Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
Dec 6th 2010, 11:26 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
I've never seen a leg of pork in the market. Love pork here so have decided for Xmas to make my Mandarian Pork which everyone loves and a roast beef with roast potatoes, turnips, sprouts, asparagus and popovers.
Christmas Eve will be weisswurst, perogies, and crabmeat stuffed fish with homemade salads. This is what we traditionally had when mom did our German/Polish Christmas Eve dinners.
Will leave the Italian foods for another day.
Christmas Eve will be weisswurst, perogies, and crabmeat stuffed fish with homemade salads. This is what we traditionally had when mom did our German/Polish Christmas Eve dinners.
Will leave the Italian foods for another day.
Dec 7th 2010, 1:46 am
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Dec 7th 2010, 1:48 am
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Dec 7th 2010, 3:00 am
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Dec 7th 2010, 1:13 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
Being Mexican, our family does Mexican every Christmas. Homemade tamales (everyone has to help if you want to eat), rice, and beans, are our family staple every Christmas. This year, DH and I are spending Christmas in Blighty. I suppose it will Thanksgiving all over again. I have to admit, while we make a big production of Thanksgiving, I love the laidback-ness of Christmas day with just warm tamales all day long.
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Dec 7th 2010, 1:41 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
This year we are trying something different. Since we have no family in the area, we are having good friends come over for dinner on Christmas Eve. So the full dinner, turkey, roast pots, the works. Then on Christmas day I am not going to make a big dinner. Instead we will have a lovely brunch, mimosas all around (except for the 9 year old....) and whatever I feel like making.....of course after the mimosas it may be cereal for everyone.
At any rate, no cooking a big dinner for me this year, I can't see the point for the three of us anyway.
Dec 7th 2010, 1:42 pm
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Being Mexican, our family does Mexican every Christmas. Homemade tamales (everyone has to help if you want to eat), rice, and beans, are our family staple every Christmas. This year, DH and I are spending Christmas in Blighty. I suppose it will Thanksgiving all over again. I have to admit, while we make a big production of Thanksgiving, I love the laidback-ness of Christmas day with just warm tamales all day long.
Dec 7th 2010, 1:43 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
Best Mac n Cheese in the World - I'm not bragging it's just a fact
200g/7 oz Elbow Macaroni (dry weight)
50g/2oz Butter
3 tbsp Plain Flour
500ml/17 fl oz Milk
225g Cream Cheese Softened
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Pepper
2tsp country style mustard
225g/8oz cubed cheddar cheese (mild, medium or mature as suits you)
125g/4oz fresh breadcrumbs
30g/1oz butter (melted)
2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
Heat Oven to 200°C. Cook Macaroni as per packet. In large saucepan melt butter, stir in flour, cook over med heat until smooth and bubbly. Stir in milk ladleful by ladleful making sure each ladleful is fully incorporated before adding the next. Stir in cream cheese, salt, pepper & mustard and stir until cream cheese has melted and sauce has thickened 3-4 min. Stir in the macaroni and the cubed cheese and then tip the lot into a casserole dish. In a small bowl stir together the breadcrumbs, additional butter and parsley and sprinkle over the mac n cheese. Bake for 15-20 mins.
If it makes you feel any better I'll be having warm prawn cocktail (made at least 3 days in advance), dishwater soup with dubious veg floating in it, dry turkey, soggy sprouts and tinned corn all served cold and followed by a cheese board (sold cheap cos it was out of date) and sherry trifle topped with dream topping - cream??? god no it would go off!!
200g/7 oz Elbow Macaroni (dry weight)
50g/2oz Butter
3 tbsp Plain Flour
500ml/17 fl oz Milk
225g Cream Cheese Softened
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Pepper
2tsp country style mustard
225g/8oz cubed cheddar cheese (mild, medium or mature as suits you)
125g/4oz fresh breadcrumbs
30g/1oz butter (melted)
2 tbsp fresh chopped parsley
Heat Oven to 200°C. Cook Macaroni as per packet. In large saucepan melt butter, stir in flour, cook over med heat until smooth and bubbly. Stir in milk ladleful by ladleful making sure each ladleful is fully incorporated before adding the next. Stir in cream cheese, salt, pepper & mustard and stir until cream cheese has melted and sauce has thickened 3-4 min. Stir in the macaroni and the cubed cheese and then tip the lot into a casserole dish. In a small bowl stir together the breadcrumbs, additional butter and parsley and sprinkle over the mac n cheese. Bake for 15-20 mins.
If it makes you feel any better I'll be having warm prawn cocktail (made at least 3 days in advance), dishwater soup with dubious veg floating in it, dry turkey, soggy sprouts and tinned corn all served cold and followed by a cheese board (sold cheap cos it was out of date) and sherry trifle topped with dream topping - cream??? god no it would go off!!
No Velvetta?!?
Dec 7th 2010, 9:17 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
My girls are coming home to us for the holidays and I don't know what to make as no one wants turkey or ham. Was looking at a standing rib roast but sorry at $85 for one that will give everyone at least one piece of meat, I won't spend that kind of money.
So throw out your menus so I can get new ideas ;-)
So throw out your menus so I can get new ideas ;-)
We're heading up to the grandmothers, as usual, more family than usual as some aunts are coming in from way away, so this should be interesting.
Sick of turkey, but that's what they'll be, turkey, mashed spuds, peas, buttered beans, swede, boiled onions, pickles, olives, stuffing, boiled carrots, gravy, jellied cranberries, a thick cranberry relish, a spicy thin cranberry relish...can't think of anything else.
Personally would kill for some roast spuds instead of mashed, roasted carrots and onions too and not quite sure what the fascination with olives and pickles on the table, but there you go.
Dec 7th 2010, 9:19 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
If you've got a Trader Joes, they have Bavarian Pork Breakfast sausages, $3.50 for 8 links, about the closest and cheapest I've found and they're really rather nice.
Dec 7th 2010, 10:17 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
Roast a goose, duck or pheasant?
We're heading up to the grandmothers, as usual, more family than usual as some aunts are coming in from way away, so this should be interesting.
Sick of turkey, but that's what they'll be, turkey, mashed spuds, peas, buttered beans, swede, boiled onions, pickles, olives, stuffing, boiled carrots, gravy, jellied cranberries, a thick cranberry relish, a spicy thin cranberry relish...can't think of anything else.
Personally would kill for some roast spuds instead of mashed, roasted carrots and onions too and not quite sure what the fascination with olives and pickles on the table, but there you go.
We're heading up to the grandmothers, as usual, more family than usual as some aunts are coming in from way away, so this should be interesting.
Sick of turkey, but that's what they'll be, turkey, mashed spuds, peas, buttered beans, swede, boiled onions, pickles, olives, stuffing, boiled carrots, gravy, jellied cranberries, a thick cranberry relish, a spicy thin cranberry relish...can't think of anything else.
Personally would kill for some roast spuds instead of mashed, roasted carrots and onions too and not quite sure what the fascination with olives and pickles on the table, but there you go.
Don't ask me. It's not a tradition I brought forward.
Dec 7th 2010, 11:28 pm
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Re: Christmas Dinner - What Do You Serve?
Mrs tonrob and I are partial to a bit of fish at Christmas.
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Dec 13th 2010, 12:02 am
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