Double prime prime rib cooked for 9 hours. As you would imagine it was ridiculous.
and so this is Christmas: What's for dinner?
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We started around 1:00 in the afternoon with fried calamari, stuffed mushrooms and baked clams. Then around five my wife busted out the best homemade lasagna I may have ever had. It got wrapped up with cannolis, cheesecake and two or three other kinds of cake. All the grown kids brought dessert.
I need to get up early for a big mountain bike ride in the morning.
I need to get up early for a big mountain bike ride in the morning.
Prime Rib, cheesy scalloped potatoes, asparagus. Simple, delicious!
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
In our household, Christmas Eve dinner is the main attraction, so we already had it
It's supposed to have 12 dishes, none of them with meat. We never actually make 12 dishes, but that's what the tradition says.
Porcini mushroom soup usually starts off the meal. We also had a mishmash of other things, including kraut-mushroom pierogies, veggie salad, fish, beets, red cabbage, eggs, cake, and some other stuff.
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Wow, Pete! Looks right out of a magazine! What time do you want us there next year?
The big night for us is Christmas Eve, prime rib dinner, etc; with both our sons, our new daughter-in-law and their two children.
Christmas Day dinner was filet mignon, mashed potatoes, and a salad; with our ex-daughter-in-law.
Our oldest son is divorced and shares child custody with his ex wife. She has zero friends, literally ZERO friends. Her sisters live on the east coast, and are fairly normal. Her parents are dead, her mother murdered by her drug dealer boyfriend. Pitiful. We always have her over one night on holidays just so she isn't alone. It's awkward at times. She's so odd. Our grandson is getting old enough to get it. We always give her nice gifts and give her money occasionally for car repairs, new tires, etc. Not that it really matters, but she is a good looking blonde woman. She has a job, but her attitude limits her income potential, and she is a college graduate with a four year degree. She is aloof and surly beyond words. Gift wise, she gave my wife and I a large container of M&Ms! No joke. We feel sorry for her. She doesn't get it. Without my wife and I she would have absolutely NO ONE. It really puts a burden on my wife and I, but we feel we have no choice.
Scott
In our household, Christmas Eve dinner is the main attraction, so we already had it
Porcini mushroom soup usually starts off the meal. We also had a mishmash of other things, including kraut-mushroom pierogies, veggie salad, fish, beets, red cabbage, eggs, cake, and some other stuff.
Wow, Pete! Looks right out of a magazine! What time do you want us there next year?
The big night for us is Christmas Eve, prime rib dinner, etc; with both our sons, our new daughter-in-law and their two children.
Christmas Day dinner was filet mignon, mashed potatoes, and a salad; with our ex-daughter-in-law.
Our oldest son is divorced and shares child custody with his ex wife. She has zero friends, literally ZERO friends. Her sisters live on the east coast, and are fairly normal. Her parents are dead, her mother murdered by her drug dealer boyfriend. Pitiful. We always have her over one night on holidays just so she isn't alone. It's awkward at times. She's so odd. Our grandson is getting old enough to get it. We always give her nice gifts and give her money occasionally for car repairs, new tires, etc. Not that it really matters, but she is a good looking blonde woman. She has a job, but her attitude limits her income potential, and she is a college graduate with a four year degree. She is aloof and surly beyond words. Gift wise, she gave my wife and I a large container of M&Ms! No joke. We feel sorry for her. She doesn't get it. Without my wife and I she would have absolutely NO ONE. It really puts a burden on my wife and I, but we feel we have no choice.
Scott
Originally Posted by Quattro Pete
In our household, Christmas Eve dinner is the main attraction, so we already had it
It's supposed to have 12 dishes, none of them with meat. We never actually make 12 dishes, but that's what the tradition says.
Where my parents are from in this province, the bulk of the people are either Germans from Ukraine who came here in the late 1800s, or Ukrainians from Ukraine who came at the same time and settled in much the same place. My aunt on my mom's side many years back married a Ukrainian, and she mastered those dishes. I also stumbled across a Ukrainian dorm when I moved to Saskatoon for university, so Ukrainian Christmas by the Julian calendar was special, too.
In our household, Christmas Eve dinner is the main attraction, so we already had it
Where my parents are from in this province, the bulk of the people are either Germans from Ukraine who came here in the late 1800s, or Ukrainians from Ukraine who came at the same time and settled in much the same place. My aunt on my mom's side many years back married a Ukrainian, and she mastered those dishes. I also stumbled across a Ukrainian dorm when I moved to Saskatoon for university, so Ukrainian Christmas by the Julian calendar was special, too.
My mom's side of our family traditionally celebrated on Christmas Eve (Gernan descent), and since my dad worked rotating shifts that actually worked better to accomodate him getting his holiday pay and not being way too tired to celebrate with us.
Same for us, Nygotha. Christmas Eve was always the big thing. It still is for me, really.
My British descent MIL insists Christmas Day only so it's been over 24 years since I've enjoyed Christmas Eve the same way I did growing up.
My parents passed away years before I ever met my wife.
My dad did make us all wait for Christmas Day one year when shift rotation had him off that day anyway and I think regretted it as it never was seriously raised again!
My dad did make us all wait for Christmas Day one year when shift rotation had him off that day anyway and I think regretted it as it never was seriously raised again!
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Was cleaning out the fridge for left overs as we were going to Hawaii for a week, so all left over must go. We end up doing lots of Uber Eats and Doordash in Waikiki, not cheaper than eating near the hotel, but the picky eaters in our family got what they wanted.
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