Since we didn’t get a chance to cook on Thanksgiving (no complaints!), we took extra care in planning our Christmas menu this year. Here’s what we’re having:
Christmas Eve day
When Chris gets off “early” (at 11am…after working 8 hours), we will have bloody marys and appetizers, including:
– Bay shrimp/cream cheese dip with crackers
– Vegetables and ranch dip
– Assortment of cured meats
– Wheel of cheese
– Mini sausages
Christmas Eve
After A Christmas Story has begun, we’ll sit down for dinner, which includes:
– Grilled tri-tip (hallelujah California winters!)
– Mashed potatoes
– Roasted broccoli with olives and lemon
– Green salad with feta and poppyseed dressing
– Hawaiian rolls
None of us are huge dessert people, so we’ll just snack on the turtle candies, peppermint bark, and matzoh roca that we made last weekend.
Drinks include champagne and maybe wine. I also bought Fireball and cinnamon apple tea if anyone needs a toasty nightcap.
Christmas morning
– Irish coffees (with Jameson and homemade whipped cream)
– Cinnamon rolls (from a can)
– Quiche
Chris works early on Friday, so we’ll probably just eat leftovers for Christmas dinner and turn in early that evening.
What are you dining on this Christmas? I hope everyone has a great day filled with food, family, and naps!
We are doing ham this year (like most years) and I usually either REALLY want to make a ham, or feel completely lukewarm about it. This year I was feeling lukewarm until my mom was like “What do you think about buying some hawaiian rolls so some people can make little ham sandwich sliders?” To which I said, “HELL YES, I’LL BE ‘SOME PEOPLE’ OK?” Now I’m excited. We also usually have scalloped potatoes with the ham which I am also lukewarm about but this year my mom suggested potato skins instead. Also: many appetizers.
So basically we are having a TGIFriday’s Christmas Dinner but like, homemade and stuff. I’m sort of excited about this. 🙂
Yum, yum and yum!
That all sounds amazing. I’m now staring at my coffee wondering why the cluck it doesn’t have Jameson and whipped cream in it.
My family gets rull Italian on Christmas Eve, and we do the Feast of the Seven Fishes. Last night we had several different kinds of sushi, crab dip, calamari in olive oil and lemon (not that fried shit), salmon, tuna, mussels, shrimp…I think that about covers it. Christmas Day is spent bouncing around from my mom’s to my dad’s to my aunt’s, so it’s basically a free-for-all of anything and everything that we can eat at those places.