Christmas Dinner menu

sunshine608

What's on your menu for Christmas dinner? Do you do the same thing every year or switch it up?

 

We typically just repeat Thanksgiving dinner in my family and add a leg of lamb for variety. 

This years dinner  will likely be H's last home cooked meal for a while. Plus, pork is outlawed where he is going so he asked for a Big fat ham. After that I'm at a loss. I'll probably do lamb chops for myself.

So far:

Ham
Lamb ( chops)
Cornbread dressing
Collard greens
Corn

I need one more side- not sure what yet. 

naylon511

We go to my sister's every year (Christmas Eve) and she "inherited" it from her Italian MIL.  Because of that it's a very seafood-oriented  Rhode Island/ Italian feast with:

Stuffed Shrimp
Clam Stuffies
Oysters-someting
Lobsters
Pasta Agli Oglio
Lasagna (for the kids, and me, who don't eat most of the other stuff....)

I think that's it?

trickeytricky

I will be doing a Turkey, stuffing, cheesey potato casserole, some sort of vegetable (ie. carrots, green beans, corn), biscuits, salad and desserts.

krisdave

After having Ryan we invited both sides of the family to our house.  So we combine some of each of our family traditions/menus.

Ham, turkey, baked ziti, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, pineapple salad, green salad, dill pickles, and desserts.

TaylorNShannon

A good, homemade mac n cheese?

We do:

Steak (Christmas eve)

Ham (Christmas day)

Salad

Mac n Cheese

Family Recipe Fruit Salad

Deviled eggs

Relish tray (olives, cheeseball, crackers, onions, etc.)

Lil smokies

Shrimp Cocktail

Cooking is at least a half-day affair, so things like smokies and shrimp are appetizers to snack on

Jennrs

Homemade vegetable and beef soup

Tortellini Soup

Artisan cheese and meat plate from a local cheese shop

Ciabatta rolls

Smoked Turkey with tarragon sauce (soooo good)

Spinach Dip

BLT salad

jo&sam

I'm the odd man out here.  We don't do a big Christmas dinner...we do a big Christmas brunch. 

My parents started this when I was younger.  We always did Christmas with just our immediate family (so only 5 of us) and a huge fancy dinner didn't sound like any fun.  So after we get done opening presents we have a big breakfast. 

In the past we have done scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, bacon, maybe some ham steaks fried, toast and jelly...stuff like that.

This year I scaled back some and we're just doing scrambled eggs, biscuits, bacon, and maybe some hash browns. 

613marriedlady

My immediate family does Christmas Eve at my Dad's. He makes a prime rib and creme brulee for dessert. My sister makes her mashed potatoes and I make a side, usually green bean casserole. We do Christmas morning at SIL's at 5am to watch our niece open presents. (She leaves to her dad's at 7a). We have coffee and pastries. We go back to SIL's around 4 or 5pm. They don't have a tradition as far as food, so sometimes its traditional turkey day food, this year it's catered mexican. Yum!

alliapistor

It's just us so we may do something fancy like lobster or crab on Christmas Eve and then we're going to friends for Christmas Day.  I do a big meal for NYE though and wanted to recommend these sweet potatoes with carmelized apples.  I made them last year and they were yummy.

http://www.marthastewart.com/344434/sweet-potatoes-with-caramelized-apples

 

Beth&Derek

My aunt is doing prime rib and ham with baked potatoes and veggies. She makes pretty much the same thing every year.

On Christmas Eve, we have my dad and his gf (and sometimes SIL) over and I make a roast in the crockpot. That's the meal I'm really looking forward to.

Beth&Derek

naylon511:

Clam Stuffies 

Jealous. I eat very little seafood, but I could eat stuffies every day.

swimmerette00

I have no idea what we're doing for Christmas Eve dinner. MIL might make spaghetti. There will be apps and ham sandwiches at GFIL's.

My family does a big Christmas breakfast with Swedish sausage, scrambled eggs (with cheese), cinnamon rolls, fruit, and cranberry punch.

Christmas Day dinner is either roast beef or lamb and a bunch of sides (rolls, salad, veggies, potatos, etc.)

morrigan08

Christmas eve we are making these white green chile enchiladas with homemade beans and rice and a salad. 

Christmas Day at the in laws, probably prime rib (neither DH nor I like prime rib, I know we are strange). Spanakopita, Cheesy Potatoes, Rolls, and other things?

For back up the next day or christmas day if we can't make it to dinner
http://www.marthastewart.com/866371/mustard-roasted-beef-tenderloin
with a mustard sauce
a family spinach dish that we have always used for holidays (spinach and oatmeal)
rolls
mashed potatoes 

 

Fraux

This year it'll just be me and the kids. David's working dayshift so he won't be home until 8pm and I don't like taking the kids away from their new gifts, so we stay in all day. I'll probably make my usual- mashed potatoes, ham, vegetable (corn or green beans), and homemade Mac and Cheese.