Christmas Dinners -

[Bad Gateway]

Tis the season to look forward to the best, most showiest, most fanciest meal of the year. Despite the undeniable fact that we are all deceased from Egg Drop Coof, I want to make a fucking badass Christmas meal. I think I want to do something I've never done before, which is cook a true multiple course meal, with wine pairings and everything, something really fancy. I would encourage everyone to do the same, because 1) It's fun 2) It's delicious and 3) Once you blow the tits off your family and/or friends with an epic holiday meal, you become legend.

So, bring the ideas, all the ideas. Christmas eve, the night of actual christmas, doesn't matter. What's your traditional family Christmas meal, what was your best, your worst, themes, seasonal drinks, etc etc. Growing up my family always used to have lasagna, and then at some point it shifted to homemade pizza and wings, and now, it's nothing. I'm gonna bring it back. Like Trump once said, "Chick-fil-a, they say? Chick-fil-a" and maybe he was right.

 

[Slimy Time]

Roast duck. Not turkey, not chicken, always duck. Parsnips, carrots and brussels sprouts. Home made mince pies and Christmas pudding with brandy butter. That's pretty much been it every year without fail. The home made mince pies and Christmas pudding with brandy butter are a must in my home. It's the one time of the year I can gorge myself on them.

 

[FruitFighter]

Planning Christmas dinner is for plebs. I already have my Christmas dinner made.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

We used to go visit family for Christmas where my aunt would made an absolutly bangin' feast of things like ham, prime rib, cheesy potato casserole, pie, etc, it was all so good and so artery clogging. We haven't been able to visit them in a while due to work schedule malarkey so the last few years I've taken on making Christmas dinner for my folks. I've done posole soup and tortillas a few times cause posole is fuckin dope. A few years ago I made pot roast and gravy with my aunt's cheesy potato cassarole recipe, last year I actually don't remember. I got the flu on Christmas and felt terrible the whole time I was trying to cook. I think there were brussles sprouts with an attempt at balsamic glaze? I have no memory of what main course we had.

I started a tradition of making cherry jello salad after having it at my aunt's one year. It's so good even though it looks like pepto bismol with cottage cheese mixed in. I'm going to make a different one this year, with just lime jello, applesauce, and 7-Up.

This year's Christmas I debated on what meat I wanted to make, but after making Salisbury steak recently and remembering that I absolutly love Salisbury steak, I think that's what I'm going to cook. I have a really good roasted broccoli recipe, and I'll also make the cotija mashed potatoes from Danny Trejo's cookbook.

I'm also going to be celebrating Yule on the 21st, so I'll make soup and beer bread. I might have to aquire some mead or gluhwein to make things extra jolly.

 

[Bad Gateway]

Roast duck. Not turkey, not chicken, always duck. Parsnips, carrots and brussels sprouts. Home made mince pies and Christmas pudding with brandy butter. That's pretty much been it every year without fail. The home made mince pies and Christmas pudding with brandy butter are a must in my home. It's the one time of the year I can gorge myself on them.

I love duck, but I'm not that great at making it. LOVE mince pies. Here's what I've got for the meal so far:

1) Antipasti, not too much, nothing too heavy - pair with Pinot Grigio
2) Salad, pear and walnut or similar - fruity or nutty rose
3) Small plate homemade pasta in a white sauce, I'm thinking a linguine or tagliatelle in with fennel and leeks, maybe a touch of lemon zest - Chardonnay
4) An actual palate cleanser, sorbet? Keep the Chardonnay around
5) Main course, Wellington (beef, lamb or pork), fondant potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, some kind of carrots (candied, puree, roasted idk yet) - Merlot
6) Cookies, cinnamon pie, mince pies - sherry and moscato? Or maybe coffee and tea instead

 

[Slimy Time]

I love duck, but I'm not that great at making it. LOVE mince pies. Here's what I've got for the meal so far:

1) Antipasti, not too much, nothing too heavy - pair with Pinot Grigio
2) Salad, pear and walnut or similar - fruity or nutty rose
3) Small plate homemade pasta in a white sauce, I'm thinking a linguine or tagliatelle in with fennel and leeks, maybe a touch of lemon zest - Chardonnay
4) An actual palate cleanser, sorbet? Keep the Chardonnay around
5) Main course, Wellington (beef, lamb or pork), fondant potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, some kind of carrots (candied, puree, roasted idk yet) - Merlot
6) Cookies, cinnamon pie, mince pies - sherry and moscato? Or maybe coffee and tea instead

Wellington... Wow. Beef I think is the classic. Sounds like a great feast.

 

[Stoneheart]

Roast duck. Not turkey, not chicken, always duck.

Wrong... Christmas is Goose time you imbecile...

 

[Slimy Time]

Wrong... Christmas is Goose time you imbecile...

Tried once, paid far more for it than a duck, no discernible difference.

 

[Stoneheart]

Tried once, paid far more for it than a duck

You dont have to celebrate christmas if you wanna act like a kike....

no discernible difference

Goose fat is sooo nice...

 

[GeorgiaGuidestones]

I’m still debating between a prime rib formal dinner or cooking up a roast beef deli style with beer cheese sauce for sandwiches with a kind of small buffet of appetizers since we’re keeping it small this year. My family will go for either one.

 

[SojuDrnkr]

Christmas is always a two day feast for my family. Christmas Eve is when we have the extended family come together, where we have antipasto, ziti, ravioli, meatballs, hot Italian sausage, chicken, broccoli rabe, garlic & rosemary potatoes, and shit ton of deserts.

Christmas is just with close family. For breakfast we have bagels, and for dinner we have salmon.

 

[Buster O'Keefe]

Prawn cocktail starter is something of a tradition in the O'Keefe family, although quite why is lost in the mists of time. For the main event I cook a top quality chicken, a ham, sausagemeat stuffing, cocktail sausages, Brussels sprouts, roast spuds, mashed carrots and parsnips and a gallon of gravy.
Dessert is Christmas pudding sozzled in brandy with custard, then a cheese board, followed by an Irish coffee.
Wine pairing is generally whatever is in the rack at the time.

 

[Botchy Galoop]

The ancient Galoop Matriarch, though having buried a husband, a son, and beat cancer, holds this ragtag bunch together through sheer force of will, and the conviction that FOOD=LOVE. Fortunately she is an excellent cook, and while she may have lost a step or three, she continues to churn out wonderments from her kitchen. Covid squashed the Thanksgiving festivities, and the Galoop's while sad, vowed that wild horses won't keep us from a small gathering at Christmas. Who knows if this may be the last??

Mama Galoop's Christmas Day Menu:

Breakfast
Eggs Benedict (no package Hollandaise, the real deal)
Seafood Quiche
Homemade Bagels and Smoked Salmon. ( I am the bread baker in the family)
Fresh fruit Platter
Fresh squeezed O.J.
Champagne

Dinner:
Beef Tenderloin (cooked rare to medium rare)
Potatoes Romanov
Fresh green beans (cooked with butter, bacon and dill)
Watergate Salad
Green Salad ( usually Caesar but can vary)
French bread

In between meals:
Homemade Lefse and Pickled Herring
Assorted Nuts

Dessert:
Pecan Pie
Boccone Dolce
Variety of Christmas Cookies (spritz, shortbread, gingersnaps, Swedish snowballs, krumkake)

 

[fag0t]

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

As I said already, I've embraced Jello salad as a Christmas tradition so I decided to tackle another much maligned holiday treat: FRUITCAKE! I've never had fruitcake but I've heard it described as being useful as a doorstop so I hope that mine will be much better. I made my own recipe since I didn't see anything I wanted to copy exactly, plus I had a jar of applesauce on hand and my only booze is Jack Daniel's. Here's my freshly baked Jack fruitcake, waiting to cook so I can do the wrapping procedure and let it sit for a week.

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

My Christmas dinner is basically a second Thanksgiving, with turkey and mashed potatoes and everything. I don't mind honestly, my folks make some damn good turkey anyway.

Really, the big difference between Christmas and Thanksgiving for me is that less people are over for Christmas and there's the requisite gift-giving.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

As a side, roasted chestnuts, and sprouts with pancetta. So. Goddamn. Good.

 

[Fliddaroonie]

As I said already, I've embraced Jello salad as a Christmas tradition so I decided to tackle another much maligned holiday treat: FRUITCAKE! I've never had fruitcake but I've heard it described as being useful as a doorstop so I hope that mine will be much better. I made my own recipe since I didn't see anything I wanted to copy exactly, plus I had a jar of applesauce on hand and my only booze is Jack Daniel's. Here's my freshly baked Jack fruitcake, waiting to cook so I can do the wrapping procedure and let it sit for a week.
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With the fruitcake, I totally suggest soaking the fruit in black tea for a day before. Like english tea like PG, Yorkshire, telly or something like that.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

My family has never done much special for Christmas dinner, but for lunch we do steak, eggs, and fancy potatoes. Not exactly traditional, but whatever. It's good times.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Veal schnitzel and potato salad on 24th, roast duck couple days later.