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Tuff Noogies's picture

zero's blog has inspired me, with the talk of comfort food and honey baked ham and german Christmas dinner!

so, aside from what we're doing for Christmas, and our schedules with relation to steps - what are ya'll cooking?

i dont cook much due to eating habits that dh has allowed. but thanksgiving and Christmas i do. and i do it because i want to, because it's special to me. everyone loves my cooking Smile

for Christmas dinner, i'm making coke-glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, and dutch green beans, with applesauce and cheddar biscuits. and pecan pie.

what about ya'll?

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zerostepdrama's picture

X-mas Eve lunch- Honeybaked ham, salad, mac and cheese, cheesy potatoes, cookies, French silk pie, BS is making an oreo pie, relish/meat/cheese tray and chips.

X-mas Eve dinner or it might be Christmas dinner- depends on how hungry we are after we leave my sisters- steak, garlic mashed taters, asparagus, zucchini

Christmas morning I am going to cook breakfast. Probably just eggs and bacon and hash browns. Our usual. Ha Ha

WokeUpABug's picture

Cheddar biscuits sound amazing.

A few years ago DH and I started getting take out from our favorite Szechuan place on Christmas. Our Jewish friends joke about our Jewish Christmas but it is frankly amazing and the kids love it.

Tuff Noogies's picture

well robin, it's hard and complicated.

you go to kroger and buy a box of Red Lobster cheddar bay biscuit mix. then rfd.

i've tried it from scratch before and was pretty successful. but the box is just so much easier.

Salems Lot's picture

Christmas dinner, turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, carrots, turnip, homemade pickles (variety),salad.
Homemade deserts (Nanaimo bars, sugar cookies, maple butter tarts, blueberry pie, pumpkin pie, whipped cream. I cut back a lot this year on the baking. Made the bars yesterday. The cookies today. Likely will make the pies either Friday or Saturday.

Christmas eve, probably lasagna, garlic bread and Caesar salad.

Cover1W's picture

DH is roasting a turkey.
I'm doing the sides: baked potatoes, roasted cauliflower and broccoli and gravy.
Served with champagne for adults and water for SDs (they don't drink anything else).

I've got lots of chocolate in the house, chips and other munchies.
Wine, tea, excellent coffee.
Mineral water.

I've made spritz cookies, and will make lemon bars and lemon curd (someone gave me a bunch of lemons). The SDs usually want to make some sugar cookies, but we'll see if they still want to after the lemon cooking extravaganza. I'm betting not.

Might make some bread on Xmas eve if I feel like it.

Xmas day is pancakes with the lemon curd and bacon and eggs.

classyNJ's picture

Christmas breakfast: Eggs, bacon, maple sausage, scrapple, shit on shingle, french toast and fruit. Coffee with homemade Irish Creme. OJ and milk for kids.

Lunch: Snacking on veggie tray, subs and cheese and crackers

Dinner: Honey glazed ham, mac and cheese, granny's brussel sprouts and peel shrimp..

Now Im starving

Tuff Noogies's picture

$#!t on a shingle for breakfast? my version is for dinner. what kind of recipe does yours refer to?

classyNJ's picture

Yup breakfast. Dried beef, butter, flour and milk. Pour over toast. Some like it over potatoes but I prefer the "shingle"

How is the dinner version made?

Tuff Noogies's picture

OH! dried beef and gravy is what we call that. i love it over biscuits.

dinner version is made with ground meat, cream of something soup, milk to loosen, and worcestershire.. i also prefer it over biscuits, that's when we just refer to it as "that hamburger $#!t" - lol!

i havent made either one of those in forever... i'll need to fix that!

classyNJ's picture

I will have to try the dinner version, never heard of it like that. We also call the morning version cream chipped beef on toast.

Countrymom's picture

Christmas dinner Friday at my dad's...lasagna, spaghetti, salad, texas toast, brownie trifle and homemade candy.

Christmas Day brunch...biscuits, gravy, eggs, bacon, sausage patties, sausage links, hash browns and coffee/juices.

Christmas food to eat on all day...cheese ball/crackers, sausage balls, spinach dip, veggies/dip, maybe pizza sticks and ham sliders, homemade candy.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Evil Aniki is making NOTHING for Christmas. Not the ham that PrincASS loves, not the broccoli salad the girls love, not the desserts that PigPen loves... not one damn thing. I'll make myself a nice breakfast and spike my coffee with Di Saronno.

BTW, DH doesn't know I'm not cooking. His kids/skids, his problem to resolve. He hasn't asked and I'm keeping mum. He's broke, but I'm 'broker'.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Mr. Aniki will be lucky if Evil Aniki cleans the bathroom. Right now, I ain't doin' diddly.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

I don't think he assumes I'll do anything. Typically, we discuss the menu. I haven't said a word.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Cocktail, he's mentally and physically exhausted from work. Plus, I believe he's not happy he cannot afford to buy much this year. That's right...the ATM known as Daaaaadddeeeee is broke.

Aniki-Moderator's picture

Thank you. I'm only sorry DH is exhausted. The skids can p!ss up a rope, IMHO. If money from DH is all they care about and that's their idea of Christmas, they suck busted clown ass.

notasm3's picture

Last year I hosted DH's family and mine (separate weekends) for Christmas. I cooked and cooked and cooked some more.

This year I've skipped town. I am in New Orleans visiting friends. DH will arrive Thursday. We are eating in a lovely hotel.

moeilijk's picture

Right now, I'm planning leftover chicken stew with dumplings.

I don't mind not having much of a Christmas spirit (not my religion, and while celebrated, not a big whoop where I live), but I would like to make more of a fuss for DD3. I loved Christmas as a kid - we had snow, grandparents, cookies, egg-nog, Christmas carols... here, I can do cookies. (I could do carols as well, but as an adult, I hate 'em. lol.)