Thread: Christmas Dinner

What is everybody having for Christmas dinner - i am looking for some ideas (apart from the obvious), starters, mains or desserts.

We are having a traditional roast beast.

Pot luck. It's usually damn good.

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, whipped taters, peas with pearl onions, Christmas pudding and apple pie for dessert (My wife thinks Christmas pudding is nasty, as she loathes raisins in every form. She is wrong, but that leaves more for me)

Turkey, Spiral cut ham, mashed taters, gravy, stuffing, green beans (some veggie casserole of some sort) some sort of bread/rolls, so basically thanksgiving all over again - which is OK with everyone in our family

Dessert is still unknown - it will be a last minute decision w3hile shopping Tues night

I am assuming Christmas day so boneless prime rib roast and fresh local farm veggies

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, whipped taters, peas with pearl onions, Christmas pudding and apple pie for dessert (My wife thinks Christmas pudding is nasty, as she loathes raisins in every form. She is wrong, but that leaves more for me)

Are we eating together? Sounds a lot like my menu, save the Christmas pudding, but adding brussel sprouts. We usually have some Scottish/British dessert which I don't know the name of. Big dish (think of an upside down cake cover) with whipped cream, jello and various fruits.

Originally Posted by BroncoJoe

Are we eating together? Sounds a lot like my menu, save the Christmas pudding, but adding brussel sprouts. We usually have some Scottish/British dessert which I don't know the name of. Big dish (think of an upside down cake cover) with whipped cream, jello and various fruits.

Someday, perhaps, after our children are wed, we shall have Christmas together. It would be a privilege. I could even abide your Popish ways, Joe, because I hold you in such high regard

anyone doing starters?

Originally Posted by daveaitken18

anyone doing starters?

Maybe cheese and perhaps shrimp for mine and Ottokar's wives. Shrimp are revolting water insects, though Mrs. Dreadnought gobbles them up on sight

We will have an antipasto, but that will be Christmas Eve.

Originally Posted by daveaitken18

anyone doing starters?

Booze. Lots of booze.

Originally Posted by Dreadnought

whipped taters

I hope you are not using a mixer b/c potatoes release starch when their cells are ruptured. A mixer will cause the spuds to become too gluey.

You use a mixer to make bread, not mashed potatoes.

I might make spinach and artichoke dip and tuna dip - just depends on how the time goes during the day - I dont like to be rushed all day - its my day off

Originally Posted by WTE

I hope you are not using a mixer b/c potatoes release starch when their cells are ruptured. A mixer will cause the spuds to become too gluey.

You use a mixer to make bread, not mashed potatoes.

I use a mixer and my potatoes are bomb - you just cant over mix