Christmas Dinner, I know its 4mths away but...

Are you one of those who loves Xmas but fed up with the same old routine year after year
So this is the deal............we are gonna have dinner on the beach as a BBQ, yea so need some tips about getting it all together, how on earth am I gonna sort the veggies out
I can get the turkey prepared by the butcher and do that on the BBQ, but all the other stuff is really starting to worry me HELP ! !

Boy, that sounds fun to me!! Back in the olden days when I lived in Hawaii with my exhusband, that's exactly how we spent Christmas.......a big barbeque on the beach........I remember taking aluminum foil, throwing lots of veggies and spices into it,(including the potatoes) a little bit of water, wrapping it up very tightly, and throwing it into the coals of our fire.......we didn't have turkey though..........we had chicken! I really missed my family that year, but it was lots of fun......

Originally Posted by mooficat

Are you one of those who loves Xmas

but fed up with the same old routine year after year

So this is the deal............we are gonna have dinner on the beach as a BBQ, yea

so need some tips about getting it all together, how on earth am I gonna sort the veggies out

I can get the turkey prepared by the butcher and do that on the BBQ, but all the other stuff is really starting to worry me

HELP ! !

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Have you thought about smoking the turkey? My father used to do it all the time when we were kids, and it was wonderful.
Mac and Cheese is always good. You could also make some coleslaw with winter cabbage. The easiest thing you could do is mashed potatoes, IMO you could make them a day in advance and no one would be the wiser.

While living in australia, we usually had bbq's or atleast ate out on our patio on christmas day.

We just had chicken, as my dad doesnt like turkey, foiled potatoes, fried capsicums with onions, and im sure there was more but i cant remember.

My best friends grandparents make lasagna every year for christmas day!

I go to my DIL's parents', for Christmas. Tamales are trditional Mexican Christmas fare and Sam's Nana, mother and aunt spend days making them. Combining traditions, they also serve ham, sweet potatoes and other veggies.

Left to my OWN devices, the only thing that I ever make, for Christmas dinner, is RESERVATIONS.

hey thanx - some good tips, was chatting to my friend and her tip, like Lookingglass, do as much as poss in advance. She also suggested putting the hot gravy in a flask ! Thats what I like lots of time saving hints !

Originally Posted by fwan

My best friends grandparents make lasagna every year for christmas day!

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That doesn't seem so strange to me. We have spaghetti for Christmas day every year. It's a family tradition that started when we were kids. It took so much time for Mom to make the big dinner, and what she really wanted was to be with us and help us play with our new toys. All of us kids' most very favorite food was her homemade spaghetti...and she could put the ingredients together the night before and just let it cook all day so she could be with us. Now that we're older, we won't let her change the tradition...and my nieces and nephew are the next generation of spaghetti lovers.

We often have BBQ's for December 25th, since of course it's Summer!

Yeah!! Christmas BBQ's are awesome! We would generally do the meats in the days before and have cold ham, cold turkey and so forth. Pasta salad, potato salad, freash seafood.... Yum yum yum.

We were always at my nan's by the beach, or at my other grandparents who had a pool (this is back in Australia of course). We'd spend most of the day in our togs and towel