What are you having for the main Xmas meal?

[HVC]

Gonna eat the Easter bunny.

[Pedrito]

Traditional North Italy Christmas Menu:

Smoked Salmon
Tortellini with beef broth
Big plate of assorted boiled meat: cotechino (kind of cooked salami), beef, maybe beef tail, stuffed chicken, cured beef tongue;
Sides of mashed potatoes, spinach, thistles gratin, lentils
Panettone, traditional Christmas cake

L.

[Martinus]

Traditional North Italy Christmas Menu:

Smoked Salmon
Tortellini with beef broth
Big plate of assorted boiled meat: cotechino (kind of cooked salami), beef, maybe beef tail, stuffed chicken, cured beef tongue;
Sides of mashed potatoes, spinach, thistles gratin, lentils
Panettone, traditional Christmas cake

L.

Finally someone treating the Christmas meal seriously. Which shows why Catholicism is superior.

[Caliga]

Texas Bar-B-Que, Posole, and Tamales.

Can I: come over. 

[Martinus]

Texas Bar-B-Que, Posole, and Tamales.

Can I: come over. 

Or: all over it?

[Caliga]

I don't cum where I eat, Mart.

[Martinus]

I don't cum where I eat, Mart.

cookingwithcum.com

[derspiess]

Mom will be serving ham   I like ham in general, but it always seems like a bullshit way to get out of having a proper turkey.  Wife may do a leg of lamb, since that is always a hit.

And we always have the same sides-- mashed potatoes (or scalloped potatoes since we're having ham), green been casserole, blah blah blah blah.  All that would be fine by me if I just got my damned turkey.

[Faeelin]

Mom will be serving ham   I like ham in general, but it always seems like a bullshit way to get out of having a proper turkey. 

Did you offer to cook it?

[Liep]

I've just realised that it's my sister's mother in law who'll do the cooking and I've no idea if I'll get my pork usuals.

We might end up with duck. Sides will be the same however, tradition, etc.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Christmas Eve will be the traditional kielbasa, which I will attempt to smoke on a gas grill (never done that before).  Most likely served with sauerkraut, rye bread, and some sort of potato (may try to do German potato salad).

Christmas dinner will probably be a standing rib roast, which I have done for a few years now.  When I was a kid the traditional Christmas dinner as lasagna, but my mom puts so much ricotta in it that I can't eat it. 

[Gups]

I'm doing the bulk of the cooking

Christmas eve (with friends): Keralan fish curry, rice, some vegetable/lentil side dishes

Christmas day (nuclear family only): Roast rib of beef (I hate turkey), bone marrow gravy, roast spuds, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage., yorkshire pud

Boxing day (extended family): Ham (glazed with mustard/sugar), side of salmon, cheese, pate, several salds, bread etc - buffet style

[derspiess]

Mom will be serving ham   I like ham in general, but it always seems like a bullshit way to get out of having a proper turkey. 

Did you offer to cook it?

  Good one.

[merithyn]

Mom will be serving ham   I like ham in general, but it always seems like a bullshit way to get out of having a proper turkey. 

Did you offer to cook it?

[Pedrito]

Traditional North Italy Christmas Menu:

Smoked Salmon
Tortellini with beef broth
Big plate of assorted boiled meat: cotechino (kind of cooked salami), beef, maybe beef tail, stuffed chicken, cured beef tongue;
Sides of mashed potatoes, spinach, thistles gratin, lentils
Panettone, traditional Christmas cake

L.

Finally someone treating the Christmas meal seriously. Which shows why Catholicism is superior.

we love to celebrate our holy days in style

projected weight gain at the end of the Christmas season: + 1,5 kilos

L.