Dox your Christmas Feasts

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I’m having to work Christmas Eve and Christmas so I and my family had a small gathering today. I made everything this year since I’m a huge foodie who loves anything cooking and baking. Maple and honey-glazed ham, spicy baked asparagus, and sage stuffing. Had Dutch chocolate squares with mint chocolate chip frosting for dessert.
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Merry early Christmas, fellow Kiwi’s <3
 
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My family's christmas tradition is just to eat chinese food on christmas each and every year. Not like making the chinese food ourselves more like just getting takeout. Still worth it each and every year though since its usually really fucking good.

Anyways I hope you kiwis have a Merry Christmas and that you all have fun with your families on Christmas :)
 
I understimated how much brisket I bought. It was not 7 to 8 pounds. It was 16 pounds. Total smoke time of 11 hours. Nobody gets brisket again for a long time.

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Chaos Sundae said:
I’m having to work Christmas Eve and Christmas so I and my family had a small gathering today. I made everything this year since I’m a huge foodie who loves anything cooking and baking. Maple and honey-glazed ham, spicy baked asparagus, and sage stuffing. Had Dutch chocolate squares with mint chocolate chip frosting for dessert.
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Merry early Christmas, fellow Kiwi’s <3
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I hope you had a nice Festivus.
 
Christmas Eve:
Lobster Tails with Baked Ziti

Christmas Day - The Feast for about 30 to 40 people includes:
Ham, Brined Turkey, Regular Turkey, Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Yams with Pecans, Manicotti, Multiple Stuffing, Zeppoles, Cookies, Cheesecake, Pecan Pie & Pumpkin Pie. Plus whatever people decide to bring.

Italian Christmas feeds you and your family and your friends for a week.
 
We had our Christmas dinner last night and I made most of it myself, took like 5 hours. Made a giant rib roast — just salt and pepper on the meat, but I added thyme, rosemary, sage, tomato, and bacon in the drip pan. Made gravy with the drippings, it was so fucking good. Probably the best sauce I’ve ever made. I left the meat in the oven a bit too long though, took it out at ~140f internal temp when I should’ve taken it out at ~135f I think.

Then some really basic stuffing, mashed potatoes with white gravy, bacon-wrapped asparagus, roasted butternut squash with brown sugar, and this delicious blueberry cheesecake galette. Also made Yorkshire pudding using this recipe, worked perfectly.
 
Our family’s Christmas dinner is some hours away and we nailed it down yesterday.

My old man’s making salmon en croute, yams, and Brussels sprouts. I'm cooking a bone-in ham and a mac and cheese that I'll b separating into two different mixes (one that's mixed and topped with bacon and one without). Desserts will consist of a pie and either salted caramel brownies or chocolate lava cakes.

EDIT: This was sitting in my drafts since last night and I forgot to adjust the times.
 
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Chaos Sundae said:
spicy baked asparagus
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why are you baking asparagus that has gone bad? its supposed to be white...



I had a goose, grandma made it, no pictures because the old lady doesnt allow phones around the table and will hit you with a spoon if you try to reach for it.
i also had homemade ice, a shitton of homemade cookies, french onion soup, mushroom essence, karp, and a nice roast and alot more foodstuff, my brain stopped working so well on the first day and i have very little memory of what we ate the other 2 days of feasting.
 
Shit, I forgot to post about my Christmas feast when it happened. Thankfully I still have a nice recollection of how things went down.
  • The salmon en croute my old man made turned out well despite the puff pastry not browning the way the recipe did until he switched over to a warmer oven,
  • My bone-in ham did really well this time and there no curling whatsoever (it turns out I forgot hams need to cook cut side down). The glaze I made also did really well since I applied the initial drizzling part-way during cooking and the second one for a 5 minute broil. I carved up the leftovers and separated it between myself and a guest. I also used the leftover bone and some of the harder-to-cut meat to make a pork broth.
  • I forgot to pick up a pound of dried tubular pasta (or fusilli/rotini, whichever was available) while I was grocery shopping so the mac and cheese had to be mishmash between half-boxes of both rigatoni and rotini pastas I had on-hand. I also forgot to cook some bacon to add to one half so I just mixed ’em together. It still turned out pretty damn good despite those fuck-ups.
  • The Brussels sprouts were delicious.
  • We had to skip out on the pie due to it being a frozen pie and someone forgot to thaw it for six hours.
  • The brownies, despite being a box mix, were really good.
And now New Year’s Eve is coming up, so there’s another feast to prepare for.
 
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