What’s on the holiday menu this year?

[clifffaith]

I’m putting together lasagna tomorrow and will take it to my three-weeks-shy-of-90 mother’s home for baking on Christmas Day. Add salad and garlic bread — done! Much easier than planning a meat and a gazillion side dishes. Tomorrow night the old folks home has a pork tenderloin stuffed with wild mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes, served with goat cheese mashed potatoes and garlic buttered broccolini. Broccoli grape salad to start and pistachio raspberry tart for dessert. Will definitely be waddling by the 26th!

 

[slip]

Ham, Corn, Potatoes and a Homemade Chocolate Mousse Pie.

 

[heathpack]

I made a Prime Rib yesterday, with baked potatoes, buttered green beans and French bread.

Tomorrow will be rack of lamb, roasted butternut squash and buttered green beans.

Christmas morning we’ll make homemade waffles, eggs and sausage before we leave NY to drive home. I imagine Christmas dinner will be at Wendy’s, because we have some Frosty coupons to use up.

 

[Glynda]

We're having our daughter, SIL, granddaughter and a friend tomorrow night, Christmas Eve, for dinner. Baked brie, prime rib eye steaks, baked potatoes, Christmas asparagus salad, green beans, garlic bread, key lime and pecan pies. On Christmas Day, we are having lunch out at restaurant with neighbors and then we'll take left overs to the nursing home for my mother and spend some time with her. This will be only the third time in my seventy-six years that I haven't woken up on Christmas morning with my mother in the house. At less than two months shy of one hundred and three, it may be her last. However, I've thought that for many years. She's one strong and determined woman!

 

[DancingWaters]

Lees Chicken, Sloppy Joes, Cherry Delight, Apple crisp pie, Mac n Cheese, Roasted Brussels Spourts Sausage Stars, and many sweet treats. Menu reflects 10 young grandkids

 

[Luanne]

Same as last year.....and for many, many years.

Christmas Eve - prime rib, Yorkshire pudding and spinach
Christmas Day - lasagna

 

[CalGalTraveler]

We have a dozen showing up
Christmas Eve dinner is leisurely with everyone self grilling beef, shrimp chicken and veggie kabobs at the table. A variety of sauces ranging from garlic herb butter to blue cheese to chimchurri to chili onion sauce. Fam member bringing homemade smoked ribs. We usually have dungeoness crab with sourdough but season has not opened yet.

Christmas is leisurely pajama day. Smoked salmon and bagels with cream cheese and capers, bacon, eggs while we slowly open presents and binge watch movies.

 

[amycurl]

Tomorrow, we’re meeting my mother for Christmas Eve dinner at the bougie restaurant at her retirement community before Christmas Eve services.

Christmas Day, she’ll come over for presents and stockings at a time deemed appropriate by the teenager. She got uncooked croissants from our local French baker that I’ll bake alongside an egg, sausage and veggie casserole. Then she’ll go home while I cook dinner, coming back with two friends from her community. Planning to serve sirloin tip roast, Mac and cheese, collard greens, coleslaw, and roasted turnips/carrots. Mom will make a corn pudding. Teenager—an actual professional chef—is in charge of collards and dessert of her choosing.

It’s very rare to not either be out of town or having people from out of town. FIL is having a much-needed and moved-up hip replacement tomorrow morning, so the in-laws won’t be here.


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[stmartinfan]

Our traditional meal for Christmas Eve—take out Indian food! My daughters, now in their 30s, were adopted from India and many years ago we started getting Indian food after going to the late afternoon Christmas Eve service at our church. A new Indian restaurant opened near us, so we no longer have to do the 30 minute drive to our favorite place. I'm making another family tradition for the holidays, profiteroles for dessert. Christmas Day will be just 3 of us, so we'll do a favorite sweet pear bake and ham for brunch.

 

[DeniseM]

We are hosting our immediate family for brunch on Christmas:
Ham
Egg Breakfast Casserole
Fruit Salad
Hawaiian Dinner Rolls
Pastries
Pumpkin Pie Cake
Keto Sausage Balls
Keto Cheese Cake
Keto Gingerbread Cookies

 

[easyrider]

It's going to be bbq-ed ribs with coleslaw, potato salad, mac & cheese and other pot luck items for Christmas Eve. The boneless ribs are so tender. We do a White Elephant gifting on Christmas Eve. Christmas morning is Mass. Christmas afternoon is opening presents then dungeness Crab, shrimp, oysters with side dish left overs and pot luck is Christmas dinner.

We received a bunch of Christmas Cards this year. Most of them are the picture type of young adults and their families. I kind of like these.

Bill

 

[wyannuzzi]

Same every year:

Christmas Eve - King Crab Legs, Snow Crab Legs and Claws, Lobster, Shrimp, Flounder, Pierogis
Christmas Day - Pride Rib, Penne Vodka, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Corn, Carrots and Antipasto

 

[beejaybee]

Our menu varies. Our closest extended family is a 6 hour drive away and our son, daughter and their offspring are 13 hours away. They aren't coming home for the holiday so it's just us and a couple we've been friends with for decades. His stomach is easily upset so I hope the pork tenderloin with apples and onions I prepare will be tolerated. His wife told me not to worry so fingers crossed. Dessert is a yummy ice-box cake made by layering ginger snaps and whipped heavy cream blended with sugar and lemon curd, topped with fresh berries and candied ginger.

 

[SueDonJ]

Beef tenderloin on the grill rotisserie, roasted potatoes and whatever fresh veggies look good on Thursday morning.

 

[dioxide45]

We weren't home over Thanksgiving, so it will be a traditional Thanksgiving meal for us. Of course this could also be considered a traditional Christmas meal. Turkey, dressing, potatoes, mac and cheese, corn with lots of turkey gravy.

 

[geist1223]

We are switching it up this Christmas. Normally Prime Rib Roast, Yorkshire Pudding, Mashed Potatoes, Vegetables, Salad, and Dessert. This year Ham and no Yorkshire Pudding. Need Beef Grease.

 

[joestein]

My wife is Italian, so whatever it is, it will be too much. Seriously, we always have the same thing on Christmas Day. A antipasti course - meats, cheeses and olives, peppers and marinated veggies. Then my wife's chicken sausage and spinach cannelloni (based upon the dish from Carrabba's they no longer make).

Then on New Years Day we will do it all over again but with my SIL and her family.

 

[1Kflyerguy]

We hosted the big celebration for my wife's family last night, the 23rd. My wife and I are both recovering from recent foot surgeries, so our menu was based on less standing for us. We had honey-baked Ham, lasagna, and a nice spinach salad with bacon, and my niece brought some homemade desserts.

 

[JudyH]

Grilling a steak outside in 60 degree Florida Gulf weather.

 

[TheHolleys87]

For just the four of us - DH, DS, DGD, myself - we bought a bone-in turkey breast, and I think I’m going to air fry it. No matter how that comes out, we also have some pastries we just bought at our favorite Greek restaurant.

 

[Talent312]

Christmas Eve: Reheated leftover meatloaf and steamed broccoli.
Christmas: Rib roast. baked potatoes, and roasted asparagus wrapped in prosciutto.

 

[Passepartout]

Ham, sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts, and cranberry salad (well, and some wine and chocolate) will be about the limit of it for the two of us. I'll freeze come of the spiral sliced ham for later and the ham bone will go into a pot of split bean soup when we return from Mexico next month.

 

[ambere]

Christmas Eve - started the day with our daughter singing at the first Christmas Eve service of the day. Dinner: our annual favorite: rack of pork from Costco (bargain at $22 for 6-1/2 lbs and SO delicious), pan gravy, a roasted butternut squash salad w/ pomegranate seeds, and roasted garlic mashed potatoes, wine from our favorite local winery, Gianni Buonomo, and homemade chocolate pie for dessert.

Christmas Day: homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast (prepped today and will pop in the oven in the morning after rising a second time), and for dinner: beef tenderloin, topped w/ fresh chimichurri, roasted asparagus, mashed potatoes and salad, with homemade pies for dessert.

 

[PrairieGirl]

We weren't home over Thanksgiving, so it will be a traditional Thanksgiving meal for us. Of course this could also be considered a traditional Christmas meal. Turkey, dressing, potatoes, mac and cheese, corn with lots of turkey gravy.

You must be a closet Canadian!

 

[sun starved Gayle]

We have no kids/grandkids till the day after Christmas so my husband and I are going out for a nice dinner on the waterfront today. I am eyeing the beef Wellington on the menu.