Christmas Lunch/Dinner?
 

Plans?
Who are you having it with, what are you planning on cooking/preparing?

Just myself and the girl this year...we'll be taking a bike-ride over to her mothers place and delivering what we make and spending a little time with her, but other than that...
There's no "lunch" or "dinner" so to speak, we'll be up SUPER-early cooking. Just snacking as we go, taking our bikeride in the morning.

We're doing this HUUUUGE lamb leg roast.
I'll be removing the bone and making a stuffing with home made breadcrumbs, bacon, rosemary, garlic, cumin, a little worcestershire. Other than that, giving it a seasalt, worcestershire and white pepper rub, then into the oven...while slow cooking, I'll be basting and rebasting in it's own juices periodically, which I'll be gathering in a pan underneath, with the bone.
We'll be doing large potatoes, peeled and hard-boiled, then cooled, and (not sure what the process is called but gives a brilliant texture) fork-scraped both ways on the surface, and cooked for the last half-hour with the lamb in a mixture of olive oil and the retained juices from the lamb, they should be really nice and golden.
I'm going to try my hand at some honey-glazed minted carrots.
We have some zucchini here which I'll get the girl to cut into logs, then in half again, and sautee lightly...those will just be buttered, or olive-oiled, served partially soft...so nice n juicy.
The girl is gonna take the remainder of the juices in the pan with the bone and make a MAD mad mint gravy by deglazing, and throwing in a little cornflour slurry...theyre the best.
Fresh bread on the side...so yeah, pretty basic and traditional GEWD stuff.
If I'm able to get some eggs, I'd like to try making some spiced "bread and butter pudding", never had it before, but by all accounts, it sounds delicious.
Drinks? Nothing special, haha, tea, juice...there's also a couple of alcoholic options available if we're so inclined. I'm saving most of the "good" stuff for some NYE fruit coctails we're making.

So yeah, the two of us will just be cooking, taking a bike ride, coming back, and stuffing ourselves, and being lazy-asses for the rest of the day, wondering what all the bother is about. I suppose we'll all give and receive a few phonecalls from our various family members...
We don't celibrate christmas, but the food is as good an excuse as any to make something nice.

Pretty much the classic Christmas dinner here...Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, probably sweet potato caserole (which is WAY better than it sounds), ect. We have the same desert every year...Pineapple Whip. Simple as sin to make, but far-and-away the best desert that Ive ever tasted.

Dinner = My favourite part of Christmas:D

Christmas eve at my house...mostly picky food and lots of beer. Big dinner on x-mas day at my brothers...usually lasagna, ham, fixings...nothing fancy but lots of food. And hopefully "green bean casserole".It sound disgusting but its not.

INGREDIENTS:

* 1 can (10 3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup
* 4 cups cooked green beans
* 1/8 teaspoon pepper
* 1/2 cup milk
* 1 1/3 cups French fried onions

PREPARATION:
Mix soup, milk and pepper in a 1 1/2-quart casserole dish. Stir in beans and 2/3 cup of the fried onions. Bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees F. Top with the remaining 2/3 cup fried onions and bake about 5 more minutes, until onions are lightly browned.
Serves 6.

Prime rib and lobster. Best dinner of the year.
Followed by the ritual smoking of the Christmas bong, followed by attacking of the Christmas leftovers.
You gotta have a ritual.

Well waddya know. We DO have something in common.

I'd really rather stay home and drink, but my auntie makes this fabulous salad that I just can't stop eating. She only makes it twice a year: Thanksgiving and Xmas. This past Thanksgiving I was a little under the weather, but I managed to put down three bowls of the stuff. Fuck my family's turkey. My leather jacket has more moisture than that.

We'll be having the usual at my mother's...turkey, ham and ALL the trimmings...We always have it on Christmas EVE at her house (at NOON for some ungodly reason)...

Then we'll be having a full-blown Christmas dinner at home on Christmas day...However, THIS year, I have no idea what we're having...Dustin is making Christmas dinner and he said he's going "ALL out"...So, whatever THAT means...


Damn...I am NEVER gonna lose this fucking weight...

Honey Glazed Ham
New Potatoes
Collard Greens
Bread Pudding

Lots of Beer/Eggnog/Bourbon/Weed

toikey, stuffin, tatties, and probably summat green.

wont be anyone drinking..

I tried to have a beer with a friend last night and it was a struggle trying to choke it down. its official - i just plain cant drink beer anymore.

now a caesar always goes down nice, or a nice australian red, but i dont plan on drinking by myself..

Don't drink beer at all then. I think it all tastes like shit. Make some coctails. Buy some cheapo whites and some bubbly, get some fruit and mix away. :)