What's your Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner?

So our Dinner for 17 yrs has been Beef Tenderloin and a mix of other fixins tonights is Scallop potatoes, Green bean casserole and Sour dough bread and desert will be Chocolate cheese cake.

 

Sausage and chicken GUMBO!!!!!

 

Chinese takeout.

 

Prime rib with home made au jus; roasted garlic and rosemary baby Red potatoes; asparagus with a homemade hollandaise. sauce.

 

I get up early to smoke a prime rib, scratch made horsey sauce and loaded potatoes. Everyone else brings a side dish. Good times are had by all.


Picture only taken after a post meal destruction.

 

This year was beef pot roast mashed potatoes with gravy broccoli and corn. Usually it's turkey or ham.

Here's the table that I didnt sit at to eat.

 

Christmas Eve we always go to my parents' for a traditional Ukrainian Orthodox dinner, though we don't generally get to the requisite 12 dishes:
Boiled wheat with poppyseed, honey, walnuts and candied cherries ("kutia")
Fish
Pyrogies
Beans
Beets
Mushrooms
Sour cabbage rolls
For dessert, fruitcake, shortbread cookies plus whatever treats my brother makes.

Christmas Day at my wife's parents' is traditional:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Stuffing
Gravy
Corn
Broccoli and cauliflower in a cream sauce topped with cheese and baked
Peaches and sweet potato baked and topped with cashews
Home made buns
Some type of "yule log" for dessert

No pictures, sorry.

 

I went with a gas station burrito and a large coke. It's ski trip livin.

 

Probably 15 or 16 years ago we took the kids to Disneyland for Christmas. Christmas dinner was spent at the Blue Bayou Restaurant at the entrance to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. From that day forward the kids requested that we have Monte Cristo sandwiches as our traditional holiday meal. Triple decker, ham, turkey, swiss, and cheddar. Dipped in eggs and cream, fried golden brown, sprinkled with powdered sugar and served with maple syrup. Pic not mine but ours looked better…lol

 

Glazed Ham

 

A beautiful prime rib. Mmmm.

 

We usually do a smoked roast beef for Christmas, prime rib we do on New Years Eve.

With the roast beef it's usually green beans (wife makes em the southern way with lots of bacon), either normal mashed potatoes or loaded mashed potatoes, rolls, and then whatever other sides we decide to make and of course, cookies & pies.

 

prime rib, cooked on the Showtime Rotisserie. yes it really works, and works awesome.

 

Chinese take-out

 

Well I really shot off my mouth.

We went to a nice steakhouse downtown for Thanksgiving, and while waiting I made the mistake of saying "I really hate restaurants. You can't socialize with everyone and nothing is comfortable." And everyone retorts with "sounds like you just volunteered for hosting Christmas."



So..uh, I guess I'm going meat shopping in a couple of weeks.

 

this Christmas, i am hosting. i am hosting at a DIM SIM restaurant. screw cooking.

afterwards, wife and i are having BBQ oysters, with some raw ones in between with bubbly.