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[TriBlurr]

So I thought this might be a fun topic.

This is my first time cooking Christmas dinner myself.

I'm preparing a Turducken which I'm brining the night before. I'll be making a chorizo sasauge stuffing to go with. I'm also prepping a lamb crown, roasted veggies, and overdone potatoes. Also making cornbread biscuits.

For dessert, I have made apple and bumbleberry pies. I also have homemade cookies in ginger and chocolate sugar varieties.

I like to cook.

What's your dinner plans?

Edited by TriBlurr, 24 December 2015 - 12:47 AM.

[Big Show]

Ooh. Good thread.

 

Every year on Christmas Eve, my wife makes her traditional Cuban dinner of pork shoulder, black beans and rice, yuca, and fried plantains. For dessert, we will be having some of the peanut butter/chocolate chip cookies she made yesterday with ice cream.

 

EDIT: Oh, I forgot. I'm making Christmas Eve breakfast this year. Bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits and hash browns. And on Christmas morning, we always have cinnamon rolls.

Edited by Big Show, 24 December 2015 - 06:16 AM.

[Glenn]

Tonight will be a friend's gathering/potluck for all of us without relatives near by. The host is making a ton of fried shrimp and I'm going to contribute with grilled eggplant.

Tomorrow is with a very dear friend. He is doing his 14 hour tomato sauce with sausage and homemade meatballs. I put it over brown rice but everyone else will be having pasta. I'm making an old garlic bread recipe my grandmother gave me that I always liked.

[K Gatzby]

Tomorrow will be Dim Sum!

[wonko the sane?]

Today is beef soup for lunch, and pancakes and bacon for dinner.

 

Tomorrow though: BARBEQUED TURKEY! Mash, stuffing, gravy, carrots, corn, and all the traditional stuff, including about 4 extra people at the table.

[Detour]

Christmas eve: Pizza. Lots of it.

Christmas day: Beef wellington at my parents'.

[videomaster21XX]

I remember growing up my family would always do the same thing every year for Christmas dinner, which was basically Thanksgiving dinner again. There would be turkey, mashed potatoes, casseroles. All that stuff.

 

I never really liked it. We just had all this a month ago on Thanksgiving, why do it again now? 

 

Last year it was just my brothers and I, so I tried to think of something different to do. My answer was to make spaghetti, but a 'super' kind.

 

It had two types of sausage, chicken, ground turkey, ground beef, and meatballs in the sauce, which I make a damn good sauce.

 

Well yesterday I realized we hadn't gone shopping for Christmas dinner, and my roommate works today. By the time he's off, the stores will be closed, so I just opted to buy dinner myself.

 

Well, I couldn't think of what else to do, so spaghetti it is again. Not sure if this will become the tradition, but I have all my meats ready to go, as well as the cheese to add to the sauce.

[Daith]

I could deal with a Spaghetti dinner, especially after I came across the Mozzerella stuffed meatball recipe on youtube lately.

 

We celebrated on the 23rd with a Glazed Sliced Ham, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Butter Sauteed Green Beans, Corn taken off the cob from our garden this summer, A Raspberry Vinagrette Spinach Bacon Salad, a typical veggie tray, a Ritz, Summer Sausage and ColbyJack tray, and some of my mom's Coconut bon bons, Washed down with multiple types of Sparkling Apple Cider (non alcoholic). It was good.

 

Though I'm not making anything this year, for the large family gatherings I usually have made my Mexi Cheese and Chicken Pasta bake.

 

About 2 cups worth cubed Cooked Chicken(I typically buy a package or 2 Southwestern Precooked Slices)

About 1/2 to 1 full box of Pasta of choice (I usually go Penne or Mini Penne, but Macoroni, Rotini, ect works)

A can of Black Beans (rinsed if normal but occasionally I get the seasoned ones and keep the excess juices)

1 small can of Mexicorn or Southwestern Corn

1 large can of Tostitos Salsa Con Queso ( I recommend Tostitos as Store brands never quite come out right, also works well with the Queso Blanco)

A bag of Shredded Mexican Blend Cheese

Optional - 1/2 to 1 cup milk (to help spread the queso), Crushed Tortilla, Dorito, or Frito Chips, Sliced Jalepenos (preferredly non fresh to suit others palettes), Sliced Olives, French Fried Onions....

 

Essentially Cook your Chicken and Pasta. Blend them and the Beans, Corn and Queso together, pour into a casserole dish, top with the shredded cheese and the optionals. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes, Not a dish the timid tend to go for but as long as you don't go overboard with the optionals it's usually pretty mellow cheesyness with enough of a kick that most people would enjoy.

 

It just occurred I should try switching out the chicken for some Beef taco meat....

Edited by Daith, 25 December 2015 - 04:07 AM.

[wonko the sane?]

And now: for the greatest part of christmas! The leftovers! For lunch today: turkey on a Portuguese bun, with light mayo and a sprinkling of fresh cheese (I used some of the Gouda from last night!). Sometime next week: turkey a la king!

[Fnu Aw]

So, so jelly.

 

Nothing on Christmas Eve. Last night I went out to the only restaurant that was open and had sushi.

[Scavgraphics]

I was gonna have the tradtional Jewish Christmas meal of chinese food...but I've been having some stomache issues, so I just had..left overs of some kind...don't even remember..might have just been some chicken.  Might finally get the chinese food tomorrow night.

[Fero McPigletron]

My sister treated the family to a buffet.

 

I ate my guilt.

[Guardian Prime]

For the past decade or so, my brother puts together a themed holiday breakfast for everyone in the family on Christmas morning.  Every year is a different theme and the dining table and surrounding area is completed decorated in that theme.  He'll even put together a printed out themed menu with each breakfast dish called some kind of silly name based on the theme.  It's almost like sitting down in a restaurant for a holiday breakfast.

 

This year the theme was, "Ginger Bread People."  The dish I had chose was called, "Boys to Ginger Men: Can't Dunk This!"  It contained and I quote, "Round Breakfast Pan Style dish with all the greatest hits in one record!  Hashbrowns, scrambled eggs, cheese, sausage, ham, peppers, onions, gravy, and salsa."  All that was in between 2 huge spinach tortillas and decorated (holiday themed, of course) to loosely resemble a vinyl record.

 

As for Christmas dinner, we really don't go all out on that.  Used to back when I was a kid, with everything basically being a copy of Thanksgiving dinner, but everyone got tired of that.  So now for the past several years, we just have a big oven baked ham with yams, mashed potatoes, fruit salad, and regular salad.  I usually don't eat very much for Christmas dinner, as the themed Christmas breakfast keeps me filled up for most of the day.

[wonko the sane?]

I don't even know if we're doing anything on new years day... considering the 2nd is my sisters birthday (and the bitch wants seafood!) and on the 3rd we're road tripping to ottawa (2.5 hour trip.) to visit my grandfather in the veterans home.

 

Frankly... I could murder a home made mac and cheese. That would be all it took to make me happy on new years day.

[Skids]

The holiday feast we had started on Christmas eve.  Where my mom made lot of Italian food.  We had lasagna, spaghetti with meatballs, garlic bread, fruit salad, normal salad and even order some pizza for my niece and nephew.   Then on Christmas day when we hung out with the extended family we had another feast of Honey ham, turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, cranberry sauce and just lot of traditional Christmas foods. Where for deserts we had various pies, cookies, and cup cakes.  So much good food.

 

With New Years approach I usually go to a party were we have pancake meal at midnight which will be fun.

[Wheelimus]

A family friend who hunts gave me like ten pounds of venison as a gift - the best cuts are going in the dehydrator for jerky (*drools*) but the ground deer is going in some awesome chili for a NYE feast. It shall be epic.

 

Hug, I should not have come out and said that Deer Jerky is imminent. Some of you crazy huggers would kill a Wheels for that shit and are a little too close geographically for comfort.