What are you eating for Christmas? Will you be alone this year?

A dead bird, of course.

@Lexicon_Devil Well at least it is dead first.

Yes, the live ones squirm around too much, knocking over all the cups and such.

Instead of staying home and ordering in, why don’t you go out to a restaurant? It might be more fun than sitting at home alone, even if you’re going by yourself.

@Lexicon_Devil If open I will look to go to Montana’s steak house. I will call them to see if they are open on Christmas.

Why don’t you volunteer at a community dinner nearby? You get to help out others and get a meal too.

I’m going to the senior living place where my 91 yr. old mom lives. They have a dining room as part of the homeowner’s dues, and a Christmas brunch with everything from Eggs Benedict to Roast Beef. I’ll eat a large meal with her, midday.

In the evening I will probably have some soup, or maybe leftovers from Christmas Eve dinner with my kids. I’ll be by myself, and after Thanksgiving I didn’t eat dinner at all. So I might not even be hungry.

@Adirondackwannabe I have social anxiety. I might just go to Montana’s Steak house on the 24th. and have a good rib meal and a glass of wine or a pitcher of Coke. Most of the dinners already happened in Red Deer (thank god).

I’ll be eating at my Inlaws and I hope my MIL follows my advice and makes picadillo, which is a ground meat dish that we traditionally eat for Christmas Eve dinner. In addition I suggested shrimp prepared however she wants. The picadillo is usually served with rolls. I like it with rice. I told her to add a salad or some other veggie dish. I hope she takes my advice.

Usually she makes a shrimp broth for a starter. Dinner consists of picadillo, rolls, Bacalao, stuffed sardines, rice, sometimes some tacos, a potato dish, and sometimes another meat dish like pork leg. It’s a ridiculous amount of work and food.

It wouldn’t surprise me if she makes potatoes au gratin also, because her granddaughter loves it.

Then maybe a flan for dessert.

@JLeslie Picadillo sounds tasty.

@talljasperman I know you have social anxiety. But if you’re working you’re not expected to be making conversation. It might make a good small step to interacting with people more. Eating by yourself on a holiday would be my last choice.

@talljasperman That’s what I make for my husband when it’s just us two for Christmas. I don’t have any traditional Christmas food from my family since we don’t celebrate it, so I just make that one dish, the picadillo, from his mom’s repertoire.

I’ll be with my family. Turkey is for Thanksgiving, but Christmas is when we have the honey-baked ham, so that will probably be the main course :)

My family go to a restaurant for a special breakfast and then all make something special to eat later in the day. After we’ve eaten a big breakfast, we don’t want to eat another major meal later on. So these days, we all make something special but light and share for dinner. We used to do the formal turkey, vegetables and all the trimmings thing – but we’re all adults now and can admit, we’d really rather not eat such a heavy meal when it’s so hot.

I hope you have a lovely day @talljasperman. I do like @Adirondackwannabe‘s idea. Perhaps you could speak to your local community centre and see if you could help out in the background? It might really help you to conquer your social anxiety and you’ll be helping other people in need.

Whatever you do, have a good day and take care of yourself.

@Dominicy I love honey baked ham. I wish they would make a version called extra sweet stuff like extra crispy at KFC. It would have double the amount of the sweet topping.

I’ll be eating with my family at my sister’s home. I think she makes turkey, which I don’t really eat. But there are tons of other stuff people bring/she makes that I love.

My husband and I started a new tradition a few years ago. We make snack foods instead of the traditional American holiday meal. He makes chicken wings and I make meatballs. My husband makes a sweet and sour sauce for the meatballs and I make a marinara sauce. We also serve deviled eggs, a vegetable tray and a warm crab cheese dip with sourdough bread.

Sweets include rum balls, haystacks, sugar cookies (my grandmother’s recipe) and key lime pie. My husband is making fudge for the first time this year and I’m making my first attempt at salted caramels.

We start the day off with homemade coffee cake with a caramelized bacon crumble topping.

I won’t be alone. I’ll be with my husband, my children and my father.

Probably pizza alone. We are doing th c/mas thing on Saturday so I will get something. But on the 25th I will probably be alone.

Nothing planned this year, so may I join you for steak, @talljasperman? (I’ll have prime bib if they have it.)

I shall have to check the menu with the staff to ensure common ground is met as far as the meal is concerned.
As for being alone, not happening.

Christmas Eve will be at my mother-in-law’s house. Mostly snack-type foods like sandwiches, lil smokies, chips, cheese and crackers, and some sweets like cookies, fudge, and homemade pecan brittle. That evening we’ll be at my husband’s grandfather’s house playing games with the family, but probably no food.

Christmas this year will be spent at my parents’ house, watching movies and eating the Christmas Eve leftovers we’ll be missing – ham, mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, etc. And plenty of junk food, I’m sure.

Since I’m Italian on Christmas Eve it will be the “feast of seven fishes”. Christmas Day Prime Rib.

Goose. With family.

Dinner alone…

Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner…Batman!

Purchased a couple of Cornish Hens to stuff as it is cheaper than a huge turkey (too dry) and too much to eat and have as leftovers for weeks.
One can stuff hens with stuffing or just a unpeeled apple to use as apple sauce .
I learned something new the other day about chicken. I drenched the chicken thighs with honey, salt and pepper,and Rosemary sprigs. Turned out Great and browned very well.
I may try this with the cornish hen too.