What will be served at your house for Christmas dinner?
Where will that dinner take place?
Feel free to describe desserts and drinks too


Whatever it is and wherever it is, I wish you a Delicious, Happy Holiday~Scarlett

As it gets closer to Christmas and I am still sitting at my desk at the office, without any glimmer of hope of leaving early, it is getting obvious that I won't have much time to pre-cook anything.
So I just called a local deli and ordered a full Christmas dinner to be delivered tonight.
It is the usual turkey and trimmings with a green bean casserole.

For dessert I will have time to make that! The most important part!

I am making a pumpkin pudding and plan to make a hard sugar topping like a creme broulee! I will top it with caramel sauce and whipped cream and put a few mint leaves on top.

For wine, I still have some Montepulciano reds that I lovingly carried back from my trip to Italy earlier in the year. It is alot of effort to baby those bottles across the Atlantic, but I am always so glad I did!

I never know. Its always a Christmas surprise!

Christmas dinner at our house will be roast goose, mashed potatoes, baby green peas, and dinner rolls washed down with a Tocai Fruilino (milk or Coke for the kids)and Fiuggi frizzante mineral water. I'm not making a dessert as this house is full to the brim with various Christmas cookies and candies. Tonight we are having a traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve dinner with 12 dishes, none meat. They include crab cakes, spaghetti in a tuna and lemon sauce, boiled shrimp, losbster bisque, various salads, breads, and cheeses. And finally, southeastern Wisconsin has about 1/4 inch of snow on the ground. Merry Christmas to all and happy travels in 2004!

A large Delmonico roast, with roasted, quartered potatoes, pan drippings, carrots, roasted asparagus, home-made biscuits, a green salad, and corn pudding. Dinner's at my house tomorrow night. I made Christmas gingersnaps, so those will be served at dessert, along with the pumpkin cheesecake I made last night. I'll have a nice red wine, and there's some eggnog for mom---I can't drink it due to an egg allergy.

About 30 miles down the road is a place called Nueske's and they have fabulous smoked hams. Here's a look:

http://www.nueskes.com/products/ham/...neless_Ham.cfm

If you're into smoked ham, this is the pinnacle.

Oh, Bookchick, Can I come over to your house?!

Down here in sunny South Florida, we are having, not one, but two typical Cuban meals. My father in law has roasted a pig in his backyard (no kidding) accompanied by black beans, white rice, yuca, and a flan for dessert. My parents are having pork too (in the oven, though) with black beans, white rice, and yuca. Turron-Spanish almond nougat-will be dessert there. We traditionally have this meal, and while my in-laws will be more casual in the yard with long tables under the trees, my parents will use all their good crystal and china for the 20+ of us that will be there, although the weather is so beautiful we will probably eat in the patio too. Christmas Eve is the big night for us, so the celebrations are many, and the festivities long.
Merry Christmas!

I'm cooking for Christmas Eve dinner, then going to friends tomorrow for Christmas day. Tonight, I'm making pork roast with a mustard--apricot glaze, "Texas Fudge" (egg, cheese, and green chili casserole), broccholi-cauliflower salad with dried cranberries and almonds, and various pickles and wines. Friends are bringing cheesecake, fruit salad, Waldorf salad, candied yams, and who knows what! Tomorrow, we'll make Angels on Horseback as a special treat. Also have lots of Christmas cookies on hand.
My husband's favorite wine is Schwartz Katz, so have some of that chilling--we have a grocery near here with great wines, all for about $6.99 a bottle!
Grinisa, your Lithuaian dinner sounds lovely! A very Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas Scarlett & everyone,

Christmas dinner will be at my house...Beef Burgundy, mashed potatoes, carrots, & string beans served with Brolio wine. For dessert there's pignoli torte (it's lovely after a heavy dinner since it's light and not too sweet) and for the chocoholics a very, very rich chocolate and cranberry cake with ganache and a cranberry sauce, served underneath the cake. After the dessert there's espresso and/or coffee with black Sambucca or Armagnac or Kahlua.

Bon Appetit!

We have our big dinner on Christmas Eve in front of a roaring fire. We have a candle lighting ceremony before we sit down to eat. Our menu consists of champagne, shrimp, spinach and artichoke cream cheese spread with crackers, steak fondue, yams, raw veggies and dip, hot bread, and merlot. Can't get too intoxicated though, have to sing at midnight Mass.

Trying something a little different this year:

French Onion Soup

Spinach, Walnut, Mandarin Orange Salad

Homemade Oatmeal & Buttermilk Bread

Scallops in white sauce with Bacon & Asparagus

Shrimp Fried Rice

Pork au Poivre

Twice baked Cheesy Potatoes

Green Bean Casserole

Broccoli & Carrots with Toasted Almonds

Fruit Salad: Sour cream, nutmeg, brown sugar, cherries, pears, pecans, apples, bananas and red grapes with a touch of brandy

Peach and Pumpkin Pies with homemade vanilla custard ice cream

Will be served around 1PM on a screened porch overlooking a lake.

Still not sure what we'll have for supper!

My dear Grasshopper, you are welcome any time!

Honey baked ham
The garlic sauteed brussel sprouts (see side dishes discussion)
English roasted potatoes
Homemade french apple pie
Croque en Bouche drenched with hard caramel
Pain du pays

Snowballs for drinks

And the ever popular Christmas crackers so we can all wear silly hats.

Hi, and a Merry Christmas to all - from sunny Australia.
We are expecting temperatures in the high 30's (90's) and will therefore be eating cold seafood and plum pudding.
We live about 4 hours drive south west of Sydney so our son and daughter-in-law made the pilgrimage to the Sydney Fish Markets to ensure we have the best on offer.
After 2 years of crippling drought we are are hoping 2004 brings a change of fortune - and the opportunity to travel some more!

Our Christmas dinner will begin with a wonderful spinach and raspberry salad with an interesting sweet/tangy dressing, then smoked turkey, which my husband has been preparing all day in the backyard, homemade cranberry conserve with cranberries, apples, oranges, and pecans, dressing, a potato fabulous casserole, green beans with lemon, olive oil, garlic, and seasonings, sweet potato streusel, rolls, and pumpkin cheesecake and homemade apple pie a la mode. For anyone who may know, do you think Sancerre or Chateauneuf de Pape would go well with this? We brought some back this summer and are just dying to open it at the right time!

Our Christmas dinner will begin with a wonderful spinach and raspberry salad with an interesting sweet/tangy dressing, then smoked turkey, which my husband has been preparing all day in the backyard, homemade cranberry conserve with cranberries, apples, oranges, and pecans, dressing, a potato fabulous casserole, green beans with lemon, olive oil, garlic, and seasonings, sweet potato streusel, rolls, and pumpkin cheesecake and homemade apple pie a la mode. For anyone who may know, do you think Sancerre or Chateauneuf de Pape would go well with this? We brought some back this summer and are just dying to open it at the right time! All this will be served in our dining room. It is just the two of us with our three kids, and my oldest son's fiance and her mother and grandmother. Christmas greetings from S. Florida!

Well this year mine won't be about the food, but about the company. My next door neighbors who are long time friends have invited us to join them for dinner at 6 PM. There will be 14 of us, mostly their family who have flown in from around the country and who are wonderful, including two young grandchildren. We're going to the very casual English Pub here in Naples for a traditional dinner served casually and family style. Sounds like fun.

Meanwhile I tried to invite my mother out of her retirement home to come for a special "brunch" I'd fix, but she doesn't want to budge. So finally we gave in and will join her at the "home" for dinner at 12:30, along with a 97 year old friend from our community theatre group who lives there too. So it will be my almost blind mom with an almost deaf friend. We'll be yelling all over the place!

Oh my dear Patrick, we have been to that sort of place and done that sort of thing. It helps to have an endless sense of humor, I think you will do well
Taking a break from packing--
We are having the Thanksgiving Turkey that I never made, we went to Las Vegas instead.
So it will be Traditional turkey and trimmings all the way,(cornbread stuffing, sauted wild mushrooms, potatoes gratin,petit pois,dinner rolls and apple cranberry chutney) followed by tonights dessert, Fudge walnut brownies (homemade) with coffee ice cream on top..followed sometime after that with the Yankees gift from me for his recent birthday-a nice Vintage Port~
Pup will get to have some turkey but none of the Port!

Scarlett, you will soon become a "Southern Belle" if you aren't one already. That menu is fit for a Southern King. You will make your husband very happy. You could also make Pup happy by giving him just a little shot of that Port.