Caribbean Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
GAH. wtf am I supposed to make for christmas eve dinner?
My parents are coming here for xmas eve, and I'm having a minor freakout over what to cook.
Dad cannot eat beef. Well, sometimes it's ok, and sometimes he goes into anaphylactic shock. Which just seems too risky a gamble for a holiday.
Lasagna, manicotti...meh. We eat those all the time.
Sarah doesn't really like pork or ham, but "will eat it to be polite". Grr. Can you get a ham small enough for 4 people anyway?
So we're down to seafood, I guess? Any tried and true recipes that aren't TOO complicated or expensive, but not too boring either? Oh and not swordfish. Because then mom will be the one in anaphalaxis.
Otherwise I'm just ordering Indian food.
Re: GAH. wtf am I supposed to make for christmas eve dinner?
Book Review Blog
If I were a man (or fitty) I'd totally call my penis THE WIZARD - HappyTummy
I love a simple roasted chicken, although it you are avoiding poultry what about looking up some of the fest of the 7 fishes dishes?
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
I was going to say cornish hens. I've done that for Christmas dinner for two before and it turned out really well.
Pasta would also be good and easy. If that recipe bobthie posted is the goat cheese and sun-dried tomato chicken, it is freaking delicious.
The nerve!
House | Blog
It really is good, we need to make that again. It's been awhile.
This is another favorite. http://simplebutdelicious.blogspot.com/2008/05/sauteed-chicken-in-mustard-cream-sauce.html
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
Really? I am a mustard fanatic, so maybe that's why I love it so much.
Your ressypee link didn't post!
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
We do seven fishes on Christmas Eve, but one of my favorites is stuffed calamari. You can stuff it with anything but here is a recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/squid-stuffed-squid-recipe/index.html
Could you also just do a bunch of appetizers? Those are my favorite types of meals.
I am also obsessed with mustard. There are currently 6 different types of mustard in my fridge.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.
OMG, my coworker makes something like this for our holiday parties, it's effing amazing. I think his has goat cheese or something inside.
I've never actually made it. I just really want someone else to do it and send me a slice.
The ressypee says it makes 6 large servings. Enough for your family and leftovers to send to your good friend Cali!
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I bet her FUPA's name is Shane, like the gunslinger/drifter of literature.--HappyTummy
What all do you do for the seven fishes? We have researched, and found different answers. Since the older generation has passed, us youngins have become lazy and do whatever sounds good at the time.
The seven fish have now been downsided - calamari, crab legs, mussels (never did that before my H, but now my cousins insist on him making that every year), shrimp...and I think that is it. We also do aglio e olio (or, as we 'mericans say - oily pasta), olive salad, and pizza frites. It is the most random mishmash of food, but it wouldn't be Christmas Eve without it all.
...wait, I haven't asked this already, have I? My Nestmemory is nonexistent these days.
Ugh, I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATED 7 fishes growing up. I am still not over the time I accidentally ate an anchovy spinach pie instead of a plain one. I'm trying to remember what the fishes were. I know there was scungilli salad. I can ask my BFF about the rest. Her family is great about the passing of traditions and her mom and all her cousins still do it like the old people.
She was kind enough to bring me some homemade zeppoles when she was in town, which was exciting because I miss those. Stupid New England and their fried dough.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
As a kid, I think I ate the pasta and pizza frites, and maybe a shrimp if my mom made me. Now, I seriously love it. But we have also eliminated all of the fish that I found gag-worthy as a kid (smelt, anchovies, baccala).
I cannot wait for the pizza frites. I offer to make them every year so that I can make a double batch and keep them around for days after. Mmmmmmm, fried dough.
I keep reading that as pizza fries. I'd eat pizza fries.
I have never heard of 7 Fishes. Is that a Catholic thing, East Coast thing, Italian thing, or what?
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
For less then ten cents a day, you can feed a hungry child.