What is your ideal christmas dinner?

[ravensteve1961]

So what would love like to have for a traditional holiday dinner?Select more if you like.

 

[Gemtun]

So what would love like to have for a traditional holiday dinner?Select more if you like.

My family always have Prime Rib. Yummy!

 

[Catmandu]

On Christmas Eve my family, relatives and I would have lobsters for dinner every year.

 

[Gemtun]

On Christmas Eve my family, relatives and I would have lobsters for dinner every year.

Oooooooooooooooooooohhhh...lobsters! But then again, they tend to be more expensive here in the Northwest than out in Northeast

 

[Catmandu]

Oooooooooooooooooooohhhh...lobsters! But then again, they tend to be more expensive here in the Northwest than out in Northeast

I understand... They're expensive in NorthEast, too, especially on holidays. That's why we do this once a year.

 

[Angel]

Last year, I went over Cheri's for Christmas day because my boys spend the day at their dad's, Cheri is one good cook like me

THIS year, I will have my boys on Christmas day, we will make ham, scallop potatoes, corn casserole , salad, and rolls..for dessert this year, we will make chocolate chip cookies which all my boys loves choc. chip cookies!

On Christmas Eve, we always go to my dad's house and my step-mom makes different kinds of food each year, so far she has made chicken ,
porkchops , turkey, ham and etc but never lobster << I haven't tried that yet!

 

[demoiselle]

Every year on Christmas eve, we have oyster bisque. I love the bisque, even though when I was little I disdained the oysters!

My favorite Christmas dinner would include roast beef, mashed potatos with gravey, yams with brown sugar and butter, nice hot bread, probably creamed corn, cranberry sauce, perhaps a bit o' salad . . . with vinager and oil. Dessert? Blackberry pie, hot with milk. Mmm.

My dad would add peas with baby onions to the list.

 

[Cheri]

Last year I made dinner at my house for Christmas and invited ^Angel^ and Roadrunner we also watched movies on cable too.

We go over my dad's house every year for Christmas Eve, But.. My Step mom changes the menu every year. This year she said she going to make Ham.


On Christmas Day, I am going to have Christmas at my house with my boys, I am going to cook Turkey, Homemade Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Corn Casserole , Salad, Dinner rolls and for Dessert Pumpkin Pie

 

[Fly Free]

Katzie!! LOBSTER qq *thud*

 

[Opal]

Same old family traditions -
Seafood entree
Four different meats - Turkey, Chicken, Pork and Ham
Roast Potatoes, pumkins, cheese cauliflower peas and carrots.
Christmas Pudding, Brandy custards, Mince pies, and fruit salads and Ice Cream
and of course lots of alcohol and soft drinks, to suit everyone's taste in my family, as we always sharing dinner with ALL of my husband's siblings and their partners.

After that, we will go to swimming pool in the backyard.

 

[kuifje75]

Family traditions:
24th December: varying dinners, usually followed by cookies, eggnog, and desserts
25th December:
brunch: coffee, cookies, full breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausages, etc...
dinner: tossed salad, baked manicotti (with chicken marinated in balmasic vinegar, and spinach), rolls, vegetables (carrot and green beans cooked in garlic sauce, etc...), followed by coffee and desserts

 

[Liebling:-)))]

There're not much list to vote:

Here's mine:


Old English Tradition:

Roast Turkey
Homemade Yorkshire pudding
Homemade celery and bread stuffing (from my American co-worker’s recipe) to filling turkey. (Before that I used to made sausage meat, bread and onion, sage stuffing until I fall in love American’s recipe so I made celery and bread stuffing for years).
Roast potatoes
Sprout
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Mixed vegetable (green peas, corn and carrot)
Brown gravy

I miss English black pudding and mince pie but we don’t have here in Germany so I made lemon and strawberry mousse and German Xmas ice cream.

glass of white wine, of course no for the children.


I fix leftover Roast Turkey for casserole with fresh mushroom to serve with rice and green salad on next day. Mmmhhh

Following evening snack:

I also fix leftover Turkey for salad or sandwiches on next day or other day for our evening snack

I fix homemade pate eggs, pate fish, smoked salmone, cheeses, raw onions, sliced sausages to serve with toast, rolls and bread for evening snack on that Xmas Day.

Old German Tradition:

That’s time my mother in law was alive, we went her house for German Xmas dinner on 24th December. She cooked wild roast boar, roast deer, roast rabbit or roast duck to serve with potatoes dumpling or bread dumpling and blue cabbage or salad but I don’t like roast boar, deer, rabbit and duck so she cook pork filet for me separately. :P No dessert.

Coffee and homemade German Xmas cake (Stollen)

Following evening snack:

Associated sliced cheeses and sliced sausages, gherkins, kind of smoked bacon, paste liver to serve with bread/rolls and butter.

My parents-in-law came to us for English Xmas dinner on 25th December. There’re no more since my mother-in-law died of brain tumor in 1996.

 

[Kalista]

Christmas Eve:

My Mom always made roast beef, mashed potatoe, corn cassrole, sweet peas, hot roll, cream of onion and dipping with veggies and chips.

Dessert: Red Velt Cake

Christmas Day:

Ham
Turkey
Homemade stuffing
mashed potatoe with green onion, bacon and cheese sprinkle on the top of cassrole
butter squash
cranberry
baby carrot

Dessert: pumpkin, apple and lemon pie (homemade)

She was excellent cookery for whole of those years. She passed away in 1990. Time is changed for us. We usually bring our food to my Dad's house and opening the presents. There is no Christmas tree at my Dad's house since my Mom passed away.

 

[Malfoyish]

On Christmas Eve we always go to my mother's house - where Mom makes a traditional fish dinner...she makes lobster tails, shrimp parmesan, another shrimp dish with bread crumbs and such, then she makes pasta with clam sauce...she'll throw some calamari in. Then she'll stuff some other calamari. I swear, it is the one meal a year that she does well. LOL.

Christmas day, my husband makes a marvelous lamb roast. At least, that is the request I am putting in - last year, I believe we had a ham and potatoes, etc...but the year before we had lamb. We had plenty of leftovers too but no one minded...they lasted sooo long, but we still savored every succulent bite of it...MMMMMMM. *swoons* Oh, I want that lamb. I'm so glad Michael's a good cook! LOL.

 

[Gobae]

Yup, we have a lobster, crab, and steamed clams for Xmas eve. Christmas day we usually have stuffed Leg of Lamb or Venison (which I see no has mentioned yet), asparagus in hollandaise sauce, home grown acorn squash baked with brown sugar, honey and cinnamon, home canned "dilly beans" (pickled dill green and wax beans with a touch of cayenne pepper and garlic), and usually some salad, and broccoli.

We've also done Japanese Xmas dinner. Salmon, Tuna, and Eel Sushis; onion, green pepper, shrimp, sweet potato, mushroom Tempuras; Miso soup, and Udon.

Now I'm hungry for lunch!

 

[Reba]

Yup, we have a lobster, crab, and steamed clams for Xmas eve. Christmas day we usually have stuffed Leg of Lamb or Venison (which I see no has mentioned yet), asparagus in hollandaise sauce, home grown acorn squash baked with brown sugar, honey and cinnamon, home canned "dilly beans" (pickled dill green and wax beans with a touch of cayenne pepper and garlic), and usually some salad, and broccoli.

That sounds absolutely delicious! I should not have read this before lunch; now I am starving for that feast.

 

[Reba]

On Christmas Eve we always go to my mother's house - where Mom makes a traditional fish dinner...she makes lobster tails, shrimp parmesan, another shrimp dish with bread crumbs and such, then she makes pasta with clam sauce...she'll throw some calamari in. Then she'll stuff some other calamari. I swear, it is the one meal a year that she does well. LOL.

Christmas day, my husband makes a marvelous lamb roast. At least, that is the request I am putting in - last year, I believe we had a ham and potatoes, etc...but the year before we had lamb. We had plenty of leftovers too but no one minded...they lasted sooo long, but we still savored every succulent bite of it...MMMMMMM. *swoons* Oh, I want that lamb. I'm so glad Michael's a good cook! LOL.

That all sounds wonderful. Excuse me, I am drooling.

Except I don't like calamari. I used to like it until one day when I got a piece without breading, and all the tentacles were there. Ugh!

We usually have the lobster for New Year's Day.

Lamb for Easter Sunday.

 

[DreamDeaf]

Since I live with my parents, and my parents are vegatarians ~ have pity on me...

For the last few years we've had:

Butternut Squash
Green Bean Casserole
Stuffing with Mushrooms
Sweet Potatoes

This year, I'm making sure we got something sweet! I'm still trying to decide what I'm gonna make...Sweet Potato Pie or Lemon Poppyseed Cake.

Humm...*scratching chin*

However...I do admit... I miss Ham! I miss Turkey! I miss Roast Beef! I miss Meatloaf! Can't wait to start scarfing those at friends' homes this Xmas...heh heh.

 

[undecisivegurl]

My grandma always makes us christmas dinner on christmas eve that is made up of Ham, Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Baked Corn, Noodles, I dunno what else.. Oh a lots a lots of COOKIES and PIE! LOL... I always have my lunch/dinner thingy at my aunt's house for christmas... We have noodles, mashed potatoes, roast beef, deviled eggs, chicken, stuffing, PIE, PIE, COOKIES... Delicious.. and OH! We have Cake too.. Last year i had peppermint cake.. omg so delicious! haha!