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Post by daylilydude on Dec 23, 2017 5:38:35 GMT -5
What is going on the table... do any of your garden veggies end up there?
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 23, 2017 9:00:21 GMT -5
My brother comes from Delaware on Christmas Eve and I make my mother's lasagna recipe for dinner. I will use my garden tomatoes which I have in the freezer to make the sauce. Sadly the salad will be made from store lettuce.
We don't make a big meal on Christmas Day itself. Mom always thought that EVERYONE should get to relax and enjoy a peaceful day on Christmas Day and I continue that tradition. I like it.
We had a Christmas meal with our son and his family last night and I made what they wanted which was chicken and waffles - no garden veggies, I sautéed a pretty red and green dish of Brussels sprouts and red cabbage.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Dec 23, 2017 9:19:28 GMT -5
I will also be making a lasagna using sauce from my garden for our Christmas dinner. There will not be kale in it. We do simple on Christmas day since it is just our little family at home. Christmas Eve we have a bigger celebration with my family. We've started making Lumpia together as part of the fun for the day. A whole bunch of us help roll up the Filipino spring rolls, and this year my DH will be frying them up outside. We'll have a big spread of finger foods to go with, but nothing real fancy. I'll be making meatballs and pinwheels, and bringing along some homemade salsa to go with chips. It will be a nice couple of days!
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Post by paulf on Dec 23, 2017 10:09:10 GMT -5
We are hosting our local family Christmas Eve to a soup supper. Chili will feature home grown tomatoes. Taco soup will contain tomatoes, peppers, onions from the garden. Cheeseburger soup will also have frozen tomatoes from the garden. Our Christmas will kids and grandkids will be around the New Year with any leftovers, lots of cheeses and crackers, ham, turkey, sausage, and all the cookies and bars the grandkids bake with grandma.
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Post by coppice on Dec 23, 2017 10:24:13 GMT -5
Lazagna, chicken cutletts, salad, and pie. Nothing out of the garden.
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Post by september on Dec 23, 2017 10:52:21 GMT -5
I didn't know lasagna was a traditional Christmas meal! LOL! Sounds like I may have to get in on that next year! My son and his significant other are coming over for dinner on Christmas Eve Day, on Christmas Day they are having her folks over. I am having a ham, either mashed or au gratin potatoes, green bean casserole, (my beans) baked squash (mine) tossed salad including sweet onions (mine) and a blueberry pie for desert from wild berries that we picked in Canada this summer.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 23, 2017 11:04:30 GMT -5
We used to have lasagna for Christmas. Unfortunately, my oldest Granddaughter and I now have Dairy Allergy/Dairy Sensitivity so no more lasagna for us. We will be having Baked Sweet Potatoes instead of the items loaded with dairy.
I make a cheesy potato dish that came from a Dick and Jan Raymond gardening book many years ago. It's the one dish that never has any leftovers. But that's as close to items from my garden as we will get.
My Son and DIL host the meal these days. There are just too many in the family now to fit in our small home.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 23, 2017 11:24:23 GMT -5
We're going to the in-laws' house, and DH's brother and family will be there, so there will be a dozen of us. Unfortunately, nothing from my garden is on the menu for Christmas dinner, unless I bring some parsley to garnish - I do have some gorgeous parsley right now. I also have some nice-looking Brussels sprouts plants out there, but the sprouts are only the size of peas, so maybe I'll get to eat them by Valentine's Day. The Christmas Day spread will be basically the same as our Thanksgiving meal, plus a ham and a different selection of desserts. (Both DH's family and mine are big on consistency for holiday meals, heh. Usually the only time we have anything different is when I try out a new dessert.) Christmas Eve will probably be just my family at home this year, with finger foods and snacking. We're having a fruit tray, pigs in a blanket and chips with dip for sure; probably some chicken fingers or something as well - I guess it's about time to nail that down, eh?
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Post by spike on Dec 23, 2017 13:00:35 GMT -5
I have a lovely pork roast that will be put in a crock pot early to simmer all day, with potatoes and the carrots from my garden. There will also be green beans or peas or corn, all from the garden. There will be deep fried Polish bowtie pastries with homemade strawberry jam.
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Post by spike on Dec 23, 2017 13:04:04 GMT -5
Both DH's family and mine are big on consistency for holiday meals, Traditions!! One year my sister had called home and told momma that she was making Ham for Thanksgiving and a turkey breast for Christmas. WHOA!! Momma almost voted her out of the family lol We are being rebels this year also.
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Post by daylilydude on Dec 23, 2017 13:06:24 GMT -5
We are just like Laura_in_FL, as it's basically the same spread as Thanksgiving, just a few different odds and ends... and yes there will be collards and chard with bacon on our table/counter as our table is just for the 2 of us so we use TV trays to eat off of when we have the kids over.
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Post by Gianna on Dec 23, 2017 16:28:04 GMT -5
Tradition - the way to go, lol. We go to good friends at TG, and she, gasp, fixes ham. A good one to be sure, but ham is not turkey!! For the gobbler fix, I'll generally roast a small turkey sometime that week. Not all the fixin's, but the bird and leftovers are yummy.
Tonight is pre Christmas eve with soup. I bring the salad with lettuce and microgreens.
Tomorrow at my brothers - of all things, they too are serving lasagna. Lasagna? who knew? I love the stuff, fortunately. But when did it become a holiday mainstay?
Christmas day - a whole roast filet, home-baked bread, pie or berries with cream... Gasp. So good. I'll also bring a salad with my own greens.
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Post by horsea on Dec 23, 2017 19:23:50 GMT -5
We don't make a big meal on Christmas Day itself. Mom always thought that EVERYONE should get to relax and enjoy a peaceful day on Christmas Day and I continue that tradition. Indeed. Next Christmas I will serve a couple of bought pizzas, and I mean it. A certain guest will pout but that will be just too bad. Christmas should not exhaust the major worker (usually the mother).
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Post by brownrexx on Dec 23, 2017 21:25:03 GMT -5
Christmas should not exhaust the major worker (usually the mother). That was my mother's theory too horsea ,. She always cooked a whole turkey for dinner on Christmas eve and then on Christmas day we had cold turkey sandwiches. We thought that it was great because it gave us kids the opportunity to go and visit our friends without having to be home for dinner at a set time. It gave Mom the opportunity to stay out of the kitchen and enjoy the day like everyone else.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 24, 2017 12:20:03 GMT -5
That sounds really nice , but I am not ready to pull the trigger on a "Mom gets to relax on Christmas like everybody else" policy just yet. Besides, my MIL is doing a big share of the work, so I can't complain.
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Post by horsea on Dec 26, 2017 12:48:01 GMT -5
my MIL is doing a big share of the work, so I can't complain.
Are you saying that your MIL comes to your home and does a lot of the work involved? If so, you sure got lucky.
Or did you mean that "doing Christmas" involves you going over to her home, where it would be logical that you don't have to do the major labour and she does?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 26, 2017 15:40:27 GMT -5
We went to her house. She made the turkey, stuffing, gravy, rolls, and a few side dishes. I did a couple of side dishes and three desserts. So I got off easy. Actually, I was supposed to provide three side dishes, but somehow I forgot my homemade cranberry sauce - in the bustle to get out the door in time for dinner, I left the cranberry sauce in my fridge! I'm not a fan of canned cranberry sauce, but it was a good thing that she had a can put back! FIL would have been really disappointed if we hadn't had any. Today I am enjoying my homemade cranberry sauce with the leftovers. It's a shame that I forgot it - it's my best homemade cranberry sauce yet.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Dec 26, 2017 15:56:54 GMT -5
And I guess in my family, just being the host is considered to involve significant work. (Cleaning before and after, washing dishes, etc.) So when my mother was alive and hosted family get-togethers, everyone else provided most of the food. We thought it was logical that the host *not* have to do most of the cooking. Of course we're all local, so we have our own kitchens to cook in and just a short drive to get to the get-together. But even though she's also local, my MIL's attitude has always been closer to yours, horsea, in that she has always wanted to do the bulk of the cooking when she hosts. It's different when people have to travel a long way. My brother in law and his wife came from KY, so they weren't expected to contribute any of the food at Christmas. When we travel to DH's extended family get togethers in GA, we don't bring anything, either. But some of these get-togethers can be so large that the hosts have to rent a place and have some of the food catered. So out-of-town families like us will quietly slip the host some cash before we leave.
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