What's for Christmas dinner?!
Turkey and the 14 different sides is getting old. What's your favorite Christmas dinner recipe.
Answers: I'm looking for something other than Turkey.
Turkey and the 14 different sides is getting old. What's your favorite Christmas dinner recipe.
My husband's parents always do steak & lobster, or abalone or prime rib, or some other un-traditional fare.
We always have prime rib and cold shrimp. Sides differ every year but the primary foods remain the same :).
Prime rib , baked potato's...
I'll will be having a large pot of gumbo!
We change it up each year. We've already done lasagna, spiral ham, pot lucks (everyone bring a favorite dish then serve it buffet style) and once we decided to grill burgers and hotdogs as sort of a christmas in summer (we lived in a cold climate during christmas).
turkey,ham,mashed potatoes,yams,deviled eggs,ham roll ups thats all i can think of right now
Christmas dinner for me never gets old.
It only happens once a year so I don't know how you could get bored.
My family has pate on toast & prawn cocktail for starter, turkey, pork & beef, stuffing, roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings, mashed swede, roasted parsnips, cabbage & leek, sprouts, carrots, gravy, pigs in plankets, stuffing balls for main and then lots of different puddings to choose from, usually yule log & custard, christmas pudding, trifle!!! And then later we pick at the leftover meat and chocolates that we've received from family and maybe some cheese & crackers!!
Here in Barbados we go all out -
Pigeon peas and rice
macaroni pie
sweet potato pie
jug jug (made with pigeon peas, turkey, salted pork and guinea corn flour)
turkey
ham
cranberry sauce
stuffing
roast pork
potato salad
cole slaw
tossed ssalad
sorrel drink
and great cake ( a very rich fruit cake with lots of rum) for dessert
TG is enough turkey for me for 2 months.
We usually do Filet Mignon steaks, twice-baked potao, and roasted asparagus. Maybe a nice salad and rolls. One dessert, usually chocoalte.
We've also done grilled shrimp; crown roast of pork (loin w/ bones still attached); prime rib (ribeye roast); and lobster tails on the grill.
Just think of a nice meal w/ a starch and a veggie, maybe a salad, and be done with it! :-)
normally its ham for Christmas, but since my boys have decided recently, that they dont like ham ( go figure been doing it for 20 years ) we will do filet Mignon baked potatoes and steamed veggies with rolls
I live on the east coast where we always have a Christmas Flounder stuffed with crab and shrimp. I think it's an old traditional meal for the less well off. If you lived by the sea, there was always something to eat.
Coming from the Midwest US, my family always had standing rib roast with some sort of potato and a salad when my family cooked.
If my grandmother cooked she would make a huge batch of beef and vegetable soup and make homemade bread to serve with it.
Dessert has always been an array of family favorite pies, pecan, pumpkin, lemon meringue, chocolate cream. and of course ginger bread.
we do prime rib, lasagne, ham, lobster tails, shrimp, and all the trimmings!!!
Tamales
with beans and rice.
grilled Pork Stake, potato chips, < starters!
My husband and I started doing seafood a few years ago. Deviled crab, crab legs, shrimp cocktail, baked potato, and cheddar biscuits.
we have goose or duck and always cooked in orange sauce . we also have chestnut dressing as a side and cranberry sauce . that is what we have every christmas . good luck and happy cooking .