What Are You Making For The Holiday Feast?

[Yeshuasdaughter]

In my family, even though I'm hosting Christmas, this year it seems like the elder women want to make all the big stuff like ham, pies, and the major sides. So I'm kind of left with minor side dishes.

I think to start I'll make a giant salad with a little bar for toppings and dressings. I also want to bake cheddar bay biscuits. And I think I'll get a big shrimp ring for appetizers.

Quick Question: Dressing/ Stuffing: what do you call it in your house? It seems like older people say dressing and younger say stuffing.

What are you going to make?

Any ideas that I didn't list, for what I should make that people would like?

 

[LadyS]

Garlic roast chicken, rice, Indian style puff pastry, masala mixture of brussel sprouts, carrots and potatoes.

 

[Bolletje]

Usually my mom makes the main course and I make an aperitif, soup and an appetizer. This year my mom has decided she doesn’t need my help. I’m a little sad, but on the other hand, she’s retired and I’m really busy with work. And Christmas isn’t about me.

Anyway, this year I’ll just be making a cocktail (which will be a Moscow Mule with blood orange syrup instead of lime syrup) with a small amuse bouche (which will probably be a crostini with aged sheep’s cheese with a spicy apple chutney).

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

King Crab legs, Mac 'n' Cheese, Coleslaw. Drambui for dessert.

 

[watersprite]

A salad of local bitter & spicy greens - with basil basalmic dressing, stuffing with giblets, roast chicken leg quarters, sparkling Martinelli cider, cheesecake & a little plate of cookies for Santa of course.

 

[SusanLR]

Traditional for two:
Roast turkey breast, potatoes with gravy, stuffing, (that's what I call it), sweet rolls.
Southern custard and fruit bar for dessert.

 

[Thinx]

I'm not the cook but we're having roast beef with roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puds Brussels and gravy. We've got a chocolate pudding too we probably will have a bit later on! Also a chocolate log...

 

[Aneka]

In my family, even though I'm hosting Christmas, this year it seems like the elder women want to make all the big stuff like ham, pies, and the major sides. So I'm kind of left with minor side dishes.

I think to start I'll make a giant salad with a little bar for toppings and dressings. I also want to bake cheddar bay biscuits. And I think I'll get a big shrimp ring for appetizers.

Quick Question: Dressing/ Stuffing: what do you call it in your house? It seems like older people say dressing and younger say stuffing.

What are you going to make?

Any ideas that I didn't list, for what I should make that people would like?

I think I will reduce it to risotto with zucchini and saffron, lemon tart for dessert
My stomach is still in turmoil lol.

 

[Mary Terry]

We call it dressing. I think what you call it depends on whether you live north or south of the Mason Dixon line. Northerners usually call it stuffing. I personally never stuff the turkey and prefer to bake the dressing in a casserole dish.

We're eating the big dinner tomorrow, Christmas Eve, instead of Christmas Day. I'm smoking a 14 pound turkey outside on the Big Green Egg. I'll make sausage and cornbread dressing, gravy, probably a big pot of greens from our garden, garlic mashed potatoes, and the ubiquitous green bean casserole with the beans we grew last summer. I also make a big platter of black and green olives, cornichons and other pickles, beets, carrot sticks with Ranch dip, deviled eggs, ham salad crostini, bacon-wrapped jalapeno poppers, and other appetizer/flavor enhancers. Hubby will make pecan pie (his one and only culinary specialty, LOL), and our daughters will bring banana pudding and other desserts and anything else they want to contribute. It will be a feast!

We'll send everyone's gifts home with them to unwrap on Christmas morning, and just the two of us will enjoy Christmas morning alone in bathrobes and slippers, good hot coffee, and maybe waffles or French toast with bacon on the side for breakfast.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I love how everyone's suppers are different! I thought that it was going to just be variations of turkey or ham with the usual sides (like sweet potatoes and stuffing/dressing), but I've found a trove of cultural dishes. It's beautiful!

 

[Judge]

I'm getting bailed out this Christmas courtesy of Papa Murphy and Blue Moon Ale. And cheeps and salsa.

Eating out isn't really an option...courtesy of Omicron and Delta.

Snow cones for dessert...courtesy of Mother Nature.

 

[oregano]

I am celebrating alone. I will cook myself a tri tip beef roast. My mom, aunt, and uncle will be celebrating in the main house, without me. They will have Honeybaked brand ham with all the sides. (Honeybaked is a company that sells cooked, hot, ready to eat hams with fixings (stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc) for the holidays.) I have never really liked being at family holiday parties, so I celebrate alone, covid gave me a good excuse to start doing so.

 

[Sherlock77]

I might spend time with two friends on Christmas Day, which I will just be partaking in only, not 100% sure on that yet...

But... Over several years I have developed a food tradition for Christmas Eve (being single)

Once a year I go on a buying spree of fancy cheeses for Christmas Eve, it will typically take several days to finish it off... I much prefer savoury over sweet any time of the year...

 

[Fino]

Is it really that widespread of a tradition for everyone to make food for a giant feast?

 

[Aspychata]

I am on my own. Don't have anything fancy but this year, l went to some great restaurants so l feel happy. I did start out xmas week with a goodie of some type everyday.

I do crave my fav stuffing- cornbread and faux sausage covered with cranberry with mashed sweet potatoes.

 

[Luca]

Snow cones for dessert...courtesy of Mother Nature.

Are they of the “lemonade” variety by any chance?
My dogs are experts at making those

 

[Gerontius]

Won't be making too much here as I don't have a cookstove but I will be making:

A very good pot of coffee
Pumpkin waffles (Try separating a South Carolinian from the instruments of breakfast)
Probably something very very simple
It's just me this year so no reason to go all-out with it; I'm looking forward to a quiet Christmas & a quiet holiday season in general

(Edit: I am totally doing a chicken mushroom risotto.)

 

[Angie97797]

I don’t cook, but my stepmom is making a turkey and there’s gonna be some veggies and pierogis! My parents also bought a pumpkin pie!

 

[Gerontius]

I bicycled down to the college early in the morning to retrieve my coffee-pot (which I'd loaned to the math class and forgotten to take back.)

So that was Step 1 of the Christmas feast here.

If anyone has Christmas feast pics please share! Round 1 of the aforementioned pumpkin waffles immedately jacked the lid up on the Sears-Roebuck waffle maker. A pumpkin is a more than adequate substitution for an egg at least until you try to hatch the thing.

Right now I'm tuned into Celtic Cafe Radio on 1150 kilocycles out of Middletown, Connecticut. Quiet day, good everything.

 

[clg114]

We are going to have roast beef, carrots and potatoes cooked all day in the crock pot. Later in the evening, we will have pie and ice cream. Our oldest son is alone this year, so he is coming over for the evening.

We got a extra bonus earlier today. Our middle son's daughter had her first baby today. This is our granddaughters first baby (boy), our sons first grandchild and our fourth great grandchild. How's that for a good Christmas?