What Are You Having For Christmas Dinner & Christmas Eve dinner?

[orleans]

eve: shrimp scampi (or is it Dijon?)

xmas: ham, au gratin potatoes, corn on cob, green beans, jello mold (i won't eat it!), sweet potatoes. dessert: red velvet cake and black raspberry ice cream, and/or custard with sliced banana & redi whip.

how 'bout you?

[krispos42]

1. My mom's making a lasagna or two.

With meatballs and homemade sauce.

And an antipoasto most likely.



Can't wait! :woohoo:

[insanity]

2. Salmon

[Shardik]

3. Anxiety attacks.

:)

[Callalily]

4. Don't really know.

Spending the day with friends, and I really don't know what's on the menu yet. But whatever it is, I'm sure it'll be good and in abundance.

[hippywife]

37. Are you going

to take some freshly baked bread over, maybe? Hmmmmm? :hi:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

5. Lasagna, ham, turkey, potatos, caesar salad

Mince pies, ice cream and Christmas pudding for desert

[AwakeAtLast]

6. This year is very different

My Mom & Dad's Wedding Anniversary is December 24th. They are traveling to my house for the very first time. My husband and I made reservations at a restaurant for tomorrow night. They have never been to a restaurant on their anniversary in the 43 years they have been married. We made sure that it's a good one, too! :)

Christmas Day: Breakfast Casserole in the AM, Lunch is ham, broccoli, cheese and rice casserole, artichoke dip and crackers, pickle and olive tray, and pumpkin pie for dessert. My sister asked for potato soup for the evening if we get hungry. I also made two batches of chex mix for snacking. I don't think we will go hungry!

Have a Merry Christmas! :hi:

[PassingFair]

7. Christmas Eve: An assortment of macaroni and cheeses

Christmas Day: 21 people over for the traditional
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding.

Expect weight gain...

[seemunkee]

8. We are forgoing the traditional Jewish dinner this year

No take out Chinese for us, I'm making latkes.

[fizzgig]

11. i love latkes

that's what we're having christmas eve

[TommyO]

16. Latkes sound good, but I prefer potato pancakes

:hide:

[LiberalEsto]

9. Estonian traditional Christmas Eve dinner

Pork roast, potatoes with dill, sauerkraut cooked in beer, lingonberry jam, rye bread, and cookies and kringel* for dessert. And for the vegetarians, a large mushroom-stuffed baked pirukas (pierogie).

Christmas Day is not something Estonians usually celebrate. But I make lasagna for dinner. In the morning we have our family tradition of eggs Benedict.

*Kringel is a slightly sweet yeast bread in the shape of a giant pretzel, that includes eggs, butter, saffron and cardamon as well as a very small amount of raisins and candied fruit. It's usually made for holidays or as a birthday cake.

[fizzgig]

10. we're doing hannukah dinner on christmas eve

latkes and matzo ball soup.

on thursday we'll have thanksgiving dinner redux: turkey, garlic mashed taters, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing and rolls. i'm also making pecan and chocolate custard pie.

i really wish we didn't have turkey on christmas, but that's what dad likes and he's the one who buys the food.

[spinbaby]

12. Our traditional dinner

The menu invariably includes:

One ham of dubious quality but enormous proportions. My father in-law will spend the evening telling us what a bargain it was.

One pan of scalloped potatoes, made from a box.

One green-bean casserole, standard recipe.

Mysterious green fluff made of Cool Whip, green Jello, marshmallows, and something else I can't remember. It counts as the salad.

Deep-fried sauerkraut balls.

Cookies.

[crim son]

34. Whoa.

Deep fried sauerkraut balls? Seriously?

[spinbaby]

44. Yep, specialty of the house

They're traditional Christmas fare in parts of western PA, eastern Ohio, and the northern WV panhandle.

[Bertha Venation]

13. Eve: finger foods. Day: Chinese. n/t

[bif]

14. Traditional Polish soup

It's a combination of pea soup with sauerkraut and wild mushrooms. And we're probably going to have salmon since my daughter won't eat meat.

[malta blue]

15. I have no idea yet for christmas eve...

I will probably just do something on the fly since it is just my mom and myself and we have gifts to wrap.

Christmas Dinner:

Herb Crusted Prime Rib with Madeira and Horseradish Sauces
Herbed Yorkshire Puddings
Mashed Potato
Asparagus
Bourbon Chocolate Pie
Lots of yummy yummy wine....


Former DUer Distressed American and his family will be joining me for dinner, along with my mom (DUer secondwind).

[dixiegrrrrl]

55. Is drooling on the key board uncouth?

[BarenakedLady]

17. Good question!

Doh!

I've been so focused on having to clean, I forgot about what to eat! Either a Quorn (vegetarian) roast or lasagna. I guess I best go shopping for food stuffs!

[TommyO]

18. Lots of goodies

On Christmas Eve it's home-made pierogi served with plenty of butter, onions and sour cream, and crab stuffed salmon (no meat on Christmas Eve, even though I don't buy into the significance, we keep the tradition).

On Christmas Day it's way too much shrimp before the main meal, antipasto, lasagna, ham, a bunch of sides, and a need to loosen the belt.

[orleans]

22. my daughter is going to her bf's house for xmas eve

they are having pierogis too "and jello will be involved"

[TommyO]

33. No jello here, thank God!

It's been ages since I've had it in any form, including Jello shots!

[MissMillie]

19. I'm going to a pot luck open house tomorrow night

I don't know what others are bringing, but I'm bringing deep-fried brie and apple pockets, and peanutbutter fudge.

Christmas day: prime rib, mashed taters and gravy, butternut squash, and something green, oh and cesar salad

pie of course.

[Inchworm]

20. Don't know- I'm eating at daughter's

I'm gonna let her suprise me :)

:hi:

[Sabriel]

21. Lutefisk, lefse, rutabagas, meatballs, mashed potatoes, rommegrot

It's a Norwegian Christmas Eve dinner all the way.

I'm making the lefse, not the other stuff.

[grannylib]

49. OMG. My mom would SO love to be at your house! I'll take everything

but the lutefisk...eesh. But I LOVE lefse. I need to learn how to make it.
I did krumkake last year, but haven't made any this year (no grandkids here this year to BEG me to make some *lol*)

[AlCzervik]

23. Christmas dinner is all set for the meat eaters but what to make for Christmas eve--no idea

my husband is italian so it's usually seafood.

[Reverend_Smitty]

24. we're pretty non-traditional in our family

we don't sit down to a big dinner, we have more snack-y hour d'oeuvres that we slowly stuff ourselves with throughout the day. Christmas eve we are having homemade meatballs and sauce and on Christmas day my aunt is making pulled pork from scratch and it is truly divine!

[av8rdave]

25. A variety

Christmas eve will be in Los Cabos. Probably something spicy. Christmas night will be back in Atlanta at a hotel. Probably pizza and a beer.

[Broken_Hero]

26. Fried Chicken, potato salad, bbq beans,

rolls, pie, and soda...a nice easy xmas dinner....

My wife and I were sick this past thanksgiving, and doing all that work, was so...not relaxing...we figured we do a VERY easy Xmas dinner.

I almost talked her into just getting frozen pizzas, but we opted for pre made stuff, and frozen chicken...

[MillieJo]

27. Turkey...

Christmas Eve - Baked Salmon with salad and Mulled Wine later.

Christmas Day - Traditional British Christmas dinner: Turkey with stuffing, chippolatas, roast potatoes and parsips, carrots and gravy. Followed by Christmas Pudding and Brandy sauce, this will be served with lots of wine.

[LaydeeBug]

28. Thanksgiving makes a turkey and Christmas makes a ham...

Christmas Eve is a standing rib roast though. :wow:

[Arugula Latte]

29. Xmas Eve -- Latkes, even though we're neither Jewish nor Xtian

I make some darn good latkes, if I do say so myself. :9

Xmas -- I think our host is serving roast beef to the red meat eaters and shrimp to the rest of us.

[KamaAina]

30. Don't know yet.

Was suddenly invited to go someplace for an actual Christmas dinner, so, to paraphrase the great Billy Crystal, "I'll have what she's having."

Eve: whatever I can scare up at the market tomorrow (first day of vacation :bounce: ), or spaghetti and meat sauce (ingredients already in hand) as a backup.

[CharmCity]

31. Eve: Bouillabaise (fish soup) Day: Roasted Chicken

with Asiago Polenta and mushrooms.

[LWolf]

32. Eve:

Whatever doesn't require dishes to cook or eat. No water, frozen plumbing, can't do dishes.

xmas day: Whatever my son is cooking. I just show up. :D

[grannylib]

35. Ham, shrimp, summer sausage, crackers, cheese, biscuits,

fruit, veggies and dip, and all the goodies Sarahbellum and I have been baking:
Peanut butter and chocolate chunk cookies, mocha cakes, Russian Tea Cakes, Apple Cream Cheese Coffee cake with sugared pecans on top.
We do mostly finger food and just kinda nosh all day...

And we have some wine and some egg nog and some vodka to go with the cranberry juice. I don't do a "big Christmas dinner" anymore...we like it informal and to spend the time playing games, watching movies, going sledding down the ravine, walking in the woods, bird-watching...all that :-)

[Bunny]

36. Christmas Eve: cold smoked turkey, ham, shrimp, cheeses, vegetable tray,

fruit and dip, christmas cookie tray, and various other snicks and snacks. I'm looking forward to trying the pickled garlic.

Christmas Day: chateaubriand, some type of exotic homemade potatoes, a nice vegetable dish, and a salad. I may make a pie,or we may just nosh on leftover Christmas cookies.

[Skittles]

38. frozen dinner

can only take 5 min break from work to heat something up :D

[femmocrat]

39. Our menu:

Christmas Eve: traditional Slovak meal. Mushroom soup, bubulki (bite-sized bread sauteed in butter and sauerkraut, then dipped in honey), sweet sausage and sauerkraut, pirohi.

Christmas Day: ham, kielbasa with horseradish, wild rice, spinach salad, vegetables, rolls, lots of cookies.

Then, we have the rest of the family over on the Sunday after Christmas. Usually homemade soup and hearty sandwiches, desserts.

[SoxFan]

40. Christmas: Way too much!

Usually, it includes:

(Pre-game festivities, aka, the stuff on my aunt's living room table)
Celery and cheese
Pickles
Olives
Crackers
Chips and dip
Hershey Kisses

(The Main Event)
Turkey
Roast beef
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Green beans
Squash
Creamed onions
Cranberry sauce
Some sort of pie
Eclairs
Italian cookies
Plum pudding

[Manifestor_of_Light]

41. Turkey.

A whole turkey.

Dressing that I make with Pepperidge Farm stuffing mix, hard boiled eggs, chicken broth, sauteed onions and shrooms. I bake it in a big corning ware dutch oven. I NEVER put it in the bird.

Turkey gravy.

Sweet potatoes with pineapple chunks, mandarin oranges, butter, vanilla, brown sugar and marshmallows baked on top.

Chocolate cream cheese pie. My mom invented it. You cook it on top of the stove like fudge. It has no eggs in it.

Pinwheel cookies (vanilla and chocolate refrigerator cookies rolled in a spiral).

I will not have to cook all this by myself. I will have help.

[Kat45]

42. Lasagne. Why not?

:-)

[enigmatic]

43. Cornish Game Hens For Christmas

Bacon/Eggs/Home Fries/Texas Toast and STRONG coffee for Xmas Eve..

[OnionPatch]

45. Well, I was forced to eat cornbread stuffing at Thanksgiving.

So for Christmas we are having turkey with *whitebread* stuffing. :P

My mom always made ham and scalloped potatoes on Christmas, but my household doesn't like ham all that much. We love turkey, though, so Christmas is usually a redo of Thanksgiving for us.

[mnhtnbb]

46. Christmas Eve--London Broil, mashed potatoes, carrots with marmelade & pecans,

gingerbread ice cream (from Cold Stone Creamery); Christmas Day--probably baked chicken
and homemade mac & cheese, green beans & bacon.

[bdamomma]

47. Christmas Eve I have no idea.

Christmas day: Ham, steamed vegetables and something else yummy.

[Blue Diadem]

48. This evening is our Christmas dinner.

I'm taking a break right now and after cooking today, I won't have to cook for a few days with all the leftovers. ;)

We're having ham, kielbasa, swedish meatballs, sweet & sour meatballs, au gratin potatoes, corn casserole, broco/rice/cheese casserole, sweet tater casserole, dinner rolls. Deserts, pumpkin roll, jello, oreo cheesecake and pumpkin pie.

snacks: beef/onion cheese ball, bleu cheese ball, veggie tray with dill dip, spinach dip with rye,Hawaiian and pumpernickel breads.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

50. I'll be having my borsht, fish, and pyrhohy (peirogis) two days late.

Since I'll be going up to my parents and celebrating the Ukrainian Christmas eve dinner on Friday.

What will I be having on Christmas day at the in-laws? Probably roast beef. Because that's what my mother-in-law makes. Roast beef.

[cordelia]

51. Eve: Lasagna

Friend makes some wonderful lasagna.

Day: Ham and other things my best friend is getting ready.

27th: My brother's cooking. Says he's making a "stew". I hope possums are not involved.

[Inspired]

52. Chili and snack like things, shrimp, cheese, crackers, deli meats, tonight.

Tomorrow is the prize....a wonderfully cooked standing rib roast that my mom makes every Christmas. With mashed potatoes and rich, dark gravy, green beans, corn, homeade yeast rolls and a strawberry salad.

And I made a Bacardi Rum Cake for desert that will be topped with real whipped cream....not that cool whip stuff.

[SOteric]

53. Oh there'll be a lot of food over the next two days:

For Christmas Eve we'll be having Dungeness Crab with roasted garlic butter, Kumamoto Oysters and giant Black Tiger Prawns, orzo slad with white asparagus tips and crumbled feta, and we'll be toasting with a Veuve Clicquot. Then we'll all stumble off to midnight mass.

Early the next morning we'll gather for Quiche Lorraine and Bloody Marys (A SOteric-clan tradition), there'll be the gift exchange and later in the day, there'll be feasting:

Wild Rice, Mushroom and Oyster Bisque
Roast Rack of Lamb with a Cilantro Crust
Slow-Roasted Celerica and Shallot Pureé
Cointreau-Glazed Carrots Parisienne
Braised Golden Beets with Sherry Vinaigrette
A California Merlot

Brandied Pear Tarte Tatin with a flambé of cognac and glacée of dried fruits

And of course, the Grappa

Buon Natale!

[spindrifter]

54. We canceled because of the snow issues.

The bad street conditions mean that we have to lug everything about a mile from a smaller chain grocery that has been out or low on a lot of stuff. Who knows if the family members who live on the top of one of Seattle's hills can get down here to our place. Our other usual guest is out in the burbs where there is more snow than here. So we are thinking we may have the dinner Saturday or Sunday, depending on street conditions. The good news is that a warm front is coming.

[yellowdogintexas]

56. we had Mexcian food last night at my brother in law's house

all home made by his wife and her sisters and mother. Mama's fine fine tamales. YUM

We have a ham and a turkey breast from Honey Baked Ham (gift certificate from my employer) and various veg. I baked a chocolate pound cake and my husband made his decadent ubervanilla ice cream

[Justyce]

57. We have Gumbo every Christmas.

:)

[NMDemDist2]

58. it't just hubby and I and I have a HUGH!!! Prime Rib in the oven

I only have today off, so not much stuff

I made some deviled eggs, we'll have Yorkshire Pudding and baked taters with the roast

I may throw a pumpkin pie in the oven too.

[leeroysphitz]

59. Christmas: Chinese Turkey.

[WinkyDink]

60. Eve = Scallops, potato blintzes (I know!), broccoli. Day = It. Wedding soup, lamb chops, baked pot.,

corn, green beans, salad, kiffles.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

61. Grilled seabass and polenta. And it was damn good.

[fortyfeetunder]

62. Chinese food

going down to the local restaurant (their food rocks) and have a quiet dinner plus there are some great leftovers for tomorrow night's dinner.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

63. Christmas Day here was Ham, Garlic smashed potato's, Grandmas Baked Beans recipe,

Buttered hot rolls, Cranberry sauce, and fresh veggies. Pumpkin Strudel Cake for dessert.
My teen started the day with dinner at his friends Moms house with a Spaghetti Dinner at Noon.
He then ate here with a friend at 1.
We all went to the In-laws at 2:30 for a Standing Rib Roast, the rutabagas where Perfect! as well as everything else.
Now he is at another friends house for another dinner, and he has one more dinner to go after that.
This is the year of 5 Christmas Dinners for him. Hope he feels okay in the Morn!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

64. Home-made Christmas Mac & Cheese w/ tomatoes & spinach

Amerigo Vespucci's Special Red & Green Christmas Mac & Cheese

8 ounces elbow macaroni, cooked & drained
1 can Campbell's Cheddar Cheese Soup, prepared with one soup can of milk, plus 2 ounces Kraft Finely Shredded Cheddar Cheese and 1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 10 ounce package frozen spinach, steamed for ten minutes and squeezed in a clean white kitchen towel to remove as much water as possible
1 14.5 ounce can S&W Petite Cut Tomatoes, drained (save tomato juice for another recipe)

Spray casserole dish with Pam Cooking Spray. Thoroughly mix prepared soup, macaroni, spinach and tomatoes. Pour into casserole so that all is evenly distributed.

Top casserole with Tillamook Sliced Colby Jack cheese, an even layer of Progresso plain bread crumbs, and paprika.

Bake at 350 for 30 minutes.

:toast:

[applegrove]

65. Turkey, gravy, potatoes, broccoli, carrots, plumb pudding with hard sauce.

I did most of the cooking. Missed my aunt who used to show up with Chocolate zuchinni cake - yummy. Or there is this thing called Cantley Pudding my other aunt used to make.

[Fire Walk With Me]

66. I broke into a Christmas dinner conversation and told the Brazillion joke.

I was met with icy stares. I expected -some- icy stares, but not all. :shrug: