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

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  • Alishia_655
    Alishia_655 Posts: 136
    Turkey, Stuffing, Twice baked potatoes, Green bean casserole and some sort of dessert. It is only my husband, my daughter and myself this year :sad:
  • hillybilly007
    hillybilly007 Posts: 36
    Not to over eat all the delicious food Ha Ha!
  • natalie412
    natalie412 Posts: 1,039 Member
    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.

    OMG, I'm stealing your menu! I picked up a rib roast earlier today to start dry aging in the fridge, but hadn't figured out the rest of the menu yet. Only I will have to do mashed potatoes for my husband - maybe I'll do both. I'd rather have the scalloped potatoes!
  • KeegansMomma
    KeegansMomma Posts: 156
    NORMALLY, it's the standard turkey and sides OR ham and sides.

    This year, we got a pre-cooked ham from Schwans...which we'll eat cold with the other finger foods we're getting (chips/salsa, crackers, veggie tray, maybe a summer sausage, cheese). We decided to go for SUPER easy this year. And we'll be snacking on it all day...so I shouldn't go over my daily calorie allotment. :)
  • ThenTheresChad
    ThenTheresChad Posts: 35
    I think while the families eating, I'm just going to buy a salad & eat that
  • aa1440
    aa1440 Posts: 956 Member
    I have to work the entire Christmas weekend. What the duce?
  • Nic620
    Nic620 Posts: 553 Member
    Homemade tamales Christmas Eve.

    Christmas Day Dinner I host which will Be traditional. Prime Rib, mashed potatoes, veggies, rolls,...
  • ImJDLookatME
    ImJDLookatME Posts: 288 Member
    I don't do Christmas dinner anymore, so I like to splurge on movie butter popcorn as I am watching a movie at the local theater. My new tradition, been doing it for like the last 4 years! :)
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Christmas Eve:
    Roast pork, apple sauce, salads, christmas pudding, cheesecake

    Christmas Morning:
    Frenh toast, croissants, fruit salad

    Christmas Lunch:
    Seafood (oysters, prawns, crayfish etc) salads, more christmas pudding

    Christmas dinner:
    Several roast meats, salads, veg, and about a dozen desert options

    Boxing Day Brunch (day after Christmas):
    Bacon & Eggs, toast, champagne etc, again about a dozen little cakes/deserts.

    Then, EXPLODE! :P
  • ricanstace
    ricanstace Posts: 80
    We always have prime rib and crab!!
  • mazza2marilyn
    mazza2marilyn Posts: 145
    it is nice to know what everybody else has for their Christmas dinner,ours will be

    for starter
    prawns
    smoked salmon
    bread roll

    main
    Turkey
    roast beef
    roast potatoes
    brussel sprouts
    roast parsnips
    carrots
    yorkshire puddings
    pigs in blankets
    horse radish sauce
    cranberry sauce
    bread sauce
    gravy

    followed by
    christmas pudding
    or
    italian trifle

    And now we know why we are all on this site lol.
  • doughnutwretch
    doughnutwretch Posts: 498 Member
    Bree w/ crackers and some sweet & spicy jams
    Wolferman's english muffins with jam

    Ham
    Mashed potatoes
    Green bean casserole
    Homemade butter roles
    Some type of jello/marshmallow thing
    Glazed sweet potatoes
    Etc

    Carrot cake
    Brownie Bottom Pudding Pie
    Etc
  • krazyforyou
    krazyforyou Posts: 1,428 Member
    We are having ribeye steaks, creamed spinach with parm, yeast rolls, baked potatos with all the trimmings, lima beans, assorted cheeses and jams, apple crumble pie with homemade whipped vanilla cream. Yum yum
  • sandiki
    sandiki Posts: 454
    Awesome what time?
    Christmas Eve:
    Roast pork, apple sauce, salads, christmas pudding, cheesecake

    Christmas Morning:
    Frenh toast, croissants, fruit salad

    Christmas Lunch:
    Seafood (oysters, prawns, crayfish etc) salads, more christmas pudding

    Christmas dinner:
    Several roast meats, salads, veg, and about a dozen desert options

    Boxing Day Brunch (day after Christmas):
    Bacon & Eggs, toast, champagne etc, again about a dozen little cakes/deserts.

    Then, EXPLODE! :P
  • sandiki
    sandiki Posts: 454
    I'll hit yours next
    it is nice to know what everybody else has for their Christmas dinner,ours will be

    for starter
    prawns
    smoked salmon
    bread roll

    main
    Turkey
    roast beef
    roast potatoes
    brussel sprouts
    roast parsnips
    carrots
    yorkshire puddings
    pigs in blankets
    horse radish sauce
    cranberry sauce
    bread sauce
    gravy

    followed by
    christmas pudding
    or
    italian trifle

    And now we know why we are all on this site lol.
  • MelissaE27
    MelissaE27 Posts: 682 Member
    We are having homemade lasagna, salad with cran raisins , mandarins etc, homemade french garlic bread.. for dessert fruit pizza.. yummm
  • Dom82
    Dom82 Posts: 235
    Christmas Eve- I'm cooking. We are having chicken "bon bons" filled with cranberry sauce and cream cheese, with roast potato carrot and pumpkin with Italian herbs and a salad....Dessert- hopefully chili dark chocolate mud cake... :love:

    Christmas- lunch will be prawn curry at the in laws then drinks to a friends house and back to the in laws for a roast pork dinner. I'm mkaing little mini chocolate tartlets for dessert.

    Boxing day: packing up the car and going camping for 3 days! :drinker:
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Awesome what time?
    Christmas Eve:
    Roast pork, apple sauce, salads, christmas pudding, cheesecake

    Christmas Morning:
    Frenh toast, croissants, fruit salad

    Christmas Lunch:
    Seafood (oysters, prawns, crayfish etc) salads, more christmas pudding

    Christmas dinner:
    Several roast meats, salads, veg, and about a dozen desert options

    Boxing Day Brunch (day after Christmas):
    Bacon & Eggs, toast, champagne etc, again about a dozen little cakes/deserts.

    Then, EXPLODE! :P

    Well Christmas eve dinner will start about 5pm Saturday, which means you have a little over 50 hours to get here... with a 20 hour plane ride, you might want to get packing! :P
  • sandiki
    sandiki Posts: 454
    Heck im at the airport now ;p
    ....
    Awesome what time?
    Christmas Eve:
    Roast pork, apple sauce, salads, christmas pudding, cheesecake

    Christmas Morning:
    Frenh toast, croissants, fruit salad

    Christmas Lunch:
    Seafood (oysters, prawns, crayfish etc) salads, more christmas pudding

    Christmas dinner:
    Several roast meats, salads, veg, and about a dozen desert options

    Boxing Day Brunch (day after Christmas):
    Bacon & Eggs, toast, champagne etc, again about a dozen little cakes/deserts.

    Then, EXPLODE! :P

    Well Christmas eve dinner will start about 5pm Saturday, which means you have a little over 50 hours to get here... with a 20 hour plane ride, you might want to get packing! :P
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Cool, let me know when you arrive and I'll have my driver pick you up!
  • ohnogogo
    ohnogogo Posts: 110 Member
    Family comes to our house Christmas Eve for dinner, spends the night and then stays for all of Christmas Day. Since three of us are eating healthier we are trying to put together a menu that everyone will enjoy, but that won't make the three of us feel like fat-laden carb monsters. We are sneaking in fat free items where we can and where we think the rest of the family won't detect them. What they don't know won't hurt them.

    Christmas Eve Dinner:
    Roast Turkey
    Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes w/ Gravy
    Cranberry Orange Stuffing
    Broccoli with Orange Sauce
    Whole wheat rolls
    Big salad with all sorts of veggies, crab & sesame ginger dressing

    There will be pie for dessert because it is Christmas dangit and everyone loves pie.

    Christmas Breakfast:
    Monkey Bread (for the kids & evil relatives who can eat w/out gaining weight. I gain weight typing the words "Monkey Bread")
    Fresh strawberry-banana-kale smoothies for us poor *kitten* who shouldn't be eating the monkey bread
    Scrambled eggs (eggs courtesy of our lovely lil chickens)
    Fresh OJ

    Snacky Bits on Christmas Day:
    Loads of fresh oranges & grapes
    Loads of fresh veggies
    Cheeses and crackers (for the aforementioned evil relatives who can eat w/out gaining weight)

    Christmas Lunch
    Homemade Turkey Vegetable Soup
    Homemade bread
    Any leftover bits from the night before people cannot resist
  • significance
    significance Posts: 436 Member
    Interesting to see so many people doing something special on Christmas Eve. For us, it's Christmas Day that's the big day. Christmas Eve is just another work day, except that we usually go home a little early and eat a little lighter in anticipation of over-indulging on Christmas Day!
  • mnwalkingqueen
    mnwalkingqueen Posts: 1,299 Member
    Honey walnut shrimp, fried rice, cesar salad, meat and cheese tray and cookies. We are making honey walnut shrimp for the first time hope it turns out fine.
  • pucenavel
    pucenavel Posts: 972 Member
    Splurge day! (I'll work it off on Monday & Tuesday)

    Prime Rim (and lot's of it, brother!!)
    Wild Rice (instead of those 'empty calorie' mashers)
    Au Jus
    Horseradish
    Spaghetti Squash with Brown Sugar (and butter! - real butter!)
    Raspberry Sorbet
    Chocolate Mousse - homemade from scratch, layered with Vanilla/Mint Whipped Cream and Crushed Thin Mint cookies
    Martinelli's Sparkling Cider
  • Rayman79
    Rayman79 Posts: 2,009 Member
    Prime Rim (and lot's of it, brother!!)

    I hope that was a typo... or you have some very strange eating habits! :laugh: :laugh:
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Prime Rim (and lot's of it, brother!!)

    I hope that was a typo... or you have some very strange eating habits! :laugh: :laugh:

    .... you, sir, are awesome.
  • stayxtrue
    stayxtrue Posts: 1,186 Member
    I am going to be strict on myself, so I will make sure all my portions are fine and I will be eating a larger portion of chicken and turkey to keep my protein up... There will be no alcohol for me and no desert or junk... I just know that if i eat desert and sweet stuff I will feel sick! and thats the last thing I want on christmas day, so I am going to be a good boy :)
  • beatlegirl1
    beatlegirl1 Posts: 16
    Ham, potato salad, broccoli salad, eggnog, cheesecake, and smoked turkey.
  • chrisdavey
    chrisdavey Posts: 9,834 Member
    turkey
    ham
    roast veggies
    salads

    I'm making:
    pumpkin pie
    http://thebikinibaker.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-summer-night-daiquiri-cake.html
    http://www.eggnogrecipe.net/low-fat-eggnog-recipe.html
  • Thena81
    Thena81 Posts: 1,265 Member
    spiral ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, mac n cheese with rolls and homemade sweet potato pie and some cupcakes and cookies! happy holidays to all! :P
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