What's your Christmas menu?

[phillmolly]

We are hosting christmas eve this year and I am still working on the menu, I am not sure yet how many people we will have so it depends on how many people we have to feed. We will for sure have a ham and cheesy potatos but the rest just depends on the numbers.

Christmas day is at my parents every year and the menu is pretty much the same:

Rouladen (yummm, I can't wait for this! My step mom only cooks it once a year!)
Mashed potatos (I usally make a mashed potato a few days before and freeze it.)
Veggies - usally green beans with bacon and blue cheese
sourkraut - (never touch the stuff myself)

My dad will make homemad rolls and usually something pretty fancy for desert. We will also probally have fondue and brie for apptizers.

Now I am starving, LOL!

 

[ChiCat]

I made the mistake of asking my husband to cook his famous chicken parm (which I've never had before) for Thanksgiving instead of the usual fare. It was pretty bad, bland, very boring. So we've decided to make turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, and I'm not sure what else for Christmas. I think I'm going to attempt to make a caramel apple pie for dessert.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

I can relate! At my inlaws we eat on paper plates with plastic utentils on our laps (if you are lucky enough to find a seat somewhere). usually I am out of luck since I have to get food for my kids first. Its next to impossible to saw through the tough meat with a plastic knife! It usually feels more like a barbecue than Christmas dinner! They just started having vegetables! Oh appetizers are pickles, olives and pretzels!
Dessert is never homemade or even from a bakery for that manner!

At least I do not have to suffer through that. My terrible meal will be served on my MIL's best china with drinks in her crystal glasses. It does not change the fact that I am eating a crappy meal.

 

[kinntj]

I'm not sure if we're hosting the big gathering meal or if SIL is. She has to get back to me. If we host, we're having:

appetizer:
Shrimp cocktail/sauce

dinner:
honey ham
mashed potatoes (for dd6)
sweet potato fries
deviled eggs
cranberry sauce
stuffing for dd6 (she's our traditionalist and wants it every holiday)
southern green beans
hawaiian rolls

dessert:
strawberry cheesecake
banana cream pie
holiday cookies

 

[TinklednPants]

I only host Christmas eve, and we do a selection of appetizers/small portions rather than a sit down meal. I keep it pretty simple, since there's only the five of us plus my mom, and for part of the evening my brother & his fiancee.

This year, I'm making:
Cranberry glazed meatballs
Crab stuffed mushrooms
Bacon wrapped scallops
City chicken
Assorted pierogi
Deviled eggs
Shrimp cocktail
Veggie tray w/ ranch dip
Cheese, crackers & summer sausage
Crab dip w/ crackers

And for dessert:
Chrusciki
Chocolate fountain w/ orange wedges, strawberries, bananas, raspberries, pretzels
Two-bite chocolate peppermint cupcakes
Two-bite orange cheesecake w/chocolate drizzle
And probably some sort of cookies my mom will bring, usually Russian tea cakes and decorated sugar cookies.

My mom will probably stay the night, and for breakfast we'll have the same Christmas breakfast we've had all my life - fresh kielbasa and egg bread w/raisins.

I'm afraid to ask but what is city chicken? A pigeon?

 

[Northstar]

Sukiyaki! So fun to cook it at the table in a big pan with everyone participating.

Sides: lots of sticky rice, pickles, salad, clementines.


Hours later: pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies.

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

Breakfast is always eggs Benedict with coffee and Mimosas
Dinner will be honey ham, roast beef, mashed potatoes, mushroom casserole, butternut squash souffle, asparagus, fruit salad, rolls, and/or anything else someone requests! Dessert (MUCH later) will be pecan pie and cookies.

 

[Katieinwonderland]

This is my first year doing Christmas dinner for everyone (my family and DH's family, about 12-15 people in total) so my MIL 'helped' me plan my menu - apparently she's under the impression we're feeding 5000 but I guess that's the Italian cook for you! This is our menu:

Appetizers:
-Pizza rustica
-Antipasto platter
-Stuffed mushrooms
-Shrimp cocktail
-Curried pumpkin soup

Main:
-Honey baked ham
-Sage and onion stuffing
-Chestnut stuffing
-Bacon wrapped sausages
-Sweet potato pie
-Cheesy potato gratin
-Green bean casserole
-Honey glazed carrots
-Brussell sprouts
-Macaroni and cheese
-Asparagus

Dessert:
-Chocolate yule log
-Red velvet cake
-Gingerbread men
-Mince pies
-Cherry pie

I'm also supposed to make all this from scratch! Did I mention I can't cook?!

 

[LuvOrlando]

How bad for do want the collard greens be for you. LOL

First I would get a hammock. The hammock is put in the collard greens. Then I would extra salt, pepper, and red pepper.

I would cook the hammock and the collard greens for about 3 to 5 hours. About the last hour of cooking I like to add hot peppers to mind.

Now that collard greens are done. Get the cornbread and hot sauce and mixed all the together for a meal. I am talking real cornbread and not jiffy. The buttermilk kind. Now I am showing my true southern roots.

You are alright! Sometimes I write out words the way I say them too, like when I use the word gonna... it adds personality and I like it

But I'm still kind of confused Do I boil the hocks first and make a broth then add the collards or boil them all together and about how long? I make Swiss Chard and Escarole and Baby Bok choy and those only really cook with beans and garlic until they wilt... is it the same thing? Because of Virgils I KNOW what they should taste like and so does my family and they don't need any more ammunition with my cooking experiments gone wrong

 

[Robinrs]

What are having this Christmas?

My menu:
Honey Ham
devil eggs
collard greens
mac and cheese
potato salad
German chocolate cake
sweet potato pie
veggie platter
fruit platter

Yum YUM... what time is dinner???

 

[lovemygoofy]

You are alright! Sometimes I write out words the way I say them too, like when I use the word gonna... it adds personality and I like it

But I'm still kind of confused Do I boil the hocks first and make a broth then add the collards or boil them all together and about how long? I make Swiss Chard and Escarole and Baby Bok choy and those only really cook with beans and garlic until they wilt... is it the same thing? Because of Virgils I KNOW what they should taste like and so does my family and they don't need any more ammunition with my cooking experiments gone wrong

I know you weren't asking me but I boil my hambone with my greens all together for several hours at least 3 then I add in my hot sauce and any other seasoning. If you aren't going to use ham, boil the greens as you normally would and drain. Back into the pot with cooked bacon and a touch of bacon grease. So bad but oh so good for you.

 

[gate_pourri]

We celebrate the traditional Polish Christmas Eve, which includes a dinner of 12 dishes of none-meat.

I am not sure exactly what we will have, but I expect it will include:

-Polish Potato/Veggie Salad
-Borscht with mushroom uszka (little pierogi)
-Harring in at least 1, possibly 2 different ways
-Fish in Aspic
-Salmon
-Warm Sauerkraut
-Red Cabbage Salad
-Poppyseed Cake

 

[SereneOne]

Spiral Ham with maple glaze
cheesy mashed potatoes
sweet potato praline souffle
broccoli and cauliflower
corn on the cob
carrots
deviled eggs
hot cheesy spinach dip
shrimp cocktail
veggie tray
fruit salad
cheese and crackers
blueberry muffins
tea wine coffee
pecan pie
pumpkin pie
assorted cookies and gingerbread

 

[bas71873]

Breakfast - Southwest Breakfast Casserolle & Apple Toffee Breakfast Casserole

Care you share your recipe? My DH would LOVE this.

 

[DeniseinNS]

On christmas eve we have a bunch of appetizer type stuff (sweeet and sour meatballs, rice, dips, etc...) Christmas dinner is:
-turkey
-mashed potatoes
-gravy
-carrots
-turnip
-corn
-cranberry sauce
-stuffing
-coleslaw
-rolls

for dessert I usually make a toblerone or a peppermint cheesecake

 

[LuvOrlando]

At least I do not have to suffer through that. My terrible meal will be served on my MIL's best china with drinks in her crystal glasses. It does not change the fact that I am eating a crappy meal.

If you volunteer to bring the eggnog and spike it you won't care

 

[jodifla]

Appetizers
Shrimp cocktail, clam dip, pate, cheese ball

Crown Pork Roast (complete with the little chefs' hats on the legs)
Wild Rice Stuffing
Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Roasted Winter Vegetables
Corn bread

Dessert
Pumpkin pie, Pumpkin cheesecake, apple pie

 

[rodeo65]

On christmas eve we have a bunch of appetizer type stuff (sweeet and sour meatballs, rice, dips, etc...) Christmas dinner is:
-turkey
-mashed potatoes
-gravy
-carrots
-turnip
-corn
-cranberry sauce
-stuffing
-coleslaw
-rolls

for dessert I usually make a toblerone or a peppermint cheesecake

This almost identical to our meals including the appetizers on Christmas Eve. The only difference is we do a broccoli/raisin salad instead of coleslaw and sub crescent rolls for the plain ones. Dessert is uaually a yule log, Christmas pudding with warm rum sauce and assorted cookies. Not sure about that part for this year. I LOVE the sounds of your desserts!! I'm not doing the normal baking since we'd have to haul it across the border.

This year we'll be in FL with my parents - the first Christmas away for all of us, so I suggested that we do something completely different. Nope - dad likes his traditional turkey dinner. Since it was hard to get him to part with his white Christmas, I guess we can give him the meal.

 

[malibuconlee]

Ugh the thing I hate the most about Christmas. We end up with soup (usually chili, which I don't eat) smoked turkey which we have every year and to be honest I'm not that fond of. If we are lucky FIL won't mess up the brine so that it's inedible like it was a couple of years ago.

Whatever everyone else brings, you never know what the latest craze is, like the salad made with seasoning from a ramen noodle packet. No I'm not kidding.

We don't always bring something. Last year and this year we are traveling 1200 miles to be there.

I did make soup and my MIL was just put out by that. Although when we did a smaller gathering brunch I never said I was bringing anything, but if I hadn't brought the main dish I don't know what we would have eaten!

What I wouldn't give to wake up in my own bed Christmas morning and eat food I cook. Maybe someday.

 

[Darcy03231]

Care you share your recipe? My DH would LOVE this.

Here it is!

Toffee Apple Breakfast Casserole

1 - loaf RHODES Bread dough, baked according to package directions, cooled & cubed (its in the freezer section of our grocery store. If I'm feeling lazy I get a 1 lb unsliced loaf of white bread from the bakery and it still comes out the same - just a bit more expensive. I've also made a 1 lb loaf in the bread machine. The important thing is that the bread is dense, not like Wonderbread).
2 - medium granny smith apples, peeled & chopped
1- 8 oz package of cream cheese, softened
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 3/4 cups of milk, divided
1 teaspoon almond extract
1/2 cup toffee bits
5 eggs

Place half the bread cubes in a greased 13 x 9 x 2 baking dish. Top with apples. Combine the cream cheese, brown sugar, 1/4 cup of milk and almond extract until smooth. Stir in toffee bits. Spread over apples. Top with remaining bread cubes. Whisk the eggs and remaining milk; pour evenly over bread. Cover and refrigerate 4 hours or overnight (I do it overnight).

Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Bake at 350 degrees for 45-55 minutes or until set. Cover with foil during the last ten minutes of baking, if necessary, to prevent browning.


I find its pretty sweet. To me its more like a dessert than breakfast, but DH and the kids love it!