What’s for dinner, Christmas edition

[chrisy01]

What are you serving at Christmas/eve dinner?

[nam2013]

We’re hosting on the second day of Christmas (yes we have two days of Christmas in Holland ) and putting out a huge spread of appetizers for dinner;

- cheeses
- charcuterie
- bruschetta
- stuffed mushrooms
- stuffing meatballs & cranberry sauce
- mini quiches
- fresh figs with goats cheese
- flatbread & baguettes
- spreads, dips & garlic butter
- artichokes, peppers & olives

We’ve delegated what everybody brings & aunt is making tiramisu for desert .

[lahdeedah]

Oooh I need this thread. I’ve been trying to think of appetizers for Christmas Eve/day and coming up blank. Please share go to apps as well!

Everything I think I want I don’t think MH or family would be too thrilled about. Like bacon wrapped dates, cold cheese apps, Brie, bruschetta. I can probably get away with one of those, but I need to make a few things they will eat, too.

[nam2013]

lahdeedah Dd will eat almost anything, but I’m doing mini sausage rolls, star shaped slices of cucumber, mozzarella&tomato ‘santa’s, Christmas shaped chicken nuggets & rolls especially for the kids .

[trtlcrzy]

I have to bring a couple things to share on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day so I spent the morning trying to decide. I think I’m going to do ham and cheese pinwheels for one and spinach artichoke dip cups for the other.


www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a51423/ham-and-cheese-pinwheels-recipe/


www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/recipes/a50688/spinach-artichoke-cups-recipe/

[guster]

Christmas Eve is all fish and seafood. It’s one of my favorite meals of the year. I offered to bring truffles for dessert.

I am foregoing the casserole for Christmas breakfast because I find that the kids aren’t really eating it as much and bought a ton of berries, lox and cream cheese, and when I head back to Westchester I’ll pick up bagels to bring back with me.

Christmas Day it’s just the four of us so I’m going with a steakhouse theme. We’ll do shrimp cocktail as an appetizer, iceberg wedge salads, filet mignon and a fillet of salmon for our proteins, creamed spinach and roasted potatoes as our sides, and hot fudge brownie sundaes for dessert.
I’m excited for the simplicity of it.

[nam2013]

guster I love love love everything you described, I want to join you guys!

[guster]

Dec 23, 2019 9:46:31 GMT -6 nam2013 said:

guster I love love love everything you described, I want to join you guys!

Thanks! The only thing I don’t really like about the menu is that I have to cook everything actually on Christmas day but it shouldn’t be too time-consuming. I’m going to cut and par boil the potatoes tonight and bake the brownies tomorrow morning.

[lahdeedah]

Dec 23, 2019 9:49:34 GMT -6 guster said:

Dec 23, 2019 9:46:31 GMT -6 nam2013 said:

guster I love love love everything you described, I want to join you guys!

Thanks! The only thing I don’t really like about the menu is that I have to cook everything actually on Christmas day but it shouldn’t be too time-consuming. I’m going to cut and par boil the potatoes tonight and bake the brownies tomorrow morning.

I hear you in the cooking. It is the one reason I want to do easy apps. I have cooked Christmas Day the last two years and don’t like the effort and cleaning I have to do the day of with breakfast and then a meal.

[tgrimes]

We're going to be on our own this year for Christmas dinner so I need to figure this out. My in laws and SIL/BIL will be going to the Hotel Galvez again. We were invited but last year was not delightful so I told MH we weren't doing that again. I really hope that doesn't turn into a tradition because I liked our previous tradition of just going to my in laws after opening presents at our house, drinking all day, being lazy and then eating a nice dinner around 4ish.

Stupid BIL's dad ruining this for me. Lol.

[kim22]

We are having DH’s dad and brother with his wife and 4 kids here (the kids are 18-24 so really all adults). We are doing Prime Rib, mashed potatoes, green beans, salad and lasagna.

Dessert will be Christmas cookies and I will probably make a chocolate pie. My Christmas fudge came out the best in years today too.

[cagoldi]

I’m late, but brunch consisted of waffles, fruit salad, bacon, scrambled eggs, cinnamon rolls, mimosas, and sparkling cider.

Appetizers:

Cheese and cracker plate, meatballs, oranges

Dinner: Parker house rolls, arugula salad with pear, pecans, Gorgonzola, pickled onions, and balsamic, HoneyBaked ham, sautéed green beans, garlic mashed potatoes, baked Mac and cheese.

Dessert: fudge, shortbread cookies, poke cake, apple pie