What are you planning to eat for Christmas dinner?

I am having dinner at my girlfriend’s and she is cooking a turkey.

My kids will be with me on Christmas Eve, and I will be cooking a whole roast chicken.

Roast beast with horseradish sauce and mashed potatoes is always on the table. There is always a dearth of fresh vegetables, so I will make beet salad with feta, almonds, spinach & tangerines. I’m thinking green beans & mushroom in vinaigrette, too.

Making London broil with mushroom gravy in California with my kids. We’ll have mashed potatoes, rice, salad and maybe another veg with it. I marinate the meat and it comes out really tasty.

You guys are so fancy! A few years ago I developed a more-complex-than-usual mac and cheese recipe for Christmas dinner, because I didn’t want to do another huge labor-intensive meal a mere month after Thanksgiving. It’s pretty simple, very comforting, and pretty darned yummy.

Whatever is in the fridge.

Ham, mashed potatoes and other vegetables. I made home made rolls that were delicious and froze them. I hope they are just as good defrosted.

Chinese food brought in. WHat else do Jews eat on Christmas?

Whole chicken and microwaved potatoes.

I will eat whatever I can reach, and I have long arms attached to powerful fingers honed from decades of clutching money (or so I’ve been told). As with you, there will be a ham, a turkey and for us a crown roast. The house will be full of mildly inebriated gluttons, a few little kids and some teenagers whom I assume will be sufficiently doped up to fall into the glutton category. I sincerely hope the rest of you have a wonderful jolly good time with the people who love you so much that they only smile when you pass out face down in the mashed potatoes. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A few years ago we replaced the traditional turkey dinner with a pot roast. It was an easy transition because we’d had the custom of a pot roast the week before Christmas when the boys were younger: I’d take them downtown to see all the lights and displays in the park, and we’d come home in the dark with our cheeks rosy and our breath cold, and my husband would have a pot roast dinner waiting for us.

Now we make a family project of it. Everybody pitches in. We start searing and peeling and chopping in the early afternoon, and once we get to the long simmer, we sit down and open our presents.

My husband makes the world’s best pot roast gravy.

Nobody misses the second turkey-with-trimmings dinner in a month.

We do make make pumpkin pies, though—even sometimes when it’s not a holiday.

I’m thinking in terms of a burrito for now; maybe nachos instead.

My family would probably have another turkey dinner with rice, corns, potatoes, salads, and such. Sometimes my Christmas dinner would become almost identical to my (occasional) Thanksgiving dinner. I don’t really see much of a huge difference between the two.

Ham. Maybe with mashed spuds or just spuds of some type. Green beans or peas. I might make a apple or pumpkin pie. I have Cool Whip!

Chinese food.
Our big Christmas meal is breakfast. The family tradition is Egg Gravy, which is a biscuits and gravy with hard boiled eggs.

We are making:

homemade pasta in a tomato/vodka/cream sauce

chicken stuffed with crabmeat

beef tenderloin roast in a red wine mushroom sauce

roasted sweet potatoes and butternut squash

maple & brown sugar carrots

and far too many homemade cookies that my wife spent all day today baking.

Wanna come for Christmas?

Give me the directions @cookieman !

@chyna: Drive north toward Boston…

Well murphy. Just lost my lovely answer. Leftovers are our preferred meal so I’m making mashed taters and dressing in the next couple of days. Then gravy from a turkey leg. Brussel sprouts and green beans will be roasted the day of. I’m picking up a small smoked duck breast to heat up and slice up to serve on a salad. Fruit salad from the deli. Cranberry jelly straight from the can!

My friend does a big party after Christmas. Last year I made 15 pounds of mashed root vegetables. This year I asked to go on the list for something less labour intensive. I’ve got great biceps but 15 pounds of mashing is a LOT. I’m hoping my suggestion of fish chowder will be accepted.

^ Ooh..Fish Chowder sounds good.

I like to have a soup option at big meals. I hope my friend agrees.

Beef tenderloin
On the grill

@zenvelo Wow. A whole roast chicken. For the family. I can eat a whole roast chicken by myself! (I suppose it would help to have other dishes to go along with the chicken to spread it out…)

@cpokieman. Ok if I come up with @chyna?

@janbb: Of course. Always room at the table for a hungry penguin.

Turkey breast and fixin’s

and tamales, perhaps with some spicy black beans.

Since my adult grandkids prefer open house drop in, I am having buffet style cold cut meats platter with a fruit, cracker & cheese platter, a dish of deviled eggs, cornbread muffins and a vegetable platter with spinach dip and bean dip. I also have chicken salad sliders, cinnamon rolls and sparkling drinks. There will be several dishes with various olives, nuts and candies to snack from.

Homemade tamales are the tradition in my Mexican-American family. I look forward to them every year (though we always make too many and some inevitably end up in the freezer for too long). Plus I’m not expected to cook. No one makes them better than my dad and my grandmother, so I’ll leave them to it.

<—Not Jewish. But doing Chinese because that is how my family rolls.

I know of at least two families that do Christmas morning at Waffle House. (you non-southerners wouldn’t understand…)

I’m sort of glad that the turkey is taking a backseat a little! Not only are they a rip off here and overpriced but also overrated. Really not sure what is happening over Christmas day as I’d prefer to do nothing really, but might be forced to go to the in-laws for….turkey…sigh!

As I am writing this I’m thinking surely there is a better way to do it, will keep you posted!

@LornaLove Thank heavens for bread and mayonnaise with which to make delectable turkey sandwiches!!!

@kritiper I just read a turkey sandwich that includes cranberries, pecans and apples. It sounds deliciuos

@marinelife As the kids say, “Duh!” I’m having Chinese food, of course. Do people really eat anything else on Christmas?!?! (Tee hee!)

But really… I’ll join my Mom at her nursing home dining room for a noontime meal. Vegetarian me will enjoy the roasted sweet potatoes and other side dishes. The facility makes every holiday meal very special, including live piano while people eat. Then later, yes, hubby and I will have Chinese food.

My friend, I wish you a Merry Christmas, and please enjoy your meal and celebration.

@Love_my_doggie Thank you and the same to you and yours.

(Updated info) Ham slices, mashed spuds, some kind of green vegetable, cranberry sauce, chocolate brownies.