What are you making for Christmas Dinner?

[llori7]

This is my first Christmas Dinner at our house. I am making a turkey. I need some side dishes! I know I am making apple cobbler and cookies for dessert, so tell me what you are making! I need some new ideas!

Thanks!

 

[emmababy]

Corn Casserole, stuufing, mashed potatoes. Or the other things we love- green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, salad, rolls.

 

[dizneychik]

I will be making mac n cheese, dressing, sweet potato pie, deviled eggs and chicken/ham. All except the ham will be homemade.

 

[DawnM]

I am not too sure. We typically do another Thanksgiving type meal.

I know we will have:

Fresh salad
Green beans
Corn
Mashed Potatoes

Turkey

Pecan pie
pumpkin pie

Not sure what else.....maybe a sweet potato dish? Maybe stuffing?

Dawn

 

[MrsNick]

Standing rib roast,
salad,
some type of homemade potato dish (maybe garlic mashed),
cranberry sauce (ocean spray - DH prefers it to homemade ),
green beans,
and whatever else looks good at the supermarket.

Dessert may be storebought (I usually make a cheesecake and cookies, but I've got an infant who prefers that I pay attention to her instead of bake )

 

[Goofy'slady]

We do X-mas Eve here in our family so I usually make a big dinner with all of the trimmings but this year I decided to keep it small.

Appetizers:
Deviled Eggs
Shrimp wrapped in bacon

Main meal:
Deep Dish sausage and spinach lasagna
Caesar salad
Garlic knot rolls

Dessert:
Pumpkin cookie sandwiches with cream cheese filling
A dump cake

Drinks:
Egg Nog (or my 11 & 4yr olds will die without it)
dessert wine


On X-mas Day I usually prepare a brunch and I'm still planning on doing that.

Hashbrown casserole
Spicy sausage casserole
A seasonal fruit salad
and both virgin and regular Mimosas

For dinner that night - there should be plenty of leftovers for us to choose from - the only thing we might make is homemade hot chocolate. All the time I save from not having to cook I can spend enjoying the holiday itself WITH my family.

T.

 

[Pixie Princess]

I'm making shrimp and grits, ya'll. Because not all the extended fam like shrimp and grits (that's okay.. more for us that do!) we'll also being doing a turkey and sides like green bean casserole, a tossed salad, black-eyed peas.

I have to say though, one of the best Christmas Day meals we had was when we all just made some sort of finger food to snack on through the day. We also had a veggie tray. Easy prep.. no pressure. Kind of wish we were doing that again now.

 

[Bastiansmom]

Christmas Eve we go to Grandma's house (over the river and thru the woods) to have shrimp cocktail, steaks, salad, baked potatoes, rolls, baked beans, and other snacky type foods (appetizers).

Christmas day I am making a beef roast cooked with potatoes, celery, and carrots. There will also be salad, corn on the cob, gravy and rolls. I am serving peppermint ice cream with hot fudge for dessert. There will only be a few of us, and we all like leftover roast so it works out well. If more people end up coming, there should still be plenty.

We save the black eyed peas for New Year's Day!

 

[Darcy03231]

Steaks cooked on the grill
Baked stuffed shrimp
Loaded baked potatoes
Green beans
Corn
Rolls


For dessert I put out an assortment of cookies.

 

[Deffenm]

This year we are having prime rib, baked potatoes, fruit salad, rolls, and salad, We will also have cookies and pie for desert.

 

[mindyd]

We are having

Cheese, Peperoni, Crackers
Mexican Dip
Deviled Eggs
Beer Bread
Bacon Dip, Blue Cheese Dip
Stuffed Mushrooms
Coleslaw
Cranberry sauce
Turkey
Ham
Stuffing
Butter and Parsley Potato- I really wanted mashed but got out voted
Broccoli and Cheese Corn
Rolls

Cookies
Different Cheese Cake
Pie

 

[bas71873]

This is my first year too and hosting about 15 peeps. My mom is bringing the turkey & stuffing (I don't stick my hand in a bird ) and she's doing the sweet potatoes too. I am doing the ham, mashed taters, corn pudding casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls and just having tons of cookies for dessert. Oh, and angel food cake and fruit salad - a tradition on my dad's side and my mom is still trying to perfect my deceased grandma's recipe

 

[amy1976]

We have xmas at our house every year and I make almost the same thing every year:

Apps:
Stromboli breads
shrimp cocktail

Dinner:
Pasta with vodka sauce
crab cakes
filet mignon with a wasabi cream sauce
brussel sprouts or some veggie
salad

Dessert:
Cheesecake
assorted cookies and fruit

I am getting so hungry reading all of your menus! Everything sounds delicious!

 

[happymommy]

With two kids, plus having total of 19 peeps here on Christmas day/evening, I am not cooking! Okay, I'll make potato casserole (the day before, just warm up). From our local Giant (grocery store) I'm ordering

- sliced rare beef tenderloin (for little tenderloin sandwiches)
- roasted vegetable tray
- side of poached salmon (comes with capers, onions, etc)
- platter of fruit
- shrimp platter

I'll make cookies, and also have cheeses and some other appetizers. My DSIL is bringing some things too. We use those plastic plates that look like china, as well as the plastic cutlery that looks like metal. It's very casual, but nice food. We serve buffet style. I just want to keep it simple, and we can get it all ready to serve whenever we feel like, whether it's 3:00 or 5:00. Kind of open house like.

When we've gone to my other DSIL's house, she sets the table and we use the good china. It's nice of her, but really the kids would rather be free to play with their new stuff, and don't want to sit down for long! She doesn't have kids, and never celebrated Christmas growing up. So I like to keep it more casual for Christmas.

I really like casserole type sides, since you can make them the day ahead of time and just pop them in the oven. A broccoli type dish is good, like broccoli cheese rice casserole. My DH loves green bean casserole (I may make that one, since I think one DSIL is bringing ham). I just like making the potato casserole - I'm using Paula Deen's recipe from the food network's website this year, minus the potato chips.

I like also to put out cheese and grapes with nuts and dried fruits as well. I usually get some nice smoked salmon, but found out Giant has this new menu of platters with the poached, and I prefer that one.

Christmas eve at our house is usually quiet, and sometimes we do Chinese carry-out and just watch movies.

 

[jacksmomma]

For Christmas we always spend Christmas Eve with my family. Several years ago we decided that we were tired of cooking for that many people and we wanted something besides turkey. And thus our new tradition was born...we get party trays of chicken from Chick-fil-a! We also pick up cole slaw and mashed potatoes from KFC. I make green beans or green bean casserole and we have a couple homemade desserts. It is simple, there is no being in the kitchen all day, and clean up is super easy.

 

[micheleq]

Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember was celebrated with my dad's side of the family. We have a a big Italian meal, along the lines of the Feast of the Seven Fishes (ok, most of the time it's five or six fishes but who's counting LOL). I found out today that we won't be celebrating as an extended family due to a wedge between one of my uncles and my aunt. So, DH, our DDs, my parents and brother will come here for Xmas Eve. Now I have to plan dinner! Shrimp cocktail, spaghetti with a walnut/anchovy sauce, stuffed clams, scallops, and cod (bacala) are the typical menu. DH & I will probably mix things up a bit this year -- I'd love suggestions!

Xmas Day will be at my parent's house. We'll wake up with our girls and open presents and have pancakes and bacon (their favorites), and meander over there in the early afternoon. Relatives will come and visit throughout the day, so it's a nice, relaxing holiday.

I am sad our Xmas Eve tradition is now changing, but as my DH said tonight, it's the opportunity to start our own traditions.

 

[liznboys]

We usually have pretty much the exact same meal we have for Thanksgiving...
turkey
stuffing
mashed potatos
gravy
sweet potato casserole
green bean casserole
rolls & butter
cranberry sauce

However this year I am really not feeling like doing all that again, I want to do something different where neither of us are stuck in the kitchen for any length of time. I would love to be able to really hang out with the kids most of the day. Especially since my dh will be working on Christmas Eve this year. I want easy, but not sure what to do...

 

[Worfiedoodles]

We're thinking of doing some kind of "nibblie buffet" -- instead of a formal dinner, having small sandwiches, stuffed mushrooms, things like that -- looking for good ideas, 'cause my 11 yr. old can be picky. I guess if we offer chicken fingers we'll be all set

Maria

 

[Darcy03231]

We're thinking of doing some kind of "nibblie buffet" -- instead of a formal dinner, having small sandwiches, stuffed mushrooms, things like that -- looking for good ideas, 'cause my 11 yr. old can be picky. I guess if we offer chicken fingers we'll be all set

Maria

We did this when the kids were younger and they really didn't want to stop playing with stuff to eat. I did a hot/cold buffet and it worked out great. Some things were:

Meatballs & gravy (crockpot)
Spiral sliced ham
Baked beans (crockpot)
Mashed potatoes
chicken wings
Mini hot dogs in BBQ sauce (crockpot)
Vegetable platter
shrimp cocktail
cheese & crackers
stuffed mushrooms
chips & dips
Chicken fingers
Pizza rolls
tossed salad
macaroni salad

The kids mostly just grazed on finger foods while the adults ate. I also did a dessert bar with different kinds of cookies, brownies, etc.

 

[daleswife]

Good question. We are having dinner at my in-laws on the 24th, Id better ask her what she wants me to make.....I know she wants creme brulee, but I wonder what else to make..............