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help with Christmas eve menu w/ IL's!!
I'm freakin b/c I'm cooking Christmas Eve dinner for the IL's. Christmas Day's menu is chicken parm, most, sausage & peppers - so I want to stay away from those things for the Eve menu. 6 guests & I want it to be easy, and impress. I don't want a pork tenderloin/roast or any kind of rare-ish beef roasts (preggo's, yuck!)
Please share recipes for the main dish that I can easily do, but that tastes great enough to impress. How do you cook a turkey breast? how many pounds? or should I do a ham instead? eeek, help! 
Re: help with Christmas eve menu w/ IL's!!
With six people, you definitely don't need a lot of meat. I think the typical guideline is 2 pounds per person (including bones and such), but you're likely to have a lot of leftovers. I used a recipe from Food and Wine for my Thanksgiving turkey:
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/herb-roasted-turkey-with-gravy
You could also get a roasting chicken (~5-6 pounds). The following recipe is way easy, and my husband loves it.
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/herb-and-lemon-roasted-chicken
If you're starting with a frozen turkey breast/chicken, make sure to put it in the fridge a day or two before you need to cook it so it thaws!
Good luck!
For 6 I'd do a large turkey breast. We do Alton Brown's brine (cut the recipe by the proportion for the number of pounds you're using) and baste with Whole Foods butter.
With that I'd do roasted or mashed potatoes, corn bread and a pie for dessert. Yum.
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