What's for Christmas dinner?

Christmas Eve...I will be cooking a spiral ham, lasagna and cookies.

and you?

Christmas day:

A short end roast, Christy's mashed tatoe casserole, Aunty Barbies Salad, my home made sour dough rolls, the kids do the before dinner snacks, and Barbie brings pies! [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif]

Good stuff!

Joe

Ours is a traditional 6 course Italian meal, that takes 4-6 hours to complete. It's a wonderful and slow way to celebrate the day with our family. The kids eat what they want and go play throughout the day. Menu is:

Salad and Rose wine
Antepasta (Italian coldcuts, chesses, peppers sweet and hot, fish, olives, mushrooms)
Italian Wedding Soup
Pasta (usually shrimp based but varies)
Rib roast and sides
Desserts (always including cannolis)

The trick is not too overeat any one course but to stretch it out and just relax, enjoying the meal and the family. Each of us takes a course, buys it and prepares it and cleans up after then sets the table for the next course. It is even better than getting presents. Merry Christmas, and God bless. lance

I'm goin to Lance's house [smiley=shore.gif]

Guiseppi wrote on Dec 18^th, 2011 at 12:31am:

Christmas day: A short end roast, Christy's mashed tatoe casserole, Aunty Barbies Salad, my home made sour dough rolls, the kids do the before dinner snacks, and Barbie brings pies! [smiley=JAW_DROP.gif] Good stuff! Joe

And the Cranberry-Apple Casserole....Yummy!

Guiseppi wrote on Dec 19^th, 2011 at 9:09am:

I'm goin to Lance's house [smiley=shore.gif]

now that was funny...btw,can i come ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

You're welcome here to eat dinner with us Lenny, 4 hr drive or 45 minute flight?

Same here. We're already feeding a crowd bigger than the 5000, so what's another brother or sister at the table? Merry Christmas. Blessings. lance

You guys are mean. You're making me hungry early!

There's four of us but one neice so things will be good.

Fortunately, I'm the only Swede so there will be very little Scandinavian food this year. The bake goods are wonderful but Swedish Christmas dinners are often "adventurous." Lots of turkey and some eggnog is what I expect.....Or Else!

Charlie

Here's what we'll be having:

Basic salad (tomato, cucumber, salad)
Tomato-onion salad (my mom's specialty)
Fish (plenty of different kinds)
Roe (brought by my cousin) with cream and onion
Boiled potatoes with dill
Cheese-carrot buns (brought by me, I'll be making them tomorrow)
Turkey
Macaroni& cheese (my specialty, I make it every year now!)
Carrot casserole
Liver casserole
Potato casserole
Rutabaga casserole
Mixed vegetable casserole (brought by my aunt)

Plum quark for dessert

And then comes coffee with (everything made by me):

Cheese trees (salty cookie)
Mint-chocolate cookies
Jam cookies
Star shaped lemon jam cookies
Tiger cookies (they have two doughs, plain & chocolate)
Oatmeal cookies
Gingerbread cookies
Christmas Eve Cake
Christmas Bundt Cake (with dates & glogg, very moist cake)
Mince pie (our version, made with dates & puff pastry)

So this is what we'll be eating Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and as long as everything lasts! ;D

Sanna

Sanna I think we need some pictures of your food table. Some of those dishes sound very interesting and I'd love to see pictures!

QnHeartMM wrote on Dec 20^th, 2011 at 11:19am:

Sanna I think we need some pictures of your food table. Some of those dishes sound very interesting and I'd love to see pictures!

I'll try to recall to take some pictures. I did take some pics of the cookies I've already made. I'll post, when I've processed some of those pics.

Sanna :)

Liver casserole?  Well, I like liver and most around here don't. But a new receipe would be great!  I will look to pictures too.  Ours is usually just like Thanksgiving, except ham instead of turkey.  Waldorf salad is one of the favorites!

I do know that some folks do their own liver casserole from scratch. We don't. But I can find you a recipe and translate it.


Sanna

Liver casserole

Porridge recipe:
2,5 dl porridge rice (about 1 cup)
2,5 dl water (1 cup)
1,25 litres of milk

2 teaspoons of butter
half onion

500grams of liver (1 lb)
1 egg
4 teaspoons of syrup
2 desilitres (dl) of raisins
pepper


Make the rice porridge. Then fry the onion with butter. Mix all the other ingredients into porridge.

Divide all the ingredients into oven trays. Put the casseroles into oven for about 1 hour and half, 160 degrees/325 F.

Twenty pound rib roast.

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That sir, is truly a thing of beauty! :o

Joe

Well, Tarey and I had our Christmas with our children and grandchildren last weekend.  We had baked ham, AuGratin potatoes (cheesy potatoes as my granddaughters call them), green beans with almonds, salad with mixed fruit, baked dinner rolls, pumpkin and apple pies. 

Everybody's stocking included one apple and one carrot which we hunked up and then walked across the road to feed the horses at the horse farm - my granddaughters will not come to Grandma's house without a walk to see the horsies.

Today, Christmas, it's just Tarey and me, so dinner for us tonight will be Cornish Hens, stuffed with rice/onion/celery/raisin/cinnamon/honey stuffing, steamed asparagus, hot baked bread, salad, apple crumb cake for dessert.

Merry Christmas to all

Sandy

Lordy, am I the only one who still cooks turkey and dressing around here... with all the trimmins.. I'm so darn full I may not eat at all the whole next year... (well at least until lunch today - then it's leftovers - the best part). Got a smoked turkey in the fridge just waiting for a sandwich to be made of it.

And then there's the "left over" dressing and ..... oh heck... my stomach is already hurting again...  :)

BarbaraD wrote on Dec 26^th, 2011 at 12:02pm:

Lordy, am I the only one who still cooks turkey and dressing around here... with all the trimmins..

You're not the only one, although it wasn't me who did the cooking. My wonderful partner showed off her great cooking skills with turkey and half a dozen vegetables. We didn't even get as far as the xmas pudding which is still to be started!

We've also got a ham sat in the fridge, so whenever anyone feels remotely hungry then can also tuck into a slice of ham (or turkey)...