christmas day is usually turkey or filet mignon with scalloped potato, asparagus, stuffed mushrooms, desserts.