So what's for Christmas dinner?
Baked beans Jell-O salad (savory, not sweet) Potato chips and dip This doesn't have a name, but it's a pound of ground beef sauteed with a pound of pork sausage. Add as much melted Velveeta as you want. Put on party rye bread and bake. Cookies Candy There is a story behind this. My sister and I always wanted a Christmas meal of hors d'oeuvres and dessert, but my mother insisted on the full turkey dinner. This year I said to my sister "Mom has been dead almost 2 years, this is the year of OUR Christmas dinner." Breakfast will be 2 slices of bacon, an egg fried in the bacon grease, and an English muffin with butter. Calories and cholesterol be damned! I did have a grapefruit already.... |
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| My sister and I are attempting the Christmas dinner this year. Paid and cooking it. Figured after 40 years best to give the folks a break. Already the bird has a name. Brian because we brined him last night. This could be a mess... only time will tell. I love the sound of your dinner  very fun. |
| Tavern Ham, pasta salad & who knows what else will be there. Only things I am sure of are what we are taking. Oh, and a tin of homemade toffee (thank you Paual O.) & homemade caramels (thank you Amy H.) |
| Paula, I had eggs,bacon,hashbrowns and toast with butter and strawberry jam for supper last night after I got off work! Todd had it ready when I walked in the door at 7:30pm...wonderful! I work today (12 hours), so have a TV dinner (no groceries in the house after being on baby patrol- new baby grandson, preemie,ambulance ride to TC's, etc) and we are going out to eat Chinese when I get off work at 7pm tonight. LeAnne and family, Travis and his fiance will be there too. Lisa and Alex are with baby Owen in the NICU 90 miles away, but Alex's parents are bringing Norah up so she can be w/ her family. NO idea when we will get to celebrate Christmas and give out presents... |
| Ouch, Dawn. Maybe you can have a Christmas do-over next weekend? Congrats on the newest addition, even if he did scare the hell out of everyone   My culinary exploits are covered at length in my blog, which probably shocked everyone who knows me well, including Dawn as I'm not exactly known for my cooking  Kristine |
Loved the blog Kristine. Gave me my morning chuckle. I can't say much as I haven't contributed too much to the meals these last 10 days. Good thing Jim is a good cook. He even brings it to me on a tray, down to the kennel!  |
Aw  What a guy!KB |
Mad Dog wrote: Ouch, Dawn. Maybe you can have a Christmas do-over next weekend? Congrats on the newest addition, even if he did scare the hell out of everyone My culinary exploits are covered at length in my blog, which probably shocked everyone who knows me well, including Dawn as I'm not exactly known for my cooking Kristine  After I read it, I'm wondering if the dogs think they've died and gone to heaven??? All that food, cooking, the stove no less??  And has the pig survived? And for a do-over - maybe. I think everyone is too maxed out now to even plan. Poor Travis has been trying for a MONTH to find a date where Todd and I can go out to dinner and meet Lindsey's parents! My unorthodox schedule does not mesh well with "normal" people's. Then add in all this madness! We actually had set up for this past Saturday, but I ended up in the St Paul w/ Lisa...we are cursed! |
| Pigs in a Blanket and cheese, crackers and pepperoni for appertizers Three bean salad Roasted Turkey Breast with gravy Stuffing Steamed green Beans or Broccoli Blueberry Pie and cannolis for dessert That is our simple Christmass dinner for me, hubby and Gramps! Merry Christmas! And oh, don't forget the glass of wine, or two! |
| Was to be standing rib roast, but it's still too frozen. Horrors to freeze it but was purchased too early to leave in refrig. Maybe next year back to leg o lamb. So instead left overs. Funeral cooking yesterday yielded shrimp gumbo......I can't do much shrimp anymore but DH will be fine. Or......Grecian meat pies.....they were frozen probably since the fall of Troy, but I baked them last night and they are fine. Filo preserves everything. And there are always tamales in the freezer......ugh. |
| Going to son & daughter in law.....on the menu...ham, turkey breast, green beans, 4 pies, cheesecake, pistachio dessert, fruit salad, etc.....just had to have a cookie since we aren't eating for a couple hours yet. Merry Christmas everyone! |
| So Carol and Val should "get" my family's meals. Christmas eve: shrimp, smelt, spaghetti & aleege, calamari, baccala Christmas day: standing rib roast (6 ribs; this thing must've come from cowzilla; I'll post a pic later), mashed potatoes, broccoli, candied carrots, homemade raisin rolls,salad, & 4 pies for desert (pumpkin, rasberry, cherry cheesecake (I'll post a pic of this later, too), banana cream pie). Normally we would also have lasagna or stuffed shells too, but we had enough food without it. |
| we had shrimp w/cocktail sauce and bruschetta with Tomato and Basil ...but 8 different cookie batches and fudge laid out since morning... so our bellies were always full and then bbq ribs, german potatoes, salad, this special cucumber thing my husband always wants, apple chutney, and white chocolate cream cake that had maraschino cherries and almonds in it. I am soooooooooooo pooped. I handed each of the kids a crayon instead of a napkin when meal time came... and I'm completely zoned out from everything! The worst part of it is I have to do it all over in a few days when our next set of guests arrive. |
Joahaeyo wrote: I am soooooooooooo pooped. When I first read this, I didn't see the word "am" in the sentence. |
| The night is young... so it wouldn't surprise me |
| Turkey, Honey Baked Ham, Mashed Potato and gravey,Cheezie Potatoes, stuffing, 3 White Cheese Mac & Cheese, Pineapple Casserole, cuccumber salad, Green Beans and Bacon, Buttered Corn, Baroccoli and cheese, cranberry sauce, homemade rolls and butter, Black Walnut Bread, Chocolate Chip Cookies and the rest of my birthday cake which is a torte. All was really good and we sent a bunch home with Aaron and Hannah. My children are not big dessert eaters, so we keep cutting back on desserts each holiday. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! |
| Christmas Eve was 3 kinds of soup- Tomato Basil, Vegetable, and Clam Chowder. Sloppy Joes, Honey Baked Ham, Assorted Breads and Rolls. Appetizers and Snacks were... Rumaki, Salami Wraps, Shrimp, Cheese Ball, Stuffed Tomatoes, Cucumber Rounds, Pigs in Blankets, Cheese Twists, Hankey Pankey's, Summer Sausage, Assorted Cheeses. Desserts.... Cherry Pie, Cheesecake, Coconut Cream Pie, Strawberry Salad, and any kind of cookie you can imagine. Christmas Day we had a Standing Rib Roast, Garlic Oven Roasted Potatoes, Glazed Carrots, Sweet Potato Crunch, Green Bean Bundles Cranberry Salad , Homemade Rolls. Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie, And ALL those cookies again!  Christmas at Mom's on Sunday was more traditional-- always is.... Turkey, Ham, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Green Beans / Bacon, Corn Casserole, Broccoli and Rice, Dressing, Cranberry Salad, Deviled Eggs, Mac and Cheese, Ham Loaf, Sweet Potatoes, Rolls. Cookies, Cherry, Apple, Rhubarb and Chocolate Pies, New York Style Cheese Cake, Rum Fruit Cake ( My FAVORITE!!!) and Alka Seltzer... I like Paula's idea better |
| We went out for our Chinese dinner - and it was wonderful. Todd and I, Travis and fiance Lindsey (who worked also - medical records at the hospital), and LeAnne & Keith, grandkids Bre and William. Just missing Lisa, Alex, Norah and baby Owen. But Alex's parents were up visiting and brought Norah to see her family. |
| Tomato soup and a grilled cheese. David went to his folks place and had lamb. Neither of our families wanted 3 big fuzzy dogs, so for the first time in my life I was not with my human family but stayed at home with my furry family. We had fresh snow and new jolly balls-nothing else needed! |
| tomato soup, toasted cheese and your three girls sounds like an excellent Christmas |
Mady wrote: Tomato soup and a grilled cheese. David went to his folks place and had lamb. Neither of our families wanted 3 big fuzzy dogs, so for the first time in my life I was not with my human family but stayed at home with my furry family. We had fresh snow and new jolly balls-nothing else needed! I hear you. How was David's lamb? I searched high and low to even find any in this godforsaken corner of the world, paid a small fortune for it and it was awful. Granted, I've never been a big fan of American lamb, but at least in the past it's been edible. I'm not so sure this even qualifed as lamb. More like somebody's on his last legs ram Oh, Dawn....? On the plus side my cod fish was excellent despite being frozen and Alaskan. Probably had something to with smothering it in melted butter, cilantro, lime and garlic though Critters were very happy to have me home. Oddly enough my family isn't keen on having them come visit EITHER. Go figure.  Kristine |
I sadly have no lamb in my freezer  Sad, right? |
got sheep wrote: I sadly have no lamb in my freezer Sad, right? Disturbing! Is it the drought (in general) that's wreaking havoc with the lamb supply? Or the time of year? I always see lamb in the fall and then right before christmas,woosh! gone. Odd. I'm seriously thinking I need to go with some kind of salt pork next year instead. Only sentimentality keeps me clinging to the lamb, really. Especially after this latest round. It tasted so awful I wouldn't even feed it to the dogs. And, no, it wasn't my cooking Kristine |
| It was drought - we just kept back some of our best ewes and sold most all the rest - all the lambs and half the ewes. Hopefully this year! |
| Kristine we have too much Lamb in the UK. Tender and if cooked ok meat will fall off the bone. I had Pie & chips for Xmas dinner while the rest had turkey & the rest. |
Parwaz wrote: Kristine we have too much Lamb in the UK. Tender and if cooked ok meat will fall off the bone. I had Pie & chips for Xmas dinner while the rest had turkey & the rest. Yum!! Sure, make me cry - sniff, sniff. I grew up in Norway. The lamb was as you described. Out of this world. Kristine |
As promised, here are the pics of the standing rib roast and cherry cheese cake we had for Christmas.  The pictures don't do this thing justice. It was HUGE. It was 6 ribs and wouldn't fit in the fridge depth-wise. We had to clear off a whole shelf and turn it sideways to get it in the fridge. Must've been a big cow.  |
| Good stuff! I've got a nice roast with potatoes and onions going in my crock pot right now. |
| New Year's Eve dinner: beef chop suey and barbeque pork fried rice. YUM! I made a pan of brownies this morning. Guess what I'll be snacking on tonight???? |
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