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Let's talk food...Christmas Dinner Food!
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MaddogK
Sim Junkie
Were getting 2 pans of home made lasagna from a local italian restaurant . Its cheaper for us to have it catered than to cook for 18 people. Will also have fresh bread from a local bakery, and lotsa vino.
The silver is polished, the crystal is spotless, but we went with 'paper plates' to speed the cleanup.
The silver is polished, the crystal is spotless, but we went with 'paper plates' to speed the cleanup.
Christmas Day, Deb and I will have a nice quiet dinner. Baked Chicken, mashed taters, stuffing, cranberries, cheese, rolls. Cheesecake or Blackberry Pie for desert (using the blackberries I picked this summer from right behind our house). The big Family Eating will take place on Jan 1 at a place called the Rural Life Center....we have a large cabin thingie rented....that is where the food will be piled high, the entire family will be gathered together and we will all eat too much, laugh our heads off and play every silly and goofy game ever invented.
OBIO
OBIO
Hiede
Members +
This year for Christmas Eve we will have the nieghbors over for a little b-b-q.Menu-steak,chicken,burgers,potato salad and of course pineapple.
Christmas we do the show for the seniors as we always do and than later will have Honey roasted chicken with all the trimmings.Dessert Cherry,Apple pies and some Christmas cookies.We will also have a little party with cold cuts,salads,cheese,and rolls for our company during the evening.
Hiede
Christmas we do the show for the seniors as we always do and than later will have Honey roasted chicken with all the trimmings.Dessert Cherry,Apple pies and some Christmas cookies.We will also have a little party with cold cuts,salads,cheese,and rolls for our company during the evening.
Hiede
Christmas Eve is usually quiet family time. We have a tradition of watching the movie It's A Wonderful Life. 
This year we will be at the in-laws on Christmas day. The menu will most likely be roast turkey, ham, squash, some sort of green bean casserole (not my fav hehe), mashed taters, sweet taters, cranberries, & fresh hot homemade rolls. Dessert is usually pumpkin, apple & lemon pie & ice cream.
Moses
This year we will be at the in-laws on Christmas day. The menu will most likely be roast turkey, ham, squash, some sort of green bean casserole (not my fav hehe), mashed taters, sweet taters, cranberries, & fresh hot homemade rolls. Dessert is usually pumpkin, apple & lemon pie & ice cream.
Moses
cheezyflier
Charter Member
we'll be doing the old standards. you know, stuffed turkey, mashed taters, gravy, cran substance, biscuits, corn, apple pie, sparkling cider. but the thing i look forward to is my ambrosia - madarin orange, cherries, grapes, pineapple, cool whip and mini marshmallows. it's best about 3 or 4 days after i make it though.
oh, christmas eve is pogos and fries with ovaltine
oh, christmas eve is pogos and fries with ovaltine
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Bjoern~ I love potato salad! Especially made with red-skinned potatoes! Umm, now the goose on the other hand, I'm not so sure I would like that.....I'll take some dumplings though!
Potatoes come in other colors?
And I'm no big fan of goose either, but it's at least better than duck.
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harleyman
Guest
Henry~ What is posole? LOL @ Turkey breast sandwiches! I love primerib! That's on our menu for Christmas Eve.
We just have a quiet night at home with our two daughters...No fancy food..To much work..Christmas morninng we have sweet rolls and coffee...
Christmas dinner this year is Ham , Potatoes of some kind, some king of bean stuff cooked overnight in the crock pot?, and rolls, pies, cookies, Nothing to fancy..We do that for Thanksgiving....
But I perfer Prime Rib W/ Yorkshire pudding
Mexican Pork Stew with Homminy...Not grits...LOL
Ingredients for Posole
12 dried long red chile
10 lbs. Boned pork roast cut into 1" cubes
1/2 head of garlic peeled and chopped
A large pinch of Mexican oregano
1/2 of a large onion, chopped
Large can hominy
Salt
Preparation
Break open the chiles and remove the seeds and veins. Put the chiles to cook in a medium sized pot. Cover with fresh water and gently boil until chiles are very soft. Let the mixture cool and using a favorite method, blend the chile and the water to make a paste and strain.
Meanwhile, put the cubed pork, oregano, garlic, onion and salt into a large heavy pot and cover with water. Boil meat gently for 30 minutes. When the meat is soft, add the chile and hominy and cook for 15 to 20 minutes until the mixture is boiling nicely.
To serve, ladle the posole into heavy bowls and serve with thinly sliced cabbage and radishes, quartered limes, oregano, chopped onion, and fresh corn tortillas. Besides these side dishes, posole is usually served with sodas or cervesas.
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sandar
Guest
Christmas eve we will be having tonights leftovers. I deliberately made too much beef stew with mushrooms and pulses. We will be far too busy Christmas eve to bother with any fancy cooking. I have to go and fetch my mum as she is staying with us over the Christmas period, but she wants to go to the midnight service at the village church first. That means we won't get home until about two in the morning.
We took a plateful of stew and vegetables over the road to an elderly neighbour (89) who is now more or less housebound and couldn't even cross the road to us, but it is very cold and icy, even if the snow is slowly melting in the cold rain.
Christmas lunch will be:
Starter: Smoked salmon on a pastry base
Main course: Roast turkey, homemade stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts, leeks and savoy cabbage, all fresh, winter vegetables, with bread sauce and/or cranberry sauce
Desert: Good old fashioned Christmas pudding, lots of suet, lots of fruit and lots of calories, but as one of my nieces insist is true, calories don't count at Christmas. There will also be a summer fruit compote as my wife hates Christmas pudding (she is a type one diabetic and is just coming round form a hypo as I type this). There will be a choice of wines.
On Monday we have another house full visitors and we are going have roast leg of lamb, seasonal vegetable and either mint or onion gravy, I haven't decided yet.
Deserts will be a choice of cheesecakes, fruit compote (again) or chocolate ice cream roulade. Wines will be available.
There will also be a variety of cheeses available after both meals, just in case anyone is still hungry and a glass or three of port
Then, just like Santa, I will hibernate for the rest of the year and sleep it all off.
We took a plateful of stew and vegetables over the road to an elderly neighbour (89) who is now more or less housebound and couldn't even cross the road to us, but it is very cold and icy, even if the snow is slowly melting in the cold rain.
Christmas lunch will be:
Starter: Smoked salmon on a pastry base
Main course: Roast turkey, homemade stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts, leeks and savoy cabbage, all fresh, winter vegetables, with bread sauce and/or cranberry sauce
Desert: Good old fashioned Christmas pudding, lots of suet, lots of fruit and lots of calories, but as one of my nieces insist is true, calories don't count at Christmas. There will also be a summer fruit compote as my wife hates Christmas pudding (she is a type one diabetic and is just coming round form a hypo as I type this). There will be a choice of wines.
On Monday we have another house full visitors and we are going have roast leg of lamb, seasonal vegetable and either mint or onion gravy, I haven't decided yet.
Deserts will be a choice of cheesecakes, fruit compote (again) or chocolate ice cream roulade. Wines will be available.
There will also be a variety of cheeses available after both meals, just in case anyone is still hungry and a glass or three of port
Then, just like Santa, I will hibernate for the rest of the year and sleep it all off.
Cazzie
SOH-CM-2024
Well, down this way, it will be Christmas supper C9G.
We shall not start until 5:00 pm Christmas Day. Tomorrow, it is traditional to meet at my mother's.
Unfortunately, my wife's mother underwent surgery for blockage at 11:00 this morning and it is just not going to be the same with nine grand chillin' and no Me-Me.
But we will have a cornucopia of food, some snack, some entree, some casserole, and my favorite to make, Пелмини, Pelmini.
My Pelmini is from a Siberian recipe. I slow cook three varieties of meat, in this case it will be chicken breasts, beef roast, and mutton roast, as my wife's sister is married to a Pakistani Muslim and pork is forbidden. I eat it, but I respect his religion and mutton is as good a substitute.
Anyhow, the three small roasts are slow-cooked in a smoker with basted sauces added at intervals. Once finger drippin' good, they are removed and all are minced up into fine pieces of meat and mixed, then rolled into little balls about three-guarter of an inch thick, placed in a pan and then in the refrigirator until company arrives. When company arrives, I make a special bread dough and roll it out very thin (important, about one-eighth of an inch will do). Using a cookie cutter I cut circles of dough and wrap a pelmini ball with the dough. I preheat my oven to 350 and once done, slide the pelmini in for about 15 minutes. This is done until all are cooked. They are all eaten, Ali will hardly eat anything else.
In old days, should be served with Stoly Vodka. Pelmini was made, wrapped in dough and frozen (easy thing in Siberia). When food was needed, the frozen Pelmini could be brought out and either boiled in water until done or deep fried in lard, now days we'd use Canola Oil. This is important to remember for tailgating at football games or car races.
Merry Christmas
Caz
We shall not start until 5:00 pm Christmas Day. Tomorrow, it is traditional to meet at my mother's.
Unfortunately, my wife's mother underwent surgery for blockage at 11:00 this morning and it is just not going to be the same with nine grand chillin' and no Me-Me.
But we will have a cornucopia of food, some snack, some entree, some casserole, and my favorite to make, Пелмини, Pelmini.
My Pelmini is from a Siberian recipe. I slow cook three varieties of meat, in this case it will be chicken breasts, beef roast, and mutton roast, as my wife's sister is married to a Pakistani Muslim and pork is forbidden. I eat it, but I respect his religion and mutton is as good a substitute.
Anyhow, the three small roasts are slow-cooked in a smoker with basted sauces added at intervals. Once finger drippin' good, they are removed and all are minced up into fine pieces of meat and mixed, then rolled into little balls about three-guarter of an inch thick, placed in a pan and then in the refrigirator until company arrives. When company arrives, I make a special bread dough and roll it out very thin (important, about one-eighth of an inch will do). Using a cookie cutter I cut circles of dough and wrap a pelmini ball with the dough. I preheat my oven to 350 and once done, slide the pelmini in for about 15 minutes. This is done until all are cooked. They are all eaten, Ali will hardly eat anything else.
In old days, should be served with Stoly Vodka. Pelmini was made, wrapped in dough and frozen (easy thing in Siberia). When food was needed, the frozen Pelmini could be brought out and either boiled in water until done or deep fried in lard, now days we'd use Canola Oil. This is important to remember for tailgating at football games or car races.
Merry Christmas
Caz
Christmas for us is different.... We gather on Christmas Eve, and share a huge dinner...
We have Crispy roasted pork (yummy), rice, adobo - chicken and pork cooked in soysauce and vinegar in low steam, tinola (chicken soup- with unripe papaya fruit and pepper leaves and ginger and pepper corn), FISH - Milk fish- Rilyeno pounded to remove the bones and stuffed with stuffings - ground meat and something else -, Another milk fish, cut into half -lengthwise (not all the way)- stuffed with onions and pepper, salt and tomatoes and grilled wrapped in alluminum foil....
We have chicken cooked in tomato sauce and water, chunks of potatoes, pineapple and raisins, and pepper, pepper corn..
Beans - sauteed in chopped garlic and pepper (powder)
Now with desert:
Fruit Salad... all kinds of fruits from the cocktail... mixed with nestle cream and freezon in the freezer for a day... and served like ice cream... (just one of them)
Man, I don't know what else we have for Christmas... we have a table full of food... and food and more food!
We have Crispy roasted pork (yummy), rice, adobo - chicken and pork cooked in soysauce and vinegar in low steam, tinola (chicken soup- with unripe papaya fruit and pepper leaves and ginger and pepper corn), FISH - Milk fish- Rilyeno pounded to remove the bones and stuffed with stuffings - ground meat and something else -, Another milk fish, cut into half -lengthwise (not all the way)- stuffed with onions and pepper, salt and tomatoes and grilled wrapped in alluminum foil....
We have chicken cooked in tomato sauce and water, chunks of potatoes, pineapple and raisins, and pepper, pepper corn..
Beans - sauteed in chopped garlic and pepper (powder)
Now with desert:
Fruit Salad... all kinds of fruits from the cocktail... mixed with nestle cream and freezon in the freezer for a day... and served like ice cream... (just one of them)
Man, I don't know what else we have for Christmas... we have a table full of food... and food and more food!