What is on your xmas menu this year....

[carole]

Hey where are the desserts people? lol, i love dessert,sweet tooth creeping in yet again.

[RICHARD]

And that's even easier than doing Italian. Maybe I should rethink this year's menu.....

I would, but not everyone here likes chili. Darn!!!

LOL,

Chili cheese fries, Baby!


Carole,
You can go a little crazy for 14 days.

Mary,

Who is cooking?

And

Are your cooking chores on you? Pot luck or people come to your home and help you cook?

[carole]

Too late Richard already CRAZY, cat crazy anyhow, blame it on PT,what you mean i can go crazy for 14 days, why 14 days, you mean food wise? confused explain please.

[Killearn Kitties]

We are going to my cousin's this year on Christmas day. His wife likes a very traditional dinner, so I expect it will be some sort of smoked salmon and salad starter followed by a full turkey dinner, turkey, stuffing, chipolatas wrapped in bacon, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, some sort of parsnip dish, gravy, cranberry sauce, bread sauce. Did I forget anything? Desserts probably Christmas pudding with custard and/or brandy butter and fresh fruit salad. Perhaps she normally has another dessert too, but I don't remember. Desserts aren't my thing.

We will then eat nothing on the 26th and will be at husband's sister on the 27th. That will be informal buffet style I expect - more people, small house, lots of kids.

I don't think I have to do any food shopping this year.

[RICHARD]

Too late Richard already CRAZY, cat crazy anyhow, blame it on PT,what you mean i can go crazy for 14 days, why 14 days, you mean food wise? confused explain please.

Sorry,

You can go crazy (with food, desserts and sweets) for 14 days.

We are all touched in our own ways, I don't think it applies to cal love.

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KK,

Chipolatas?

[Taz_Zoee]

Christmas Eve we go to Bruce's moms with his family. They change the menu all the time so I have no clue what we are having. I do know that my co-worker/friend is making Buche de Noel for me to take. She made it for the potluck we had yesterday here at work and I LOVE it!! In case you don't know what it is, it is a French cake. It is soooo good!!

Christmas Day is at my brothers house. I know we will have ham, mashed taters, gravy, corn, rolls. My SIL will probably make some cinnamon muffins or something (which I don't like cinnamon so I don't eat that). I'm not sure if we will be having a turkey or not. And there might be more than what I listed too.
Dessert will consist of my brownies, my mom's pies (usually coconut, chocolate and cheesecake). Oh, and we always start out with the traditional dip. It's only a five layer in our house: bean dip, avocado dip, sour cream, lettuce and cheese.

Goodness!! I am so hungry now! It's an hour before lunchtime here and now I can't wait! LOL

[carole]

Ah Richard that is what i thought you mean't but not sure why you said 14 days, thought it some tradition over yonder or something lol, nope not me chum, if i did that for 14 days, i would pile on the weight and i would never go back to healthy eating, those days are well and truly gone for me, one day is all i allow myself and even then i will try and be sensible, after all i have to tell myself it is only food and it is not that important, i had to change my way of thinking and my relationship with food,and put other things in life that are way more important a head of it,anyhow enough on that.

Chippolatas are long skinny sausages.

[Killearn Kitties]

Chippolatas are long skinny sausages.

Really? Not here, they're not. They are short and fat here. Isn't that odd?

[carole]

Ha that is funny indeed, how the other half lives eh? lol

[anna_66]

We usually have the traditional stuff, but this year I ordered from Omaha Steaks. It will just be Mark and I so we will be having Filet Mignon, Twice Baked Potatoes, Green Beans and Chocolate Cake!

[KYS]

Anna_66: We usually have the traditional stuff, but this year I ordered from Omaha Steaks. It will just be Mark and I so we will be having Filet Mignon, Twice Baked Potatoes, Green Beans and Chocolate Cake>>>>>>>>>>>

Anna, I saw the advertisment for Omaha Steaks and I was really tempted.
I love Twice Baked Potatoes.
and the chocolate cake looks good.

When I was married we had the traditional Christmas dinner with the whole family.
Now that I am single, My BF and I go out to a restaurant
and than when we come home and make fudge together and drink Egg Nog.
(One of my sisters does the traditional C. Dinner every year.)

[orangemm]

Since we are going to Jeff's brother's the day after Christmas to be with the family, I will be making a pork chop casserole that I made last year. He RAVED about it; it was very simple, chops, apples, sauerkraut, brown sugar, etc. We'll have the turkey thing on the 26th.

2010 I have to lose at least 10 lbs, so I am going to enjoy myself for the short term!

[Puckstop31]

On Christmas day we gather with all the local family at my cousins house. The food is the "typical" Christmas stuff... Ham, mashed potatoes... etc.

But on the 26th I am making pan seared venison tenderloin chops over sweet and sour peppers. Side it with oven roasted new potatoes with Salt, Pepper, Paprika and Parsley.

[jenluckenbach]

My brother does Christmas eve. It will be Italian (lasagne or stuffed shells, something like that) He makes his own pasta and desserts, etc.

Christmas day just Charlie, my dad and me, so a roast Duck (in place of turkey), some flavor of rice (in place of the traditional stuffing), red beets and some other veggie. I dont bake, so dessert is up to my dad, LOL

[prechrswife]

We'll actually be traveling on Christmas day, so it looks like we'll be having lunch at a Waffle House, since that is pretty much the only thing that is open on our route on the 25th. Supper will be at my MIL's house, so I'm not sure what that will be.