I'm so excited for Xmas dinner!

My friends and I are making sushi tonight. It's gonna be awesome.

There may or may not be Sake. And I am bringing along a bottle of muscadine table wine that I picked up in Tennessee on a summer vacation.

Duck with chestnusts, kale with bacon apple dressing, serviettenknodel (stuffing/bread), stollen, gingerbread cake,and feuerzangenbowle. I've got my entire day pre-logged already; should be able to keep the entire day under 1800 calories.

Since nothing is open and my ILs will be hogging the kitchen, hubby and I are picking up Pizza Hut tonight for tomorrow's lunch. Me - personal pan pepperoni. Hubby - meat works P'zone. To share - Tuscany meaty marinara pasta with breadsticks. I'm eating a good chunk of the cookies/sweets I've made the last 3 weeks.

Christmas eve - Mussels with garlic sauce and home made bread. something we love and we only needed a few mussels for tomorrow so we are having the rest tonight

Christmas day - as normal as possible (because I like it) plus the cake my FIL prepared
Christmas dinner - carrotsoup (currently preparing the chicken-stock for it from scratch) with mussels with home made nut and seed bread, slow roasted porkbelly (I think BIL and SIL are preparing the main course) and home made Persian ice-cream for dessert and chocolates with coffee. We need to drive home that night and to my brother the next day.

Boxing day at my brothers' and I have no clue what he has in mind.
I hope to get a longish walk in on one of the days but not too phased

Christmas Eve dinner (at home): snow crab legs, shrimp, sea scallops, baked potato, and broccoli (plenty of butter for dipping the crab legs

Christmas Eve dessert - homemade fudge and Christmas cookies, with egg nog (with Captain Morgan for the grown ups)... Will switch to Maker's after kids go to bed

Christmas Day - going to in law's house, not sure what MIL is making (probably Italian food, since they are Italian, lol)

Boxing Day - ham, mashed potatoes and raisin sauce, roasted acorn squash, Brussels sprouts with bacon, green beans, dinner rolls

For dessert on Boxing Day - French silk pie (I made the crust with lard I rendered from the leaf fat of the hog we had slaughtered last spring, and the filling with kerrygold, the best quality baker's chocolate I could find, and very fresh eggs from a friend who keeps chickens) topped with homemade whipped cream... More whiskey on the rocks after kids go to bed!

Looking forward to it

I don't celebrate it, but my relatives are going out for dinner and my aunt says she's having her usual, a salad. They're doing Olive Garden.

bexilashious wrote: »

We are having
Morning
Sausage, Bacon and egg sarnies with tomato sauce

Lunch
Starters
Prawn cocktail (salmon cocktail for me)

Main
Turkey and beef
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Roast butternut squash
Yorkshire pudding
Stuffing
Cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, peas, cabbage
Gravy and mint sauce

Dessert
Trifle for me and the kids
Xmas pudding for the hubby

All washed down with champagne, baileys, cider and mulled wine

And then I'm going to pass out on the sofa

This sounds a lot like my Christmas. I LOVE IT ALL!!!

Tonight (Christmas Eve) I am having an enormous top sirloin grilling steak with jumbo garlic prawns, roasted brocolli with cinnamon and pan roasted radish

Tomorrow I will probably eat turkey breast meat and salad because we'll be at my inlaws

I'm so excited for my food tomorrow and boxing day lol! A whole roast dinner with chicken pork and beef, pigs in blankets & the full works with veggies! And a chocolate brioche sponge pudding with Cornish custard ! My stomach is rumbling at the thought , I haven't indulged properly in a while!

Roasted ham, cheesy potatoes, lots of nibblies ... cheese, crackers, sausage, dips, veggies ... that stuff is way more tempting to me than sweets. But I will sneak in a homemade peanut butter ball (or two!)