My Inlaws are coming over Christmas Day so I'll be making the same old boring Lasagna lololol. I would love to make Chicken Cordon Blu BUT they are elderly and don't really like change to well.......so I'll humor them lol.
Christmas Eve is FUN, I go to Mom's and she has all kinds of finger foods so we pick alllllll night lololol.
Well Saturday nite we go to my parent-in-laws house and we have a huge gumbo and a zillion finger foods (my favorite). Then on Christmas Eve I will probably fix all of my guys a ribeye steak because that is their favorite and a real treat. On Christmas Day we all go to my mom's house and will have fried turkey, mashed potatoes, and allllllllllll the fixings and deserts you can possibly think of.
Now you know why I have been trying so hard to be good! hehe Those 3 days will give my scale a heart attack! I will just try to get a bite of the stuff I like and not over do it.
My DH is going to invite all the young ones on board the ship that don't have a family to go home to for the holidays. It seems to have become a holiday tradition at our house! (I love meeting them all and giving them someplace warm, safe and inviting to spend Christmas at.) My parents are also going to come up for Christmas day and watch the girls open their gifts from Santa. So, I'm going to make (holding your breath)...
a turkey with all the trimmings.
I know, I know -- boring. But we went out to eat for Thanksgiving and I missed having a turkey to pick on for a week!
Now, I just have to get out the good ole Betty Crocker cookbook to figure out how to make those cranberries!
Yummm...Prime Rib with garlic stuck in it with potatoes roasted around it. Haven't figured out the side dishes yet but they will be plentiful and yummy. Dessert will be cheesecake and this chocolate yummy looking concoction I found in a cookbook the other day.
On Christmas Eve, we go to the church service where we love watching the wee ones perform. Every year they put on a show and sing. The preschoolers are a stitich to watch! The are in front of the congregation and do the cutest things! They wave at family or turn around and watch everyone. Some kinda wander away and the teacher has to guide them...like little ducklings.
After, DD, Zookeeper, and family come over here for cocoa and cookies.
On Christmas Day, we're going over to Zookeepers house for a turkey dinner and to see what Santa Claus brought. I'm anxious to see Zoo's new sewing machine. She is having so much fun with it that ALL her mending is done!
BTW, if anyone is interested in sewing, here is a good site with a nice forum www.sewingworld.com
Christmas Eve we will have the nieghbours and thier friends over for a Christmas drinky-poo and some finger foods (and maybe a game of pool or two). Christmas Day we are sharing it with our neighbours, they are making the turkey and the pies and I am making all the casseroles and the potatoes. We'll eat at our house and maybe some more drinky-poos. Boxing Day (the day after Christmas for my American friends) we are travelling to my grandma's house where the WHOLE family (around 30 of us at last count) is coming to have yet ANOTHER turkey dinner and gift opening and the whole hoohaw. There will be a bottle in my hand (never mind the drinky-poo) as let's just say grandma gets easily frazzled around large groups of people and starts complaining and picking fights (yes, she's the only one that does this but hey she's 77 and patience is NOT one of her virtues!). And then to home and a LONG rest!
Jim, my DIL Wendy and little Tayler are coming early afternoon alonmg with my sister and BIL, their grown up kids and associated friends/lovers/whatever - a total of 12 adults. We will have a drink or two with salmon spread or something and then the 12 of us will have dinner. I will serve a sort of chicken cordon bleu thingie - stuffed with prosciutto, basil, cheese, mushroom wine sauce, rosemary roasted taters, yellow and green beans, cheesecake or some fancy patisserie and wine, wine, wine! Jime, Wendy and Tayler will be here for breakfast the next day.
I usually make a big pot of clam chowder for the Eve which we have for early supper because Church is 7. After Church half the village comes back here for munchies, maybe leftover soup, nibbles, caloric goodies and wine, wine, wine.
Christmas Day we go to my sister's farmhouse for a very traditional Martha-inspired dinner! Joan does a fabulous job.
Boxing Day we go to an Open House brunch thing and then go pick up our puppy. Then we all relax.
Thanks for reminding me. So far, all I've come up with is my sister's famous ham, broccoli casserole, garlic mashed potatoes, and pumpkin rolls. I will probably make dad's famous potato salad and macaroni pie, too. UGH!! Who's taking home leftovers? I can't live with them in my kitchen!!
It's a pumpkin cake baked real thin on a cookie sheet, then iced thickly with cream cheesey icing. You roll it up on a tea towel, and you have a log. Then you slice the ends off the log, voila, pumpkin rolls. They are fabulous!! (and definitely not OP)
Our Christams festivities started in a way....I had some friends over for coffee, with Bailey's and cinnimon buns Monday.....I made chicken wings...honey and garlic and red cajun ribs (from Costco), basmati rice and salade and of course all the trmmings.for lunch....Today I have friends coming for coffee and baking this am and this afternoon ...Thursday eve we have another set of close friends coming for supper...probably similar to what I made the ladies for lunch.....Friday we are having a potluck party with yet another group of friends...there will be everything from wings, to veggie chilli, to greek potatoes to nuts and bolts(I have to bring a dessert)!Saturday I am hoping to go sledding with the girls and then come back for hot choc with whipped cream and crushed candy canes...(good for a large group in the crock)...Sunday Xmas with the in-laws...my single BIL is hosting and I think pizza is on the menu, but hey, I won't complain...Monday Xmas eve we go to mass at 7pm with my folks and then over to their place for finger foods and cards etc...Christmas day I will make a ham and a potatoe and cheese casserole with corn flakes on top. Boxing Day 30 people here for turkey dinner...It is just one big party and I feel so lucky to be invited!
Whats For Christmas Dinner ?
