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Sina
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Hahaha, I wouldn’t know the recipe - I have no clue what the put inside them? rice probably??
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duskyjewel
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When in doubt, check allrecipes.com. I love that site.
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lizaanne
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I am cooking for about 15 this Christmas - but I’m trying to make it as easy as possible. I’ll be making two 4lb beef briskets - two days ahead. Braised in beer and onions, they will sit in their juices for two days, then on Christmas I will only need to slice and warm in the juices for 45 minutes before serving. Then all we will have to do on the day is worry about side dishes and small fussy stuff that can’t be done ahead of time.
I wasn’t planning to have this many people, but that’s what happens when you offer to cook at someone else’s house, you have no control over the head count. Oh well - it will still be Christmas, and still be a nice day I suppose.
Just hoping I’m feeling 100% by then - still fighting off this nasty flu.
~Liza
I wasn’t planning to have this many people, but that’s what happens when you offer to cook at someone else’s house, you have no control over the head count. Oh well - it will still be Christmas, and still be a nice day I suppose.
Just hoping I’m feeling 100% by then - still fighting off this nasty flu.
~Liza
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water
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I have no idea. I live by myself. I have cooked spaghetti which will last for 2 weeks. 
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puzzleannie
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I am not cooking. The St. Vincent volunteers are preparing brisket (mesquite BBQ’d), rice and beans, potato salad, pickles, white bread, and jalepenos, the typical holiday fare for these parts. They served about 150 meals on Thankgsiving day, we had more lead time so expect to serve about 200 meals, including carry out to those in Sr citizen residents, whose adult day care centers will be closed, and other shut ins, based on the case load served by St. Vincent in Dec. Every family who comes in for aid with food, bills or clothing gets meal tickets for the family. this is in addition to their food baskets. DH will be working for this project so I will bring MIL up to eat, and get out in plenty of time to avoid clean-up duties. We will probably deliver some meals on the way home.
DH has invited the Advent rosary group for this Sunday evening, so we promised them a real Cleveland feast, pierogi, kielbasi with kraut, onions, mushrooms, barley soup, sweet n sour red cabbage, applesauce and sour cream. rainbow sherbet for dessert. My only dilema, what wine to serve, or should we stick to beer. no time to make cabbage rolls, I’m afraid.
DH has invited the Advent rosary group for this Sunday evening, so we promised them a real Cleveland feast, pierogi, kielbasi with kraut, onions, mushrooms, barley soup, sweet n sour red cabbage, applesauce and sour cream. rainbow sherbet for dessert. My only dilema, what wine to serve, or should we stick to beer. no time to make cabbage rolls, I’m afraid.
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BlestOne
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Well… Since this is kind of a “thing” at my house. Blending DH’s family customs, with my family customs and coming up with my own for my family… they last couple of years have been a bit tougher for us.
My family always did seafood on Christmas Eve and a stuffed tenderloin (beef) for Christmas day. I stuck with the seafood on Christmas Eve but I would make something for Christmas day that could be prepared ahead of time and popped in the oven. So we generally had Cheese tortellini with shrimp and scallops for Christmas eve and lasagna with fresh spinach on Christmas day. So then comes DH onto the scene… his family has always done sausage and cheese and crackers and that type of stuff on Christmas eve… did I mention I hate I mean really hate sausages like that? And Christmas day his family always had ham. I don’t eat pork but once or twice a year… Sooooooo… We compromise…or we try to. What ever meal is going to have the whole family (including adult son and step dd) we have the tortellini… and which ever meal we won’t have everyone is sausage, crackers, cheese… the finger foods. Then on New Years eve we do the crackers cheese veggies dips, cheese logs, shrimp cocktail and popcorn thing… and New Years day we do lasagna.
Nobody ever said blending family traditions was gonna be easy!!!
Oh BTW… easy as can be…
8 oz frozen salad shrimp, 8 oz frozen scallops, 3 lbs of frozen cheese tortellini, half pound of butter, lots of fresh minced garlic, and Asiago, Romano, Parmesan and Mozzarella cheese blend…
cook (boil) tortellini according to package instructions and drain
melt butter with tons of garlic… low heat slowly add (cleaned) shrimp and scallops until cooked and warm.
Put tortellini in a big lasagna pan and mix with garlic, butter and seafood sauce. Top with a generous amount of cheese and put under the broiler until cheese is melty and slightly browning…
When melting the butter sauce… you can add salt, dill, parsley, pepper… what ever you like… but make sure it tastes slightly salty because when mixed with the tortellini it will taste bland if you don’t…
Serve with a fresh salad and croissants.
My family always did seafood on Christmas Eve and a stuffed tenderloin (beef) for Christmas day. I stuck with the seafood on Christmas Eve but I would make something for Christmas day that could be prepared ahead of time and popped in the oven. So we generally had Cheese tortellini with shrimp and scallops for Christmas eve and lasagna with fresh spinach on Christmas day. So then comes DH onto the scene… his family has always done sausage and cheese and crackers and that type of stuff on Christmas eve… did I mention I hate I mean really hate sausages like that? And Christmas day his family always had ham. I don’t eat pork but once or twice a year… Sooooooo… We compromise…or we try to. What ever meal is going to have the whole family (including adult son and step dd) we have the tortellini… and which ever meal we won’t have everyone is sausage, crackers, cheese… the finger foods. Then on New Years eve we do the crackers cheese veggies dips, cheese logs, shrimp cocktail and popcorn thing… and New Years day we do lasagna.
Nobody ever said blending family traditions was gonna be easy!!!
Oh BTW… easy as can be…
8 oz frozen salad shrimp, 8 oz frozen scallops, 3 lbs of frozen cheese tortellini, half pound of butter, lots of fresh minced garlic, and Asiago, Romano, Parmesan and Mozzarella cheese blend…
cook (boil) tortellini according to package instructions and drain
melt butter with tons of garlic… low heat slowly add (cleaned) shrimp and scallops until cooked and warm.
Put tortellini in a big lasagna pan and mix with garlic, butter and seafood sauce. Top with a generous amount of cheese and put under the broiler until cheese is melty and slightly browning…
When melting the butter sauce… you can add salt, dill, parsley, pepper… what ever you like… but make sure it tastes slightly salty because when mixed with the tortellini it will taste bland if you don’t…
Serve with a fresh salad and croissants.
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duskyjewel
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Oh yeah, forgot. I am going to order some tamales for Christmas Eve. They’re a huge thing around here, with the Mexican heritage of the area. They’re also a pain to make, so the people who do it make a bundle selling them by the dozen this time of year. We’re about as white as you get, but we love us some good, fresh made tamales! Yum.
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SpokBBane
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Tamales?
Starting tomorrow evening family and friends start gathering for a “tamalada” wherein everyone makes hundreds and hundreds of Tamales and Sweet Tamales (aka dessert tamales).
Family and friends from all across the Americas are coming.
Usually for Christmas dinner my wife will pull out some deer or elk steaks for me as well
Starting tomorrow evening family and friends start gathering for a “tamalada” wherein everyone makes hundreds and hundreds of Tamales and Sweet Tamales (aka dessert tamales).
Family and friends from all across the Americas are coming.
Usually for Christmas dinner my wife will pull out some deer or elk steaks for me as well
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CarrieH
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I would certainly rather have a good lasagna for Christmas dinner than the traditional American meal we’ll be having, and I don’t think I have one drop of Italian blood running through my veins! But the rest of the family would have a fit if we did, so it will be the usual ham, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet corn, cranberry jello salad, hot rolls and butter, and assorted pies and Christmas cookies for dessert.
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dulcissima
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They were selling tamales after Mass a couple of weeks ago, and the lines was enormous. I got the last 6, and had to settle for chicken as the pork were long sold out. Drat, but I do love homemade tamales.
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Brenda_V
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Wow, such a variety of menus.
Well, Christmas Eve we usually have “Christmas Eve Sloppy Joes” from a recipe my mom cut out of the Denver Post when she was pregnant with my sister, some kind of potato and a vegetable, simple, simple, simple. Of course we add lutefisk if my husband is able to find any down here - seems the Norwegian population has either shrunk or they have all given up on getting any good lutefisk as it has become impossible to get any without ordering it months in advance and, well, I don’t like the stuff and my husband tends to be a “last minute” kind of guy so we don’t have it very often anymore.
Christmas day dinner varies depending on my mood, sometimes we have a repeat of Thanksgiving in the past we would have a good ham but then I end up being sick all week as we eat off of it (that is how I figured out I am allergic to pork!) or like this year, I get a really good roast and make roast beef, with carrots and potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and cheesecake. I keep it pretty low key as it is usually just the four of us.
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Well, Christmas Eve we usually have “Christmas Eve Sloppy Joes” from a recipe my mom cut out of the Denver Post when she was pregnant with my sister, some kind of potato and a vegetable, simple, simple, simple. Of course we add lutefisk if my husband is able to find any down here - seems the Norwegian population has either shrunk or they have all given up on getting any good lutefisk as it has become impossible to get any without ordering it months in advance and, well, I don’t like the stuff and my husband tends to be a “last minute” kind of guy so we don’t have it very often anymore.
Christmas day dinner varies depending on my mood, sometimes we have a repeat of Thanksgiving in the past we would have a good ham but then I end up being sick all week as we eat off of it (that is how I figured out I am allergic to pork!) or like this year, I get a really good roast and make roast beef, with carrots and potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, and cheesecake. I keep it pretty low key as it is usually just the four of us.
Brenda V.
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SDMom
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This is a great idea. DH thinks so, too! I think I will make Jesus a birthday cake this year! Thanks for sharing
God Bless!
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SDMom
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This sounds DELICIOUS! I would love to have a seafood feast, but my nephew is allergic to fish and all shellfish! Wow … I will keep this idea in mind for when DH’s family visits after Christmas!
Thanks for sharing! God Bless!
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ems3
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Christmas for us has always been just dh, me, and our 5 children(our families don’t live close enough to visit) so we keep it easy. Years ago I decided I didn’t want to cook all day on Christmas so our tradition has been to have hoagies that day. The kids really love it and look forward to it. Dh goes to the store usually the day before and buys meats, cheeses and rolls. He puts together everyone’s “special request” sandwich and toasts it in the oven.
We always have Christmas cookies for dessert (a few different kinds homemade and decorated by the kids). The last couple of years, one of my older daughters has also been making cheesecake. And we have also started making a big breakfast for Christmas morning. Wow, it sounds like a big ol’ day of gluttony now that I read this
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It’s fun reading what everyone else does–so many different traditions! I like the tamale idea–we all love those but I have never tried to make them myself. And brisket, oh yum! Dh is half Mexican and spent about half of his childhood in Texas so those are familiar foods.
We always have Christmas cookies for dessert (a few different kinds homemade and decorated by the kids). The last couple of years, one of my older daughters has also been making cheesecake. And we have also started making a big breakfast for Christmas morning. Wow, it sounds like a big ol’ day of gluttony now that I read this
.It’s fun reading what everyone else does–so many different traditions! I like the tamale idea–we all love those but I have never tried to make them myself. And brisket, oh yum! Dh is half Mexican and spent about half of his childhood in Texas so those are familiar foods.
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ora_pro_nobis
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What are hot rolls?
I’ll be doing roast meat of some sort. I don’t know what yet, as I’ll have to wait to Christmas Eve to shop because I won’t have any money till then. I quite fancy lamb, but it depends on what’s left in the shops as everyone goes mad filling their trollies with everything they can get their hands on and I’m not good at fighting my way through the crowds in the supermarket. Honestly I’m dreading it!
I will cook roast potatoes, and fresh brussels sprouts, and carrots. I bought a tiny Christmas pudding weeks ago when they were on special offer.
Teatime I usually have cold ham or chicken with piccalilli, and a couple of mince pies.
I’ll be doing roast meat of some sort. I don’t know what yet, as I’ll have to wait to Christmas Eve to shop because I won’t have any money till then. I quite fancy lamb, but it depends on what’s left in the shops as everyone goes mad filling their trollies with everything they can get their hands on and I’m not good at fighting my way through the crowds in the supermarket. Honestly I’m dreading it!
I will cook roast potatoes, and fresh brussels sprouts, and carrots. I bought a tiny Christmas pudding weeks ago when they were on special offer.
Teatime I usually have cold ham or chicken with piccalilli, and a couple of mince pies.
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Just_wondering
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Wow, what a great thread! I always thought everyone did a “turkey day” for Christmas.
My family usually has turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes (cut up really small to maximize the crunchy parts), carrots, parsnips, brussels sprouts, broccoli, peas, corn, salad, homemade bread, and two kinds of gravy for the main course on Christmas day (in the evening). Dessert is pie (mince, apple, pumpkin, and berry)and Christmas pudding, served with brandy butter (which is really icing) and vanilla ice cream. Yeah, Christmas at our house rocks!
For other meals:
Christmas eve: whatever we feel like.
Christmas eve snack: first opportunity to taste the Christmas baking (although we’ve all illicitly stolen a cookie or two before we’re allowed)
Christmas breakfast: pancakes, bacon, eggs.
Christmas lunch: cold cuts, cheeses, crackers, bread, pickles, olives, smoked oysters.
Boxing Day breakfast: leftovers
Boxing Day lunch: leftovers
Boxing Day dinner: glazed ham, and whatever side dishes we can scrounge up from the food left over in the house. There is NO SHOPPING on Boxing day - we consider it part of Christmas. We also don’t allow family members to return gifts.
Oh yeah, and the cookies, once served on Christmas eve (around 9pm) are free-for-all until they’re gone, usually three or four days later. I try to make several hundred for the 25 people or so that will be there.
But now I live in Korea, so Christmas is whatever we feel like. This year, my boyfriend suggested having fried chicken and macaroni salad with his friends.
My family usually has turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes (cut up really small to maximize the crunchy parts), carrots, parsnips, brussels sprouts, broccoli, peas, corn, salad, homemade bread, and two kinds of gravy for the main course on Christmas day (in the evening). Dessert is pie (mince, apple, pumpkin, and berry)and Christmas pudding, served with brandy butter (which is really icing) and vanilla ice cream. Yeah, Christmas at our house rocks!
For other meals:
Christmas eve: whatever we feel like.
Christmas eve snack: first opportunity to taste the Christmas baking (although we’ve all illicitly stolen a cookie or two before we’re allowed)
Christmas breakfast: pancakes, bacon, eggs.
Christmas lunch: cold cuts, cheeses, crackers, bread, pickles, olives, smoked oysters.
Boxing Day breakfast: leftovers
Boxing Day lunch: leftovers
Boxing Day dinner: glazed ham, and whatever side dishes we can scrounge up from the food left over in the house. There is NO SHOPPING on Boxing day - we consider it part of Christmas. We also don’t allow family members to return gifts.
Oh yeah, and the cookies, once served on Christmas eve (around 9pm) are free-for-all until they’re gone, usually three or four days later. I try to make several hundred for the 25 people or so that will be there.
But now I live in Korea, so Christmas is whatever we feel like. This year, my boyfriend suggested having fried chicken and macaroni salad with his friends.
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CarrieH
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Hot as in fresh from the oven, baked from scratch in my case (with a little help from the bread machine).
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jazzbaby1
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We do Christmas brunch as our main meal instead of dinner. In the evening, when the grandparents show up, we have finger foods: shrimp cocktail, a deli platter, chips and dip. It’s much less stressful on what should be a happy day.
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OutinChgoburbs
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I’d stick with beer. If I could dry-ice you the golabki (I make mine with saukerkraut and caraway on top), I would.
My tongue is hanging out on both menus with fond memories of other holidays here, there and yonder.
Now I am jealous! There is nothing like a New Braunsfels Smokeouse product!
I thought it was original, until I realized that Grandma’s idea came out of an old Jubliee magazine, circa 1950ish or 60ish. But thank you! Glad you like it.It goes over well with kids as well as adults, Protestants and as well as Catholics.This is a great idea. DH thinks so, too! I think I will make Jesus a birthday cake this year! Thanks for sharing
God Bless!
Golabkis (pronounced gawuhmpkies): There is one at Food Network and one on allrecipes.com.
Other foods throughout the 12 days: Ravioli, lasagne (my family not his), tamales, and black eyed peas. His family had never heard of lasagne, being sicilian, until a soon-to-be in-law brought one to Christmas Eve dinner. My husband’s grandmother worked in the canneries, and had a lot of good friends of mexican extraction. He had to have tamales for Christmas sometime!
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BlestOne
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I went grocery shopping last night and finalized the menu. We will be having
Shrimp and scallop tortellini (recipe above somewhere) on Christmas day. With a Spinach salad and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Along with that, there will be crescent rolls and pineapple carrots. Dessert… eggnog and Polish apple cake with cream cheese icing.
On Christmas Eve, we will be having cheese, crackers, hard salami, beef sausage, vegetable tray and a homemade cheeseball (I had to promise not to add salmon this time because last time I added too much).
On New Years Eve we will be snacking on Shrimp cocktail, crackers, cheese, sausage, veggies, popcorn and apples (you gotta try apples and popcorn together… they go better than peanutbutter and celery) with sparkling cider.
On New Years day I got out voted… everybody wants chilli… including a kid who just seems to show up when I make it… and he lives in MO about 6 hours away!
My ds went shopping with me last night and talked me into buying 10# of chicken leg quarters… and we marinated them as soon as we got home… half in wine and Italian seasoning, and the other in hot sauce and buffalo wing sauce. Then he picked up stirfry mix and asked that I use left over turkey in the fridge and make stirfry and rice with it… wow! This is my 18 yo son that only usually likes to cook eggs and potatoes (he says because he is Irish). He also insisted on buying cabbage, turnips and potatoes. I think his heritage is showing
Now… where to find time to make more cookies… I guess I made them too early this year… they are all gone now! No Kidding… 6 dozen sugar, 4 dozen peanutbutter, 4 dozen gingerbread, God knows how many chocolate chip… gone all gone!!!
Shrimp and scallop tortellini (recipe above somewhere) on Christmas day. With a Spinach salad and balsamic vinaigrette dressing. Along with that, there will be crescent rolls and pineapple carrots. Dessert… eggnog and Polish apple cake with cream cheese icing.
On Christmas Eve, we will be having cheese, crackers, hard salami, beef sausage, vegetable tray and a homemade cheeseball (I had to promise not to add salmon this time because last time I added too much).
On New Years Eve we will be snacking on Shrimp cocktail, crackers, cheese, sausage, veggies, popcorn and apples (you gotta try apples and popcorn together… they go better than peanutbutter and celery) with sparkling cider.
On New Years day I got out voted… everybody wants chilli… including a kid who just seems to show up when I make it… and he lives in MO about 6 hours away!
My ds went shopping with me last night and talked me into buying 10# of chicken leg quarters… and we marinated them as soon as we got home… half in wine and Italian seasoning, and the other in hot sauce and buffalo wing sauce. Then he picked up stirfry mix and asked that I use left over turkey in the fridge and make stirfry and rice with it… wow! This is my 18 yo son that only usually likes to cook eggs and potatoes (he says because he is Irish). He also insisted on buying cabbage, turnips and potatoes. I think his heritage is showing
Now… where to find time to make more cookies… I guess I made them too early this year… they are all gone now! No Kidding… 6 dozen sugar, 4 dozen peanutbutter, 4 dozen gingerbread, God knows how many chocolate chip… gone all gone!!!
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