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SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
edited December 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Looks like Christmas Eve will be at my place.

Im thinking of a broiled shrimp, with garlic and butter sauce for an appetizer...

Prime Rib and Lobster Tails for dinner.....

Garlic mashed potatoes
Broccoli with a cheese sauce

Lots of homemade cookies for dessert......

Who else is cooking the feast???
Whats on the menu???
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    mmmmmm that sounds good Speedy.

    No cooking for me. I'm going over to my cousins house for chinese food.
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,251
    I do Christmas Day at my house, basic turkey dinner.
    Appetizer will be shrimp wrapped in bacon with BBQ sauce.
    Main course will be turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas, squash, gravy.


    We're at the wife's folks' place Christmas Eve for the italian seafood extravaganza.
    Fried shrimp for miles. (Literally usually 12-15lbs of shrimp get fried and devoured)
    Linguine with clam sauce.
    Stuffed calamari (I pass on this)
    Used to do baked stuffed lobsters, but family has gotten too big, so its a maybe, not a definite.
    And since I married into the family...meatballs and sausage(both homemade, my mother in law's sausage are awesome)...pissed off her brothers that her mother never included this until the Irish dude started showing up.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
    Poncier wrote:
    I do Christmas Day at my house, basic turkey dinner.
    Appetizer will be shrimp wrapped in bacon with BBQ sauce.
    Main course will be turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas, squash, gravy.


    We're at the wife's folks' place Christmas Eve for the italian seafood extravaganza.
    Fried shrimp for miles. (Literally usually 12-15lbs of shrimp get fried and devoured)
    Linguine with clam sauce.
    Stuffed calamari (I pass on this)
    Used to do baked stuffed lobsters, but family has gotten too big, so its a maybe, not a definite.
    And since I married into the family...meatballs and sausage(both homemade, my mother in law's sausage are awesome)...pissed off her brothers that her mother never included this until the Irish dude started showing up.
    I LOVE the basic Turkey Feast.......
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    Down here it is sort of a tradition to have tamales on Christmas Eve. So I am in charge of tamales this year. Parents will be doing the turkey, ham, etc. for Christmas Day.
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  • mfc2006mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,484
    damn, Speedy....we may have to make a pit stop! that sounds awesome!

    we're heading to Kansas City to visit my side of the family this year, so i'm not quite sure what they have in store. i know that we're having grilled shrimp on Christmas Eve at my Mom's..but i'm not sure what my sister has planned for Christmas Day. but i do know that there will be cookies. :D
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
    Flagg wrote:
    Down here it is sort of a tradition to have tamales on Christmas Eve. So I am in charge of tamales this year. Parents will be doing the turkey, ham, etc. for Christmas Day.
    Tamales?????

    WTF kind of tradition is that?????

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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Flagg wrote:
    Down here it is sort of a tradition to have tamales on Christmas Eve. So I am in charge of tamales this year. Parents will be doing the turkey, ham, etc. for Christmas Day.
    Tamales?????

    WTF kind of tradition is that?????

    hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

    Texas is close to Mexico! Seriously the tamale vendors down here start taking orders right after Thanksgiving.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADYSPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 25,786
    Flagg wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Flagg wrote:
    Down here it is sort of a tradition to have tamales on Christmas Eve. So I am in charge of tamales this year. Parents will be doing the turkey, ham, etc. for Christmas Day.
    Tamales?????

    WTF kind of tradition is that?????

    hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

    Texas is close to Mexico! Seriously the tamale vendors down here start taking orders right after Thanksgiving.
    Tamales????

    hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

    Actually that is a good idea...

    I SHOULD serve Kathy's parents tamales on Christmas Eve....

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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Christmas Day..... basically is Thanksgiving take 2 for us.

    Christmas eve we do prime rib and it is DAMN good.
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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    My prince and I always spend Christmas Eve by ourselves. About 20 years ago we started having boiled fresh lobster for dinner, then opening our presents. So we'll be carrying on that tradition. :D

    Christmas dinner is going to be small this year because it's the first one with my MIL. :cry:
    Everybody else is going out of town so it's just me, my prince, and my FIL. I decided the turkey feast was too much for 3 people. I settled on the menu yesterday:
    Rack of lamb
    Mashed potatoes
    Green vegetable
    Salad
    Pound cake and ice cream for dessert

    Flagg is right about the tamales. My mom always buys a lot of them around the holidays and shares them with us.
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Can't stand the traditional turkey & trimmings.

    Starting with marinated prawn and asparagus tartelettes (light and very tasty). Followed by a Languedoc (region of France) way of cooking a boned and stuffed leg of lamb. Fantastic tasting stuffing with fennel seeds, star anise and lemon rind (along with the herbs, etc) that makes it really special and unusual but goes so well with the lamb. Trimmings with this dish are baby potatoes, artichokes, muchrooms, figs, apples, pears and peaches... all baked with the lamb. Yummy.

    Not sure for dessert yet..... go traditional with a Buche de Noel or not..... Maybe also a mini x-mas pudding for hubby.

    Oh.. and lots and lots of lovely wine.....
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    I was honestly fearing this meal for Xmas Day. It'll be at our house, and I was going to make something for my wife, kids, and mother in law and probably some stragglers from that side of the family. My father in law passed this past March and food will definitely be taking a backseat to this year's xmas and his absence from it. At least at Thanksgiving, the meal was a given. Thanks everyone for sharing their ideas...this is really the first time I've felt good about this. Thanks Speedy. 8-)

    (although I don't think i can pull off the tamale bit...wow! :D arriba! )
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  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Going back east for the holiday, Christmas Day will be turkey and stuffing (apple or sausage, can't decide) and corn pudding and oyster casserole and homemade cranberry sauce, not the weird stuff in a can, and my sister in law is making tons of pies and my husband will make the cocktails.

    Christmas Eve I hope we'll have crab. (And cocktails.)
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,381
    I have to wait till next week to really get a feel for what i wan't to have all good ideas here :thumbup:
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    my family had our christmas yesterday and it was a brunch...everybody will be out of town on the 25th...so our meal consisted of prime rib, cheese baked potatoes, salad, 3 different quiches and wine and champagne :mrgreen:
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,380
    like all good jews
    I will be preparing a Ham

    but was thinking of roasting a whole suckling pig, but they aint cheap
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    Looks like Christmas Eve will be at my place.

    Im thinking of a broiled shrimp, with garlic and butter sauce for an appetizer...

    Prime Rib and Lobster Tails for dinner.....

    Garlic mashed potatoes
    Broccoli with a cheese sauce

    Lots of homemade cookies for dessert......

    Who else is cooking the feast???
    Whats on the menu???

    We usually have an Italian dinner on Christmas eve. We eat crabs cooked in red sauce with bibs. It's rather messy, but it's delicious!! We have it with pasta, salad, and lots of bread. :mrgreen:

    I'm not sure what we'll be eating on Christmas night though. I might like something different from turkey or ham this year...
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  • WhizbangWhizbang Posts: 1,314
    Going to my brother's for Christmas dinner. We go with beast, smashed potatoes, cheesy carrots. I'll probably be in charge of a pumpkin pie.

    Christmas Eve? I'll probably chill on my couch, look at the lights and listen to some Peanuts Christmas.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    Whizbang wrote:
    Going to my brother's for Christmas dinner. We go with beast, smashed potatoes, cheesy carrots. I'll probably be in charge of a pumpkin pie.

    Christmas Eve? I'll probably chill on my couch, look at the lights and listen to some Peanuts Christmas.


    beast?!! :shock:
  • righteousbaberighteousbabe Posts: 662
    A good old fashioned Tofurkey dinner.
  • Steve DunneSteve Dunne Posts: 4,965
    norm wrote:
    Whizbang wrote:
    Going to my brother's for Christmas dinner. We go with beast, smashed potatoes, cheesy carrots. I'll probably be in charge of a pumpkin pie.

    Christmas Eve? I'll probably chill on my couch, look at the lights and listen to some Peanuts Christmas.


    beast?!! :shock:

    I know Norm. There's something incredibly sexy about Whiz saying 'Beast'. 8-) Call me crazy. But if I had to guess, I'd have to say beef tenderloin. That's how it's defined in our family.
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  • LizardLizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    Christmas elsewhere but for Christmas Eve I plan on a delicious pork roast using a recipe from Giada where she rubs a mustard sauce on it and then layers it with bacon!!! and the usual sides to go with it.
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,251
    norm wrote:
    Whizbang wrote:
    Going to my brother's for Christmas dinner. We go with beast, smashed potatoes, cheesy carrots. I'll probably be in charge of a pumpkin pie.

    Christmas Eve? I'll probably chill on my couch, look at the lights and listen to some Peanuts Christmas.


    beast?!! :shock:
    Beast:

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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    i'm not.
    never do - don't cook.
    hubby may cook us dinner christmas eve, shrimp scampi, or we may go out. we usually do go out, so we shall see. christmas day we head over to my sister's, where my bro-in-law will prepare an italian feast, buffet style. antipasto, crudite, various cheeses, pastas, and i am sure some main dish - usually filet mignon, but who knows? i am all about the appetizers and pastas. we bring the beer and wine. :mrgreen:
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Christmas Eve- nice dinner- seafood/ steak combo with the kids and my daughters boyfriend- dinner and a movie.
    Christmas Day they'll be back for all those sinful appetizers I traditionally make- meatballs, baby glazed ribs, bacon wrap shrimp and water chestnuts, little dicks, dips, etc etc- mmmmm mimosa's too, my favorite and presents that last hours and smiles that last longer :D
    Then hot tub in the evening with Hubby and a Baileys and hours of Pearl Jam... ahhh Christmas
    just wish it could be white though- I ask for too much here in GA
  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    pandora wrote:
    ..., little dicks, ....

    :shock: :o :shock: :o Sorry..... :oops:
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    redrock wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    ..., little dicks, ....

    :shock: :o :shock: :o Sorry..... :oops:

    glad i'm not the only one who stopped a moment there.
    pigs in a blanket perhaps?
    :lol:
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    my kids even call them little dicks- we say it after all these years without thinking- little weiners in a special sauce- bbq that is :D
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