What's on your holiday menu?

[Ladybug]

I've got to pull mine together and hit the grocery store.

What are you cooking up?

[SoonerTexan]

Lobster bisque for Christmas Eve. Christmas Day I'm contributing eggs Benedict casserole and poinsettas for breakfast

[GreyhoundsRUs]

Easy dinner menu: snow crab, green beans, cheddar bay biscuits. Regular breakfast and lunch.

We usually do a prime rib roast, but we'll have that at my parents on the 26th. DH doesn't like hot ham

[Ladybug]

Are you working through dinner, Cassy? I remember everyone brining food having holiday feasts at the nursing stations

I can't decide, I'm hobbling around on a sprained ankle, so I just handed the reigns to DH. He loves to cook or pick up Chinese food a la The Christmas Story. I can't do it this year. I've done everything else.

[spotty_dog]

Good decision, Ladybug! Rest and heal!

We didn't have a Thanksgiving celebration so we're having the whole family for Christmas Eve (my parents, his parents, and my brother.) I'm making a boneless pork leg roast, oysters (DH wants to make oyster cakes, we're still hashing that out) potatoes gratin, braised cabbage, and rolls. My mom is bringing a green bean side and a broccoli side. My brother is bringing pumpkin pie for dessert. Everyone's staying the night so I'm also making cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, and I bought a stollen to round out the breakfast offerings.

[ides]

What's on your holiday menu?

I have no idea. We are going out for dim sum for Christmas Day lunch but I still don't know xmas eve or breakfast or dinner.

[MAPPLEBUM]

Yum! I need to look up oyster cakes I lllooovve oysters!

Good decision, Ladybug! Rest and heal!

We didn't have a Thanksgiving celebration so we're having the whole family for Christmas Eve (my parents, his parents, and my brother.) I'm making a boneless pork leg roast, oysters (DH wants to make oyster cakes, we're still hashing that out) potatoes gratin, braised cabbage, and rolls. My mom is bringing a green bean side and a broccoli side. My brother is bringing pumpkin pie for dessert. Everyone's staying the night so I'm also making cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning, and I bought a stollen to round out the breakfast offerings.

[spotty_dog]

Yum! I need to look up oyster cakes I lllooovve oysters!

We get huge, massive oysters here, shells the size of your hand and meat the size of...something 3 inches long by over an inch wide. I think DH is planning to oven roast them so they par-cook and open, then chop them and use them in a typical crabcake recipe. We might be improvising, I'll let you know how it goes.

[scrub-jay]

DH makes sushi every year for xmas eve. Still trying to figure out xmas dinner.

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DH makes sushi every year for xmas eve. Still trying to figure out xmas dinner.

Yum! Does he make miso soup too?

[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

Ah crap, I just realized we don't have Christmas breakfast planned...maybe I'll just do canned cinnamon rolls bacon and eggs...

Dinner is filet mignon, scalloped potatoes, and sautéed brussel sprouts with bacon...dessert is a mixed berry pie with ice cream.

[Curegirl]

MrsMD, dinner sounds yum! We're doing takeout Chinese and Willy Wonka-ing this shit with massive amounts of junk food and watching movies all day long. Real food be damned.

[scrub-jay]

What's on your holiday menu?

Yum! Does he make miso soup too?

We've never made it from scratch, but we add goodies to a mix (seaweed, tofu, scallions, etc). We're also serving with edamame, pickled ginger, and wasabi (real). Should be fun. I grew up having live crab off the docks, but I'm about as far from the coast as one can get, so we adopted DH's family sushi tradition.

Christmas morning is vegan monkey-bread (like cinnamon buns, but small balls) but last year, MIL accidentally called it "Monkeyballs" and now my dirty mind just can't think of it as monkey bread anymore. I'm a 12 year old boy.

[PrincessFiona]

I haven't decided yet. Procrastination!!! Maybe pot roast, Spaetzle with and without Swiss cheese and Brussels sprouts ....

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I'm starting to get a plan. A breakfast casserole that I can make the night before and cook in the morning for Xmas morning. Then a veggie pot pie for dinner. Dessert - don't know yet.