Xmas Eve - Going out to dinner Xmas Morning - Baked French Toast Casserole from Pioneer Woman Xmas Dinner - Beef Tenderloin Roast, Salad, Potatoes, Green Beans. Not sure about a dessert yet.
Xmas Morning - Baked French Toast Casserole from Pioneer Woman;
You will not regret this. And it's better the next day. We're saving it for New Years weekend this year.
I'm following. I need a kid-friendly soup/salad for a party on the 23rd, something we can eat at home after we get back from mass on Xmas eve, something make-ahead for Xmas morning and something for the potluck Xmas dinner. I'm hosed.
Post by humpforfree on Dec 19, 2015 16:38:10 GMT -5
Not sure about actual Christmas Eve dinner yet, H and I will have crackers/cheese snack after bedtime while Santa comes. Christmas night we go to mil's. Christmas breakfast/bunch is always the same for us- carryover from when I was growing up: cinnamon rolls/monkey bread, egg/cheese/sausage casserole, fruit salad
Post by Velar Fricative on Dec 19, 2015 16:39:20 GMT -5
I have been so focused on cooking for 20 adults and 7 kids on Christmas Day that I forgot all about our Christmas Day breakfast for just the three of us! Thanks for the reminder.
Not sure what my mom is making for Christmas Eve yet. On Christmas Day, we are making brisket, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, and salad. Gotta keep it simple for this many people.
Christmas Eve - Homesick Texan's Chile Verde, Grandma Nugget's Mac and Cheese Christmas morning - can't decide between a French toast casserole or the cheesy sausage and croissant casserole someone posted on MM earlier. Christmas Day - Sauerbraten, honey baked ham, holiday mashed potatoes, roasted veggies, salad, red velvet cake for desert
Christmas Eve is lots of apps and dinner for 30 at our house. We do a cippino style seafood gravy over linguine to replace what used to be seven fishes (7 individual dishes). It has only 6 fish since we have two people allergic to scallops- shrimp, mussels, clams, jumbo lump crab, monkfish and lobster meat. Then we do breaded fried tilapia. Garlic bread and call it good. For apps we do roasted shrimp cocktail, clams casino, crostini with ricotta and broccoli rabe, bruschetta, artichoke dip, Italian meats and cheeses. Dessert is a various assortment of little things - cannolis, brownies, cookies, mini cheesecakes, etc. it's my favorite day of the year and I love cooking for it. Christmas morning is egg, sausage and hash brown casserole. Also my MIL makes this nut bread. Christmas dinner is at my SIL's house and usually beef tenderloin, shrimp scampi, crab soup, mash potato casserole, roasted asparagus. Pies for dessert.
Xmas eve is apps and pomegranate sangria. Apps include: meatballs and baguettes to make sliders, pepperoni bread, buffalo chicken dip, veggie crudite, olives, cheese, crackers and some sort of meats, bacon wrapped scallops, and shrimp cocktail. Assorted mini cakes from tj and Christmas cookies for dessert.
Xmas morning: I picked up some chocolate and mini croissants from TJ that we will bake.
Xmas dinner: leftovers from Xmas eve will be eaten throughout the day and as apps. Then dinner will be roastbeef, ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, some sort of salad, broccoli cheese and rice casserole, and rolls. Then jello poke cake for dessert as well as cookies.
Xmas Eve: I have no idea...it's just the four of us and DH has to work right after dinner. Maybe spaghetti and meatballs.
Xmas Morning: cinnamon rolls, eggs, potatoes, and bacon
Xmas: Steak, green beans (with bacon maybe), potatoes, with cheesecake for dessert. It's just the four of us again and DH will work that night as well so we may be eating around 1pm.
Normally we do do: Christmas Eve - fancy but not good 5 course meal with beef that my dad makes Christmas morning - breakfast casserole, cinnamon rolls, mimosas Christmas dinner - lasagna, salad and bread This year we got my dad to agree to moving lasagna to Christmas Eve and having beef bourguignon Christmas Day, yay! Faster, less hands on work that day, and tastes better! But then he went and bought several Stouffer's lasagnas for Christmas Eve. My mom nixed that so he's campaigning for City BBQ, which no one wants. My mom and I will probably end up making lasagna.
Some of these sound good!! I love the app ideas. And gingerbread cheesecake? I need that in my life.
Anyway.
Christmas Eve: we are hosting. Turkey, ham, cinnamon apples, sweet potato casserole, and sides the rest of the family cooks. Cookies and Rice Krispie treats for dessert.
The only thing that I'm in charge of is Christmas morning so we'll have mimosas, monkey bread and an egg/bacon/cheese casserole. So basically exactly what everyone else is having
Post by SpartanGirl on Dec 19, 2015 21:51:46 GMT -5
Christmas Eve - take out Chinese
Christmas is just our little family, and we travel the next day so we're keeping it simple. Breakfast is blueberry french toast and dinner is baked ziti. Dessert will be chocolate birthday cake with blue frosting and snowflakes as requested by the birthday girl.
Post by cincodemayo on Dec 19, 2015 22:23:20 GMT -5
Christmas Eve is at DHs grandma's- they always have the same apps: wings, pimento loaf (I know), sausage and cheese plate. I'm bringing a veggie pizza made with crescent rolls.
Christmas morning I'm making pioneer woman cinnamon rolls and fake mimosas.
Christmas lunch is blah traditional meal- ham, squash, the saltiest cream of crap veggie casserole, rolls, etc with custard pie. Ugh.
The day after Christmas my parents are taking us to any restaurant we want within reason
Post by charlotteandwilbur on Dec 19, 2015 22:34:06 GMT -5
Christmas Eve is Mexican -- enchiladas, rice, beans, salad, margaritas, and cookies for dessert. Christmas breakfast-- PW French Toast casserole, bacon, clementines Christmas dinner -- beef tenderloin, potatoes, green beans, ice cream sundae bar and cookies for dessert
Christmas Eve is just the three of us. We'll probably do chili or something equally easy after church.
Christmas breakfast will be us plus my mom. I haven't decided yet, put a PP's menu of pancakes, sausage and hashbrowns would be a hit with my family, so maybe that.
Christmas lunch my sis and BIL and two nieces will be over, plus my mom, and we're doing apps and sandwich stuff will be on hand.
Christmas dinner is the same people as lunch, plus MIL, FIL, and DH's aunt. We're doing ham, mashed potatoes, roasted green beans, deviled eggs, stuffing, homemade bread, and some other veggie. Dessert is probably apple pie and maybe pumpkin bars. Not sure yet. So basically boring but easy.
Xmas Morning - Baked French Toast Casserole from Pioneer Woman;
You will not regret this. And it's better the next day. We're saving it for New Years weekend this year.
I'm following. I need a kid-friendly soup/salad for a party on the 23rd, something we can eat at home after we get back from mass on Xmas eve, something make-ahead for Xmas morning and something for the potluck Xmas dinner. I'm hosed.
Yeah, that french toast casserole is amazing. And frankly part of the reason I've not figured out dessert is because I wouldn't mind just eating the leftover casserole for dessert!
We don't get to host anything: ( we're determined to be at our own house for Christmas sometime in the near future.
We're with his family this year, so o oyster stew and other soups for Christmas eve after church. Day of is prime rib, Yorkshire pudding, shrimp cocktail, and green beans.
Christmas Eve (at the ILs) - heavy apps Christmas morning (just the four of us at home) - caramel rolls, quiche, and fruit Christmas dinner (at my parents) - prime rib, shrimp scampi, twice-baked potatoes, asparagus, caesar salad, plus Christmas cookies for dessert