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*cheekywife and MrsPhilDunfy*
Can I get those prime rib and cranberry sticky bun recipes?
Prime rib sounds like a perfect choice for either Christmas Eve or Day with my MIL's dietary restrictions.
I have been going back and forth on sticky buns vs Alton's overnight cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning.
Re: *cheekywife and MrsPhilDunfy*
here you go:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/cda/recipe_print/0,1946,FOOD_9936_32459_RECIPE-PRINT-FULL-PAGE-FORMATTER,00.html
i'd also recommend PW's mashed potatoes because you can make them the day before:
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2007/11/delicious_creamy_mashed_potatoes/
is there no way to make your dinners a little more potluck? i saw your post about two dinners in two days - yikes!!
For prime rib, this is the basic recipe I used last year and served with bearnaise and Ina Garten's horseradish sauce.
I'll have to get the sticky roll recipe from my dad's gf. They are super simple though - I think they just involve cutting strips of puff pasty and making pinwheels in muffin tins (with a sticky sauce and cranberries, of course).
Actually, if this isn't the recipe she uses it is incredibly similar.
eta- fixed the link.
They are staying Mon and Tues (possibly Wed) too so I need some kind of dinner (plus breakfast and leftovers for lunch) for those days too. When I asked the SIL/BIL/nephew family to bring something to my sister's for Tday, BIL said SIL doesn't like to cook so I assigned them rolls that she ordered and wine (they brought caramel apple and choco covered cherry - now I like cheap wine but I prefer it to be wine and not some kind of dessert). One SIL works retail (she lives with us and is generally useless) so it is tough for her to do things around the holidays. Other SIL is rough in the kitchen - last year she bought all the stuff for Christmas Day dinner and then left that morning for church (she told us she wasn;t going the night before) and told her mom and sister to make it, no recipes left or plans just here's the ingredients. Another year she offered to make pumpkin roll but then expected to make it at my house while I was making Tday dinner with only one oven.
I swear I don't know if they do this on purpose so we don't ask again or if it is unintentional and they just don't think but we are awfully tired of the way this goes. It used to be that we were the only ones with a house for people to stay but now 2 others have homes and SIL had it last year and is now banned for a little while after the dinner/church fiasco. Basically I make a meal plan and then try and prep/freeze as much as possible before they even get here. Then I have a schedule to follow to get everyone fed and DH does all the cleaning. If they would only come for a day or two it wouldn't be so bad but they always string it out for more than 3 days and they eat a lot. If it were up to me you would get breakfast and dinner but they need me to put out lunch too. Sometimes SIL who doesn't live with us will go to Panera and pick up breakfast and MIL is bringing the fixings for a pineapple upside down cake to make with the kids, but a dessert and the occasional bought breakfast is all I can hope for. At least we aren't traveling??
Thanks for the recipe and the opportunity to vent!
That is similar to the IG sticky buns I saw the other day. I was hoping they would be good with the puff pastry since that looked doable during the Christmas morning chaos.
It always is....it always is.
It is nice they want to spend time with us and the kids so I can't complain there. But cooking/cleaning for the masses is rough with 2 kids to take care of, especially when we haven't received reciprocal treatment at their houses. This year should actually be easier since the kids are a bit older ad everyone is sleeping through the night.
omfg! i'd lose my sh*t! is there no way for DH to talk to them and better manage the visit? you are so much better than me. both our families drive me nuts pretty quickly and they don't impose nearly as much as yours. ugh!
last year was the only year since 1995 that i didn't travel to see my family for christmas and it was seriously one of the best, most chill christmases ever! *sigh* we travel every year and still end up doing a bulk of the work (along with my mom) and it incenses me to no end because it's a completely ridiculous division of labor/lack of contribution from others. this year, DH & i providing the desserts and then making plans with friends and ourselves so that people have to step up or go without some apps & sides.
perhaps we need a weekly holiday vent post in addition to our thankful posts?
We actually invited MIL and SIL for Christmas Eve and day thinking they would want to see the kids (mostly out of courtesy, MIL is their grandma and if she wants to see them wake up Christmas morning I wanted her to be able to) but also thinking they are so into their respective churches they wouldn't come so that one is on us but I thought they would leave Monday, being that we all have jobs you know. Then BIL called and asked what we were doing and said he would be coming down Christmas Day, so I wasn't expecting the entire family yet again. Problem is they come from 3-4 hours away so I feel badly if I say they can only stay a short time and do all that driving.
I wouldn't say I am a better person, more like a better pushover
I think DH and I need to talk about some boundaries in the future since they are just like this all the time. For our wedding his entire family was all at our house by Tuesday night. They asked when my family was getting in and I told them on Friday evening, you know right before the rehearsal when everyone actually needs to be there. I actually had to make them get hotel rooms Friday night because I wanted the house cleaned up and clutter free for pictures and I only wanted my sister to stay with me that night.
Holiday vent posts may be helpful, even if I monopolize them
you DEFINITELY need a better plan of attack for next year. my mom is the pushover in my family (middle child, pisces) and this year i just plain refuse to go down her martyr path. i feel bad for the person in my family who just brings rolls this year (there's always one in every family, right?) as DH is sure to lose it on them.