What's on the menu?

I like anything with roasted veggies....sounds like a rich, hearty soup.

DH made lasagna and garlic bread tonight.

Small roast pork shoulder, with penne pasta in a tomato & parmesian cheese sauce.
Pumpkin pie for dessert.

Wife made a Rachel Ray soup - spinach rice egg drop. Very good.

Late lunch of lobster bisque(not homemade) Legal Seafood.
Now I need to find something to eat now.

must have been pasta in the air jumper... we had pasta and I made garlic parm monkey fist bread

Made Lasagna on Sat. night, had cheeseburgers last night.

What's everyone cooking for Christmas?? We're doing ham. We'll have 17 people. Will also do Spanish rice and a number of veggies, including mashed potatoes, carrots and green beans.

We're not sure what we are doing on Christmas day yet. My MIL wants us to come over for ham sandwiches, but both our young adult sons work - eldest 7am-2pm, youngest 2pm-8pm. They both work at the same convenience store that stays open for all holidays. Fortunately, my wife has the day off even though she also works retail. She is an assistant manager for a local Dollar General, and they are closed on Christmas day.

We may just end up going to Denny's like we did for Thanksgiving. It was great.

We do christmas eve - lasagna with a Racheal Ray cream sauce w/pancietta

We do Christmas Eve also and there are 16 of us as an immediate family. Those are my self & Brian, 5 kids and their significent others(4 of them) plus 5 grandchildren.
We do gifts from 4 - 6 then the rest of the family is invited along with good friends. My house will have approx. 25 -30 people in all on C. Eve. and the menu is ......

Prime Rib
Chinese Chicken Wings
Crown Roast w/wild rice & herbs
Tourtiere Pies
Garden Salad
Pasta Salad
Shrimp Cocktail
Pecan Pie
Christmas Cookies
Chocolate Creme Pie
Veggie Tray
Chips & several dips
Cheese, Crackers and Coldcut Platter
Christmas Crescent Wreath
Christmas tree Cake
Ambrosia
Homemade Deep Fried Peanuts
and lots of Chocolate!!!

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Wow! Room for one more??

Of course!!!

Beef tenderloin browned and sliced and finished cooking layered ove sliced butter and garlic potatoes for Christmas Eve.

Then Christmas Day will be pulled pork sandwiches and butter beans so far.

Here is what will be for our dinner today:

Stuffed Cabbage Casserole

Much easier than the traditional Polish Stuffed Cabbage (Golumpki), but all of the flavor.

INGREDIENTS

1 pound ground meat (can be beef, turkey, pork, etc.)
1 or 2 onion (s),coarsely chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons butter (optional)
Garlic powder or chopped fresh garlic to taste
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 head cabbage, shredded
2 cans condensed Tomato Soup
2 cans water or chicken broth
1 cup raw rice (brown or white)

PREPARATION

In a large skillet, saute onion, garlic, salt and pepper in olive oil until soft and onions are lightly browned. Add in the butter if you like. Add ground meat and cook until meat is cooked through. Place into a large roasting pan. Add the cabbage, soup, water or broth and rice into the roasting pan. Cover roasting pan and place into a 350 degree oven. Bake for 2 hours. OR (What I'm doing today) place everything into a covered slow cooker after browning onions and ground meat and cook on high for 3-4 hours, stirring a few times during cooking.

Serve with sour cream and enjoy.


ALSO:

I'm making rye bread. The dough is now in the bread machine, and I'll take it out and bake it in the oven when it is ready. Trying my own recipe so we'll see how it comes out.




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I'm too busy baking my dog food right now to think about any humans. LOL!

Our menu on Christmas Eve will be a lot like yours, Victor (**footnote - NO ONE in the world could have a menu like Celeste's...except maybe the Palace in London for the wedding) :) Ours will be shrimp cocktail with homemade sauce, baked honey ham, sweet potato/pecan casserole, peas with baby pearl onions, sliced fresh Brandywine tomatoes, biscuits with our grape jelly from last year's crop, and calamondin cake with Ben & Jerry's vanilla low fat froyo.

Yum....it all sounds delish! Had lasagna for my birthday, but I sent all the leftovers home with family....guess it's leftover soup tonight. Christmas at the Mayflower Inn....the menu is posted, but the only thing I found appealing is the goat cheese ravioli....they only do 4 entrees, one is fish.

I do that cabbage casserole but add some worcestire sauce and red wine


I'm going to do a rib eye roast for Christmas

Tonight is some kind of chicken

Marinated pork tonight.

tonight is crab stuffed halibut, brussel sprouts and ?

I'm making a tomato lentil soup for tomorrow night.

Good grief....it all sounds so good!

homemade Hamburgers & Fries!
(with one of those whole half sour pickles on the side, lol!)

Hank is "throwing together" something tonight, so I'll let you know. We'll be having prime rib and twice baked potatoes with green beans on Christmas night at our neighbor's. Leftover ham for sandwiches at lunchtime on Christmas.

you are not kidding Louise... no one can beat Celeste!!!... we are going to my sisters.. usually dried up food every year... she works so hard making stuffed shells and put them on a hot plate and killed them last year.. no matter how many times I tell her to use sternos ... she doesn't listen to me.. her roast beef & anything else she put on there last year was terrible.. not sure what she wants me to bring yet... going to call her now... every time we go there for christmas .... makes me realize I am glad I do every other holiday.. LOL

I love Ambrosia Celeste!!!!

Oh Allison, so sorry...I feel for ya, my sil and bil don't cook at all so their food is all store bought...I wish they would at least get it from a good catering place but it usually pre made nasty sodium filled stuff...last year while eating it I felt my ankles swelling.

I called and she just wants me to bring a dessert.... and I offered the sternos again... no go.. she just doesn't understand how much better they are

I always have that problem with in laws, I wont eat their food, - Ever.
I'd rather pass out from hunger and eat Taco Bell! lol!!

what is sternos?

would eat taco bell over my sisters stuff.... it's too bad too... she can cook but those hot plates kill it... don't ask me why she uses them... there are three ovens in that house!!!!... even though the basement one is so dang old it's not great... but still

the stands caterers use

http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/the-110497/Detail

ok, thanks!

the crab stuffed halibut was excellent!

leftovers tonight. We'll be here as DH is on call for snowplow duty over Christmas. We will be having roast beef and yorkshire pudding.

Well, for saying I hardly ever use my crock pot, I mentioned that I was looking at the 3 crockpot/warmer in one and DH came home with it.
I'd probably only use it for holidays or get togethers, but I'll try it out. It is big, and has 3 2.5 qt pots in it. I didn't realize it was so big.
I think I'll do pulled pork, Italian sausage in sauce, and butter beans in it with fresh baked rolls for Christmas Day.

that is nice!!!!

Cool!

I like the sterno too Allison, always have a few of the disposible ones on hand just in case.
Everything sounds wonderful on this thread!
The only reason I have so much food is...
1. I like to cook
2. I have to have a little something to make everyone happy!
3. We have traditions that my children won't let me change (not that I want to)
4. I'm French...and the rule is.... Never ,ever, run out of food until everyone has a full belly!

I don't have any fancy ones... just the disposable ones as well.. makes life easy when I do easter and only have 1 oven

We use them for any large party we're having

Going out to lunch with a friend....if the Tahoe doesn't get blown off the road...that will be my main meal for today.

Well, last night Hank "threw together" a great hamburger on a skinny bun with a good salad made with some of the great tomatoes we bought at the farm stand we found. Cuban sandwiches tonight. We were out and about a lot of the day today so I wasn't up to cooking anything. We just picked up Cubans while we were out.