What did you have for Christmas dinner?

[CoffeeMonkey]

Spaghetti! Our family party is Christmas eve and we do snacks and apps. then Christmas day is simple cuz my brother and his wife are with her family all day. Then Santa comes after dinner when they can get there. I made a loaf of french bread to go with the pasta and it was so good. I also make breakfast for me, my roommate and her boyfriend. We had pancakes, eggs and sausage and ate ourselves stupid.

[Lady Legira]

Chicken breast* stuffed with green pesto and cheese wrapped with bacon, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, broccoli, Yorkshire Pudding and sage and onion stuffing.



*We have chicken because my mother is VERY allergic to turkey

[AnaKhouri]

Beef Wellington (a relatively simple recipe from Tyler Florence, but horribly time-consuming), roasted fingerling potatoes, veggies and rolls.

Yeah. Mom has gotten all fancy the past couple years.

[cindybubbles]

Christmas Eve: KFC family bucket with macaroni salad, fries, diet Pepsi and coleslaw

Christmas Day: Chinese take-out that consisted of the following: rice with egg, a soft fish dish, roast duck, beef and squid.

Yes, my family HATES cooking for the holidays!

[EricKei]

Turkey, mashed potatoes with the skin on, made from scratch, bacon-wrapped asparagus, long-noodle style mac & cheeeeeeeese, cranberry sauce, sweet potato pie.

[Sapphire Silk]

Evil Empryss's KICK ASS turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, corn (off the cob), and rolls. Plus cherry pie and vanilla ice cream for dessert, and beachcombers to drink.

[Cia]

Cheese and crackers for munchies.

Turkey, stuffing - in the bird and baked outside the bird-, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry salad, cranberry sauce, veggie tray - green onions, raw broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, green and black olives - w/ ranch dressing and rolls.

For dessert - deep-dish pear pie, chocoholic cupcakes, yellow cake mix cookies w/ M&Ms and vanilla ice cream.

[Teefies2]

I didn't have my Christmas dinner until the 26th, cause I was the one working while all of you were off ;-)

Turkey, mashed potatoes, cornbread dressing, green bean casserole, gravy and more gravy, mac & cheese for the kids, carrot sticks, rolls, and more gravy!

[boringscreenname]

We had leftover breakfast casserole that I made in the crock pot for dinner.

[CorneliaMarieRocks]

Turkey, giblet gravy, green beans, deviled eggs, chicken fried steak, mashed taters, cream gravy, rolls

for dessert we made sugar cookies, PB cookies, a lemon ice box pie made with Splenda, 2 pink lemonade ice box pies & I made a PB cup ice box pie from a recipe I found online

[NorthernZel]

Since the in-laws hosted the Christmas dinner, it was the traditional stuff - duck roast, pork crackling, gravy, caramel potatoes, red cabbage stew and rice pudding for dessert.

I'm planning on doing an alternative version of the rice pudding as the dessert for New Year's Eve (the appetizer and main course BTW will be cod paté and venison w/ broiled potatoes and asparagus), if the experiment turns out lucky I'll suggest that I'll be preparing the rice pudding for next Christmas.

[fireheart]

We have what I like to call the "royal sampler" every year. This consists of the following:

-Ham
-Chicken
-Turkey
-Pork (with crackling!)
-Lamb

This year we hosted (first time in about 8 years!) Christmas lunch. My family had never cooked pork before so it was interesting. Luckily it came out OK.

We also add a few salads to the mix. This year we had a DELICIOUS potato salad with mustard in it. It tasted kinda like a Big Mac (this was from my great-aunt, who's husband is American). In addition there was the typical tossed salad and a couple of other things that I'm forgetting at the moment. We also had stuffing (OUT of the meat), carrots and peas, cauliflower/broccoli in cream sauce (I can't stand either) and then the traditional Christmas pudding, icecream or trifle for dessert. Mum called the trifle "What happens when you make a large trifle in a small bowl"

Dinner was just cold meat at my boyfriends parents.

[BrenDAnn]

Roast beef, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, carrots, and various desserts and side dishes, including my very own homemade pumpkin bars. Between my two siblings, in-laws, my father and myself, we ate heartily, I can tell you that. My brother and his wife hosted this year, and had a funny tale to tell. Seems he put the roast in to cook at 11PM Christmas Eve, and the two of them woke up in the morning with growling stomachs because the house smelled so amazing! He said he had to make breakfast just because the smell of the roast had made them so hungry!

[Cookie]

I hosted Christmas this year, so here's what I did:

Two soup options:

Minestrone
Chestnut and mushroom soup

Sandwich bar:

Baguettes
Ciabatta
Small French rolls
Pork loin, seared, roasted, and thin sliced
Chicken breast, grilled and thin sliced
Muenster
Mozzerella
Various condiments
lettuce
tomatoes
pickles
Falafel from scratch
home made spicy tahini sauce from toasted sesame seeds

Sides:

Plain potato chips
sour cream and onion potato chips
sour cream for dipping chips
veggie tray
2 kinds of hummus for dipping
Fruit tray

Dessert:

Pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon whipped cream icing (made with coconut cream)
Lemon sugar cookies

To Drink:

Wassail

The family loved it.

[NecessaryCatharsis]

My snowbird parents didn't come home this year, so me and my brother made Christmas dinner: Trout stuffed mushroom caps, venision steaks with noodles and salad, and apple pie.

We were limited by things we could afford/catch and actually knew how to make. His wife said she is taking Christmas off next year and making dinner for us! (It was pretty good, but not what she is used to)