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Holiday Menu Poll!
(If you celebrate, of course!)
What's on your menu for:
Christmas Eve:
Christmas Morning:
Christmas Dinner:
Or any other special holiday meals? I know the first night of Hanukkah is past, but I'd love to hear those menus, too!
Re: Holiday Menu Poll!
Christmas Eve: going out to dinner with DH, sister, BIL and my mom
Christmas Morning: I'm making French toast casserole and we'll also have fruit salad, bagels, juice, coffee etc.
Christmas Dinner: not sure...we're going to DH's aunts house.
Christmas Eve: My mom and I started a tradition about 10 years ago for Christmas Eve. We make a little "picnic" and eat on the floor of the living room and all we eat is hors d'oeuvres. This year we're having a cheeseball, beer dogs, jalapeno poppers, mozzarella sticks and mini fillet mignons wrapped in bacon.
Christmas Morning: Pillsbury cinnamon rolls
Christmas Dinner: Lasagna
What's on your menu for:
Christmas Eve: Frozen TV dinner at work
....usually it's the delicious buffet that my gram makes, but I have to work this year...BOO!
Christmas Morning: I work at 7 am on Christmas morning, so probably coffee and a granola bar
Christmas Dinner: we'll be arriving at my parents around 7:30 pm on Christmas day, so we'll have what my mom has there...usually sauerkraut, keilbasa, mashed potatos, macaroni salad, veggie tray, cookies, and numerous other sweets
Or any other special holiday meals? I know Hanukkah is past, but I'd love to hear those menus, too!Christmas Eve: Normally we go to my grandparents' house in MD but since I work the next day 7a-7p, we aren't going this year.
So we'll probably go out to eat after church tomorrow evening.
Christmas Morning: I work 7a-7p so probably something on the run!
Christmas Dinner: My in-laws are coming up from MD during the day when I'm at work and they'll hang out with DH here at our house. Dinner will be all ready when I get home from work! How cool is that? We're having pork tenderloin, plum pudding, mashed potatoes, and some sort of veggie. Then we'll have pumpkin pie for dessert.
Christmas Eve: Traditional Polish meal at my aunt's house with about 25 family members - odd number of courses, no meat - pierogies, stuffed fish, veggies, prunes, and it all starts with a wonderful potato leek soup!
Christmas morning: At my dad's house with DH, my dad, both my sisters, my oldest sisters 2 boys and her husband after we open presents. My sister usually makes some sort of eggs - usually scrambled, but last year she made a wonderful breakfast casserole.
Christmas dinner: Just me and DH, my dad, and my sister wihtout kids. Prime rib, mashed potatoes, some sort of veggie.
What's on your menu for:
Christmas Eve: probably turkey, MIL usually makes turkey and ham
Christmas Morning: cinnamon rolls, i've had them since i was a kid except one year and my dad got a lot of grief for that! even when I was at ILs, MIL bought cinnamon rolls to make for me, and now that we eat at home before we go anywhere, I bought then for DH to make
Christmas Dinner: we always have homemade chicken pot pie (the kind with the crust on the top, and this year my dad is making corn chowder too
Christmas Eve: Lunch (we host and two of our 3 families come and bring some of the sides) Honey Baked Spiral ham, applesauce, corn, sweet potatoes, buns, macaroni & cheese, and green bean casserole. Oh, and lots of cookies and other baked goodies!
Christmas Eve: Dinner - At Dh's Grandma's house (the family that we didn't have lunch with): Prime rib, cheesy potatos (DH makes), and other goodies.
Christmas Morning: Brunch at DH's aunt's house... not sure what.
Christmas dinner: Whatever leftovers we have on our own. :-)
Christmas Eve: We'll have leftover citrus roasted chicken and spinach salad.
Christmas Morning: We're planning to go to my grandma's house but I want to bring the food. I'll make crescent rolls with chocolate chips in them (like my mom), and maybe a quiche.
Christmas Dinner: Pork tenderloin - my recipe was for fig sauce but I couldn't find any so I'm subbing dates. Also, we'll have roasted potatoes and brussels sprouts (with bacon).
Christmas Eve: something take-out before church (so I don't get nauseous during the service), then either cookies at the ILs or party food at friends', depending on where we go.
Christmas Day: MIL is making sticky buns in the morning, and we're providing the egg nog and mimosas. Then we're hosting my family & DH's family for dinner. We're making spinach salad with hot bacon dressing, spiral smoked ham with fruit sauce, green bean casserole, garlic/shallot roasted veggies (brussells sprouts, cauliflower, carrots), scalloped sweet and russet potatoes and bread. Cookies, milk & more eggnog for dessert.
Christmas Eve: Snow crab legs, baked potatoes, corn, dinner rolls
Christmas Morning: Cinnamon Rolls
Christmas Dinner: HoneyBaked Ham, twice-baked potatoes, green bean casserole, dinner rolls, assorted cheeses, assorted cookies, & oreo truffles
I like this poll! It is interesting to see what other people eat. I want to start a tradition for Christmas Eve and I am getting some good ideas.
Christmas Eve - I think I am going to go to Weggies and get some nice fish and serve it with a pilaf.
Christmas Morning - DH will make omlettes
Christmas Dinner - Turkey, ham, scalloped potatoes, veggies, desserts - I think I am going to make a gingerbread triffle (with lemon curd and candied pecans)
Christmas Eve: steamed shrimp, mac and cheese, salad, fruit salad and coconut cake for dessert
Christmas Morning: probably eggs and bacon
Christmas Dinner: ham, baked pineapple, green bean casserole, some potato dish that is yummy, JOY (sweet potato casserole), and I'm not sure what else.
Christmas Eve: Crab cakes, haddock or shrimp . . haven't decided yet. I always eat fish today.
Christmas Morning: We usually just snack on cookies and snack type things.
Christmas Dinner: Turkey, Ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes .. and the usally stuff that goes along with that, also some sort of homemade italian dish - usually raviolis.
Christmas Eve - Turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, corn, lima beans, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce.
Then later we are having pumpkin pie, apple crisp, and cookies
Christmas morning - Some sort of egg casserole or cinnamon rolls
Christmas dinner - Ham, pineapple stuffing, macaroni and cheese, and many other sides for lunch. Then we're having "dinner" back at our house with lots of appetizers - meatballs, buffalo chicken dip, vegetables, cheese and crackers, vegetarian pizza, and a bunch of other things.
Hope everyone has a nice Christmas!
Happy Chanukah too, it's been fun celebrating both at the same time this year.
Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
Christmas Eve: we usually go out to eat at the Hideaway in Mt. Gretna with the IL's but not this year
So my MIL just decided two days ago that she was going to cook. I think she'd doing a baked ziti, salad, rolls and a dessert of some kind. Plus coffee, hot chocolate and cookies while we open gifts.
Christmas morning: we just snack on cookies while we open gifts and lots and lots of coffee!
Christmas dinner: ham, breaded chicken (my grammy's recipe, a family tradition), stuffed shells (always an Italian dish, another family tradition), sweet potato casserole, stuffing, green bean casserole, corn, peas, rolls. For dessert: pumpkin gooey butter cake, apple crumb pie (I hope!), pumpkin roll, banana nut roll, and cookies.