What are you having to eat for christmas?
blueakama
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We've decided to have a roast duck this year, with roast veggies and crispy potatoes. I'm mostly looking forward to trying heston blumenthal pudding with custard.
Then we going to do it all again at both my relatives. The biggest danger is cheese and biscuits which will be on offer at my in-laws before lunch is served. So I've decided to take some veggie sticks and hummus along instead.
What's on your menu?
Then we going to do it all again at both my relatives. The biggest danger is cheese and biscuits which will be on offer at my in-laws before lunch is served. So I've decided to take some veggie sticks and hummus along instead.
What's on your menu?
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Prawn cocktails for starters, then roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, baked ham, potato salad, roasted pumpkin, feta and baby spinach salad, some other salad we haven't decided yet, home baked bread rolls and mince pies and chocolates for dessert
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Either a Celebration Roast, or a Harvest loaf, mashed potatoes with mushroom gravy, sweet potato casserole, Brussels sprouts, broccoli. Fresh bread and figgy pudding! Along with assorted cookies and other treats.0
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We do Christmas a little differently here - it's the middle of Summer
Lunch is generally cold cut meats (ham, turkey, chicken, sometimes prawns) + salad and something cold for dessert, generally a pavlova & ice cream. It's often too hot to eat too much.
Dinner is a bbq (Aussie bbq are different to American bbq - normally just meat cooked on the hot plate, could be steak, sausages, chicken, fish, whatever we fancy), salads and again a cold dessert.
Beer, cider and other cold drinks flow freely throughout the day
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We're doing a ham this year. I usually do a prime rib, but with the cost of beef going through the roof and the number of people I have coming over, it's just not going to work.
Not sure about sides yet...probably my mom's chipotle roasted sweet potatoes...I'll probably make some candied carrots and I'm thinking about a mushroom risotto as well. My sister will probably bring some roasted brussels sprouts and my wife's parents will bring the plum pudding and brandy butter.0 -
We are gonna do a prime rib, a turkey, and ham. For sides we are gonna have macaroni & cheese, sweet potato casserole... not sure what else yet.0
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Roast duck is fabulous.
My guess is rack of lamb, although my personal choice would be prime rib. With it, mashed potatoes, Brussels, fancy green bean (green beans with mushrooms and dill, my personal choice in lieu of green bean casserole), and some kind of dessert, depending on what my family votes for. I'm always pro pie, but last year they went with pumpkin cheesecake.0 -
Plain and simple traditional turkey dinner. We accidentally cooked one upside down one year, and it was so juicy and delicious, we've had turkey for dinner at Xmas ever since.0
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Cooking a ham on the bone (about 1000x better than those pre-cut hams), mashed taters, carrot and turnip mash, my homemade sage stuffing (kid's begged), green beans or brussel sprouts (sauteed with bacon probably). Also likely do a cheese/sausage/cracker tray and a veggie tray with ranch as nibbles for the afternoon. Maybe deviled eggs if I feel motivated (I may have to work Christmas eve, my "seasonal part time" job has ramped up to 40hrs next week, so it wouldn't shock me).
Breakfast is always cinnamon rolls and fruit salad.0 -
This is the first year we are staying home. Just me, my husband and our two kids. No more spending the whole day in the car driving to and from the in-laws. Yay!
My husband is the cook in our house. He's thinking prime rib.0 -
Christmas Eve:
Kimchee fried rice
Bulgogi
Honey soy salmon
Steamed dumplings
Veggie pancakes
Egg nog
Cherry cordials
Christmas cookies
Wine
Christmas Day:
Turkey
Roast beef
Stuffing
Sweet potatoes
Veggies
Meringue cake
Chocolates
Pecan pie
Wine
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Smoked brisket
Cheesecakes
Baklava
Brown sugar sweet potatos
Chips dips
Tray of veggie
Smoked sausage
Crab legs
Shrimp cocktail
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starter:
brie and cranberry parcels
main:
turkey
stuffing
pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes
brussel sprouts
carrots
parsnips
sweet potato
gravy
dessert:
christmas pudding and cream
cheese board and crackers
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Ham, roasted veggies, probably some mashed potatoes, and a chestnut cream Yule log (going to attempt one for the first time).0
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I'm just looking forward to cream horns and the ham. I just want the meat and sweets!0
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About 10 or so various salads (salad olivier, crab salad, chicken salad, cheese and garlic salad, fish layered salad..etc), 4 or so cakes and cake-like stuff (mousse cake, yule log.. etc), mashed potatoes, stuffed grape leaves and zucchini, turkey, and other odds and ends. in addition to drinks.0
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My mum and I have sweet French toast for breakfast; my dad and brothers have egg and bacon baguettes. Then Prosecco and shedloads of chocolate. Then Christmas dinner is about 4pm and this year for the first time we're having goose, with the usual roast potatoes, meat stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, red cabbage, broccoli, roast carrots and parsnips, and pigs in blankets. Pudding is either Christmas pud with custard or chocolate orange cheesecake (or both, if you're me).0
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Christmas eve dinner is a beef tenderloin, Christmas day I believe my mother-in-law is making ham.0
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Turkey or chicken legs, rice, a spinach dish, brownies.
I'm not sure if we will have that Christmas eve or day. We are pretty much just having regular meals either day not giant feasts.0 -
Christmas Day is usually a roast of some kind, on Boxing Day we go to my Aunt’s for traditional Polish food . BUT Christmas Eve is my favourite meal of the entire year no doubt... we go to my mom's and have an Italian seafood feast, I am already getting excited just thinking about it!
Apps:
-Cold crab and pea salad
-Deviled eggs
-Shrimp cocktail
-Cheese and mushroom puff pastries
-Crispelli (Italian fried dough)
-Assorted hard cheeses and olives
Mains:
-Spaghetti in tuna sauce
-Zuppa di Pesce (seafood stew with monkfish, shrimp, mussels, squid, crab, and lobster) served with fresh bread
-Sautéed rapini
-Roasted red peppers
-Arugula and romaine salad
-Fennel salad
-Lots of vino
Dessert:
-Roasted chestnuts
-Cake, cookies, tarts, chocolate
-Espresso
-Grappa, port and Fernet
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Meat fondue. We call it "Chinese fondue" here. It's basically a pot of hot soup, and you stick thin slices of meat into it with a long fork, cook it and eat it. There's various sauces on the side too. Those are the calorie bombs.0
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We're having a cajun Christmas with crawfish pies and shrimp jambalaya ... southern chess pie and bread pudding ...0
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Christmas Eve: salami, cheese, ravioli and sauce from our neighborhood Italian shops
Christmas Morning: monkeybread while my kids open their presents
Christmas Evening: dinner at husband's cousins. Menu is usually ham or brisket, a potato dish, a vegetable, lots of appetizers and desserts
I'm hosting my family on the 27th. I'm still working on the menu. We might do soup and sandwiches, I would have my brother smoke a turkey breast, I would make Italian Beef, and then maybe a big crockpot of potato soup with again, lots of appetizers and desserts...0 -
I'm not sure about Christmas Eve--I'll be with my boyfriend's family.
Christmas Day, however, is with my family. Throughout the day, we typically have snacky food out to munch on:
Cheese/Sausage
Fruit
Nuts
Cookies
Veggies, Etc.
Dinner will be amazing...I'm looking forward to it:
Swedish Meatballs
Lingonberries
Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Veggies
Dessert includes Christmas cookies and pie. Yum! 0 -
We go out for Japanese food on Christmas Eve. So I'll have calamari, edamame, tempura udon, and mochi ice cream for dessert. Then on Christmas day, I'll make lasagna and garlic bread, and probably green beans or broccoli. Cheesecake for dessert.0
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We'll probably just have egg for breakfast Xmas day, then cheese on crackers for lunch, and dinner will be turkey or chicken with carrots, roast potatoes, stuffing, peas, sprouts, pigs in blankets (that's sausages wrapped in bacon for the non-English) and gravy, then maybe a mince pie with brandy butter.
I'll probably have some prosecco too. That's my favourite part lol.0 -
whatever is being served on the cruise 0
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Oh that sounds lovely.
I'm visiting family this year so I'm not sure. Probably spiral ham, mashed potatoes (I hope anyway, there weren't any at Thanksgiving this year :noway:), stuffing, and homemade rolls. I'll be making cream cheese danish for Christmas morning, Biscoff truffles, toffee shortbread, sugar cookies, and some kind of cupcakes although I haven't decided what kind yet.0 -
I am not sure which family's tradition will win out. My husband's family likes us to make Lasagna (they were stationed in Italy when he was little and have the best ever recipe). My family is German and likes having sauerbraten and other various german sides. In the past we have done both but I refuse to do that again. Too much work and money spent on food. I want to simplify and enjoy the day as much as possible.0
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Roast goose (haven't had one for years, and we'll be eating leftovers for weeks), roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, cranberry relish, braised red cabbage, DH's fabulous pork stuffing, carrots, baked sweet potato. Oh and a nice pinot noir most likely.
We'll have a little break, then Christmas cake and tea/coffee and put DD to bed before port and cheese.
We usually have Christmas pud (with coconut ice cream) on Boxing Day (26th) because otherwise you just feel sick.
We've taken the bits of English tradition we like and changed them for the US..0
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