What are you having for Christmas dinner?

C12254

My boyfriend decided were having Rib Roast for Christmas dinner. Ive always done ham with my family. Now im not sure what sides to do with this. Suggestions? What is everyone else cooking?

neanderthin

Yorkshire pudding with prime rib is mandatory, no excuses, must be done.

macx2mommy

I am making a prime rib roast too. I do really simple sides

Yorkshire pudding is my absolute must

My sides this year are the following:

- roasted balsalmic glazed carrots
- roasted beets
- sauteed garlic beans
- creamed corn
- mashed potatoes with truffle salt
- steamed rice
- au jus

pandorakick

I'm having a poultry oven roast and will be making red cabbage with apples, green beans & bacon, cheesy mashed potatoes and oven roasted rosemary potatoes.

Suzib12345

Going to try Seafood Lasagna...using nature's promise organic Alfredo Sauce. Whole Grain noodles, shrimp on first layer, scallops on second layer! Smart Balance light butter, parmesan, and fat free mozzarella and few seasonings. Hope it's good ❤

lisakatz2

It's just hubs and me so no need to have a fancy meal. Basically, it's the same as Thanksgiving
(Roast turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans). I made an apple pie, crust and all, it came out FABULOUS! I think it's because I chilled the crust dough overnight so when it hit the hot oven it became really flaky.

Gisel2015

Oven baked turkey tenderloin with a side dish of whatever vegetable I find inside my freezer. I am out of fresh veggies and I am not going to the market until Friday.
It is only my husband and me, because our son caught the nasty Rona virus and we had to cancel spending the holiday with him and his family. Darn!
Merry Christmas everyone!

springlering62

Just the two of us - unless you count critters.

Breakfast will be a Dutch Baby, with local honey friends brought by this afternoon.

We are meeting them for Chinese for lunch tomorrow. The restaurant does an excellent tofu banh mi, and I’m looking forward to it.

Dinner will be “Swiss Chicken”, which is flattened chicken breast spread with Dijon and a slice of Swiss, rolled, dipped in margarine, and dredged in breadcrumbs, paprika, herbs de Provence and Parmesan, then baked. Sounds high cal but not, and a favorite of us both.

Small side salad, and a half serving of toasted pasta, sautéed with a little olive oil and garlic, cooked in broth.

Dessert, we’ll split a small hazelnut chocolate buche de Noel from the local French bakery.

The High Anxiety Dog will get a slice of cheddar and some chopped smoke pork as a holiday treat. As if that spoiled little sumfin-sumfin needs any more treats! The cats, they aren’t snick-snackers, and are just happy to be served on demand.

……and some one has just started fireworks. I’m sure all the parents of little kids are appreciatin’ that tomfoolery. 🙄

acpgee

I am doing a roast goose. I am hosting a dinner for London orphans on Boxing Day. Besides my husband and I we have an Australian, a Chinese girl and a Russian who are not going home. The Russian is afraid of getting drafted.
I started on Sunday making an industrial quantity of chicken liver pate. I wanted 200g of chicken liver but the butcher refused to sell any quantity smaller than a kilo, which cost £4. I also baked focaccia to make melba toast for
the pate.
Monday the goose got delivered so I removed the wishbone and added that to the neck and organs for stock for gravy on the day. Afterwards I tasted some neck meat which was surprisingly delicious despite boiling in the stockpot pot for 5 hours.
After getting home early from work on Christmas Eve I prepared the goose (poking holes allover so fat can escape while roasting, tightening the skin by pouring boiling water over it in the sink, and dry brining.) Made braised red cabbage and an air fryer cheesecake.
Today’s jobs are bacon and raisin stuffing and cherry sauce for the cheesecake.
Tomorrow on the day I will roast the goose and veggie sides of brussel sprouts, carrots and potatoes. The Australian likes to cook so I will have an extra pair of hands in the kitchen.

acpgee

To go with a rib roast, I would serve the seasonal veg I got recently at an excellent gastro pub to accompany the beef roast dinner. These were gravy, roast potatoes, yorkshire, charred cabbage, charred onion and cauliflower cheese.

Other ideas would be sauteed green beans, and roast or sauteed button mushrooms.

acpgee

Christmas dinner main.

nossmf

Christmas was a repeat of Thanksgiving:

Roast turkey
Brown sugar ham
Mashed potatoes & gravy
Sweet potato casserole
Green beans
Brown sugar carrots
Stuffing
Cranberry jelly
Two types of rolls
Wine (nonalcoholic sparkling cider for those under 21)

Dessert:
Chocolate creme pie
Turtle pie
Pumpkin pie
Christmas cookies - chocolate chip, peanut butter, iced sugar

ldrag07444

My Christmas was basically Thanksgiving, but we also had ham with Applesauce. We had Stuff shells, meatballs and sausage, Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, etc etc. For dessert, I made the orange dreamsicle dessert using SF jello and SF pudding. Look it up; very good. So I skipped the stuffed shells and had a little of everything else. If you indulge on the holiday and get back to logging afterward, think you should be ok.

acpgee

What are people doing with Christmas leftovers? With leftover roast goose we had one night of goose ramen and another of goose tacos. Leftover roast brussel sprouts went into the ramen and leftover braised red cabbage went into the tacos. The part that stumps me is the leftover stuffing in the freezer.

nicsflyingcircus

My eldest daughter made Christmas dinner. Angel hair pasta and meatballs with sauce made with garlic, basil, butter and olive oil, topped with grated Parmesan cheese. Caesar salad and garlic bread to go with.

AnnPT77

I've gotten in the habit of making whatever I want for Christmas, ignoring whether it's traditional or even makes sense. This year it was crustless root vegetable quiche (carrots, sweet potato, parsnip, onions), and just enough muffin-cup Yorkshire puddings for me.




@acpgee, I don't know whether it would suit you, but what I usually do with leftover stuffing is make it into patties/pancake-shapes (adding egg or whatever to bind if needed) and top with something that seems like it'd go nicely with the flavor of the stuffing.

mrandredparis

I had roast duck, mashed potatoes, stuffing, mixed vegetables and gravy