What will you be having for Christmas Dinner

[joan of arc]

I celebrate two Christmases - Western and Eastern. For Western it will be either ham or turkey with potatoes and at least 3 kinds of pie... For Eastern, there will be something traditionally Russian (possibly herring  ) - whatever Mom is in the mood for. There will be a pie of some sort, or it is not Christmas.

[lady M]

Same as Thanksgiving. Turkey, mashed potatoes, guacamole (that's my favorite), corn, peas and carrots, cranberry sauce, fried corn bread, buttered biscuits, stuffing, gravy, pumpkin pie and some other horrible dessert which I never have either one. Oh, yeah, and the same old ugly, grouchy people. WHERE'S MY DRINK, DRINKS!

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

We go to my moms for X-Mas Eve and have Prime rib, mashed taters, salad, rolls and pie. On X-Mas day we will either have baked chicken or BBQ Steak.

[meauho]

Christmas Eve
Appetizers
Deviled Eggs
Fruit and Vegetable Trays
Cheese Tray
Asparagus (wrapped in prosciutto with mozzarella)
Spinach and asparagus dip
Hummus

Main Dishes
Ham
Turkey
Tamales

Side Dishes
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes (with pecans and carmelized sugar - NO marshmellows)
Green Beans (sauteed bacon grease with almonds, not gb casserole)
Spinach
Corn
Stuffing
Salad
Broccoli & Cauliflower
Gravy

Breads
Dinner Rolls
Crescents
Corn Bread

Dessert
Ambrosia
Pie: Pumpkin, Sweet Potato, Apple, Blackberry, Key Lime, and chocolate-Kahlua chiffon.
Cake: Red Velvet, Carrot
Sopapillas (with honey)
Cookies - lots and lots of cookies


Christmas Day
We are doing a brunch
Belgian Waffles (I have 2 professional waffle irons)
Eggs to order (including almost 2 dozen things to stick in omelets)
Pancakes (4 kinds)
Bacon
Sausage (links and patty)
Oatmeal
Biscuits
Sausage gravy


The really hard part isn't the sheer quantity of food being prepared (we are feeding a lot of people), it is that 99% is from scratch because it has to be as gluten, egg, and lactose free while also being diabetic friendly and still taste right to everybody not on a restricted diet.

One caveat is that we are having "Christmas Eve".  Santa is swinging by that night and we are opening presents on Sunday. 

A couple of years ago, one of my nephews asked how it we could have Santa stopping by early/ late every year (we have to work around a large military family's schedules).  We explained (and have maintained) that Santa supports the military and understands that they, along with some other people who just can't do Christmas on "Christmas day", need schedules adjusted - and that the military had a form just for that so they could let Santa know.  It didn't hurt that I was stationed in Alaska and have pictures from North Pole, Alaska or that NORAD tracks Santa every year - or that we have a Santa ornament where he is wearing fatigues.

 

[Merlin]

Lasagne
1 with Italian sausage and 1 eggplant

Garlic Bread

Salad


Cheese Cake

[Anna Iram]

Gotta have ham so I can make a big pot of butterbean and ham hock soup for New Years. Yummmm. 

[Blue66669]

I'll be exploring the options of vegetarian xmas dinner. I'm thinking a quiche type thing, some vegetarian dressing, and some awesome side dishes. Maybe get Ace to make some sweet potatoes and we'll work up some tofu type dish as well. I'll make a chicken for the kids and meat-atarian guests, and hope that it is all good.

[bellevivre]

we're back to our 'traditional' this year...

lol meaning, enchilada pie, tamales, chilli con carne, and some sort of bread and salad.

and i am making shortbread and scottish butter tablet for my desserts... so... that'll be interesting!

[Cormac]

Since we are headed out of town the day after Christmas we are going out for dinner.  Seeing that I am a Christmas Story fanatic we are going to move our traditional Christmas Eve Chinese dinner to Christmas Day and go all the way complete with Peking duck.

Christmas Eve we are doing meatloaf and mashed taters.  Yes, we will have the "little piggys" scene going on for those that have seen the movie.

Slightly different, but it works for us.

[Anna Iram]

Fa Rah Rah Rah Rahhhh Rah Rah Rah Rahhhh! 

[Rapier Half-Wit]

In my family, there are so many divorces and marriages, and step-this and step-that. I think that we will just be having "baggage" galore.

[Molden]

For Christmas Eve - I'm REALLY hoping we can find some tamales! That would be so AWESOME!

For "Orphan's Christmas" at Lady Mikayla's castle:

For the Kitties: Fancy Feast Ocean Fish Feast. For the Puppers: Doggie cookies, pigs ears along with usual dinnerz. Saucers of raw milk all around.

For everybody else: (not counting what everybody else brings) Sour cream and salsa dip, chips, meat & cheese platter, nuts, Smoked Turkey, homemade cornbread stuffing/dressing, whole berry cranberry sauce, green bean casseroles (1 w/ almonds, 1 w/o), mashed red potatoes, gravy (from smoked turkey drippings - YUM!), baked sweet potatoes (no marshmallows!), rolls, pumpkin pie, butter pecan snowballs, pan de polvo, chocolate covered pretzels, pecan divinity, peanut brittle, assorted chocolates, Black Opal Shiraz, Estancia Savignon Blanc, RUM, beer, tea, sodas, coffee (caf & decaf)...

And I swear - during the cooking process - we will ask each other - do you think there's enough for everyone? LOL!

[Muffin]

Since we are headed out of town the day after Christmas we are going out for dinner.  Seeing that I am a Christmas Story fanatic we are going to move our traditional Christmas Eve Chinese dinner to Christmas Day and go all the way complete with Peking duck.

Christmas Eve we are doing meatloaf and mashed taters.  Yes, we will have the "little piggys" scene going on for those that have seen the movie.

Slightly different, but it works for us.

Randy - "meatloaf, smeatloaf, double-beatloaf, I hate meatloaf..."
The Old man - "All right, I'll get that kid to eat. Where's my screw driver and my plumber's helper? I'll open up his mouth and I'll shove it in!"


hee hee!!  So love that movie!! We'll have it on the entire 24 hours starting at 7 pm on Christmas Eve!! YAY!!

[Anna Iram]

In my family, there are so many divorces and marriages, and step-this and step-that. I think that we will just be having "baggage" galore.

Rapier, try to look beyond the baggage and have as Merry a day as you can. The holidays certainly bring up alot of baggage in all of us and many won't be sitting down to table with a Norman Rockwell kind of family. Nonetheless I plan to find the simple joys of the celebration and I hope you do as well.

Merry Christmas

[Rapier Half-Wit]

In my family, there are so many divorces and marriages, and step-this and step-that. I think that we will just be having "baggage" galore.

Rapier, try to look beyond the baggage and have as Merry a day as you can. The holidays certainly bring up alot of baggage in all of us and many won't be sitting down to table with a Norman Rockwell kind of family. Nonetheless I plan to find the simple joys of the celebration and I hope you do as well.

Merry Christmas

Thank you ma'am. That's very kind of you.