What are you having for your Christmas day meal?

We celebrated this past Monday night (my sister and I are both working Christmas Eve and Christmas Day- big, big money!). We had a roast pork with dressing, green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy. Dessert was various goodies like chocolate-peanut butter fudge and cookies.

We are having turkey, stuffing,cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, some other kind of veggie, bread, maybe sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, and chocolate pie. Nothing fancy, since I am cooking

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haha i dont blame you but make sure you start with the mayo and add everything in after and keep tasting

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Thankyou. Is it best to make it on the day or the night before? x

We do our big dinner on Christmas Eve and I just got our menu from my mom: sausage and peppers, spinach dip, sausage and cream cheese dip, oven baked potatoes (AKA cornflake potatoes) mac 'n cheese, bbq meatballs, green bean casserole, shrimp oh i'm forgetting something anyway, I love Christmas Eve dinner much more than Thanksgiving dinner Christmas day will be ham and rotini salad plus all the leftovers from Christmas Eve

For us, it'll be turkey with all the trimmings: stuffing, gravy, cranberry, mashed potatoes, whatever green veg looks nice and maybe one other. Those will be decided when I pick up my bird tomorrow. It's ordered well ahead, so I can be assured of the bird I want, when I want it -- a fresh free range bird, not too big. The bread cubes for the stuffing are on the counter only lightly covered, so they'll be properly stale when I want to use them.

I'm going to my parents and since my MIL is in town she is coming with us! There will be 17 people there.

SO we will be having:
for starters:
Cheese assortment including a baked brie
Veggie platter
chips and dip
Shrimp cocktail.

For dinner:
Goose with orange sauce
wild rice
rolls
Veggies
a roast chicken (since my Bro in law doesnt eat goose)
a Tofurkey since my Sister in Law is a Vegan
Lasgana

For dessert:
buttercookies
sugar cookies
Rughlah
Gingerbread cookies
chocolate cookies
Pecan Sandies
Assorted chocolates and Coffee, tea and hot chocolate.

Its a day a of good eating! AND my job is to make and bring the egg nog, my sister is making Candy cane Martini's and mom is making Christmas Punch.

Originally Posted by Ruthyb

Thankyou. Is it best to make it on the day or the night before? x

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on the day is best so its nice and fresh takes a mintue to make

i suppose you could do it the night before to because sometimes (and i mean only sometimes haha) there are some prawns left over and we mix them in with the suace and make sandwiches

now im starving haha

We will start with shrimp & crab cocktail. Turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, potatoes, brussel sprouts, sweet potato, corn, a pineapple treat we always serve with turkey. Oh darn I just realized I forgot to get some wine. I thought I was done

cookies........I 'm not a food person and I like to take a break from cooking! haha, awful isn't it?

I'm going to my aunt and uncle's house so we are having whatever they make.
Usually there is turkey or something like that, lasagna, veggies, mashed potatoes and usually zucchini bread. My aunt makes the best lasagna! It's from my (Italian) grandmother's recipe.

I am bringing dessert. I'm going to make pumpkin pie, sugar cookies, and either petit fours or silver white cake. Possibly also chocolate cookies depending on how much time I have... I'm also planning to make homemade dog treats as a gift for all my relatives who have dogs.

We're going very simple this year, Lasagna!!

Appetizer is simple, cream cheese covered in cocktail sauce with veggie crackers to spread it on (can't get much more simple than that!). Dinner is a veggie and a meat lasagna, acorn squash and crescent rolls. Desert is some kind of cake Mom has been wanting to make.

My step-siblings are all going out of town or not coming to town for the holiday so it will be a smaller celebration this year; but nice and quiet is just what I need right now.

We're going to my MIL's so it is turkey with all the sides. I'm making a broccoli and cheese casserole and maybe sweet potatoes. We're probably also going to be cooking the turkey since our routisserie is bigger than hers.

I really miss the Christmas meal tradition of my family. It was Italian breaded steak baked in the oven and it was to die for! It still doesn't seem like Christmas without the house smelling of Italian seasons all day. I will probably make it for me and hubby over the weekend...more for us!

Since my grandma does a huge dinner for thanksgiving she mostly gives up christmas to the yummy finger foods and cookies. My favorite is her crab meat/cream cheese cracker dip.


Tomorrow though we are having Christmas Eve dinner at my uncle's house. Not sure what they are making yet, but it will probably be a ham.

Originally Posted by Ruthyb

Hi all, well I'm being nosey again lol. I love hearing what everyone has. We are not having turkey this year, I find it to be dry sometimes. So we are having roast beef,parsnips,roast potatoes, carrots, brussels (of course

), cabbage and leeks. Homemade gravy and I think thats about it. x

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Sounds like a yummy dinner! There is no hard and fast law that says that you have to have turkey on Christmas and/or Thanksgiving.

So far as dry turkey, if you roast it for a long time on a lower heat, it comes out much more tender. Also, if you place it on a rack in a pan breast side down to maximize the moisture of the breast part.

Here is a recipe that explains the technique.

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/moms_roast_turkey/

Since Christmas has finished in NZ I'll just share what I had:

Breakfast

Yoghurt with fresh Strawberries & Bananas. A slice of bacon with a heap of cooked mushrooms. OJ to drink.

Lunch (My big meal for Christmas day)

Turkey sliced with gravy and stuffing
Chicken and stuffing
Roast duck
A tiny slice of ham
A heap of asparagus and beans
Roast potatoes
Kumara and cheese bake

Fresh strawberries and raspberries
Fresh fruit jelly
Trifle

Coke to drink!

Dinner was light for me:

Some lovely homemade salad and a satay chicken kebab

Then nibbles after dinner included chocolate mousse, fruit pies, about 5 sausages and some crackers and dip

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

Sounds like a yummy dinner! There is no hard and fast law that says that you have to have turkey on Christmas and/or Thanksgiving.

So far as dry turkey, if you roast it for a long time on a lower heat, it comes out much more tender. Also, if you place it on a rack in a pan breast side down to maximize the moisture of the breast part.

Here is a recipe that explains the technique.

http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/moms_roast_turkey/

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Thankyou, I can never seem to get turkey right, well its nearly bed time christmas day and I am stuffed ! Dinner was great but I couldn't eat a single other thing, we didn't even eat pudding as we had so much for dinner. x

I'm having Chinese Food! Not that I wanted Chinese food today, but my brother, when he invited me to Christmas dinner, failed to tell me that he meant on "Boxing Day", the day after Christmas!!

I got up, opened my presents, had a shower, rushed around digging out the frozen meat he had stored in my deep freezer, wrapped his gifts and was about to make the salad that I was going to bring, when I noticed it was 2:45 pm: 15 minutes before he was due to pick me up and I wasn't near being ready; I still had to dress and put on my makeup!

I phoned him and was glad that he hadn't left to pick me up yet.

He then informs me that he meant tomorrow, not today!!

Brothers!

So I'm having Chinese food tonight. I actually found a place that was open. I didn't feel like having chicken because I had that yesterday at our potluck at work, and I didn't want pizza for Christmas dinner. So Chinese was the other option.

I prepared all day for this meal (and last night too!)

Turkey
Stuffing
Candied yams
Garlic cheddar mashed potatoes (instant)
veggie tray
cheese, summer sausage and cracker platter
black olives
sweet pickles
cranberry sauce
Watergate salad (prepared last night and soooo yummy)
apple, pumpkin and cherry pies (NOT home made, LOL)

Whatever we scrounged up for ourselves. We're snowed in - so nothing fancy until the grandparents can get here!

Today we had Christmas with both my family and Jack's family at Jack's parent's home. It was really lovely Both of our families got to meet one another and we all had a wonderful time!

We had some wonderful items to choose from! As far as what I remember, we had: ham, beef briscit (sp?), cheese grits (amazingness!!!!), baked Brie, spinach puffs, broccli cheese dip, salad, fruit, sweet potato cassarole, drinks, rolls, and more desserts than I can think of! It was all very lovely; Jack's mom & dad were our wonderful hosts!