Christmas Dinner. What are you having?

[NJTomatoguy]

Mom has been cooking up a storm.
Christmas Eve:
Turkey and all the trimmings.
I am baking a Cherry pie right now. I bought a cabernet for dinner. Also picked up Sam Adams Winter Lager. Chardonnay for appetizers, and a merlot for after dinner while opening gifts.(We do exchange on Christmas Eve because on Christmas Day, it's open house.)

Christmas Day:
Breakfast will be Bacon and eggs, Lox and Bagels, Pastry, etc.
Lunch- Leftovers
Hot and Cold Appetizers starting at noon, till dinner.
Dinner is a spiral ham, sweet potatoes, corn, and whatever everyone else brings.
I have a coconut cake, and most will bring dessert. I have no idea what wines will be served, but Dad got a gift of Cognac,so that will be sampled.
I am bringing my Mild Brown Ale, and probably my Amber Ale also.

Merry Christmas everyone,
Bob

 

[Brewer_Steve]

We're picking up some salmon and making sushi/sashimi for Christmas.
We're probably going to eat it in the afternoon.
We have a bottle of sake to accompany the copious amounts of sushi we'll eat.

We also have a nice cabernet to drink in the afternoon while snacking on apps.

In the evening, I'm planning on drinking oatmeal stout. Not sure what's on the menu for dessert, but it will undoubtedly include chocolate.

 

[jmulligan]

I am home cooking for tomorrow since my mom had to work today.

Christmas breakfast:
almond and chocolate chip croissants
sausage balls
scotch eggs(thank you HBT)
flagship rum buns
coffee punch (with rum of course)

Dinner:
crudites with herb dip
brie en croute
marinated green beans
cauliflower and stilton soup
french rolls
potato casserole
beef tenderloin


Dessert:
coconut cake
Christmas cookies
chocolate croquembouche (if I have time today)

I brought a couple of Southampton Saison Deluxes with me (yum!), but I will only share those with the people I know will actually appreciate it.

Back to cooking! Happy holidays!

 

[EdWort]

Turkey, creamed corn, garlic mashed taters, stuffing, beer, Apfelwein, and spiked eggnog.

 

[Oakwoodforge]

Tonight, we are having Thai food , Thom Ka soup, a spicy coconut milk, lemongrass and seafood soup. Thai Noodles with (atomic ) red curry veggies & shrimp. This will be probably be quenched with my 2007 Riesling or possibly a Kolsh. Tomorrow Morning , we get der Jule-breakfast-on Abbelskeiver (a Danish Pancake Like creation) served with sausage &bacon.
Jule Dinner, is a Spiral sliced ham, gahlic smashed taters, roasted beats with clementines & mint, lemon pepper broccoli & cauliflower, fresh baked bread, spinach salad with pears & avocado. for drinks we have a 4pk of DFH 90min IPA , a 4 pk of Celebrator dopplebock, 12 pk samadams winter sampler and a big ass batch of Glogg ( hot spiced wine )


Yeah I know , we have weird taste ...

Good JULE !

Skal!
Jens

 

[jcdillin]

Christmas breakfast

cinnamon pull apart bread
2 different styles of quiche
scrambled eggs
thick cut bacon

Dinner

spiral cut ham
roasted duck
green bean casserole
mashed potatoes

dessert

flan
pumpkin pie

And of course to drink Apfelwein and Punkin Ale!

 

[shecky]

I am in charge of Christmas dinner, which will be tonight, because my wife will be running around nuts. She's working this morning. As the organist at our church, the rest of her day consists of a 3 pm service, a 5 pm service and an 11 pm service.

Tonight I shall be serving peppercorn rubbed top round steak, rice pilaf, steamed carrots and salad. I was going to make dessert but we have ice cream and about 4,000 cookies around here.

My wife will make breakfast tomorrow, her signature egg and sausage casserole. I will contribute homemade waffles and pancakes.

Rest of the day is catch as catch can. Tomorrow late afternoon we head to a neighbor's house for yet another neighborhood gathering.

 

[Hammy71]

Well I too am the one in charge of Christmas dinner this year...(for the first time). Talked the wife outta the usual turkey, mashed, etc.... We're going with spaghetti this year with meatballs and hot italian sausage. Nice salad for an appetizer and before that a neat buffalo chicken dip w/chips and crackers. My only consession was allowing her to still make some pies for dessert. Everyone that is coming over is more than happy to try something different from Thanksgiving...(which has always been the same as Christmas dinner for our family.....). Screw another tradition!!!!....

 

[sdhucks7]

Let the weird comments begin. Tonigh (for my oldest brothers birthday) we are having "Spicy Rednecks" ie. hotdogs wrapped in bacon deepfried then put in a hotdog bun and covered with chili and coleslaw.

Christmas breakfast homemade cinnimon rolls then for lunch your regular Christmas lunch fare nothing special. Ham, stuffed mushrooms, greenbeans, corn cassorole, greenbean cassorole, rolls.



SD

 

[the_bird]

Me mum's cooking a turkey on Sunday, when all of the family will be getting together. I *was* going to cook a big-ass ham tomorrow, but the oven is shot until after the holidays (blew out the electronics when the main breaker to the house blew). We'll probably pretend that we're Jewish and go out for Chinese food with my folks' on Christmas day.

 

[jmulligan]

We'll probably pretend that we're Jewish and go out for Chinese food with my folks' on Christmas day.

Don't forget to say "It's smiling at me!" when they bring out that lovely roast duck.

 

[shecky]

Fa ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra
Deck the Harrs with boughs of horry

 

[eschatz]

three briskets on the smoker since 1 am.... oh yes..

 

[zac]

All these folks cooking dinner, whatcha making for supper, you know, the late day meal?

Dinner is around lunchtime isn't it?

 

[jmulligan]

All these folks cooking dinner, whatcha making for supper, you know, the late day meal?

Dinner is around lunchtime isn't it?

We usually eat the big meal some time between 2 and 3 pm. Up until then, it is mostly a graze-at-will kind of deal with appetizers and breakfast foods. No meal in the evening, because everyone is stuffed (except my tiny mother, who forgets to feed herself, so is always hungry at about 7 pm).

 

[shecky]

All these folks cooking dinner, whatcha making for supper, you know, the late day meal?

Dinner is around lunchtime isn't it?

Us civilized folk call it dinner.
Lunch is around lunchtime.
Breakfast at breakfast.
Dinner late in the day, unless of course you're having a huge holiday dinner, then it can be in the mid-afternoon.
Any time before that is brunch.
Get it now?

 

[Brandon O]

prime rib of course

 

[Stratotankard]

Family tradition dictates that I make lasagna for Christmas dinner. We're not the least bit Italian, but my dad worked in an Italian restaurant when he and mom were dating.
SWMBO doesn't get the lasagna tradition and thinks I'm just weird. Whatever... as long as I make her a batch of cornbread stuffing and some mashed potatoes she's happy. "Thanksgiving and Christmas are all about the side items."
For New Year's I make my famed 100 proof ham. Nothing like a ham soaked in rum and bourbon for a couple days to welcome in the new year.

 

[NewBlood]

A big plate of WORK for 12 hours today and tomorrow. Public Service work at its finest. But seriously my wife will bring me a plate of whatever goodies they have at her parents house so I wont lose any weight over the next few days.

 

[Hefeweizengeliebter]

I am pretty sure we are going out for Sushi for Christmas dinner.... we have already done all the family things, so the wife and I just want to go out for something nice WE like

 

[Brutus Brewer]

Baked 4 cheese penne with Parmigiano (the real stuff from Italy), Asiago, (again the stuff from Italy), robusto and fresh mozzarella.