Anonymous
Post 12/26/2024 07:34     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Christmas Eve - 6 adults, 3 kids (ages 8-16)

Sausage rolls with cranberry sauce
Chex mix
Cheese and crackers

Filet roast with horseradish cream
Parmesan potato tart
Arugula salad

Various cookies

Christmas brunch at relative’s house

Christmas dinner - 2 adults, 1 teen
Clam chowder
Rolls
Arugula salad
Various cookies

Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 23:15     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love the range in these offerings vs Thanksgiving. Would love the recipes for stuffed shell and hasselback au gratin!


I do stuffed shells. I boil the jumbo shells for like 10 minutes then run them under cold water. I separate them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

When they’re cool I pipe in the filling and place them in an oven safe serving dish. I use at least one jar of sauce for a pound of shells. Then I sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and cover loosely with foil. I bake for an hour at 350 then remove the foil for 5-10 minutes then let it set for 10 or so minutes.

For filling I use a large tub of ricotta and a pound of mozzarella. I add two beaten eggs. For spices I like fresh parsley but don’t always have it. I use Italian spices and salt and pellet to taste. You can add other stuff like sausage, chicken, hamburger, spinach or whatever but my kids are purists so I don’t.



This is the method I follow too.

For filling I do 50/50 ricotta and cottage cheese with a little shredded parm and some parsley.

Some of our extended family members have dairy allergies, so if they’ll be with us, I make a separate tray of shells filled with a mixture of Miyoko’s plant-based mozzarella, Treeline cashew cheese, an egg, and parsley.


PP - whoops, I forgot to mention I also add an egg to the ricotta/cottage cheese mixture.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 23:14     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Love the range in these offerings vs Thanksgiving. Would love the recipes for stuffed shell and hasselback au gratin!


I do stuffed shells. I boil the jumbo shells for like 10 minutes then run them under cold water. I separate them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

When they’re cool I pipe in the filling and place them in an oven safe serving dish. I use at least one jar of sauce for a pound of shells. Then I sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and cover loosely with foil. I bake for an hour at 350 then remove the foil for 5-10 minutes then let it set for 10 or so minutes.

For filling I use a large tub of ricotta and a pound of mozzarella. I add two beaten eggs. For spices I like fresh parsley but don’t always have it. I use Italian spices and salt and pellet to taste. You can add other stuff like sausage, chicken, hamburger, spinach or whatever but my kids are purists so I don’t.



This is the method I follow too.

For filling I do 50/50 ricotta and cottage cheese with a little shredded parm and some parsley.

Some of our extended family members have dairy allergies, so if they’ll be with us, I make a separate tray of shells filled with a mixture of Miyoko’s plant-based mozzarella, Treeline cashew cheese, an egg, and parsley.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 19:20     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Anonymous wrote:Love the range in these offerings vs Thanksgiving. Would love the recipes for stuffed shell and hasselback au gratin!


I do stuffed shells. I boil the jumbo shells for like 10 minutes then run them under cold water. I separate them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

When they’re cool I pipe in the filling and place them in an oven safe serving dish. I use at least one jar of sauce for a pound of shells. Then I sprinkle with shredded mozzarella and cover loosely with foil. I bake for an hour at 350 then remove the foil for 5-10 minutes then let it set for 10 or so minutes.

For filling I use a large tub of ricotta and a pound of mozzarella. I add two beaten eggs. For spices I like fresh parsley but don’t always have it. I use Italian spices and salt and pellet to taste. You can add other stuff like sausage, chicken, hamburger, spinach or whatever but my kids are purists so I don’t.

Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 19:17     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Beef tenderloin, roasted potatoes and carrots, apple crisp.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 19:12     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Anonymous wrote:Stuffed shells, bread, and salad
Christmas cookies and a hot cocoa bar for dessert


This is my menu too. Have been doing it since my kids were really young because stuffed shells is their favorite.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 18:57     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
We threw a Festivus brunch for friends today that included homemade:

Green-red-white striped bagels
Sage & rosemary-smoked labneh
Whipped feta & charred scallion spread
Hummus
Cranberry chutney
Pickled cauliflower
Tomato-pomegranate-barberry salad
Shredded kale-cabbage slaw

Plus:
Lox, Smoked ham, Caviar, CC, crudites

Christmas Cookies, Panettone, Cheesecake

Bellinis & cranberry juice spritzers


Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 18:01     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Just three of us, so a small menu

Smoked rib roast with bourbon-maple-pecan glaze
Green beans
Garlic Parmesan mashed potatoes
Wild rice with cranberries
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 17:50     Subject: Re:What are you serving for Christmas?
Shrimp cocktail, prime rib, mashed potatoes, grilled asparagus and chocolate cheesecake.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 17:47     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Lamb loin chops, duck, salad, roasted root veg, noodle soup, rice
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 17:44     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Shrimp cocktail, dip and chips, deviled eggs, honey baked ham, turkey and gravy, scalloped potatoes, macaroni and cheese, green beans, roasted butternut squash with pecans, carrots, stuffing, cranberries, homemade rolls, cake, cookie/truffle platter.
Anonymous
Post 12/25/2024 11:58     Subject: What are you serving for Christmas?
Anonymous wrote:Love the range in these offerings vs Thanksgiving. Would love the recipes for stuffed shell and hasselback au gratin!


The jumbo shells tend to have a recipe on the box. But the short of it is that you boil them, stuff them (I use a mix of ricotta, mozzerella, parm, an egg, salt & pepper and parsley, and sometimes spinach -- the frozen block, with as much water squeezed out as possible), and bake in an oven nestled in sauce. Make sure to cover it; if you don't the shells dry out and get hard.