Christmas FOOD!

[degrassi]

We do a ukrainian christams eve. Its supposed to be 12 meatless dishes but I never have all 12, we just make the ones we like,lol. We have:

-kutya( wheat with poppyseeds and honey
-Borscht(beet soup)
-Kapusta(saurkraut soup)
-cabbage rolls(sour and regular)
-Pyrogies
- mushrooms in gravy
- some kind of white fish
- Salmon
- pickled herring(kind of gross)
-Poopyseed cake and cookies for dessert.

For christmas morning I usually make "christmas wife saver" which is basically a ham and cheese strata casserole. Mmmmm.....

The we do christmas dinner.

- Turkey
- Cabbage rolls
- Stuffing
- Meatballs with mushroom gravy
- Marinated vegetable salad
- Some type of cooked veggie
- We usually make jellied fruit salad but every year we forget to serve it
- My dad usually wants potatoes
- We also have a tortiere(meat pie) as my dad is french so we try to include that.

So much food considering its usually just our family(5-6 people) and sometimes some family friends. So all that for under 10 people. PLus this year my parents are leaving on the 26th to visit my sister so I'll be home alone, stuck with all the leftovers.

 

[Michaela]

We don't have a special dinner on Christmas Eve, we do prepare some of the next day's dinner then though. Or Christmas breakfast? I haven't had any sort of breakfast in years, but I don't think we do anything for that either. We'll just have an ordinary Christmas dinner, but I guess it's not ordinary for most people as my mother has the 5 of the fussiest eaters. I'll be having turkey (no stuffing), ham, roast potatoes and gravy probably. Apparently I am making dessert this year. :shock: Will most likely be a disaster... But Christmas seems to mostly be spent eating sweeties!

 

[BlueGiants]

degrassi wrote:

...so I'll be home alone, stuck with all the leftovers.

Hmmm... we could all just happen to show up on the 26th and HELP you polish off those leftovers... ya know... a lot of stuff tastes better the second day! I'm with you on the pickled herring (YUCK!), but leftover turkey, stuffing, cabbage rolls, meatballs with mushroom gravy... all sounds good to me!

 

[Brandy456]

..Pay a visit to the bakery ?

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Ya'll are nuts! LOL! We have the old, downhome sorta dinners!

first, I make homemade coffee cake for breakfast - and this year I'll likely fix some eggs and bacon as well. (we won't have Christmas with my family until Sunday after)..

Then off to inlaws later in the day and have dinner with the entire bunch there.....

I'm sure she'll have a nice spiral ham, maybe a turkey also, mac 'Ncheese, veggies and dip, mashed taters, homemade bread, pies, cakes, whatever else they decide to fix.

Sunday at my parents' house we will have extremely large amounts of food! Our traditionallist is:

• baked ham
• mashed potatoes
• scalloped corn
• veggies and dip
• relish tray
• slaw
• cottage cheese
• deviled eggs
• cheeseball and crackers
• several types of breads
• several types of cheeses
• brussel sprouts (YUCK!)
• cakes, cookies, jello for desserts

YUM! now I'm starved!!!

 

[pinksalamander]

Breakfast usually consists of Satsumas from Father Christmas in my stocking When we arrive at my Grandparents we will eat loads of nibblies like crisps and biscuits and crackers with cheeses, mince pies and everything!

For proper Christmas dinner, its turkey, sausages, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, stuffing, parsnips, brussel sprouts, green beans, sweetcorn, carrots, gravy...

Pudding, well of course a nice big Christmas pudding set on fire with a nice sixpence in it (well, probably a 5p coin now!) Then we have other deserts like Banofee pie or carrot cake.

There is always so much food left over so we all meet up on Boxing Day to try and finish it off, and you always end up getting sent home with a plate of something! There are 12 of us though so its difficult to work out how much you need to make!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Weird as it sounds, it's family tradition to go see a movie on Christmas Eve and then order pizza. As little kids bursting with anticipation about the next day, going to a movie helped distract us for a couple hours!

I honestly don't remember what we used to have for breakfast on Christmas morning, but it was one of the few times each year when we'd all have breakfast together. Since my parents divorced when I was a teenager though, I always make some sort of yummy breakfast casserole that can bake while we open presents, then we have that for brunch with fruit. The past couple years I've made a shredded potato casserole with corned beef and cheese that my mom and brother have requested.

For Christmas dinner, my aunt and her family comes over, as do my grandparents. I usually make the dessert (like white chocolate cranberry cheesecake) and we have prime rib (or rather everyone else does, I don't like it), roasted turkey breast, salad, baked potatoes and rolls. Christmas dinner isn't the huge affair that Thanksgiving is for us.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

Will you be in Alaska for Christmas? or is your family in the lower 48?

 

[mouse_chalk]

You are all making me SO hungry right now!:shock:

I'm thinking of making the cheddar-dill scones that I did the other night, and taking them round for breakfast on Christmas morning. I wonder if I can make the mixture the night before and then just bake them in the morning...

One year we had bacon sandwiches and nobody could fit much dinner in lol!

 

[SnowyShiloh]

Pennie, I'll be flying to Washington (where my brother, mom and mom's side of the family lives) on Christmas Eve, then on I think January 1st I'll be flying to Louisiana, where my dad and his wife live.

 

[pinksalamander]

mouse_chalk wrote:

One year we had bacon sandwiches and nobody could fit much dinner in lol!

Oh god, don't! I'm feeling sick with hunger as it is because there is no food in the house (and my purse is empty!) A bacon sarnie would fill the bottomless pit so well! Oh man, I'm imagining it now. Bit of Heinz tomato sauce, splash of lea and perins, maybe even a fried egg in there....

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[mouse_chalk]

pinksalamander wrote:

mouse_chalk wrote:

One year we had bacon sandwiches and nobody could fit much dinner in lol!

Oh god, don't! I'm feeling sick with hunger as it is because there is no food in the house (and my purse is empty!) A bacon sarnie would fill the bottomless pit so well! Oh man, I'm imagining it now. Bit of Heinz tomato sauce, splash of lea and perins, maybe even a fried egg in there....

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

Nooooo! I'm fussy about my bacon sandwiches lol- buttered bread so it gets melted by the bacon, and a bit of black pepper and that's it!

 

[pinksalamander]

I can't stand butter in sandwiches! My view is if yu are going to fill a sandwich why to you put butter in too? Butter is a filling! I will happily eat a butter sandwich but if I'm having a bacon sandwhich the filling is BACON! Not butter!

Ham sandwhiches with butter make me gag!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny