Thread: Christmas Dinner Menu

K, doing dinner for the fekwits again.
Turkey
Creamy mashed spuds
Real turkey gravy
Homemade stuffing (bread chunks, butter, sauteed onions, sage, S&P, little milk)
Homemade cranberry sauce
Corn, peas
Glazed carrots
Crusty rolls
Sweet potato pie, whipped cream -- maybe I'll do something else

I'm bored with the same lineup. Any suggestions? These guys don't do salads.

Just some suggestion which I would prefer.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Glazed carrots

Substitute candied yams.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Sweet potato pie, whipped cream -- maybe I'll do something else

Substitute pumpkin pie or key lime pie.

Add some perogies if there are any Ukes!

Looking like Tom Yam Gung for me if the airport mess don't get sorted.

Roast potatoes, the end.

Bugger the turkey ( not literally I add cos this is a family forum )

Roast pork en croute was always the best seller as an alternative to turkey in the place I ran .

Recipe and method was given to Timba in his thread a while ago .

Will repeat if you cant find it !!!

To me Turkey is a pretty bland tasteless meat whatever you do with it, and other than tradition i just can't understand why people continue to eat it, lamb or venison makes a much better xmas dinner IMO.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

lamb or venison makes a much better xmas dinner IMO.

No body in their right mind will eat mutton, and roast Venison is very dry and tastless. only meat with fat marble is good for roasting, that goes for pork too, if it ain't fat don't roast it.

Yea I don't care how old it is, shit is still mutton far as I concerned.

Don't observe your Christmas, Jet. Sounds nice nonetheless

Deviled Eggs also go well with holiday meals and are easy to prepare.

Originally Posted by Shipm8te

Deviled Eggs also go well with holiday meals and are easy to prepare.

Yea, I missed that one. Easy to add to the mix if you are going to make potato salad - just boil a few more eggs.
Deviled egg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quite a few of the things my family does up for christmas can be easily eaten at any time, and eaten either cold or little effort to heat up, once they have been cooked. Because outside of the one big dinner on christmas, our family kind of bounces around from house to house for most of the week and snacking here and there is the typical of how we feed. Plus it tends to make the dishes part a bit easier over the week.

Pies - no prep once they are done.
Ham - easy to eat cold, or seconds in the microwave
Cheese ball - easy finger food
Deviled eggs - no prep once they are done.
Potato salad - no prep once it has been made
Waldorf salad - no prep once it has been made

The bean casserole is to appease my sister.

brussel sprouts, you can't have christmas dinner without brussel sprouts!

The traditional Xmas dinner in the US is turkey, it is not in the UK however- thats just an adopted habit since WW2.

In the UK, the traditional Xmas dinner is roast goose- which to my way of thinking is a much nicer meat anyway, but probably even harder to cook right.

Originally Posted by jizzybloke

brussel sprouts, you can't have christmas dinner without brussel sprouts!

Agreed- although prolly more a UK/ northern europe thing.

Originally Posted by blackgang

No body in their right mind will eat mutton,

I was surprised how little lamb/mutton you eat in the states. It's bluddy expensive there too.

ANZer's love the stuff- it's my favourite roast meat, bar none. The tastiest lamb comes from arid country- not that poovey Dutch lamb stuff. Gimme Aussie saltbush mutton, or a Greek hogget anyday.

Thanks kindly for suggestions and ideas, All. Yes, I love devilled eggs -- made them one time for a party and the Thais hoovered them up.
Lamb, sorry, the only lamb I could ever stomach was in Mongolia -- no smell and great taste. I just can't handle the smell of the OZ/NZ stuff.
Maybe I'll do a ham, but then there's no gravy. My Thanksgiving turkey came out moist and tender (350* instead of 325*). I might make tart-size pies again. But with different fillings, some I can freeze.
Brussel sprouts -- I love them, but these boneheads don't.
All I know is that I will refuse to do the washing up.

Originally Posted by sabang

I was surprised how little lamb/mutton you eat in the states. It's bluddy expensive there too.

Shit, my grandpa lost money on sheep and got rid of all of em, had 3 bands at one time.
And you can buy a live sheep for $25 any day. and get one from a sheep herder out in the high desert for a bottle of whiskey.

Roast pumpkin.
Roast Onions.
Roast Yam.

Asparagus.

Sourkraut
Broccoli
Caulifour

Spinach or Silverbeet and egg pie.

^ aww, you turning vegetarian on us, KW?

I think you forgot the Christmas Pudding.

Potato pie for dessert?! FFS...

and a quart of good Rye whishey [100 proof]

Our entree last year. All local produce, and frankly left the roast chook and pommie cooked vegies for dead.

Originally Posted by Johnny Longprong

and frankly left the roast chook and pommie cooked vegies for dead.

Should have sent them to me. I find seafood a bit tedious.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Should have sent them to me. I find seafood a bit tedious.

Yes, that asian stuff is a bit ordinary. I can see why you would be over it. Those oysters were gathered 2 days before Christmas and opened on the day. The crabs were caught on the 24th, the prawns 23rd. There wasn't any left over.

Don't worry we have all the usual baked gear as well. However, it really makes no sense in the height of an Australian summer to have a baked dinner, apart from the nostalgia factor.