your Christmas/New Year's menu(s)

[mango]

what are you planning to make?

if you do Christmas and/or New Year thing that is.

I haven't decided yet (not that I make anything really), but will have this for sure:

[caribougrrl]

what are you planning to make?

if you do Christmas that is.

I haven't decided yet (not that I make anything really), but will have this for sure:

that is good beer, there will be some in my house over the holidays too





we are going shopping today... whatever local meat looks good and is appropriately affordable will be the center of the meal... so I'll have to report in later

[wherestheportojohn]

Xmas eve: (this year at my Sis's house)

Fresh shrimp and mom's nummy cocktails sauce.
Tenderloins....amazingly rich, beefy heaven. Wrapped in bacon and lovingly grilled by my BIL (who also happens to be the butcher who will cut our beef for the meal.)
Baked potatoes
Traditional green bean casserole
Massive garden salad
Roasted Brussels sprouts
Freshly baked French bread
Wine, beer, wine, beer....maybe some Bailey's
Dessert is always a spread of our homemade holiday cookies. 


Only five of us, since neither troll can make it in.
The boys are deeply depressed....not because they miss us, but because they are missing Uncle John's grilled tenderloins!!

[seattlegirl]

Ham and cheesy potatoes.  Mmmm.... cheesy.

[caribougrrl]

Christmas Eve (friends and neighbours over for some Christmas cheer):
pistachio-cranberry-pork pie
moroccan-inspired vegetarian phyllo pie
roasted beet & walnut dip, hummus, tyrokafteri w/ pita
fruit & cheese stuffed puff pastry nibbles
cheese board w/ sourdough crackers, potato crackers
selection of salami, selection of mustards w/ baguette
eggnog fudge, sugar plums, dark chocolate red wine truffles, peppermint marshmallows, clementine & almond marshmallows

Christmas Day
TBD

New Year's Eve Karaoke & Dim Sum Fesitivities
selection of dim sum, TBD but including
scallion pancakes
pork buns
shrimp dumplings
fish cakes

New Year's Day
ginger beer & clementine glazed ham
spicy braised lentils
steamed dark leafy greens, whatever local stuff is still available
meringue roulade

[merigayle]

I have no idea.

I think a lentil shepard's pie for Xmas eve and cinnamon buns or a coffee cake for bfast in the morning.

[witchypoo]

eve : chicken slop and rice
day : leg of lamb

[Magic Microbe]

Christmas eve (celebrating on Saturday): Prime Rib, baked taters, green beans, and cherry pie. I am cooking.
Christmas day: No clue what the husband step dad is feeding us. Probably 4 different kinds of meat.

[caribougrrl]

I bought quail.  Now I need to decide what to do with it.

[merigayle]

I was planning on the lentil shepards pie but saw some delicious potato thing in the Martha Stewart magazine, too many potatoes? rethink main dish? LOL.

[Ice Cream]

I don't do anything special for Xmas eve or Xmas.

[mango]

I bought quail.

never had quail, but quail eggs, probably had hundreds of 'em in my youth:

too many potatoes?

not if you like potatoes.

I like potatoes.

by which I mean: make that delicious potato thing of Martha Stewart's for me. 

Probably 4 different kinds of meat.

beef, pork, chicken and turkey?

[merigayle]

Yeah, DD and DH love potatoes more than anything. I think DD ate like 4 of them the other afternoon. I made oven potato chips and she devoured tray after tray out of the oven, LOL!!!!!! this is the recipe in the magazine http://www.marthastewart.com/338792/potatoes-anna

[diablita]

Christmas: we're going to a friend's house for Chinese food and for our kids to play
New Year's Eve: I think we're going to a friend's house who is having a party.  I'll get some snacks for NY Day

[nadra24]

We are making snowman shaped pizzas on Christmas Eve.  I'm not sure about Christmas Day, I know I will make a big breakfast with bacon and eggs and maybe waffles, but dinner will likely be something low key.  Perhaps oven fajitas, since they are red and green.  There will be gingerbread waffles on New Year's, but other than that probably nothing special.

[caribougrrl]

I love that you are making snowmen shaped pizzas.

[mango]

when I posted this thread, I was really inspired to make something Christmas-y, but the inspiration got washed away by yesterday's rain. 

so, it's probably going to be frozen pizza.

but, in the spirit of Christmas, I'm going to add some fresh(!) spinach to the pizza to make it red and green, and then, using my trusty kitchen shears, cut a snowman shape out of it before eating.

thanks nadra24 for the ideas!

[merigayle]

hmmmmm maybe i should make snowmen pizzas for Xmas dinner??

[RFS]

I have a tradition that started many years ago when I lived in NY. I can thank my ex, since it was his doing. King crab for Christmas dinner. I don't remember much else being served except for this wicked awesome onion french bread from the local seafood market.

Now it has morphed into King crab legs, steamed fingerlings with garlic and fresh dill  and steamed asparagus. I think I'll shuck up a couple dozen Malpeques (oysters) for apps.  All of it served with copious amounts of Champagne.

[caribougrrl]

I'm thinking quail au vin, potato croquettes shaped like pears and some leafy greens... a partridge in a pear tree theme...