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I'm going to try to have my brother and his kids over. And grill steaks.
Christmas Eve dinner is at our house and I've gotten as far as beer cheese in a loaf of rye bread, raspberry pie, key lime pie and cookies. I'm going to have to think of some other things.
My family has never done a big meal on Christmas. After all the holiday preparations, my mom doesn't want to cook anything. We have sandwiches. When we were little, my dad called them "discovery sandwiches" and he'd buy different kinds of bread, sliced meat and cheese from the deli, and various different spreads and fillings to make fancy sandwiches. As kids we still just stuck with ham and cheddar on wonder bread, but he got all excited to be able to have pastrami and swiss on rye, or whatever.
I have no idea and this thread is making me panic!Shrimp and grits for Christmas Eve. Maybe a salad? It is just the three of us.MIL, BIL and GMIL arrive on Christmas Day so maybe ham, scalloped potatoes, and ? Veggie of some sort? Pie or cake?I need to get to work on this!
We'll be in the new house so I have to be careful with planning to make sure I have all my kitchen doo-dads in there to make a nice Christmas Eve dinner for my two kids and me. So it will be a simple roasted breast of duck, frisee salad, and some kind of pilaf, maybe some brownies. Breakfast will be the usual mimosa and corned beef hash and biscuits. DH is coming home from a trip Christmas morning. We might have sliders of left over duck breast. For dinner is prime rib and potatoes au gratin, and a simple sauteed green beans and carrots. Amy I like the fried chicken idea. I sometimes go to KFC and freeze an 8 piece bucket for one of those just in case I get the "lazies." I pop them in the oven and make a simple side or grab a bag of salad greens to go with a nice bottle of chard.
This is a brilliant idea.
Roasted PorkTwice baked potatoessaladChocolate TrifleNon-alcoholic wine(for me)
grape juice?
Grape juice is cheaper I buy the sparkling juices for our parties.
so, the label on the frozen duck says "thaw in refrigerator overnight, or 2 hours in cold water"being distrustful, I took the duck out of the freezer 3 days before Christmas... on Christmas Eve, I poked at the duck to find it was still frozen solid! so I filled the sink with water, stuck the duck in it and went to bed... in the morning, the duck was squishy, so, much gladdened, I stuck it in the fridgeat 1 pm, I took the duck out to find that the fatty layer on the outside was thawed, but the center was still frozen solid... so the duck sat under cold running water for 3 hours before I finally let go and admitted defeat.we had a lovely meal of vegetable/chickpea pie and fatooshI cooked the duck on Saturday, and it was fcking delicious.
Mags, that's a lovely cake but why did you choose to use a mix? I make "pionono" (the name for roll cakes in Peru) ALL the time and can suggest some different cake bases for next time if you'd like.