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What are you making for Christmas dinner?
Luckily I have a lot of help with entrees this year from various family members after making something like 6 different entrees all by myself last year. Different people are bringing a turkey, ham, and a roast.
However, I just realized I have almost no side dishes planned and for some reason am not feeling particularly inspired by anything. So, what are you guys doing, or do you have some suggestions/recipes to offer? Inspire me!
I'd rather be rock climbing or playing volleyball
Re: What are you making for Christmas dinner?
Here is my menu:
Appetizers:
Stuffed mushrooms and spinach dip
Meal:
Turducken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted asparagus, and home made cranberry sauce...dinner rolls as well of course
Dessert:
Pumpkin pie and oreo truffles
We're going to my brothers. They're having tenderloin and I don't know what else.
I am bringing cookies because that's what I was told to bring when I asked.
We always have pretty much the same thing. My dad and I cook dinner for the whole family, and mom does all the plating.
apps: baked brie with cardamom apples, gruyere puff pastries, cheese and crackers, shrimp dip
dinner: mashed potatoes, green beans, yorkshire pudding, roast beef, jello, cherry bread, banana bread, salad.
dessert: ice cream and cookies
Where are you going? I'm thinking of going out since it's just the two of us, but I have to pick a place!
My parents are hosting Christmas Eve and DH's parents are hosting Christmas Day, so I have little responsibility other than eating!
Mom's making ham and a pineapple crisp that is to die for! I'm making some of the sides, almond spiced green beans and mashed sweet potatoes, and stuffed mushrooms for an appetizer. MIL is making steak and mashed potatos and I'm making cheesecake bars for dessert mmm. I can't wait to eat!
I'm making pork loin with an herb rub and some sauteed pearl onions on the side (in white wine and balsamic vinegar- yummy!). For sides I'm doing roasted asparagus, cornbread stuffing with sage and sundried tomatoes (my mom got me a Martha Stewart Christmas cookbook and let me open it early
), roasted butternut squash with brown butter, "ugly potatoes", spinach salad with roasted shallot vinaigrette and homemade rolls. For dessert I'm going to attempt to make a Buche de Noel also from my new Martha Stewart cookbook 
This is the link for the ugly potatoes (sorry I can't make it clicky):
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/06/crash-hot-potatoes/
We call them ugly potatoes because mine look far worse than those. haha They taste amazing though!
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NOTHING!
We're having the holidays at every house but ours.
I'm ok with this.
We aren't sure, we'll probably end up at Legal Seafood since everywhere else we've looked into is going to be super expensive.