Whats for Christmas dinner this year

Starters are homemade soup and fresh bread rolls for my DS..For me and my DW it's Smoked salmon & scallops with a seafood sauce..Main course is a Turkey crown with roast potatoes,Brussels,chesnuts,bacon...carrots glazed in honey..etc,etc..Sweet is my homemade Key Lime Pie..yummy..

We're very traditional - I think there would be a rebellion if I tried to change the menu to something different. Turkey, corn, mashed potatoes, veggies and dip, and brownies and assorted cookies and sweets for dessert. Sometimes I get lucky and my Mom bakes us a cherry pie. Yum!

It'll be a traditional turkey dinner for us too, which I am very excited for! My mom is also making some pumpkin pies.

For Christmas Eve we borrowed from the Italians and had seafood. Not feast of seven fishes elaborate, but I heated up some Manhattan clam chowder and then made a pasta dish with shrimp, scallops, and lobster along with some veggies.

For Christmas Day we'll have rib eye steak with popovers, roasted vegetables (potatoes, turnip, parsnips, carrots, leeks, and Brussels sprouts), popovers, and lemon meringue pie for dessert.

Tonight we had fried butterfly shrimp, oysters, ham, crab dip, bbq sandwiches, deviled eggs, deer bologna, assorted cookies. Not sure what's on tap for tomorrow. It's brunch at my brother-in-law's, which usually entails ham and bacon, fruit, potatoes, maybe some mac and cheese or something. Time will tell.

no starters... for the main it's gonna be boiled ham, roast turkey, pesto potatoes, roast potatoes, croquets, boiled potatoes, peas, carrots and brussel sprouts... And obviously loads of gravy!!

Lobster tails, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, fried calamari, chicken cutlet parmigiana, linguini, ziti, cold antipasto, bacon wrapped dates, meatballs, sausages, lobster sauce, marinara sauce...

Cheesecake, pastries, cupcakes, Swedish tea ring, ice cream...

Rolaids and Lipitor

We had Spiced carrot soup. Then Turkey, chipolatas, stuffing, gravy, roast potatos, roast carrots with tarragon, honey roast parsnips, mashed potato, bread sauce, peas, brussel sprouts with thyme butter, red cabbage, apple sauce and cranberry sauce.
This was followed by christmas pudding, mince pies, cheese and fruit.

My boyfriend and I are having steak, ham, baked potatoes rolls and cut green beans. I am making deviled eggs for myself.

We had a traditional dinner last Sunday at my parents with Ham, Fried Chicken, Mashed Potatoes & Gravy, Green Bean Casserole, Macaroni and Cheese Casserole, Fresh Asparagus in butter, Cranberries, Pickles, and "white stuff" (cottage cheese mixed with whipped cream, pineapple, maraschino cherries and marshmallows).

Today, Christmas Day, we do breakfast at Amy's side with Sausage, Bacon, Scrambled Eggs, Toast, Blueberry Muffins, Hashbrowns and my favorite breakfast drink: Mimosa's ... lots of goodies including Cannoli's... Amy's step-mom is Italian.
I love that

Dinner tonight was wedge salads, herb and garlic prime rib, au jus, loaded mashed potatoes and pots de creme au chocolate for dessert. I can fiddle around the sides or dessert but massive insurrection would result if there was no prime rib. Gawd, we're spoiled!

Christmas Eve was chili.

Today was standing rib roast, rice pilaf-ish dish, Yorkshire pudding, cheesecake...and lots and lots of wine!

Dinner today was ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing (or dressing depending on what part of the US you reside), rice/broccoli casserole, cranberry sauce, rolls and for dessert.....apple struesel and pumpkin pies, Danish and cookies and pistachio fluff.

Becks and taratru, I'm envying your standing rib roasts. Hubby and I used to do that with Yorkshire pudding, but due to cholesterol issues we've scaled back on red meat and don't want the leftovers. Hence the switch to steak and popovers - it's not quite the same, but close enough.

LoL... We had out traditional Chinese take out for Christmas Eve.
I made a lovely big breakfast with an egg bake, warm pastries, biscuits and fruit for opening gifts on Christmas morning.

Chinese take-out, that's not a bad way to eat on Christmas Eve.

When I was a teenager and a bit older, my family got into the habit of bringing home a bucket of KFC on Christmas Eve so Mom wouldn't have to cook, since she had so much last-minute wrapping and advance prep for Christmas dinner to do. I liked it. Sometimes hubby and I will still get a little KFC for Christmas Eve just for nostalgia's sake.

Does anyone else have some kind of carry-out/takeaway traditions for the night before Christmas?

What about other holidays? Hanukkah was really early this year, but do any of you have any special traditions for that holiday? Anyone celebrate Yule (the winter solstice)? Kwanzaa? Any special food traditions for New Year's? Who kicks it up a notch on Three Kings Day? And Chinese/Lunar New Year isn't too far away; does anyone celebrate that, and how?

We actually also celebrate Hanukkah and Solstice (we're an eclectic bunch at my house) but this year was pretty boring all around. Hanukkah was just too early for me, because Thanksgiving when we have our big spiffy family holiday. I just couldn't wrap my head around combining the two. Most years we do small gifts, gelt, latkkes, and light the menorah.

The girls and I went to a red tent party for Solstice earlier in the month but didn't do anything special this year. The "hearth fire" stayed lit, and the sun was reborn - yay us. Ultimately things have been so hodge podge this year that we didn't do much of anything exciting for the holidays.

It's my goal to do *much* better next year.

Anybody do Festivus? Airing of Grievances, Feats of Strength, etc?

For my family, we had homemade sushi, homemade spring rolls, sweet and sour pork, chicken wings for our Christmas feast.

Christmas eve, at the IL's, we had pork loin, roasted beets w/ goat cheese & pine nuts, some brussel sprouts dish that had bacon & craisins in it (not bad, actually!) & Hungarian potato salad, w/ creme brulee & pecan pies for dessert.

Christmas Day at home was (grassfed) prime rib, twice baked potatoes, brussel sprouts w/ garlic & butter, Vidalia onion pie, and corn. Dessert was pumpkin pie, in addition to the leftover pies from the night before. Yum!

Christmas Eve is always the same: finger foods! We had mozzarella sticks, bagel bites, chicken wings, mini hot dogs. Some years we also do fries or onion rings.

Christmas Day was traditional turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, apple onion casserole and for dessert, cheesecake.

We did pretty much the same thing!