Christmass Dinner with Family

[Carol Lowery]

I don't know why, but I was just alittle curious what everyone is having for Christmass dinner with the family.

We're having:

Cooking a raw ham on the gas grill, some for bar-b-que
potatoe salad
cole slaw
baked beans
mac & cheese
cranberry sauce
angel eggs
greenbean casserole
corn on the cob
corn bread or buns 4/bar-b-que
assortment of pies
Southern sweet tea, and plenty of hot chocolate w/marshmellows for the evening to relax and a good Christmass show.

And praise God I bought 3/4's of my supplies around thanksgiving to get it out of the way. So all is left is a couple heads of cabbage, a few potatoes, a dozen eggs, and a couple of pies, and I'm set.......thank you Jesus

 

[Ginger]

Can you please tell me where you got a raw ham?

Being british we all have raw hams so when they have recipes to stud it with cloves or bake it in honey, mustard etc I can follow it. I haven't a clue how to follow recipes here as in WA in shops they all are fully cooked (even having a hard time to find non spiral cut ham) and if I do what some of these recipes say it would dry them out! And some of the online places nearly died of shock at the price and they are still cooked.

Maybe you can only get raw ham down south, just am envious of you ;)

Anyway having our traditional British Christmas dinner just the two of us as our families are 1000s of miles away.

Roast turkey with bacon
no chipolatos as I can't find them :verysad and the mini hot dogs are horrible
stuffing,
roast potatoes in duck/goose fat
brussels sprouts
honeyed roast parsnips and carrots
can't forget the cranberry
pickled beetroot, onions etc
bread sauce
gravy

(we love this dinner so make enough to have it again on boxing day and live on turkey sandwiches for days as well)

then homemade Christmas pudding with brandy butter or may favourite whipped cream
and homemade christmas cake later with homemade hot chocolate and rum
and mulled cider throughout the day.

But we make it special and something to look forward to as we get a game we both like and play it on our PS3 (I think I am quite a cool wife ;) ) we have started the new tomb raider game at thanksgiving so look forward to the week of Christmas - gaming :D

 

[Carol Lowery]

Oh my goodness Ginger, my mouth is watering already. It sounds so good. I forgot to put the cranberry sauce down & mac cheese, until I just went through my cabinets sort of organizing my thoughts & a little list, and preparing in my mind what I have to do. That way it just seems to come together all at the right time. But Ginger you made me want to come to your house for dinner girl!!! Yummy!!

 

[Gabe]

All this talk of ham and turkey is making me hungry. I'm a Vegetarian so I have to make-do with a Quorn Chicken Style Roast :verysad

Mind you; it's pretty tasty and look's very much like the real thing.[attachment=0:330175iq]Chicken Style Roast.jpg[/attachment:330175iq]

 

[ephesus32]

wow.... havent even thought of it. but we usually have chicken, stuffing, pretty it's a smaller version of Thanksgiving

 

[Ginger]

I'm a Vegetarian

You have all my sympathies and commiserations ;)

I do have a sick sense of humour Ali, sorry :D

 

[andyredeemed]

Well, we won't be having anything special for dinner as such, but we are expecting about 15 to 20 guests for dinner on the 25th, so it will be most enjoyable . my favourite chrismas thing is something called "Seasoned Pudding" that my missus makes, it's got sausage meat and big bits of fried onion and herbs and so on, and you use it like stuffing with the turkey (along with the sage and onion stuffing, that is).
Gabriel Ali, just a wee suggestion, if you like nuts, try a cashew nut roast by a company called Granose with a veggie stock gravy. My wife and I had a lodger over Christmas once and we did that for him-he loved it!

 

[St Francis]

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We're having something a little different this year: A Roast..

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[Gabe]

Well, we won't be having anything special for dinner as such, but we are expecting about 15 to 20 guests for dinner on the 25th, so it will be most enjoyable . my favourite chrismas thing is something called "Seasoned Pudding" that my missus makes, it's got sausage meat and big bits of fried onion and herbs and so on, and you use it like stuffing with the turkey (along with the sage and onion stuffing, that is).
Gabriel Ali, just a wee suggestion, if you like nuts, try a cashew nut roast by a company called Granose with a veggie stock gravy. My wife and I had a lodger over Christmas once and we did that for him-he loved it!

Thanks Andy!

 

[Blazin Bones]

I don't know wha to expect for this year's Christmas dinner. This will be my first Christmas with my new family, Caroline's Parents. I bet it will be an awesome Christmas though.

 

[handy]

Hehe, Tim. Your comment reminded me of what Dad used to say about when he had his first holiday meal with his new family. They had Chicken and Grandpa always liked the breast meat. Grandma loved the thighs, Uncle Max and Mom took the legs and wings leaving Dad the ...part that goes over the fence last! :D

We always have Thanksgiving Dinner here and Christmas Dinner with Steve's folks.

We have
Turkey
Stuffing
Ham
The Stuff I Make with Ham
Mashed Potatoes
Gravy
Candid Yams
Green Beans
Honeyed Carrots
Veggie Tray with Celery, Mushrooms, Sliced Red and Green Peppers and Green Onions and Ranch
Wax (mild) and Jalapano Peppers
Dressing
Cranberry Sauce
Pickles and Green and Black Olives

"The Stuff I make with Ham" is made with crushed pinapple, Ritz Crackers and cheddar cheese. It's a rather sweet dish, but it's really good with ham. A roommate of mine gave me the recipe years ago, and I don't know what she called it either.

Plus, we have several different types of cheese balls and crackers to munch on for "orders" (as my daughter used to call them. It took me awhile to figure out what she meant by "orders").

For dessert we always have Pumpkin Pie, Mincemeat Pie, my m-i-l's homemade fruitcake, Cordial Cherries and Christmas Cookies.

Beverages are Russian Tea, Irish Cream and Sparkling Cider. Oh and coffee. I've found out now that I'm Lutheran that Coffee is required with all meals and at all times when two or more are gathered together.

Then we eat leftovers until New Year's Eve when I make our annual Lasagna Feast.

 

[St Francis]

...They had Chicken and Grandpa always liked the breast meat. Grandma loved the thighs, Uncle Max and Mom took the legs and wings leaving Dad the ...part that goes over the fence last!....

LOL. You could almost write a TV episode off of that description. Thats great

 

[Vic C.]

Beverages are Russian Tea, Irish Cream and Sparkling Cider. Oh and coffee. I've found out now that I'm Lutheran that Coffee is required with all meals and at all times when two or more are gathered together.

Dora, we S. Baptists have know this for years. :morning

 

[Amielou]

we are having:

-roast turkey roll - hot

-ham and chicken slices - cold

-roast potatoes pumpkin and red capsicum - hot

-garden salad - cold

-boiled fresh long green beans and baby carrots - hot

-tomato and onion pie (Nan's old recipe) - hot

-buttered bread stick slices or sliced loaf bread on the side

dessert:

-plum pudding and custard (Nan's old recipe with no peel, oooodles of fruit yummy :D ) - hot

-jellied strawberries with icecream - cold (i mean Australian jelly, so i think you call it jello?? the stuff you set in a bowl, not the stuff you put on toast, we call that jam )

-peach pear trifle - cold

-munchies:

-pertzels

-ginger bread people

-pfefenuess (don't know if that's spelt right, it's little ginger bread rounds in a thin white smooth sugar coating)

drinks:

-ginger and fruit punch (Nan's old recipe)

-soft drinks

-tea and coffee.

In Australia it's very very veeery hot on Christmas day (usually, although sometimes it's cold, Melbourne weather is very veeery unpredictable) so we like to have the traditional hot mets and veg and pudding etc, but it's usually just too hot, so we have cold meat and salads available too. We have had 44 degrees celcius (not sure what that is in farenheight) on a Christmas day and we have also had 6 degrees celcius on a Christmas day!!! crazy huh? but usually it's quite hot... the cold ones are rare, and only once i remember it hailed Christmas day so we kinda had a white Christmas but not really

 

[Amielou]

can someone fill me in (uninformed Ausie here :D ) what's pumpkin pie? i see it listed as a dessert, but isn't pumpkin a savoury vegetable? can someone describe it for me?

 

[Caroline H]

Oh, girl!! Pumpkin pie is nothing short of the best desert you can put in a pie crust. It is sweet because you put a lot of brown sugar and butter in it, and some nutmeg too. It is so creamy and good :P

 

[Amielou]

i shall have to make sure i have some if i ever make it to America :D can you buy it in a restaurant or something? or is it something people make at home... i probably sound like i'm from another planet but i'm not, just from AUS and they don't have it here

 

[Carol Lowery]

Amielou,

Your best bet is if you know someone in the states to have them send you some pumkin seeds. You have the perfect weather there to grow them, and give them plenty of water. I don't know if you even use them for "Jack O Lanterns" at halloween/hallow eve there, where you carve out faces in them and then stick a lit candle inside to bring out the carving features, and sit it out on your porch. Or you can scrape out all the seeds to plant next year, and take the rest and scrape it out and cook it with brown sugar/cinamin and nutmeg, and you can do the same thing with a sweet potatoes too. And when they're cooked down (thick) pour them into a pie shell, let cool and add some whip cream on top when eating. Now sometimes I will add raisens and pecans in mine, and it gives the pies a nice kick.

Now you can use the meat of a pumkin to make nut breads, cookies, puddings, all kinds of deserts.

 

[Vic C.]

i shall have to make sure i have some if i ever make it to America :D can you buy it in a restaurant or something? or is it something people make at home... i probably sound like i'm from another planet but i'm not, just from AUS and they don't have it here

Be sure to try some Sweet potato pie also. Good stuff, both of them.

 

[Amielou]

yeah they don't really do the jack-o-lantern thing here, (maybe I will start a tradition ;) ) sounds do-able; the pie thing maybe i'll just go buy a really ripe pumpkin from the green grocer and try it out :D i like my pumpkin roasted with my roast meat, but who's to say it wouldn't be nice in a dessert too :D