If your family celebrates Christmas, what will be served for dinner this year? My family always loves to go nontraditional. I'm still not sure about what I want to make this year.
My mom is making brisket and we’re bringing macaroni & cheese and a pie. I think she’s making pinto beans, and I’m not sure what else. It will only be my parents and my family.
We're going nontraditional too with homemade Chinese food. I've looked up recipes and hope it turns out well. My grandson has suggested that we make it a tradition to try a different type of meal each year.
We always have vegetable soup and chili for Christmas! It's nice to have something different than the traditional foods... And, it's a lot less work, too! Dump everything into a crockpot and go on with your day!
I am definitely an adventuresome cook and I get a lot of compliments from my wonderful fam. However....over the years they have given me the following message...dont mess with Thanksgiving or Christmas. They love all of traditions of the holidays and look forward to them with vigor. As a result the menu is Prime rib, mashed potatoes/gravy, fresh fruit salad, pesto green beans and apple pie ala mode for dessert. I can hardly wait for my favorite holiday of the year!
DH and I will still make Fondue since we've already bought the cheese. Told SIL I'd bake the traditional cake and leave it on the porch along with their gifts.
Pork tenderloin
Roasted root veggies
Arugula, fennel, and apple salad
Purple sauerkraut sauteed with apples and onions
Cranberry jelly
Apple cranberry crisp with vanilla ice cream
New tradition this year, first without mom. So, Christmas Eve lunch will be ham, scalloped potatoes, macaroni and cheese, roasted vegetables, Ceasar salad, lemon cake. Leftovers for dinner if anyone eats. Christmas brunch will be leftover ham, fritatta, fruit salad and my mother's and grandmother's kuchen.
It’s only DH, DD and me for Christmas Eve but they still want a standing rib roast, roasted potatoes and brussel sprouts. Leftovers for Christmas since it’s only us. Then when DS, DDIL and DGD come on Saturday I’m making lasagne. I can prep it before and just throw it in the oven with garlic bread and a salad.
We have 3 fondue pots for three courses of fondue. We have been doing this since the kids were in grade school ( now in their 30s) for special occasions. It is a great way to slow down and spend time together.
Traditional at this house, but I think it will be served the day before Christmas this year.... going along with all the "different" things we've encounter throughout the year!
Seriously, I just want more of a relaxing Christmas Day this year, not one where I will be in the kitchen most of the day.
I bought the MasterClass subscription thing, and they sent out an email highlighting classes on pepper steak, mashed potatoes, apple pie, and Negroni cocktails from various chef & mixology classes.
It’s just me and DH, so I think I’ll try these recipes.
We ordered three mini platters of finger sandwiches from The Fresh Market. We will have chips and I will be making a hot Swiss almond dip from a Rachel Ray recipe to go with a fresh veggie tray. Of course, we will have several types of desserts. I saw a reindeer cake in a picture from a bakery in the town I taught in and hoped they could make it for me without the mint buttercream, just plain chocolate. They were not doing special orders, so I found a local bakery in a nearby town to do it. Hopefully, it will be worth the price. This year has been so sad and stressful, we just wanted simplicity so no big elaborate dinner this year for us. Merry Christmas!
Traditional for us is roast turkey, oatmeal stuffing, mashed potatoes, a lake of gravy, brussels sprouts, baked carrots, steamed beans. Even though it's just the two of us, I'm still going to make it but I'll make small amounts. I've ordered a turkey leg which will give us lovely leftovers and use smaller amounts of everything else. If nothing else, Covid has taught me to cook fancy meals for two.
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My grandson has suggested that we make it a tradition to try a different type of meal each year.
I love this idea! I'd suggest it to Man but, being the traditionalist that he is, he would sigh heavily which means no.
It's DH and I. We're having duck, wild rice, steamed veggie TBD, and pumpkin pie for dessert. I'm a month or two in to going low-gluten and will be attempting my first pie crust made with gluten-free flour.
Meat pie Christmas Eve. I’ll drop some off to my sons during the day that they can reheat. I’ll drop it off with some apple crisp (my mom’s recipe that they love).
Christmas Day we will have whatever son#1 drops off. It will be a surprise as he said he has no idea what his SO is cooking.
We will be alone. I’ll serve chicken, corn bread stuffing, red potatoes, butternut squash and cranberry sauce. Oh, and carrots! Unfortunately, not having our big party this year because of COVID. I’m fine for us to be by ourselves.
Ham, sweet potatoes, and green beans. I will have homemade rolls as well and some sort of dessert (Perhaps a lava cake in the instant pot). I hope to have it on the 24th and then a relaxing Christmas. Depends on DH work schedule.
I had chicken a la king for Christmas Eve dinner for nearly 40 years. It's the one time a year we ate it. I have no idea how that became a tradition in my family.
About 10 years ago my parents decided they didn't want chicken a la king anymore. So my family went to appetizers and that's it. Everyone brings their favorites and we graze all night long. My mom usually gets some ham and rolls too, so if you want to make a sandwich you can.
Probably ribeye steak for DH, lobster for me. Loaded baked potatoes (skinny taste recipe), salad and some sort of dessert. To drink we have lots of options besides the typical- Tom &Jerry’s, eggnog, homemade Bailey’s or Cherry Bounce.
Just the three of us this year. So we are treating ourselves. Prime rib with all the fixings. Mashed potatoes. Yorkshire pudding. Ginger glazed carrots.
I bought a traditional Christmas pudding for dessert.
We're doing appetizers on Christmas Eve- I went a bit crazy at Trader Joes. Brie bites, bacon wrapped scallops, parmesan pastry pups, vegetable bird nests, corn cones, soft pretzels. We'll decorate gingerbread houses and sugar cookies. My daughter bought peppermint schnapps to go in our cocoa.
Christmas Day menu is prime rib with au jus, twice baked potatoes, coconut sweet potatoes, broccoli rice casserole, Mac and cheese, green bean casserole, creamy greens, roasted Brussel sprouts, rolls, and a fruit plate with my 1 year old grandson's favorites. Cookies, candy, and rum cake for dessert.
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