BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?

Subject: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: GUEST,Wesley S
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 11:06 PM

Our was Christmas Eve since my sister has to work the ER tomorrow. We were blessed with an abundance.

Deviled eggs
Ham
Roasted potatoes
Asparagus
Salad
Bread - homemade
Green bean casserole
Desserts too numerous to mention

And tomorrow - sweet potato soup.

So what's on at your place?

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 11:25 PM

Very conventional...

roast turkey
ham (too salty for me)
mashed potatoes (my daughter's are delicious, she uses sour cream!)
stuffed celery (my m-i-l's recipe - chopped green olives w/ cream cheese
fresh cranberries cooked with brown sugar
probably some green beans and salad

my famous pumpkin pie with "cool whip" and a cherry pie my dau. bought (silly goose, I would have made one if I'd known.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Bobert
Date: 24 Dec 11 - 11:54 PM

Sweet potato pie
chicken and gravy
salad greens (collards, mustard an' spinach)...

What else does anyone need???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: ClaireBear
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 12:21 AM

By special request from my son: roast duck with raspberry chipotle sauce; garlic mashed potatoes; and a green salad with pears, pecans, dried cranberries, Roaring Forties blue cheese, and raspberry vinaigrette -- with mince and slices of quince for dessert.

And then perhaps a nice long walk...

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: KT
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 12:36 AM

Spinach pear salad with avocado, feta, and carmelized pecans, topped with a homemade vinaigrette, baked fresh Alaska salmon, curry rice pilaf with almonds and cranberries, green bean casserole. Wish you were here. Alla ya!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 06:11 AM

mine was a typical old-fashioned British influenced cooked lunch. The other typical Ozzie Christmas dinner is cold meats (roast beef/lamb/chicken/turkey/ham) with seafood & salads + an assortment of fruit & cooked/cold desserts).

I was invited to visit friends who cooked a turkey, & served it with roast vegs, cauliflower in white sauce, green beans in tomato sauce & gravy. Dessert was a fruit platter, a rhubarb pie, date slice, biscuits(cookies) & choccies.

Meal started with cheese & crackers, nuts, cranberries, chocolate almonds.

yum!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 06:19 AM

Roast rib of beef, roast potatoes and parsnips, and lovely crunchy sprouts. Might manage a Yorkshire pudding too.
Christmas pudding with Jamaica rum butter
A vintage claret, followed by a nice drop of Remy Martin Coeur de Cognac.

Merry Christmas to y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 07:27 AM

Turkey and veggies dripping with margerine... great gobs of cheap margerine. Thank goodness there is only one Xmas per year.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 08:09 AM

I know where you're going for your Xmas lunch my friend. Remember the Gaviscon

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 08:31 AM

going for an Indian at the Balti House in Weymouth.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 08:46 AM

Morecambe Bay shrimps a la Maison (warmed with butter and chilli and wrapped in a lettuce leaf).

Roast Partridge, lentils and bacon, shredded cabbage, Watercress.

Tarte Tatin. Creme Fraiche.

The lucky buggers.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 10:28 AM

The Snowman is on channel 4, love it.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Bill D
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 10:28 AM

I dunno--- we are going to our usual Folkie Christmas gathering where nobody starves. We are bringing enough salad for 20+.

(since it is too late to head for Juneau, Alaska and the Baked Salmon, that is.. ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 11:27 AM

Just had it - roast turkey, chestnut stuffing, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, brussels sprouts, carrots, roast parsnips, roast potatoes (cooked in goose-fat...yummeeeeee!!), mashed potatoes, a humungous yorkie, jiblet gravy.

For tea (yet to come) - christmas pudding and custard, with brandy butter or brandy cream.

Otherwise, no alcohol - doctor's orders.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 11:32 AM

Looks like it's gonna be the conventional turkey dinner with all the fixings.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 12:00 PM

That's that over, I am murdered now, time for the Rennies.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: ranger1
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 01:25 PM

I dunno about dinner, it'll be at the in-laws later. For lunch: PB&J with a side of goldfish cracker, a couple of clementines and a chocolate pudding cup for dessert.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 01:30 PM

"going for an Indian at the Balti House in Weymouth."

Went to "India Dining" in Warlingham, Surrey -

A sweet champagne
Scallops in Spicey source
Sorbet
Turkey in Korma source
Nan bread & rice
Mince pies & ice cream
Argentine Merlot (what else!)

Super food and service!!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: theleveller
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 01:54 PM

Ouch! Far too much. Smoked salmon with a nice Chablis, a 10ld rib of local beef with Yorkshires, roast pots with garlic and rosemary and lots of veg., with a rather nice St. Emilion, then our own special Christmas pud - a bombe lined with fresh sponge soaked with Cointreau and filled with my own chocolate mousse recipe thne covered with cream, blanched orange peel and shaved chocolate. Then a bottle of nice Tawney Port and home grown hazel nuts in front of a log fire. The day began with a beautiful sunrise and ended with an even more magnificent sunset and was spent with my lovely family. It really doesn't get any better than that!

Merry Christmas all!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: gnu
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 02:01 PM

How can even the dark meat be dry, John?

Well, John, if you brown the 2h45m (at 375F for me) turkey for 25m after cooking it for 5h40m at 325F, you can dry the hell out of it. You do, however, have lots of gravy.

How do you make a tupie style ham tough and dry?

Well, John, once you foul up even the dark meat on a turkey, fouling up a ham is child's play.

How do you ruin turnips, John?

Well, John, you dice a few and freeze them in plastic bags so it takes less time to prepare the feasts on special days (OMG it was horrid!).

Why would someone use whole grain bread in dressing, John?

Well, John, I haven't a f***ing clue.

"It was a lovely meal, as usual. Thank you very much. Looking forward to the next holiday. Merry Ho Ho to all." And, with that, I got Mum home and I've just taken a Zantac 150.I'll be okay... thanks for your concern, John.

PS... if guests leave half of the food on their plates, ain't that a CLUE?

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: jeffp
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 02:08 PM

Cheese and crackers
Crab dip
Baked ziti
Flounder stuffed with shrimp and crab
Deviled scallops
Salad
Toll House cookies
Oreo balls

God I love having an Italian wife!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 02:22 PM

Very conventional.

Roast beef, roast potatoes, parsnip and carrot mash, Brussels sprouts. Cooked at home, taken to the Pa-in-law's sheltered flat, a bottle of wine and two of beer (he wasn't up to whisky), lovely old bloke who can't remember when he was happy. He can't remember being unhappy either, that's the upside.

Back home for a drink to him and those that are here and those that are gone, a walk round the village and then the presents (she won), she's playing Beethoven on the piano now, almost contentment.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 02:31 PM

Hors-d'oeuvres: Matzo, Triscuits, salamis, cheeses.
Cornish game hens stuffed with kasha; mushroom gravy.
Red cabbage with onion & vinegar.
Misc. drinks.
Christmas pudding (if it works)

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 25 Dec 11 - 10:53 PM

My contribution to the meal was shrimp with a choice of cocktail sauce or tartar sauce.
Others provided roast beef (tenderloin), spanikopita, twice-baked potatoes, carrots, plum pudding, ice cream, and an assortment of homemade cookies. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 12:13 AM

We had roast beef with mashed potatoes and green beans and lots of cheeses and such, along with the complex salad my wife concocted.... and *I* seem to have become the semi-official gravy maker in the group. I take a sort of pride in having a 'touch' with a pan of drippings, some flour and some milk and warm water. Anyway, no one complained and I got a number of compliments. Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 12:54 AM

I am the manager here at an apartment house- I haven't had a working oven for more than a year. (As they say, a cobbler's children run barefoot) :) But today I had a treat.

I am dog(s) sitting these last few weeks for a tenant-friend- and her apartment has a working oven. So today I trotted back and forth between the two apartments and ended up with

Pork Loin Roast(tender and juicy. yum)
Roast potato with sour cream
Homemade apple sauce
Cole slaw
Cottage cheese
Marie Callendar berry pie
Cabernet Sauvignon

All three dogs loved the pork so I used up a good half of the loaf but there is plenty left for next time.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: KT
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 02:35 AM

Bill D, it's never too late for you! How 'bout tomorrow? I might even put you on gravy duty, though making gravy from salmon might prove to be a challenge, even for you!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 06:20 AM

Traditional for me - prawn cocktail to start then turkey and beef with roast potatoes, sprouts sauted with bacon, roast parsnips, onions and peppers, stuffing balls, green beans and carrots.

Pudding was a Heston Christmas pudding with a candied clementine in the middle. Absolutly sublime - I had to break the no carb rule for that!

All folowed by a long nap, after being woken at 6.45 by the grandson, so that we could make drinks for mum and dad before waking them up to open presents.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 07:39 AM

Tortiere! And quiche for the vegetarian daughter. Squash, salad, cider, bread, Major Grey's Chutney AND the traditional mid-West-US-heritage cinnamon applesauce jello.

Big fat Christmas cake for dessert, much later in the day.

I was so sugar-coated by the end of the day I skipped an evening meal or snack!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 11:07 AM

KT... tomorrow? Well.... um... since "there's always tomorrow", I will make a note to plan.

No, I would treat good salmon with the respect it deserves.

If it ever works out, I will do something with gravy and treat you and Ebbie... with music before & after dinner.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 11:22 AM

Prawn/Mackerel salad starter

Side of lamb with rosemary
Ham in honey
Boiled roast spuds
Carrots/greens etc
Gravy

Trad Christmas Pud
Washed down with a pint of Magners and 2 glasses of red.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Charmion
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 12:07 PM

Dinner with The Brothers, cooked by sister-in-law (next year it's our turn again):

Gravad lax with capers and onions, served with aquavit and two kinds of fresh-baked bread
Slow-roasted turkey with cranberry sauce and bread dressing
Baked potatoes (for which I did not have room)
Lashings of gravy
Snow peas and baby carrots
Green salad
Christmas pud with hard sauce (our contribution to the feast)
And of course rather too much wine.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 12:47 PM

Gravlax with cornichons and dill sauce
Assorted cheeses and crackers

Roast Capon with fennel stuffing
Pear and Parsnip puree
Boiled new potatoes
Green Beans sauteed with mushrooms
Arugula salad

Pumpkin Pie with vanilla ice cream
Fruit salad with Kirsch
Assorted Christmas cookies

Accompanied by wine and port

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 01:01 PM

I listed to port a bit this AM.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Nancy King
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 02:05 PM

I'm having a lovely fantasy of sampling all of the above Christmas dinners! It all sounds wonderful!

We started out with traditional schnapps: aquavit, herring in wine sauce, havarti cheese, pumpernickel bread, all accompanied by Swedish drinking songs taught to us many years ago by a dear family friend.

We then proceeded to the actual dinner:

Roast turkey
Stuffing
gravy
mashed potato
stuffed peppers
green beans with almonds
coleslaw
cranberry relish
blueberry wine from Maine
AND pumpkin pie with whipped cream for dessert.

I'm still full...

Good, though!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 03:04 PM

We had an abundance of humdrum turkey and ham that was truly burdened by my sis-in-law's choice of supplementary ingredients. She served canned peas, canned corn, packaged stove-top stuffing that clearly tasted of stale onion and garlic powders, and gravy from a salt-and-chemically-flavoured mix. We were further burdened by her cooking skills. The roasted carrots were positively buried, nay, drowning, in margarine. And how does one turn roasted potates into chunks of glue? Not a single green vegetable besides the cucumbers that were on the cheese platter I brought for earlier in the day. (No the peas don't count--they were heated until they turned grey.)

Dessert was apple crisp from scratch and French vanilla ice cream, thankfully neither of which sis-in-law had a hand in making.

We lied and told her it was wonderful. Me, I did so three times in fact: First after the intital tasting, next as I finished eating, and finally as we made our good byes. Other than dinner, the afternoon was lovely.

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 03:55 PM

Oops, just to be clear, "...Other than dinner, the afternoon was lovely" is NOT what I said to s-i-l, it's just a summarizing remark to my post!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 05:15 PM

We do Christmas and Easter up Polish. My wife was born in Rhode Island, but her first language was Polish. We have borscht, rye breat, pickled herring, and golabki (stuffed cabbage, pronounced "golumpki"). Oh, and lots of sour cream and horseradish, and a goodly amount of beer.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 07:46 PM

Lots of driving , as Christmas Eve is Mom's birhday so up to Newark
for a Fillet Steak lunch followed by Icecream topped with Tia Maria !
Christmas day was with Admiral and Mrs Admiral ! He is NOT into turkey so it was Duck with all the trimmings followed by Chocolate Orange steamed pud with double cream . Excellent Fodder !!

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 08:23 PM

Crowhugger... are we related?

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 09:43 PM

Liver, with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Crowhugger
Date: 26 Dec 11 - 09:58 PM

Oh I expect so, gnu :-)...

Subject: RE: BS: So what's for Christmas dinner?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 07:42 AM

Wow, lot's of fascinating menus there, folks. Loads I'd like to try, particularly Claire Bear's salad.

I have a very nice piece of unsmoked gammon that I'll soak overnight tonight. I'm not into celeb chefs, but I've just seen a Nigella one where you cook the ham in ginger ale, glaze it with ginger preserve and then dish it up with it with butternut squash, blue cheese and pecan nuts. This sounds so crazy that I have to try it.