Holiday Meal?

[PrincessFiona]

What's everone cooking this year? I, truthfully, have given it no thought.

Kris

Hotdogs on the grill.

with a side of Mac & Cheese.

[PrincessFiona]

Sounds yummy, Matt

I think we are going to have pot roast.

[Rapunzel]

I still haven't figured this Christmas dinner thing out.

My husband wants to get back to his Swedish roots, though. So, for Christmas breakfast we're going to have Rosettes (deep fried Swedish cookies - kind of like donuts) with powder sugar, syrup, and jam.

Maybe for Christmas eve and Christmas day dinners we should get back to other roots? He's also half Mexican so maybe we could do tamales for Christmas? And, now Kris, what is something German (my heritage) that we could have on Christmas eve?

[houseelf]

I'm trying a ham and corn casserole.

Kelly

Jennifer -- My MIL used to make rosettes, too. Sometimes she would find lingonberry jam.

If you want to do something Swedish for dinner, you could make Swedish meatballs. Another thing DH loved was krumkake filled with whipped cream. I'm pretty sure it is Scandinavian and not just Norwegian. I think you need a pizelle-like iron for it, or maybe they are the same thing? Glogg is Swedish -- it's spiced wine but I'm sure you could do it with cider and fruit juices and it would be just as yummy.

Sometimes she would find lingonberry jam.

Available at Ikea.

[Rapunzel]

Here's the agreed upon menu:

Christmas eve: Tamales

Christmas breakfast: Rosettes

Christmas dinner: Seafood (we're thinking crabcakes, shrimp, maybe a bit of clam chowder, corn on the cob, garlic potatoes, rolls)

And, I HAVE to make the requisite cute sugar cookies with decorative icing at some point. Although, my husband has been very vocal about the fact that Santa prefers Golden Grahams s'mores bars....

Jennifer

[HeartRN]

Eat out or cater in....tain't no kind o' cooking going on in this little apartment!

Jennifer, you HAVE to post your recipe for tamales! They are my favorite and I haven't had any decent ones since we moved.

I'm not sure what we'll be having yet so I loved hearing about everyone elses ideas and traditions. In our 12 year relationship this is the 1st time that we will be spending Christmas in our own home. My sister's birthday is on Christmas Eve, so my family would always go out to eat that night and have birthday cake afterwards. My mom would make a big breakfast on Christmas morning and then we'd have lasagna for Christmas dinner. Now that we live far from our families, we need to come up with our own traditions. I think this year we'll start a new tradition of making smores on Christmas Eve. I thought it would be a fun thing to do when Andrew gets older....plus, I love smores! I'm stuck on what to do for the meals, though.

[Rapunzel]

My husband has to call his mom tonight to get the recipe.

The one ingredient I'm worried about finding out here are the corn husks to steam them in.

I'll post the recipe when I get it.

Jennifer

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[Sheherezade]

Christmas Eve: Spaghetti and Meatballs, salad and garlic bread....tradition!!
Christmas Day: Turkey, mashed potatoes, butternut squash thingee, string beans with almonds .....and whipped cream cake for dessert. Tradition, Part II.

NY eve: Chinese take out, and coffee ice cream with gingersnaps, champagne and cards (usually bridge or pinochle depending on who we rope in). No one to play with yet. We may have to play rummy or chess/go instead.

We are so boring.