Christmas Eve/Christmas menu
 

So what's on your menus?

It's just Mrs. FMB! and I this year - no family, just us at home - so we're taking it pretty easy. We're planning to spend a good portion of Christmas Day at the movies, so we're just going to do a meal on Christmas Eve, then do leftovers on Christmas day.

I picked up a HoneyBaked ham, and I'll do stuffing and potatoes (the wife won't let me off the hook for either of those). She'll do some kind of pie.

And after discovering the Duchesse De Bourgogne this afternoon, I'll be heading to the package store tomorrow to see what other Flanders ales they have in stock. And I've got a nice shiraz on standby.

Totino's pizza and Natty Ice.

We did shrimp and grits tonight with our family then had a fire in the back yard with s'mores. The rest of the holidays will be spent with grandparents, cousins, and extended family, so this was it for our core group. It was a nice, relaxing evening to serve as an appetizer for the madness to come.


Booze: Evan Williams, Hornsby Cider, and Boulevard Wheats.

Probably some kind of ham. Ham is ****ing delicious.

We traditionally do lasagna Xmas eve and Hawaiian steak Xmas day.

I'd rather just do chicken wings and ribs....

Prime ****ing Rib.

We're doing a standing rib roast.

My aunt & uncle are cooking up a ham & doing BBQ ribs on the grill. My little one made 2 home made apple pies.
Meet tray & iced down shrimp & cocktail sauce as well. Not as good as Thanksgiving but still an awesome dinner.

As for holiday ham: it ain't complete with out a Petit Jean meats peppered ham.

I actually used Petit Jean smoked bacon for my shrimp and grits tonight, but that was probably overkill.

We have dinner reservations Christmas Eve for a nice local restaurant. It serves steak and seafood, and I have plans for the king crab legs. Mmmmmm, king crab.

Quick trip microwavable sandwiches for xmas eve, and for xmas I think I'm being dragged to the ex inlaws for ham.

Anything for rent in your neighborhood?

Tomorrow night, btw, will involve king crab legs and filets.

When we go to my mom's it's a peppered ham and garlic cheese grits.

I'm making Danish soup, made of a clear beef based broth, small pork meatballs, egg dumplings, and sliced carrots. Homemade rye bread with butter on the side, followed by Carlsberg. I'll have aebleskiver for dessert, sort of like Danish donuts.

There's an apartment complex right down the street.

Going to a Xmas party...unsure at this point other than Clam Chowder w/bacon.

Plenty of egg nog using my moose mug

Spiral ham with pineapple glaze, buffalo chicken mac & cheese, Red Lobster style cheese biscuits, a vegetable of some sort, and beer.

lot's of family and Crown Black on the rock's

No shit. What's the rent?

Tamales and booze

In honor of Chinese food & movie day I will be smoking a turkey.

White Russians.

Lots of booze.


My grandpa throws down a pork tenderloin and a whole prime rib. Tons of snacks, more then what we can eat.

I don't know about Christmas Eve, but Christmas Day we'll have all the same fixings as Thanksgiving, (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc.). Nothing special.

Christmas Eve - King Crab Legs and Shrimp
Christmas Day - Honey Baked ham and Pheasant Chowder

Where did you find this? I'm a huge fan of Sour Brown ales since getting hooked on Rodenbach back when I lived in Ghent. Look for anything with "Oude Bruin" on the label and you will be in good shape.

Roast beef.

Place here in 'bama called Pepper Tree Steaks 'n Wine.

Thanks for the tip!

red chili tamales home made by my momma and sister!!!

Man this thread has me starving already

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Just a few of the dishes I'll be enjoying on Tuesday. Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom!!

Tomorrow night Tamales from Tucson Tamale Co, beans, rice and rum. For xXxmas ham, ham and more ham. Oh some sides and deserts from Trader Joe's and more rum.

Prime Rib, creamy horseradish sauce on the side, giant popovers, field green salad, sour cream and chive mashed taters and roasted veggies. Cabernet Sauvignon red wine. Dessert: platter of various homemade cookies, cake and coffee.

I knew I loved you for a reason.

Fresh ham (not that cured, pre-sliced horseshit), trifecta potatoes au gratin, some ****ing cheesecake I haven't decided upon, some veggie shit...maybe a stuffed mushroom thing, maybe some creamed spinach...

Or maybe I'll go and get a bunch of $1 McRibs. Them ****ers be tasty, yo.

:drool:

Tonight I'm making Bacon Explosion, bacon wrapped chicken breasts, oysters and stone crab claws along with the fixings. Tomorrow, I'm letting others cook

:drool: I gotta stay out of this thread. I'm getting a 20 piece McNugget meal. I won't be able to see my family until Jan 8, thanks to work. Hope to get a good meal then.

How do you make buffalo chicken mac and cheese? If you don't respond, expect copious amounts of PM's and Facebook harassment until you do. This is very important. :D

This thread makes me a little sad. :(

I wish I could gather you poor ****ers that are going to be alone on Christmas and cook you up a gourmet meal.

I've got a brisket on The Big Green Egg for tonight. Tomorrow night we are having prawns and lamb chops.

Yeah, that caught my attention as well.

Like Mr. Buc Eyed Pea.

Menu for 24

Appetizers
My own Smoked Salmon w/ Traditional Garnishes
Poached Shrimp
Assorted Cheese and Sausages
Spinach Artichoke Dip w/ Crab (for the wife)

Salad Of Baby Lettuces, Hearts of Palm, Piquillo Peppers, Goat Cheese, Red Onion Vinaigrette.
Fuji Apple, Celery and Blue Cheese Salad

Roasted Prime Rib
w/ Horseradish Cream (great idea about yorkshire pudding)
Double Smoked Ham
Mac-n-Cheese
Garlic Whipped Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus w/ Lemon zest and Tarragon
Roasted Butternut Squash, Turnips, Celery Root, Carrots, Shallots/ Maple Orange Rosemary Butter
Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Home Cured Bacon and Pecans

Assorted Farm To Market Bread

Margerum Klickitat Pinot Gris
Saint Claire Sauvignon Blanc
Belle Glos Mieoma Pinot Noir
Caymus Cabernet.

It is the only Holiday I can Cook for my Family.

Ang

:eek:

Make that a menu for 26. When should Mrs. FMB! and I get there?

I am going to try to make Prime Rib for the first time and only planning on a small group of 5. I am going to put it in a roaster and see how that works.

Any advice on the best way to cook Prime Rib?

In an oven.

Just me and beer and leftovers this year.

Ok

:toast: Liquid bread, that's all ya need!

Prime rib..... has to be room temp before you put in oven...


Oven at 500....roast 15 minutes
Reduce heat to 325

Should take 13-15 min per pound

Meat therm at 125-130.....remove from oven, foil tent, let stand 20-30 min.

Thats rare/medium rare

Prime rib, roasted garlic mashed taters, green bean casserole.

had my family this last weekend. smoked a turkey. wife made taters and home made noodles and a bunch of other shit.

her family tomorrow. going to bake a turkey. wife will make taters and home made noodles and a bunch of other shit.

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My Wife's sister's are here and they have gone Vegan. So with the ham we are going to have (OMG)

T O F U T U R K E Y! Just call me Frank.


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That is pure heresy.

3:00 pm Cocktails
4:oo pm Dinners

I forgot that I am making gingerbread with butterscotch ice cream for one dessert.

Ang

My temps are a bit different, but same method

450 for 30 min
300 for 1 hr ish

I pull at 105-110 for rare. We like it very rare though. Use an instant read thermometer for best results.
Ang

Making some baked ziti tonight and sitting down to watch some Scarface.

Tomorrow will be a feast. :)

I bet they'll try to convince you how good it is, how much better it is for you and how no poor innocent animals were harmed making it.

Don't fall for it

wow thanks. Though everybody wants theirs well done so I have read 30 minutes per pound is that correct?

italian .. with pie and cake .....

We usually do meat fest-baked ribs, sausage and meatballs the size of small apples.

But we had it with family over the weekend.

So we are moving to steak and shrimp ON THE GRILL.
I had to get more gas for the grill today.

Tonight-the lowest temp of the season and I will be outside grilling.
Oh well-its Christmas.

Merry Everything.

Wife says yes. SHe is a great cook.

But why would anyone want it well done? That is blasphemy.

Tonight we are having honey ham, veggies with dip.

Tomorrow is a big breakfast -- sausage, eggs, hash browns, bacon.

Tomorrow evening is turkey sandwiches.

Tonight:

baked brie topped with brown sugar and pecans soaked in brandy
5-year aged gouda
stilton
toasted walnuts
Quinta do Noval Black port

Tomorrow:

roast prime rib
Yorkshire pudding
creamed spinach gratin with sauteed pancetta
2007 Cyrus Cabernet

Burger King

Use temp well is like 160

May as well feed em rump roast if the cook it that much

Dude... if you're going to destroy that fine piece of meat, you should have bought a round roast.

Well done?

I hope you didn't spend money on a true Prime piece of beef.

A freaking pot roast is all you need for a well done hunk of meat.

Dammit. Beat me to it.

They wanted medium to medium well, not much pink.

I'm so hungry

Cook it med rare to medium, like it's supposed to be.

You can always slice it up and throw it under the broiler for a few minutes for your guests.

You can un-ruin it.

THIS!

dirk, you jack up that prime rib, it's gonna ruin everyone's Christmas.
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This

Although if most of my guests wanted medium-well beef, I wouldn't spend the money on prime rib.

This.

Pork enchiladas tonight

Mushroom risotto tomorrow. Sounds kind of sparse compared to some of the spreads you guys are having, but the flavor is fantastic, intense, and complex and serving anything else with it would just be a distraction.

Although I see your point, but to me that's just screaming for a fillet mignon

Tonight we're meeting the inlaws at a nice Italian place. Unless they have a special that really blows me away, I'll be getting a lobster in asiago cream sauce pasta dish.

Tomorrow, dinner at the inlaws cooked by the MIL, which will not feature turkey :grr: but will feature her epic fail runny/lumpy mashed potatoes :grr: unless my sister-in-law bails us out and volunteers to cook them. :grovel: