Dox your Christmas Feasts

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Been busy cooking tonight in preparation for the family tomorrow. What are other kiwis having?

Intro Socialization Phase

Charcuterie Board, selection of cheese and meat. To add to it, yesterday I made mid rare London Broil, thinly sliced and marinated in Balsamic Reduction syrup. Served on skewers.

Drink will be hard HOT Apple Cider I make by using regular apple cider, add cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger, and bourbon. Slowly heat. Served in mugs.

Main Meal

Country Ham, Soaked for a day, then slow simmered over night. Will finish in the oven on the day.

Sides are Lemon Pepper potatoes I have had marinating in lemon juice, salt, pepper and garlic for the last two days. Will be baked on the day, biscuits (Pillsbury, I am not a masochist), and a spring mix salad with Craisins, diced Apple and Goat cheese with creamy balsamic dressing. Hot Sauce, Salsa and Jalapeño jelly for those who want.

The drink will be the best beer I have ever had. 12th night Belgian Quadruple from the Lickinghole Creek brewery.

Desert

Butternut Squash and Maple Bourbon Custard pies. Served with whipped cream.

Drink will be German Ice Wine.
 
Just my mother and me for Christmas Eve, made our own tomato marinara, chicken cordon bleu, and fresh fettuccine.

Will update with Christmas proper.
 
We decided to do Christmas dinner a day early because one of my roommates has work on Christmas. I spent all damn day in the kitchen cooking and baking as fast as I could.
Made a honey baked ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, yams, homemade stuffing, a semi-traditional fruitcake from scratch, and a pineapple upside down cake. Good shit.
The fruitcake is some of the best I've ever had. Loaded it with dried apricots, prunes, raisins, crystalized pineapple, candied orange peel, walnuts, and maraschino cherries, spiced with vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and the liquid I used to soak the dried fruit. It's got a good texture, firm but not cloying. And it's pretty moist. Should have added an egg wash, but I was kind of in a hurry chopping various things.

So I guess I've got leftovers for the next few days at least.
 
Grandma cooked tonight for Christmas eve, we had a green salad, steamed carrots and broccoli, ham, baked beans, and rolls. Dessert was ice cream and the cookies we made the other night- soft ginger cookies, spicy chocolate snickerdoodles, and linzer cookies with raspberry jam.

Tomorrow I'm making salisbury steak, mashed taters, green salad, some other thing I don't remember right now, and brownies. We've also got lots of cider, both hard and not-hard. (Flaccid, perhaps?)
 
I posted it in another Christmas thread but I’l post a more thorough version here…

- Overview
I’m basically dining with two different sides of my family, the American side (that I’m a part of) and the Canadian side. Outside of myself the American side is strictly pescatarian with very few dietary restrictions (mostly dairy and gluten). The Canadian side has a few more with one being dangerously gluten-sensitive.

-Pre-dinner
We don’t really do pre-dinner/appetizers but we tend to have a cracker board out. I’ll contribute to the mix by providing slices of my favorite cheese (if I don’t decide to shred it and use it in a side I’m making) for those of us without dairy allergies. I may also be a bit cheeky and share some cajun potato chips I picked up.

- Mains
The Canadian side of my family’s doing turkey, something I’ve had in the past but I’m kind of not fond of. The American side’s doing a seafood dish that I won’t be having due to bad experiences with seafood in the past. I also convinced my aunt to let me add a honey-baked ham to the mains and she agreed to it, the only real compromise that I’ll have to make is replacing the butter in the glaze with a plant-based substitute but thankfully I found a recipe that’s not too butter-heavy.

- Sides
The sides will probably consist of the usual stuff, I admit I haven’t been paying much attention to ‘em this year since I’ll be cooking a main dish. That said I do know of two, one is roasted Brussel sprouts and another is a macaroni and cheese dish I’ll be making.

- Desserts
I know one dessert that will be served is a blueberry cobbler and I assume pumpkin pie will be another one that might pop up. Since I‘m not a fan of either of those I decided to be a cheap bastard and pick up a couple of mini salted caramel cheesecakes and some holiday-themed gelato.

- Drinks
It’s basically going to be wine, beer, and after-dinner hard liquor/coffee. I’m bringing some soda since I don’t drink alcohol but I do have a nice coffee blend that‘ll be served with dessert.

I’ll provide more intel once the festivities and proper cooking begins.
 
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Cheap Microwave lasagne and guinness. Coming off a 4 day bender. The old man is coming up today so needto finish the beers otherwise he'll know I've relapsed. I'm good at hiding I've been drinking though
 
Roasting this bad boy:

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Bone-in prime rib roast, little under 5 lbs.

Just us two, as usual.

Simple sides: smashed roasted fingerling potatoes and lightly roasted asparagus with fresh Parm in the convection oven so everything comes out on time. Merry Christmas to you all and Go Pack!
 
Last night at Grandma's was Christmas Eve Lasagna as usual. I'm not sure if it's because of her age, but it was a bit flavorless this year. There was a lot of cheese, but the sauce wasn't very good. Wasn't very bad either. Just kinda meh. My mom and dad keep asking her if she wants to do Christmas Eve at someone else's house so she doesn't have to cook anymore (and so our rather large family isn't crammed into what is essentially a house with the square footage of a single wide), but she keeps insisting on having it at her place. I enjoyed seeing part of my extended family, though.

Tonight is the main event, however. Christmas Day dinner is Prime Rib, loaded mashed potatoes, and brocolli casserole. I am very much looking forward to it!

I'm also looking forward to the leftovers. There's nothing quite like the taste of cold leftover Prime Rib to me.
 
Bone-in Prime Rib rubbed with salt, pepper, garlic, and coffee to a nice medium rare at 140 F.

Doing mashed potatoes, honey glazed carrots, gravy, and bread with au jus and horseradish cream on the side. A bunch of boomers doing boomer shit but we make it tasty.

Edit: I made horseradish cream that'll make you cum.

And fuck you General Disarray, if only because I'm a Bears fan and life is pain in the NFC North.
 
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Oh, I forgot to post about what I'm planning on cooking this year. I'm not going up to Canada this year so the attendance will be smaller.

This year will probably be the same as Thanksgiving, my folks will probably do a seafood dish main and I'll make a honey-crusted ham or cook a cut of beef for the carnivores that attend, sides will probably be the same but I'll make a better mac & cheese than last year's or last Thanksgiving by dividing the usual massive side into two separate ones (one with bacon or leftover tri-tip and one without meat), and we still haven't planned desserts. Drinks are planned to be wine, champagne, soda for the main feast and coffee for dessert and after-meal time.

My only complaint with ham is that the outer slices of the boneless ham I cooked on Thanksgiving started to curl outwards so I'll have to find a safe way to prevent that. I may also say screw it and just cook a bone-in ham since the curling wasn't as bad as last year's Christmas ham.
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I'm having Tofurky.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l6JuISN0WMw
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My folks and I had that shit years ago (back when I was still a vegetarian), everyone agreed that it was such an absolute abomination that we banned it from any future holiday feasts.
 
In laws are changing things up a bit, doing a big ass homemade meat and cheese loaded lasagna instead of the usual ham or turkey for the main attraction

Shrimp, sausage balls, cocktail weenies, spinach dip, typical crudité stuff.

Heath bar cookies for the sweets.
 
MarvinTheParanoidAndroid said:
I'm having Tofurky.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l6JuISN0WMw
Click to expand...


I generally spend a lot of time every weekend cooking for the family for the week. I love cooking so I go all out... every week. My kids get dishes from all over the world delivered to them weekly. When it comes to Christmas though I like having a break. We pretend we are Jews and get Chinese takeout for Christmas. We don't normally eat any takeout ever, so it is a treat for them and a break for me.
 
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