What's on your menu for Christmas??!!
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I'm also from Perth Australia and Christmas Day (and boxing day) are so very hot!
We always put on Christmas breakfast with croissants, ham, swiss cheese, scrambled eggs, bacon, ham off the bone, mushrooms, tomatoes, fruit salad, berries, stone fruits, yoghurt, juice, champagne, water.
We dont have lunch.
Any usuable leftovers from our combined breakfasts and lunch (from all the extended family) get taken to my grandmothers for dinner. Which is an assortment of ham, chicken, seafood, roast, salads, potato salad, coleslaw, fruit, bread. My grandmother always cuts up a panetone and a fruit cake. She used to make italian meatballs and cutlets but she is 93 now so has warned us that she is too old to do it this year (we'll do it for her as a present - she'll love it
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Everything is fresh, not processed and delicious!0 -
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Probably make some pumpkin and pecan pies and some fresh bread too.0 -
Top sirloin roast cut into steaks, lobster tail and crab legs. Mashed garlic potatoes and salad.
.. and of course a decadent chocolate dessert of some kind, or cheesecake. or both.
Happy holidays everyone enjoy your fest no matter what it consists of !! 0 -
I'll most likely be snarfing down a yogurt and Luna bar while hiding in a supply closet IF I actually get a chance to run off and take a break while working an 18 hr shift in a dingy old nursing home :sad:0
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I just do the family tradition=] We snack all day, and then eat a meal at night. Since I am trying to lose weight,I will not be eating alot of food.
Snacks - Ham and cheese rolls, cheese ball, crackers, carrots, celery, peanut butter, ranch dressing, shrimp, cocktail sauce, tarter sauce.
Drink - 7up/Sherbert punch.
Dinner - Ham, Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, lima beans, mac and cheese, and dinner rolls.
Deserts - Rice Krispie tree, Chocolate chip cookies, mini cupcakes, Sugar cookies, Bon - bons, and oatmeal cookies.
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Lasagna
Garlic Texas Toast w/ Cheese
Salad
Corn
Cheese, Sausage & Crackers
Cheesecake
Wine
Chocolates0 -
Christmas Day: Pot roast in the slow cooker, with lots of vegetables, and maybe a side of brown rice for the grandchildren. We don't eat appetizers but I may prepare a plate with cherry tomatoes and some cheese (grand kids love this too).
Hawaiian rolls, sparkling apple cider, and homemade strawberry lemonade, and some wine for my husband, son, and for me. My daughter in law is making some cherry-cheese tarts for dessert and we have European cookies for the kids.
I probably bake some salmon on 12/24; it is just the two of us.0 -
We're having a nice ribeye roast, green beans sauteed in olive oil with garlic, mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, brussels sprouts, some rolls and a homemade cheesecake with gingerbread cookie crust and a caramelized apple sauce. I'm sure there will be wine and sparkling juices to drink, in addition to water and tea.0
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We have traditional turkey and mashed potatoes Christmas Eve with lots of goodies for snacking. Christmas day Brunch with egg bake muffins fruit cinnamon rolls, then Christmas dinner pork loin cheesy potatoes and pie. Then we get together on Monday with hubby's family and its a potluck of every food you can imagine. All of these have tons of cookies dips and desserts. I will be miserable!0
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Tofurky roast for me, ham for the fam (maybe chicken too if the mother in law brings it) perogies, cabbage rolls, stuffing, buns, pickles, beets,olives, a few salads of some sort and chocolate cake for dessert. We will also have all the pre junkfood goodies like potato chips, chocolate, etc.0
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My inlaws will be cooking their typical heart attack dinner:
- Prime rib
- Twice baked potatoes stuffed with copious amounts of butter, sour cream, bacon and cheese
- Brocolli casserole (brocolli smothered in cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, mayo, and cheese)
- Salad with bacon and blue cheese
- Yorkshire pudding cooked in pan drippings
- Pumpkin cheese cake and ice cream cake for dessert
Since I have suffered through enough holiday dinners with these guys to know that there will be nothing on the menu for me to eat, I'm bringing my own feast:
- Stuffed portabello mushrooms
- Wild rice and butternut squash pilaf
- Salad greens - probably with apples, pecans, pomegranate seeds, balsamic vinagrette
- Roasted brussel sprouts
- Something chocolate for dessert
Last year I was miserable - not able to eat anything (not because I was on a diet, but because literally, everything on their "traditional" menu would send me to the hospital with a gall bladder attack.)
This year, I'm going to be bringing my own food and enjoying a dinner I can eat.0 -
chinese take-out! I married into the tradition and kept it after the divorce. Tasty and refreshing after all the heavy, rich foods all month long. And clean-up is a breeze!!0
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I'm working Christmas Day so I don't know what I will be having....Haven't decided yet but it will be something that I can whip up in a flash......
I drive taxi's and us maxi drivers usually get a short break to have lunch.......0 -
Breakfast is cinnamon raisen french toast and cocoa with a candy cane in it
While we wait for dinner to cook we drink Wassail and eat sesame crackers with port wine cheese (my mom eats all the black olives and gherkins cuz no one else likes em lol)
Cranberry glazed ham, cresent rolls, pecan sweet taters, green bean cassarole, mashed taters with chives, and stuffing.
I am making cake pops and punkin pie with homemade cinnamon whipped cream for dessert. And I will probably munch on the Lindor Truffles and Ferrero Garden coconuts that I asked for in my stocking 0 -
We have dinner Christmas eve and left overs christmas day.
We will have ham, homemade noodles, greenbean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, maybe a salad, rolls and two pies probably pumpkin or apple, but definitely pecan ( my favorite). Hubs will have to choose between apple and pumpkin.
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On Xmas eve day - we don't eat until the "1st star appears in the sky" (Wigilia- Polish)- - with clouds, around 5:30, haha. Around that time everyone is given opłatki (a thin, rectangular wafer - similar to "host" you'd see in church.) The tradition is we go around to everyone in the room, you take a small bit of theirs and they do the same to you and you wish maybe a happy new year, merry xmas, whatever - just some kind of niceties you want to share with them. After all that we have like a zillion trays of pierogi (potato cheese & sweet cheese) some barscz (beet soup), and some sort of fish dish (we don't eat meat on this night.)
On Christmas day it's a free for all - no truly traditional dishes - just a big dinner with the whole fam.0 -
Christmas is at my house this year. I am making baked ham, Pioneer Woman's Potato Gratin (heavenly!), Brussels sprouts, corn (daughter's request), my favorite broccoli salad, rolls, pumpkin pie and snickerdoodles. I may make one more dessert, but don't yet know what. I found a fudge recipe with NUTELLA in it. Not sure I need it, but I definitely want to try it! Oh, and chex mix - yummy! 0
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3 hours of Cardio Dance classes... no rest for my fats. lol
and then... a few sushi...0 -
Christmas mornining - homemade cheese danish and pumpkin spice pancakes (thats for my son & husband I will be having a shake. and a mimosa or two.
Christmas Day - ham, mashed potatoes with skim milk, green beans, cranberry sauce, cheddar biscuits, lemon meringue pie for desert and wine. I will be participating in dinner just limiting portion size :happy:0 -
Turkey, roast potatoes, swede, carrots, cauliflower, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and gravy....I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!! :drinker: 0
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hopfully lots of wine!!!! and some rum in my egg nog:drinker:0
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My family and I have:
CHRISTMAS EVE DINNER - this is smoked salmon on toast with horseradish.. MMMMM
CHRISTMAS MORNING - Whatever sweets and goodies we get from Santa
CHRISTMAS LUNCH - Turkey, Gamon, Peas&Corn, Pumpkin Fritters, Roast Potato, Gravy
DESSERT - whatever I decide to bring along.
And we snack and drink all day long and play with the kids' new toys
Very tiring day actually0 -
Smoked Turkey courtesy of New Braunfels Smokehouse, spiral sliced ham, green bean casserole, broccoli cheese rice casserole, chicken "giblet" gravy (no actual giblets) olive/pickle tray, angel biscuits, pumpkin pie, pecan pie0
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We do a large picnic on Christmas Eve as well while we watch Scrooge- stuffed jalapenos, chips and guacamole and queso, pork and beef tamales, and a BYO sandwich platter plus lots of drinks of course!0
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I don't know what's on the menu at my boyfriend's family's house -- he mentioned possibly ham and/or crab cakes..... and at my grandma's house for Christmas eve, probably ham, steamed broccoli, not sure what else.... I know I'm bringing roasted parmesan green beans! YUM! 0
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Chicken and Dumplings, Cucumber Salad, and Mile High Apple Pie! Going to enjoy every single bite too!0
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We're doing it the french way (in england) so will have christmas dinner on the 24th. i'm making -
Smoked salmon on courgette blini’s
Goat’s cheese and parma ham crostini
Stilton stuffed mushrooms
Onion soup with garlic croutons
Goose with orange stuffing and cranberry sauce
Garlic and rosemary roast potatoes and parsnips
Bacon Brussel sprouts
Red cabbage with apples and walnuts
Pigs in blanket
Cheesy broccoli
Cheesecake
Mince pies and baileys
I'm hungry just thinking about it mmmm i cant wait!!!!!!0 -
Christmas Eve is at my M-I-L's this year, and I think she said she's doing bbq ribs and trimmings. Easy enough for me to resist..(thanks m-i-l) - at our house on Christmas our tradition is Cajun boil. My son asked if we were doing it this year and stated emphatically that if we didn't he would be terribly disappointed. So...Cajun boil it is. YUM!!! And i'm allowing myself Christmas day to enjoy whatever dessert I decide to make. Haven't decided what it's going to be yet. But looking forward to it anyway.0
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We don't usually do anything special on Christmas Eve for dinner. I try to keep it light since most years I'm up wrapping gifts for family or putting gaming tables/bikes together. This year, we're doing Surf and Turf again, since it was a huge hit. The menu for lunch is mostly finger foods (for the kids).
Lunch - Buttermilk Chicken Fingers, Spicy Cocktail Meatballs, Mini Calzones, Waffle Fries, and a Fruit Tray
Christmas Dinner - Grilled New York Strip, Grilled Lobster Tails, Shrimp Scampi, Caesar Salad, and Baked Potatoes
Dessert - Chocolate Cake, a mini Ice Cream Bar, & Jamaican Rum Cake0 -
3 hours of Cardio Dance classes... no rest for my fats. lol
and then... a few sushi...
Now that's one heck of a Christmas menu!!! Good for you!0
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