What do you have for Christmas dinner?

Nothing original here, spiral sliced ham, kielbasa, cauliflower in cheese sauce, cabbage salad, pickled beets and for dessert apple crisp with vanilla ice cream.

How about lasagna, a salad and some warm bread or a brunch with french toast, eggs, bacon, etc...
 
This is the first year I won't be making Christmas dinner. Whoopee!!!My daughter will be hosting it and I don't know what she is making. I didn't ask and don't care as long as I don't have to cook it and plan it. 40 years is enough. When I did make dinner I always tried to have something simple because I wanted to sit around the Christmas tree with family and friends as well. Sometimes I would make lasagna or manicotti with a big salad and really good bread. My Italian friends said I did pretty good for a German. Other times it looked more like 4th of July. Salads, roast beef platter with other meats, Cold shrimp, maybe some good meatballs in sauce with nice rolls. Bottom line, a lot of work before hand but it paid off on the holiday.
 
After cooking a big traditional Thanksgiving dinner we never do anything special for Xmas.....just a normal day to day meal of whatever we're in the mood for.
 
You can always make a big lasagna, that's easy to serve with salad and French bread on the side. Goes well with red wine too.
 
I'm breaking from tradition this Christmas, decided to make stuffed cabbage rolls, mashed potatoes, corn, homemade applesauce and homemade rolls to go with it.
 
We have cabbage rolls, roast potatoes, salad, vegetarian bean loaf, mushroom gravy, steamed broccoli with cheese sauce, mango chutney, with fruit trifle for desert.

Gemma, that meal sounds delicious.
 
Sometimes I do a goose with the appropriate stuffing or a couple of ducks with an orange sauce..It is difficult for me because I don't like turkey much so finding something that I don't regularly cook anyway is a challenge but the goose is good.

When I had a great crowd to cook for on Christmas Day I did the turkey with chestnut stuffing and sage and onion stuffing and the usual ham but I also cooked a complete whole leg of pork, you ,ight want to consider this. It feeds a big sized crowd and if from a good butcher and has the skin on get it scored in 1/4 inch lines all over and it makes fantastic crackling.. serve with applesauce and redcurrant jelly. It looks wonderful presented at table with baby sausages rolled in bacon to garnish. I did make a casserole of stuffing to go with it and with lots of roast potatoes of course. It is a big piece of meat, looks great and impressive..and it is a reasonable price. It is not something I cook very often due to it's size. I love prime rib, leg of lamb etc but I cook those all round so not so exciting for Christmas.
 
Just the two of us, and there were some king crab legs on sale today that looked really good, so we're having crab legs, mine with hot butter and hubby's with cocktail sauce and butter, with French bread on the side.
 
Our friends in the village have just given us a brace of pheasants. I've got them hanging in the outhouse which is pretty cold so I will leave them for a few days before cleaning and plucking them. Hopefully there won't be too much shot in them. Then hopefully OH will make a game pie. Yum!
 
Thank you RadishRose. I think cooking is pretty much two things, we have to cook to live which is very hard on the folks that hate doing it , or we cook because we enjoy the work itself. I love to cook so it is easy for me. I feel totally lost if I don't cook each day and I hate leftovers. I pace like something lost if for some reason I don't cook that day LOL. One of the my greatest pleasures is learning something new about someone's heritage of cookery and I am blessed that I live on a continent that makes that possible.
 

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