Well i am gonna be adventurous and have a chicken pot noodle. I could have had the traditional stuff if i had gone to U.K but i have on 3 days
holiday.
at my sister in laws house her husband made some beef n gravy, cheesey potatoes, water chestnuts wrapped in bacon and covered in bbq sauce...
thats what the dinner consisted off... I mainly gorged off the waterchestnuts... they were sooo good... have to make those sometimes...
no turkey, no mashed taters, no cranberries, simple, sweet, and yummy..
At my dad's parents house I had a lot of italian seafood dishes it was all seafood. I loved the food but seafood makes my stomach hurt so I had to
suffer through a hurting stomach after that dinner. At my mom's parents I ate turkey, mashed patatoes, cranberry sauce, and a whole bunch of other
stuff. Both dinners were good.
I did all the cooking this year, which means I got everything I like!
Welcome to my take on a Southern Christmas. It was a total bacon & sage theme.
I made:
*A turkey -- stuffed with sage, lemons & onions, and with sage stuffed under the skin of the breast. Towards the end of roasting time, I made a maple
glaze for it and draped bacon over top.
*Homemade gravy
*Sausage, sage & cornbread stuffing
*Pumpkin Soup
*Garlic mashed potatoes (aka the most unhealthy mashed 'taters on the face of the earth)
*Sweet & sour green beans w/bacon
*Potato rolls & regular rolls
*Chocolate silk pie
It was goooooood, and I have nothing but the turkey carcass leftover! But that's okay, I'm making turkey soup.
A half-snifter of Port, as an apertif (a taste I've developed in cold weather)
A Caesar Salad
cheese & Jalapeno-stuffed quail breast, wrapped with bacon and grilled.
Ribeyes over an oak and mesquite fire
rice
grilled lemon pepper shrimp
potatoes
Served w/ a Pinot Noir.
Lemon Chess Pie
The drambuie
For New Years' Eve:
Leek and Morel brie
A very light Zinfandel
"Texas" Patatoes (a potato casserole topped with croutons and cheese.)
European-style salad
green beans
Brisket I cooked in the wood-burning grill. in foil for the last 2 hours: moist!
Homemade BBQ sauce (a specialty of one of our guests.)
Pecan Pie
Jaegermeister, followed by some pheasant hunting.
More Jaegermeister.
Some Blueberry Liquor I made about 2 years ago, and found at Thankgiving. (several guests were unconscious by midnight!!!)
I used to live in Germany and we allways had a traditional "karp" (that is fish) dish when I was younger but now living in OZ and doing my own
cooking and I have BBQ cause we have summer in December. BTW I have twice a year x-mass ( In june and december) ....more presents
We have sour cabbage soup with sausage, potato-balls with poppy seeds and sugar, mashed potatoes with baked fish. Than we eat some honey cookies with
almond in the center.
In the USA its usualy turkey or something like that ... but back home in Portugal the traditional Christmas dinner is Codfish and cabage ... OH
GOOOOODDDD DO I MISS THAT !...*yummyYYYY*