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What is everyone making/buying for Christmas dinner?
MIL always has specific requests for what I need to bring. I cheesecake from a particular store, and and ice cream cake from another place. Thank goodness I have Thursday free so I can run around! What is everyone else bringing to their Christmas Eve/Christmas Day dinners? Is anyone hosting?
Re: What is everyone making/buying for Christmas dinner?
Yum!
We're having my mom & brother's up from CT for Christmas Day. I will attempt to make leg of lamb per DH's request and then lots of sides & apps.
We're hosting a total of 17 (including us). My family is a little insane about how much food needs to be served; I guess it comes from being Chinese and always eating family style so everyone's used to there being several entree options. Some of the things we're serving are:
Pan-cooked cod with tomatoes, olives, and some other stuff I can't remember
Roast (mom's bringing)
Chicken pot pie (I had planned on making it fresh but my sisters said to just buy one)
Apple-stuffed pork tenderloin
And aunt & uncle are bringing one more entree. Yeah, insane. Plus all the sides and an app or two.
So funny! One of my best friends has the same tradition of Chinese food on Christmas Eve.
Leg of lamb sounds really difficult!
That is a ton of people AND a ton of food!
Yeah I'm not really sure how it got started. Many years ago when I was little they did a "normal" dinner. But my grandmother is so funny and has a typed up list on the computer and goes through it mid-December to change things around based on what people ate the previous year. Then drops it off at the Chinese restaurant she orders from a week or 2 in advance. She's got it down to the science.
Chinese food on Christmas doesn't sound strange to me... but that's because it's what all (I exaggerate a lot) the Jews do.
For my ILs Christmas, I'm making spinach & artichoke stuffing, brie appetizer, desserts (pie, cookies/ bar of some sort), cinnamon rolls... greek panzanella salad... there is probably more too.