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Holiday Menus
Last Christmas I spent all of Christmas Day making an elaborate meal for DH's family--he knew it was likely his dad's last Christmas and wanted to go all out. This year it will just be BIL, his wife and 2 daughters stopping by and I want to do something much more simple and less time consuming--but I havne't decided what that will be yet.
For breakfast we'll have Christmas pancakes and an egg casserole (make ahead).
What is on your Holiday Menu this year?
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Re: Holiday Menus
I cook for my ILs on Christmas eve. I always get steaks from the "good" butcher. I will probably also make a salad, maybe a soup and roasted veggies/potatoes. Then I'll buy dessert!
On Christmas day, we do a lot of running so I don't cook much. I usually just make baked pineapple for a side dish. This year I'll also buy some kind of apps b/c last year my brother didn't have any and I was starved!
Breakfast is a fend for yourself kind of deal (I usually opt for cookies and coffee
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we'll eat dinner around 4, so I don't really make a lunch or anything, but I'll put out some munchies. My mom is bringing a cheese tray, and I'll probably do a tastefully simple dip, plus sweet & sour meatballs in the crockpot to have out in the afternoon.
Dinner: turkey, ham, mashed potato casserole (so I can put it together the night before), stuffing, peas, carrots, rolls, pumpkin and apple pie for dessert.
mmmmm......I can't wait!!
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Our Christmas Day is pretty small and casual. For breakfast I'll do homemade cinnamon rolls plus some scrambled eggs and sausage.
For dinner I'll make wedding soup, bread, and maybe brussels sprouts. And my vanilla cheesecake if I have the energy.
We are casual as well, just the four of us plus my parents on Christmas Day.
Breakfaat will be egg and ham casserole, French toast and fruit.
Lunch will be fend for yourself - soup, cheese and crackers, sandwiches, etc.
Dinner will be my dad's chicken and noodles. Probably with peas, fruit and bread. Pumpkin pie for dessert.
Christmas Eve is the big meal in both our families. We are hosting for dh's grandparents and 3 cousins, smaller group than I the past. I have always had ham on Christmas eve and dh's family has done turkey. The first year we hosted there was some turkey disappointment! So last time we compromised and did a ham and a small fried turkey. So I think we will do that again this year. Just basics for the rest, mashed potatoes, corn, rolls, salad and dh's grandmother will make a pie.
christmas morning dh's family always had a huge breakfast so we are doing that but it will just be the 3 of us this year. This is our first Christmas morning that way. We will do cinnamon rolls first thing while opening presents then will have a slew of breakfast stuff afterwards, pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon.
my parents are driving up Christmas Day after my mom gets out of work so we will do a late dinner around 9 hopefully. I'll probably make a lasagna. Both our families always had pasta on Christmas Day (both Italians!)
I was thinking either lasagna or stuffed shells for Christmas day with salad, apps and garlic bread!
I make a breakfast for the 3 or us on Christmas Eve morning, but otherwise, no Christmas cooking for me, which makes me jolly indeed.
For the breakfast, I am doing baked eggs in ramekins with grape tomatoes and feta, "good" bacon from the Strip (also baked), grapefruit, and yummy cinnamon bread from a bakery in Squirrel Hill.
I am going to bring ricotta, lemon zest and honey crostini and some rosemary cashews to my in-laws' for Christmas Eve.
We go to my parents' on Christmas Eve and my mom does a buffet: Honeybaked ham, rolls, cheese, shrimp, veggies, potatoe casserole she buys at the local grocery. She recently has added a rib roast which is a huge hit. But, she puts everything on the kitchen island and we eat wherever we sit. It is also one of the two times a year we get nutbread, so that is always a huge hit.
We go to DH's grandmothers on Christmas. We have turkey, ham, stuffed cabbage, potatoes, veggies, stuffing. But his aunt and uncle do most of the work. I now bring cookies, specifically mini-cheesecake cookies. Easy enough for me.
we eat D&G Pizza (the pride of beaver county) on Christmas Eve at my Grandma's. It's too much for her to cook the traditional spaghetti/meat sauce she always did, so now it's pizza and beer.
on Christmas Day, my mom does the turkey, ham, potatoes, veggies etc... basically like a wonderful repeat of Thanksgiving
We host Christmas Eve every year and have my IL's over. I always make a turkey, stuffing, and all the trimmings. We then sit around after dinner and eat homemade Chrstimas cookies and open presents.
I'm throwing around the idea of making a breakfast casserole for Christmas monring. We always spend Christmas day with my parents. What my mom makes varies from year to year, but it's usually a standing rib roast or prime rib. I'm fortunate enough to always get away with not having to bring anything Christmas day.
I'm apparently one of the few crazies doing a full meal for Christmas. We'll have around 18 people for dinner, 25 for dessert.
Appetizers will be dips, cheese adn crackers with meats and berries.
I'm making beef and pork tenderloin filets, root vegetable mac n cheese, seven layer salad, bacon brussels sprouts, rolls adn something else.
For dessert i'm making a cheesecake, brownie trifle and christmas cookies.
We host Christmas Dinner at our house - 13 adults, 2 children with another 2 adults/2 children stopping over at some point. We're having turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, a vegetable (ideas welcome!), lasagna, salad, rolls.
Not sure about dessert, but it will likely be something store bought because I'm lazy like that.
We host christmas day also and usually do a big meal. Ham, seafood lasagna (but think I will do Lobster mac & chesse this year), potatoes romanoff (got off pinterest last year- yum), spinach artichoke casserole, some other green veggie, sausage stuffing, rolls. For dessert I am making a carmel apple pie (won the thanksgiving pie contest at work with this recipe), crockpot lava cake, cheese cake & cookies.
Yum.