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Share Your Christmas Menu

#22
We just got back from my wife's side, and my father in law made up some ocean scallops and his unbelievable mind-blowing crab cakes for lunch...mother of god. We are a huge seafood family so this was bliss and unlike any Christmas spread I've had before. No need for dinner tonight.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
We'll be around 40º F during the day and raining, so that means it could lightly snow, and the temps will be going down to 32ºF in the evening. We've seen far worse at Christmas time.
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We are fascinated by the cold/snowy christmas. Every year we say next year lets go somewhere for a cold weather christmas. One day....... Its hot here today, and will be hotter tomorrow.
I had to google what 32degrees f is. Its 0 celsius. Ok, thats cold. We get 35 degrees on xmas day. Thats 95 F apparently. Too warm for me.
 
#26
pcake said:
we're going simple this year. these tasty vegan chicken strips smothered in brown gravy, baked potatoes with sour cream and butter, corn, a green salad and my husband and son will have punkin pie. this will be accompanied by martinelli's sparkling cider :)
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Ya just gotta have some punkin pie!
sharkbait130 said:
This started 20 some years ago when Seahag (my lovely wife) and I lived about 15 minutes from the Wash. D.C. wharf (known for its fresh seafood.)
Lobster stuffed with crab imperial.
Asparagus with hollendaise sauce.
Biscuits (more butter and hollendaise.)
Baked potato with sour creme , bacon bits and lots of butter.
Apple pie for desert.
Sparkling cider or wine......or both.
This started out on a whim one year when we tired of the traditional holiday fare. When we told friends and family about it , the requests for invites started coming in. We usually had 4 or 5 over to share the bounty after that. I remember one year setting 13 places at the table. That was an expensive dinner.
When both of the kids got old enough to appreciate it , we started having lobster races before dinner.
Alas , the kids are grown now and my son had moved away , so he won't be here this year. I think this will be the first time in his life he will miss out on the yearly dinner. My daughter still lives in the area and will be bringing her boyfriend so 4 settings at the table this year. Not sure about the lobster races though.
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Lobster Races!
Lobster Races!!
Lobster Races!!!
 
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#28
pcake said:
can't - i'm diabetic and allergic to wheat. some years, i make my own pie, but this year we're taking it easy - i'll have sugar free ice cream while they have their pie :)
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My mum is a coeliac too, can be a real pain

Starter smoked salmon terrine (home smoked salmon wrapping prawns cream cheese and other stuff)

Main Turkey, hot smoked ham (currently out in the garden smoking) roast potatoes with rosemary, pork/sage & onion roasted balls, pigs in blankets (home made bacon and sausages wrapped) some veg crap (peas, carrots, mustard roasted parsnips) and gallons of gravy

Dessert, nothing for me, I'll be stuffed but the rest will have Christmas pudding and brandy sauce
 
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Christine said:
My mum is a coeliac too, can be a real pain

Starter smoked salmon terrine (home smoked salmon wrapping prawns cream cheese and other stuff)

Main Turkey, hot smoked ham (currently out in the garden smoking) roast potatoes with rosemary, pork/sage & onion roasted balls, pigs in blankets (home made bacon and sausages wrapped) some veg crap (peas, carrots, mustard roasted parsnips) and gallons of gravy

Dessert, nothing for me, I'll be stuffed but the rest will have Christmas pudding and brandy sauce
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your poor mom - lucky for me i'm not celiac, just allergic to wheat. i can eat things like spelt, rye and other stuff like that. to complicate my life, i'm a vegetarian :D

your menu sounds delish!
 
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#30
It's just my wife and I this year, as she has to work both today and Monday and our families are hundreds of miles away. So we decided to go nontraditional: Salad, and lasagne with (some spicy) sausage. A beer for me and a hard cider for her. Not completely sure about dessert, but if nothing else, we have four kinds of cookie dough that she made up last week.:D
 
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#31
Christmas Eve is our time with Family here in GA...We've spent Christmas Eve with our son and his girls for the last 3 or 4 years...then they pack up the sleigh and head off to our daughter in law's parents for Christmas dinner.
We're going seafood this year!
They'll get the turkey an dressing tomorrow...tonight it's shrimp, scallops, oysters, and baked talapia!
We've made a killer potato salad, broccoli salad, and these pieces of celery stuffed with cream cheese that holds the olives and sweet peppers in place...one of my wife's family's Christmas traditions.

Christmas morning, we feast on Pork Pie...another Canadian/ New England tradition.
We weren't here for Thanksgiving this year...and that kind of lends a l'il extra measure of Profound to the time spent together.

Next year the Whole clan will gather up...
We're calling this year 'The calm before the storm'!

Happy Holiday-Of-Your-Choice to you all!

(We're planning our Chrismukkah
menu for Monday night as we speak!)
 
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lots of pork

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#36
Okay we had
Starters:
tamales pork and chicken and beef empanadas
finger sandwiches platter of 36, 12ea. Roast beef, Turkey, Ham
Vegetable platter assort. raw veg. with dipping sauces
assorted quiche

Main:
3 Roasted Chickens
2 trays homemade Lasagna
Coleslaw, Marconi salad and potato salad
red and white wine

Dessert: Tiramisu, Italian cookies, Italian cream cake.
Sparkling Moscato
 
#37
Christmas is always interesting for me, since my wife is Jewish. Christmas Eve was also the first day of Chanukah, so there went the "seven fishes" thing, since we always had lobster as part of it. We had latkes with Caviar and sour cream or home made apple sauce, weiner schnitzel, and some other goodies, including lots of home made desserts.

Christmas Day we had the traditional Jewish Christmas feast - take out Chinese.

New Years is our big feast. We visit with our former secretary, who is also a great friend. She makes a southern feast, including a huge roast chicken or turkey, collard and other greens, black eyed peas, whipped potatoes, and my wife makes a huge prime rib. The husbands get to sit back and enjoy the good natured competition as to who is the better chef.
 
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#38
Our Christmas Eve Dinner for 12;
Deviled eggs
Red & Green corn tortilla chips & home made salsa
Roasted Turkey
Mashed Potatoes & gravy
Mexican creamed corn
Buttered Brussel Sprouts w/bacon
Creamed Spinach
Mixed greens salad w/sweet balsamic vinegrette
Cheese & Jalapeno Tamales
Home made pecan pralines

Christmas day we had leftovers and it was twice as good
 
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#39
we had a wonderful holiday, but not our usual as my great-cook spouse is hampered by pre-holiday surgery, but my real reason for posting: what wonderful/appetizing dishes you folks have served up! very impressive!

and i think some of you are gourmets, to say the least! hope you all have a happy new year!

saltydude , i hope the doritos worked out for you! :thumbsup:
 
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