What is your traditional Christmas dinner?

[Shannacore]

My family had always done prime rib, mashed potatoes, and a few seasonal vegetable sides. I've only cooked prime rib once and it came out *okay*, but I'm going to give it a try again this year. Recommendation for a good veggie side?

What is your family's traditional Christmas dinner spread? Someone owed me $1 for every time someone says "ham"

[SamwiseRed]

Pizza

[Thulack]

Honeybaked Ham, taters, veggies, potato rolls.

[Bardalicious]

Twice baked potatoes and grilled asparagus with a balsamic reduction drizzle.

As for the actual prime, I won't impose suggestions as far as seasoning goes, but avoid rubbing with too much or any salt as it'll draw out juices.

Always let the roast come to room temp before cooking, always cook rib side down, and always pull the roast when its roughly 10 degrees lower than your target temp. Cover it loosely in tinfoil and allow it to rest for at least 20 minutes before carving and serving. The importance of the last step cannot be overstated.


Good luck! :cool:

[Sektor]

Ham, baked ziti, hot roast pork sandwiches.

[MrSparkle001]

I'm the king of prime rib. I'm not doing it this year but I usually do. I do prime rib, homemade yorkshire pudding popovers and whatever vegetable people want.

I can tell you how to do it if you want.

[Tann]

before my grandmother passed it was Cioppino, good god that stuff is awesome.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Cioppino.jpg

[Glenzig_]

i like fill my empty hole by trying to pretend im in a meaningful relationship whilst purchasing premade grocery deli meals or making simple dishes like mashed potatoes and pretending im a real grown up with a pet and an apartment and a boyfriend and everything!!!1 omg!!

[Shannacore]

I'm the king of prime rib. I'm not doing it this year but I usually do. I do prime rib, homemade yorkshire pudding popovers and whatever vegetable people want.

I can tell you how to do it if you want.

Yes! Share your recipe.

[radditsu]

Brined turkey, spiral ham, new potatoes in cream, broccoli casserole , pea salad, dressing, veggies, homemade pumpkin cheesecake and pecan pie.



I need to get to work...geez

[citizen1080]

before my grandmother passed it was Cioppino, good god that stuff is awesome.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Cioppino.jpg

No offense to grandma. But this looks like my worst nightmare....but I don't do seafood.

[Kimm Bare|y]

Christmas Ham, Pernil, or Paella.

[Portasaurus]

Pizza

Little Caesar's hot-and-ready only $5.00 for a large pizza!!!

If you get them in advance you can put them in the freezer and then heat them up in the oven on Christmas day for the big event!

Bite bite

Sip sip

Do the deep deep dish combo mambo!!

[Ahldagor]

Little Caesar's hot-and-ready only $5.00 for a large pizza!!!

If you get them in advance you can put them in the freezer and then heat them up in the oven on Christmas day for the big event!

Bite bite

Sip sip

Do the deep deep dish combo mambo!!

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We snack and drink on Christmas Eve and open everything. No specific dinner, but foods usually include ham, chile con queso, tamales, cookies, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, humus, pita, tortilla chips, taquitos, grilled jalapeno poppers, sausages and brats, apples, oranges, cherries, chocolates, rice pilaf, and on one occasion a fried turkey. The alcohol list: Guinness; Maker's Mark; Balvenie 12 and 14 year; various wines; Russian Standard; Hopadillo; Hobgoblin; Cruzan white; Champagne for Mimosas; a whole multicolored galaxy of mixers; Miller Lite; Bud Lite; Famous Grouse; Bavaria; and I'm pretty sure I'm missing some, but we do Saturnalia right.

[Tann]

No offense to grandma. But this looks like my worst nightmare....but I don't do seafood.

yea you'd hate this then, every kinda seafood available at the time + a tomato/wine broth.. good stomach times

[iruinedyourday]

Toilet thawed steak.

[FoxxHound]

Bowl of cereal.

[fishingme]

christmas day normally starts off with getting laid, then making mimosas, crepes, getting laid again, then going over to family's house for food

[myriverse]

Turkey
Oyster dressing
Dirty rice
Stuffed mirlitons/chayotes (with tasso, shrimp and/or crawfish)
Twice-baked potatoes stuffed with crabmeat or a sweet potato dish
Spinach Madeleine or Cauliflower au gratin
Gumbo (whatever variety)
Pecan pie and either pumpkin or sweet potato pie
Heartland granola cereal cake or a Christstollen

[Dillian]

turkey, baked ham, mashed taters, butternut squash, rolls, green bean casserole, and this year killians irish red to go with it lol

[Whirled]

Always had a traditional except for this year ... so... getting food delivered this time
chicken chow mei fun + curry puffs it is!

[Shannacore]

Turkey
Oyster dressing
Dirty rice
Stuffed mirlitons/chayotes (with tasso, shrimp and/or crawfish)
Twice-baked potatoes stuffed with crabmeat or a sweet potato dish
Spinach Madeleine or Cauliflower au gratin
Gumbo (whatever variety)
Pecan pie and either pumpkin or sweet potato pie
Heartland granola cereal cake or a Christstollen

Dang, that's elaborate. I don't get why people do turkey on Christmas - didn't you juuuuuuuust eat a bunch in November?

Always had a traditional except for this year ... so... getting food delivered this time
chicken chow mei fun + curry puffs it is!

This is sad. You are invited to my house for a real meal.

[Whirled]

Dang, that's elaborate. I don't get why people do turkey on Christmas - didn't you juuuuuuuust eat a bunch in November?

This is sad. You are invited to my house for a real meal.

You are very thoughtful & kind ...but I also have to work the day after.

Perhaps if they released Velious; I could get a TL to the other coast :D

[falkun]

We always have some pretty stereotypical sides for Christmas: yams, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, etc.

But the main dish is grilled lobster, and this'll be the 5th year I'm outside grilling lobster regardless of the weather (which we've had everything from snow flurries to 60s in the past). I wonder if my mom has purchased the lobster already.

[radditsu]

We eat turkey cause i fucking love turkey. Once a year is not enough turkey. No matter how much turkey you eat at thanksgiving..its just one turkey meal.

Unless you eat turkey sammiches. I do not eat turkey sammiches.

[Shannacore]

We eat turkey cause i fucking love turkey. Once a year is not enough turkey. No matter how much turkey you eat at thanksgiving..its just one turkey meal.

Unless you eat turkey sammiches. I do not eat turkey sammiches.

Cold turkey sammiches, nom. w/ mayo and lettuce.

[citizen1080]

can't have turkey sammichs w/o cranberry sauce on it.

[myriverse]

Dang, that's elaborate. I don't get why people do turkey on Christmas - didn't you juuuuuuuust eat a bunch in November?
It's really not all that elaborate. Most of the dishes are very simple and recipes very forgiving, but in New Orleans we think food is special (even if it's not). There's just a lot of food for a lot of people (generally, about 15 or so).

As for turkey, Thanksgiving and Christmas are the only times a year we eat it (not counting the Oscar Meyer fauxkey processed stuff, here and there). We get enough other meat the rest of the year. I have more lamb than turkey, year-round.

[Snagglepuss]

Prime Rib Roast, Mashed Potatoes, asparagus, brussel sprouts, etc. Simple, traditional Christmas dinner. Claret for all! It's my favorite meal all year! Cheers!

[mgellan]

We do Scottish Breakfast with Haggis, Mealy puddings, blood sausage, and scotch eggs on english muffins smothered in Hollandaise sauce. That knocks us out til suppertime when it's turkey, ham, cheese and onion mashed potatoes, stuffing, mushroom gravy, creamy coleslaw with apples and raisins, leftover haggis and Trifle for dessert.

The rest of the year we diet and have quadruple bypasses.

Regards,
Mg

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

wtf where's your Perogies??? What kind of winnipegger are you???

[Whirled]

def hard core eating haggis /salute

[FoxxHound]

Think I am going to have chicken wings...

[citizen1080]

Fondue

[Pringles]

Pringles.

[Lojik]

Not sure about traditional, but most memorable was a shoulder roast of lamb in rosemary and garlic with Yorkshire pudding.

[mgellan]

wtf where's your Perogies??? What kind of winnipegger are you???

I didn't list fricken SALT AND PEPPER EITHER. Perogies and holopchi, meatball gravy as condiments. :) Although we're going to my sis-in-law's place in the North End (eh) and she makes shitty cabbage rolls.

Merry Christmas P99ers!

Regards,
Mg

[Slathar]

fried chicken livers and some strawberry gushers with a side of self loathing and anxiety for dessert

[Portasaurus]

Pringles.

WTB Pringles Meat

[citizen1080]

WTB Pringles Meat

If you want my boy Pringles meat you're gonna need to come talk to me first. Pringles is my bottom bitch.

[Pringles]

Haha

[MrSparkle001]

Yes! Share your recipe.

Eh fuck if I was around more often I'd have shared it. Damn. Too late for you to consider it but I'll share it anyway. It's an imprecise recipe, no exact measurements or anything. It's all to taste.

Preheat oven to 450. Chop some onions, carrots and celery and cover the bottom of the roasting pan with them. A rough chop works fine and it's better to use too many vegetables than too little because they'll be used in a red wine jus sauce later.

Pour about a cup of olive oil in a bowl, enough to fully cover the roast (large roast may require more). Add a very generous amount of kosher salt. You will be forming almost a thin paste so you want a lot, maybe 1/4 cup or even up to 1/2 depending on size. Add (to taste): 4 or 5 cloves of minced or crushed garlic, 1 sprig fresh rosemary, chopped, 1 sprig thyme, chopped, black pepper. Mix it all together with a fork and mash the salt granules in to the garlic and herbs to crush them and release their oils into the mix. You will have a very fragrant, sort of pasty oil that will smell divine when it's cooking.

Place the roast in the pan atop the vegetables. Massage the oil into the roast. Get it into that meat with your fingers. You don't want to just pour it on, you want to really massage it in. Any of it that spills or drips off just coats the vegetables which will be worth it later.

Roast it for about 30 minutes at 450, then lower temp to 350 and continue cooking until the very center reaches 135 degrees. Depending on the size it may take 90-180 minutes to cook. I use a simple handheld meat thermometer pierced right in the center (make sure it doesn't touch any bone). Remove the roast from the pan and cover very loosely with foil. Leave the vegetables. Let the roast rest for at least 20 minutes.

Place roasting pan on your burners on a low heat. Add about a cup of your favorite red wine (I like cabernet for this) and deglaze. Add a good 4 cups of high quality beef stock and gently simmer for 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Taste the jus sauce and add salt or garlic if needed. Ladle the jus, with the vegetables, into a serving bowl and pour it generously over each serving of the roast. You can even add more stock and wine if you want and make a large quantity which is what I do. It's so delicious I make a french onion soup out of whatever's left over.

135 degrees will give a nice medium rare center after resting, with the ends naturally being a little more done (but also more flavorful with that rub on them). Pay close attention to the temperature though because it's easy to overcook it; if you take it out at 140 degrees it might be overcooked, unless you like your meat more grey than pink or red.

The yorkshire puddings require a more precise recipe which I don't have in front of me at the moment.

[Bardalicious]

That sounds an awful lot like pot roast...

[Portasaurus]

recipe

no toilety goodness???

[Telin]

We did something new this year. We were all tired of the same thing so we had a soup, salad, and sandwich lunch.

We have 8 soups to try including Chicken and Rice, Borsch, Zuppa Toscana (I Made), Shrimp Gumbo, Italian Wedding, Cheesy Potato, Tomato Basil, and Clam Chowder.

Zuppa Toscana: http://www.food.com/recipe/better-than-olive-gardens-zuppa-toscana-493203

*now I use an entire bunch of kale because I love it.

[harnold]

fried shit with a sprinkle of doodie flakes

[Portasaurus]

oh you

[citizen1080]

Love that Zuppa soup

[Ricky Bobby]

Dominos, Taco Bell, KFC, Hamburgers, Wonder Bread, Butter, CocaCola, PowerAid, Budweiser

[citizen1080]

shake and bake

[Fame]

Some piolot crackers and vienna sausages
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7WwLi97Oed8/ThehPKtzp_I/AAAAAAAAARk/CjAHoeav-K0/s1600/vienna+sausages+in+sauce+up+close.jpg

mom classed it up this year tho, christmas miracle imo

http://knox.villagesoup.com/media/Common/v0/9A/39461/Pillot%20Crown.jpg

[Fame]

http://www.tallyhouniforms.com/images/pictures/airlinepins/jnrpilot.jpg
p sweet gift this year too if interested

[Shannacore]

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Dinner came out great, thanks pals.

[LulzSect]

ate chinese today

it was p gr8

[FoxxHound]

I had a poptart

[quido]

I had ham, brisket, macaroni and cheese, and taters. Wish McDonald's had been open so I could get a couple double Filet O' Fishes.

[myriverse]

We went non-traditional this year and ordered from a Chinese restaurant. This may end up becoming a new tradition.

Sheng Dan Kuai Le!

[Zade]

christmas day we do a roast.

christmas eve doe..... we have a tradition in my italian heritage to cook massive amounts of seafood.

http://i.imgur.com/MUjxqGT.jpg?1
counter clockwise from bottom right,

calamari (the heads)
alici (fried anchovies)
seppia (stuffed cuttlefish)
salad
baccala (deep fried salted cod)
calamari (the rings)
rabe (broccoli leaves with olives, pine nuts, raisins, sardines)
i dont remember what the arm was covering
and chicken cutlets for the freaks in my family who dont eat fish
and in the middle is stuffed jumbo shrimp.


ya we do it big :) was my first christmas back home after 5 years or so.

[Whirled]

ate chinese today

it was p gr8

extra turmeric

[2pacalypse]

rhubarb pie is a must - a deceased patriarch's favorite. Sauerkraut also because hail Germany.

3rd, 4th, 5th place are for bad American macrobrews, morphine, and possibly shrooms depending which afterparty you go to.