Anonymous wrote:Christmas Eve is our formal holiday dinner. China, silver and crystal. Good table linens. No denim allowed. If we are at my parents or our house, this is the menu:
cheese platter
shrimp cocktail
cocktails
standing rib roast (aka prime rib)
oven roasted potatoes
yorkshire pudding
brussels sprouts
salad with boston lettuce, pomegranate seeds, mandarin oranges, toasted almonds
red wine
plum pudding with hard sauce for dessert
port after the kids have gone to bed.
Christmas morning we'll have a kringle (so much better than the stolen I grew up with!), breakfast casserole, OJ, hot chocolate, coffee.
Christmas Day dinner is spiral ham, baked apples, sweet potatoes, salad, maybe green beans. Banana cream pie for dessert if my aunt is around to make it.
Anonymous wrote:Christmas Eve dinner is late afternoon on Christmas Eve and is huge: turkey or salmon, stuffing, scalloped potatoes or mashed, green bean fish, salad, homemade applesauce, homemade cranberry sauce, pie etc.
We make a huge amount because Christmas Day is a no cooking day. . We eat the leftovers from Christmas Eve. I also make a sausage/cheese/egg/bread bake that I keep in the fridge overnight. It is ready to go in the oven on Christmas morning for 45 minutes. So we have that with fruit and coffee for a brunch.
I do as much of my cooking ahead of time so I can enjoy my family. My DH is the better cook, so he does alot of the more difficult dishes and he does the baking.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Chinese food. We're Jewish.
Lobster, cold Peel n eat super jumbo shrimp, linguini, smoked salmon..
Yummy!!! My dad is 1/2 Sicilian and does our Xmas eve dinner---going on 40+ kids and my siblings and I have never missed a single one.
It's the highlight of my year