What meat should I cook for Christmas. Southern Dinner?!
I'm preparing a typical Southern dinner for Christmas and I have no clue of what meat course to make this year. I don't do pork and am sick of chicken. Any suggestions?
Answers: Hey yall,
I'm preparing a typical Southern dinner for Christmas and I have no clue of what meat course to make this year. I don't do pork and am sick of chicken. Any suggestions?
You could make turkey, duck, meatloaf, roast beef, steak, fish. Anything other than pork or chicken. And as far as side dishes. Don't forget the macaroni and cheese.
do duck
turkey is always good....
there is always venison... makes a great crock-pot roast with lipton onion soup mix, a can of golden mushroom soup and some worchestershire sauce.
otherwise, stick with turkey or maybe a duck
Probably not very southern but I'm fixing baked salmon steaks.
Turkey is traditional if not doing ham. You can also do duck or even standing rib roast.
meatloaf...
A typical Southern Christmas dinner with no pork?
That's kinda like having a baptist chuch with an atheist for a preacher-sure you can do it, but it just aint right.
So give up on the "typical" part of your Southern Christmas Dinner & cook some meat that you like.
Try BBQ'ing a roast, or brisket, or beef ribs. Or fall back on roasting a turkey.
You could also try frying some catfish fillets, or baking some other sort of fish.
And there's always steaks...
******STUFFED CABBAGE ROLLS
2 lb. extra-lean ground beef
1/2 c. chopped onion
1 c. cooked rice
1/2 c. chopped celery
2 lg. eggs
16 oz. can tomato sauce
1 lg. head cabbage
12 oz. can beer
1/2 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. apple cider vinegar
6 oz. can tomato sauce
Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix ground beef, onion, rice, celery, eggs and 1/4 of 16 ounce can of tomato sauce.
Step 2: Boil whole cabbage 15 minutes on low heat, drain. This can be done in advance. Remove leaves, cut off core from each leaf. Wrap meat mixture in leaves, roll up, tuck in ends. Step 3: Place in roasting pan, skin side down. Mix remaining tomato sauce from 16 ounce can with beer, brown sugar and vinegar. Pour over stuffed cabbage and cover.
Step 4: Bake for 1/2 hour, reduce oven to 250 degrees and continue to bake for 3 1/2 hours. Uncover, pour on 6 ounce can tomato sauce, bake additional 1 1/2 hours. These may be made a day ahead.
You can see if you can still order Turduckens and have it get to you on time (doubt it though). Most of the time we have 3 turkeys: one is fried, one is backed and the other is in turducken form. There is also a roast cooked in a Cajun microwave so you can try doing that.
Ham
Turkey or Ham????