What's your Christmas menu?

[Lisa loves Pooh]

So far it is Honeybaked Ham and I think I am making a pumpkin cheesecake.

Not a clue of what to serve with it. We prefer not to repeat Thanksgiving dinner...so no stuffing, cranberry sauce or the like.

Not too sure if that will be Christmas Eve or Christmas--leaning for Christmas with an appetizer spread for Christmas Eve if we do not go out to dinner that is.

 

[phillmolly]

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

cubed veal and pork on a skewer. some butchers make it with all pork, but I like it with pork and veal. Usually you bread it and bake it, its pretty yummy if it cooked right. There is a polish resturant in Hamtrack, MI that makes awesume city chicken.

 

[Colleen27]

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

It is breaded chunks of veal and pork on a short wooden skewer, browned in a frying pan and then baked. Its a Depression-era recipe and I have no idea why they'd have called it "city chicken" when it is so much easier to raise chickens in a city than pigs or cows. It is a traditional family dinner staple on the Polish side of my family, so much so that in my mind it is Polish food even though it isn't an old country recipe.

 

[Colleen27]

cubed veal and pork on a skewer. some butchers make it with all pork, but I like it with pork and veal. Usually you bread it and bake it, its pretty yummy if it cooked right. There is a polish resturant in Hamtrack, MI that makes awesume city chicken.

That's where I get mine these days - there's a Polish market in Hamtramck that sells it skewered, breaded, and ready to cook. I can do it from scratch, but the one from the market tastes more like my grandmother's. I have her recipes but they don't have any precise measures and I can't get the seasoning quite right; it comes out good but not great, and for that much work I want great.

 

[mom23boys]

Breakfast will be:
Baked French Toast
Muffins/Bagles/Cinnamon Rolls
Bacon and Sausage
Juice and Coffee

Appitizers will be:
Cheese and Crackers
Shrimp Cocktail


Dinner will be:
Beef Tenderlion with Garlic Horseradish Sauce
Twiced Baked Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus
Rolls
Red Velvet Cake
Cookies
Chocolates

 

[POOHDRMR]

I have been trying to figure mine out and think I have decided on
Honeybaked ham
Roast Turkey breast
mashed potatoes
sweet potatoes with butter and brown sugar
asparagus topped with breadcrumb and parm cheese
corn or another plain veggie
rolls
baked ziti

I usually do a pasta course-like stuffed shells with meatballs and sausage and then the main course of beef tenderloin or prime rib with all the fixings but this year I want to spend more time with my kids(dd is 9 and my ds will just be 1)so I don't feel like spending the whole day in the kitchen so I am going to do it more like a buffet and serve everything at once instead of sitting down for different courses.Other than the turkey I will make everything else the day before.I will do more appetizers and serve dinner around 4-5 for dessert I do cookies and whatever else I get around to making and my in laws always bring pastries.

 

[crazelion]

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

No you boil ham hocks and collard greens together for about 3 hours a minuium. I would add more salt and pepper, and red pepper to in the last hour cooking.

Okay I have no clue Swiss Chard and Escarole and Baby Bok choy what that is.

If want awful cooking experience. Try clean and cooking chitterlings. That is experience. If don't know is pig guts. Down in the South we eat that with Cole slaw and hot sauce.