[Phalanx]

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.