What did you have to eat for christmas dinner

I've checked the threads for a thread like this one. Couldn't find one, so I thought i'd see what all you had to eat christmas day.

WE had ham, twiced baked potatoes, greenbean casserole, watergate salad, yum, cranberry sauce, dressing and gravy. coconut,caramel pie, peanut butterpie that we didn't get to eat, cause the coondogs got into it. LOL

what did yall fix

Mine was very simple, since it was just me, and my cat. We had a Cornish Game Hen roasted with half a lemon inside and glazed with rosemary butter, a huge salad of baby mixed greens with grape tomatoes, a baked white sweet potato and a dessert of chocolate mint brownies.

For a change, I wasn't overstuffed, LOL!

we had a rolled sirloin roast, carrots, mashed potatoes, noodles and gravy.

We had Roast Turkey, Cornbread Stuffing, gravy, garden peas, mashed potatos, dinner buns and Trifle for desert. Just me and hubby this year. All the kids were out and about or staying put in their homes. It was nice and peaceful.

Well all those meals sound yummy. I had a pot roast planned but after a big late breakfast with my son and a drive to the top of Brasstown Bald Mt, I threw together some chicken quesdillas when we got back. Neither of us were hungry by late afternoon, he went out and I had scrambled eggs at nine o'clock. I finally cooked the roast this afternoon and we'll eat it tomorrow. LOL!
darius, after hearing you mention corned beef I couldn't stop thinking about it so I bought one today and will make it for the new year.

We had our Christmas with family last Sunday afternoon & had ham, turnkey, etc. For Christmas day dinner we had roasted corned beef, boiled potatoes & cabbage, horseradish & pumpernickle bread!!! yummmmmm

That is one of my favorite meals! And I'll bet you can get realy good pumpernickle bread where you live.

such great meals, darius, yours sounds really great.

kathy

We went to my son's and daughter-in-law's house. She is about 1/4 Hawaiian. She made Kahlua Pork, ham, mashed potatoes, & squash casserole. My son made coconut shrimp. And my spousal unit brought fried cabbage. We ended with pecan pie and pumpkin pie. Very good.

Kahlua Pork sounds almost sinful!

Christmas Eve at my brothers..

Grilled Boston Butts
Cured baked ham
brown rice/mushrooms
spinach dip/crackers/chips/veggies
Eggplant Parmesan
Potato salad
Pumpkin & Sw. Potato Pie
Collads & Turnips
Crackling Bread
7 layer salad
Marinated Button mushrooms & fresh green beans

Larkie

We had a glazed spiral sliced ham, rotisserie turkey breast, cornbread dressing, mashed pots, glazed sweet pots, corn, cranberry sauce, lime jello salad, watergate salad and rolls.
For dessert we had pumpkin pie, apple pie and a apple/walnut/raisen/cranberry crumb pie...
Geez, no wonder i feel like a turkey today, lol
Jen

Same old same old, platter of veggies and dip, plus we had turkey, with sausage and pignoli (pine nuts) stuffing , yukon gold garlic mashed potatos, gravy, sweet potatos, green bean casserole....awful stuff, but there's a demand for it) hot bread 'n butter, cranberry sauce....pumpkin pie with whipped cream, and a peppermint pie from Baker's Square that came in the door with a guest. Christmas Day, did a rerun with all the leftovers for a couple of DH's orphan pals, pathetic wifeless critters that they are. Today, DD having safely navigated the snows in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois to get back home, we had the leftover veggies, slow cooked bbq'd baby back ribs, twice baked potatoes, yellow and white sweet corn from the farmer's that i froze (not the farmers just the corn) this fall, buttery greasy crunchy garlic bread, and cookies and biscotti for dessert. I'm not planning to eat next week. Or cook. Or wash dishes. But a good time was had by all...........!!! Including me, even though I sound cranky, it was great fun, but now I'm really tired! Z zz zz zz zz zzzz

Meez...

Ham, kelbasa, cheezy potatoes, green bean casserole, cukes and onions in sourcream, ambrosia, breadboat, pumpkin pie, chocolate cake and icecream. DH and I had the left overs tonight. DB took the ham bone home to make soup.
Meem

holy cow! you guys ate good LOL I haven't had cracklin bread since I was a kid and boy I miss it, And I'd give anything to be able to find gold yukon potatos around here. I don't really like green bean casserole either, but hubby had it at a church dinner and really liked it. I had never made it before this year believe it or not LOL

I'd love the recipe for that apple/raisin/walnut/cranberry crumb pie....

Woodspirit,
It started out as a granny smith apple pie.....quite a few sets of pie crusts later (i couldnt for the life of me get a solid piece out for the top)....i finally said the heck with it. I dumped the filling (apples, lemon juice, flour, sugar and spices) back in to a bowl, added a handful of raisins, dried cranberries and walnuts...mixed it up and put it back in the shell.then took 1/2 flour, 1/2 brown sugar and about 3 tbsp of butter...made a crumb mix and put it on top.
I baked it i guess 350ish for an hour, covering it with foil for the last 20 mins or so...
It really was a mistake, but it did turn out good. I'm thinking next year i'm going to try and fine tune it, maybe leave out the raisins and increase the butter in the filling with more sugar.. between the cranberries and granny smith apples it was a little tart. the raisins didnt really add much to it.
I guess thats how great recipes are created tho, eh? LOL....Funny how an apple pie plum kicked my butt ; )

Now your making me mighty hungry because I had Cream of Mushroom soup !!!!!! yep that was it, I was snowed in, all alone, and was not in the mood to fix a meal, I spent most of the day in Dave's reading all the posts.

Jen,

the end result of your frustrating pie experience sounds very yummy! But I wouldn't give up on the apple pie top next time. Actually I LIKE a really rustic looking fruit pie. I make the bottom crust with an inch or so hanging over the edge. Then fill it high with apple mixture (apples, br. sugar, cinnamon, a bit of flour) - or whatever other fruit - and then roll out a really big crust for the top. Plop the top crust on and press it gently into the shape of the uncooked fruit. Poke a few holes around the top with a sharp knife. When it's finished baking, the juices/sugar/flour have made a very nice sauce in with the apples.And the crust looks absolutely lovely all hilly and bumpy with the golden brown shadingrippling all over the top. Next time I make an apple pie, I'll post a photo to show you what I mean. When I make a one crust pie, I also make a larger crust without trimming the edge neatly, fill it, then "flop" the edges over the top of the filling. It really makes it look rustic and a bit romantic. :-) Try it sometime. Perfectly neat pie crusts with pinched edges are pretty. But a rustic looking pie crust has a very nice aura as well and just screams out "home-made" in a very yummy way :-) Every time I've served a pie like this, the guests always exclaim in awe "Wow! Look at that!" and they rave about it every time :-)

-Julie

Edited to say that, by the way, this whole "rustic" thing started with a situation much like yours when I just could NOT for the life of me get the pinched and perfect rim without holes getting punched into the crust. I gave up and just flopped the top crust on and ended up with my guests oooooing and aaaaaaaahing and telling me I should make pies for a living! ROTFL little did they know lol

This message was edited Dec 27, 2004 1:57 PM

Julie,
I've made a gazillion apple pies. but for the life of me i couldnt get them out..i have to admit, i cheat and buy my crusts. Every one i tried to take out tore so badly that it couldnt be saved. I know it must have been operator error.but it was frustrating.
I refuse to be beat by a pie and know that within a day or 2 i'll make another one, lol

If you've got a food processor....and I am so lucky to have one...there is a pastry recipe in the book that is fantastic, and you can't mess it up! Since I made my first one in the Cuisinart I've never gone back to doing by hand....Unless I'm making pasties or something that requires multiple crusts. I use lard, too...which BTW has less cholesterol than the butter the recipe calls for. Here's the recipe:
Basic Pastry:1 1/2 C. flour
1 stick very cold unsalted butter (I use lard and a half tsp. of salt)
cut in one inch pieces
1/4 cup of ice water

Use metal blade to process flour butter and salt until it is a coarse meal, about 8 seconds. Add ice water and pulse until the dough starts to clump together, do not let it form a ball ( I have and it's not a disaster) dump it onto plastic wrap and press it together to mix it and form a ball, refrigerate for at least an hour. After that, roll it out as you would any pie crust, it is easy to handle if you do it between two sheets of plastic wrap. This makes a crust for an 11" pie shell, but I have made lattice out of the excess. You can't double the recipe, but you can make it twice, and put all the dough in one ball at the end. Then bake it as a shell or make your filling and proceed from there. For a shell line it with parchment and fill with dried bens or rice to help keep the shape, bake at 400* for 12 minutes. then remove the parchment/beans and prick it all around the bottom and give it another few minutes in the oven to finish the bottom crust.

I've tried all the frozen crusts and haven't found any that resemble a real pie crust, they are all thick and doughy, like restaurant pies. Even the new round ones.

Before/during dinner snacks:
black and green olives
celery filled with cream cheese or peanut butter
Dinner:
Ham
Turkey with giblet stuffing
mashed potatoes - turkey gravy or ham gravy
moms green beans (made with bacon and slow cooked for hours)
corn
sweet potatoes baked with marshmallows on top
cranberry sauce
dinner rolls from bread maker dough
Dessert:
Pumpkin Pie of course
Cherry Pie
Apple Pie
several varities of cookies, fudge and candy

Mom's Christmas or Thanksgiving dinner we never worry about calories or fat content (not that we shouldn't but we just think its part of the holidays to make certain concessions to our normal diets)

We usually have the traditional type meal or Prime rib every year, and it's a lot of work for me in the kitchen....So this year, I decided I didn't want to spend the day in the kitchen and made a nice Italian meal for 16 people. Most of us are of Italian decent, so I went that way this year.

I made:
Homemade Lasanga with lots of cheese
Mostocolli and spaghetti
Meatballs
Italian Sausage
Braciole - stuffed round steak rolls
Antipasto
Green Salad
Garlic Bread
Lots of pies, etc.

I made the sauce and meat on Thurs., the lasanga on Friday, then only had to warm it all up on Christmas day. It was so nice to be able to visit with my family instead of being in the kitchen all day cooking.

Donna

Donna, that sounds soooooooooooooo yummy! I love Italian food! But I have to admit to not knowing what Mostocolli is. Would you please explain it for me? Pretty Please? :-)

-Julie

We had ...

Roasted (brined) Turkey, baked Duck Breasts, Cornbread Dressing, Cranberry Sauce, Turkey Gravy, Duck Gravy, Niblets Corn in butter sauce, Green Beans and Potatoes, baked Sweet Potatoes (Yams), Dinner Rolls, Stuffed Croisant Rolls, Sweet Tea, Kool-aid, Baked Ham, Deviled Eggs and Ambrosia Fruit Salad .. accompanied with several pies: Buttermilk Pies, Pecan Pie, Cheesecake 'pie', and a Carrot Bundt Cake . . . and we stuffed to the proverbial 'gills', I tell ya!!

Incidentally, this is the first time .. I've ever sincerely care to indulge (and am enjoying!) .. any wee little left over turkey and the duck breasts!! .. Mmmm, goodness me .. they were/are still .. soo dadgum'd tender!!

Everyone (even a couply of these lil 'picky' hillbilly grandy-yunkins!) .. proclaimed every thing .. was 'delectably' delicious'.

And .. I am very thankful and most grateful .. for the 'brined' turkey recipe .. I found here > http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/160548/ . . . .

- Magpye

Julie, Mostocolli is a type of pasta. It is like Penne or a narrow version of Rigatoni. It is about 1 1/2" long, slanted edges and tube like.

I made this and the spaghetti for the "non" cheese eaters in the family.

Donna

WOW, I am just amazed by all the different foods you guys prepared and ate for Christmas. Now that my drooling has slowed down,LOL, I made just a very simple dinner, I found out on Christmas eve that we were staying home this year to eat instead of going to the MILs. I made
roasted turkey with storbought stuffing
green beans and corn
fresh bread(rose and was ready just in time when I took the turkey out)
candied yams
and vanilla pudding with bananas and nilla wafers

I think I did pretty good for last minute, went to the store with no clue what I wanted to make and came home with a meal that everybody ate and amazingly enough not one complaint about nobody wanting to not eat anything. Still wish I had made that walforf salad but Im the only one here who eats it and even I can only eat so much, LOL.

DH and I watch "Good Eats" on the food network and we got a recipe for a 'brined' roasted turkey. DH did most of the work and it turned out wonderfully! I fixed the dressing, potatoes, et al and then he and his brother did all the clean up while I napped. Wonderful! Then yesterday I made an apple pie....so pretty traditional here.....

Brined turkey is so much better, more work, but worth it. I sort of combined Wolfgang Puck's and Alton Brown's recipes and it was the best turkey I've ever made. And I've made a lot.... But that was last month for Thanksgiving. When my other son and his spousal unit get here Thursday we will have our family Christmas but no turkey. Christmas tuckered me out and I think we'll go out for Mexican. :-)

Hello

My dh and I spent the day alone, he cooked (he does all the cooking) Prime Rib, mashed potatos, and snow peas. The best part was the Sweet Cheese Baklava.....to die for.....

Linda (bilyn)

I love these exacting recipes. Dump this, plop that, bake at 350ish, lol. No one but really good cooks talk like this.....

I had to go back and look at what you were talking about...i DID say bake at 350ish, lol...

I love all the diversity, and a bit envious at a few who had PrimeRib!

Magpye, I'm coming to YOUR house next Christmas! All those things you made sound Y-U-U-U-U-U-M-M-M-M-M-Y-Y-Y!!!!!!!!! And I can almost smell that turkey!

I'm one of those types that fusses endlessly over my turkey, basting it religiously every 10-15 minutes the entire time it's in the oven. But it's well worth it. I've never had a dry turkey and the leftovers are always tender and juicy too. Mmmmmmmm And the gravy that comes from all that butter stuffed under the skin of the turkey.....WOW! It's the best gravy you'll ever have! I end up pouring it on everything: turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, dip the breadin it etc. OMG, I'm going to have to make a turkey again soon! LOL

-Julie

Oh, it all sounds delish...we had Christmas eve dinner just with our little family-by candlelight--champagne and lump crab cake with hollandaise first course, then roasted filet with wild rice and wild mushroom pilaf, julienned carrots and red peppers and homemade dinner rolls made by my teenage daughter. Then finished off with a wonderful pecan pie made by my daughter, too....it was a quiet and lovely evening...not a lot of work, either!

Christmas day--pancakes and bacon and fruit salad and lots of coffee (and snow) and leftovers for dinner!

We are having a wonderful holiday week (our first 'white Christmas') and we hope all of you are enjoying the same!

Never had hollandaise on crab cakes before....sounds delish.
I wonder if Bernaise would be good, too.

I think so (the bernaise)...I found a recipe for orange hollandaise in the Bradley Ogden cookbook. We put the little crab cakes on redleafed lettuce (made a sort of salad)...that is what he suggested...

How about sharing that recipe, please?