What is your Christmas day meal this year?

[BoldHighlander]

Terry, I showed your post to my good ladyand she took the hint, and will now be making scallop potatoes for our christmas dinner. Guess we are both winners in the tucker stakes this year. All the best to you and yours

And all the very best to you & yours my friend!

[Tobus]

We are having Cornish game hens, cornbread dressing, English peas in sweet butter sauce, sweet potato casserole, corn and cream cheese casserole, crescent rolls, and apricot nectar cake for dessert.

[Bugbear]

Beans, corn tortillas, a little bit of pumpkin, and a little bit of chicken.

[KiltedDixon]

Turkey and dressing, ham, sweet potatoes, and hopefully two or more pecan pies.

[BCAC]

I was always told that one should never judge France on the French.

I'd answer that one but we have French members, and they might be looking in!

[carlb]

I'm roasting a capon this year, and serving with your bog-standard sausage dressing (except that I'm making the sausage myself), green bean casserole, and brussels sprouts. My wife is making a pie crust, and then I'm going to turn it into a Maple-Bourbon Pecan Pie.

Beef Wellington for dinner tonight!

[sevenoaks]

We will have Turkey stuffed with a wild rice stuffing, Riced potatoes, Gravy, Peas, Brussels sprouts, fresh Cranberry sauce and Pumpkin Pie for desert. Home made Dark rum saturated Christmas fruit cake.
I am not a big fan of turkey.

I would prefer Goose, Broad beans, Bread and Sage stuffing, Whipped Potatoes and gravy, Green salad. Well aged brandy soaked plum pudding with Brandy Hard sauce for desert.

At New Years we will be having Roast Duck, Beets, Razor thin sliced venison rolls stuffed with bacon, garlic dill pickle slices and ham slices, Whipped Potatoes and gravy, Leeks and Bacon, Spinach and Walnut salad.
I get to do the cooking and I fortify myself with a few drams of Lagavulin

Wishing all the world could enjoy a Christmas meal like we do. I will remember them and count my blessings.

[Mark R]

Christmas breakfast is the tradition at our house. The 3 kids, the daughter-in-law and the son-in-law join the wife and me in the early AM.

I make the cinnamon french toast and the bacon, the wife makes the Belgian style waffles, fruit dish and eggs which are served with coffee, tea and fresh squeezed orange juice.

After sharing gifts, breakfast is quickly followed by 2nd breakfast--the wife's made from scratch cinnamon buns served with what we call my Hot Chocolate Coma. Hershey's chocolate bars melted directly into heated light cream (cant take credit for discovering this chocolate delight). Warning, do not consume this with turkey, you may never regain consciousness.

A blessed Christmas to everyone at XMarks!!!

[piperdbh]

The Mrs. and I went to my parents' house (we call it the Big House) tonight for Christmas Eve dinner. My brother and his wife and their two children were there, too, so all 8 of us enjoyed fried catfish and shrimp, green beans, peas, soupy taters (my fellow Southerners know about soupy taters), hush puppies, my mushroom soup, a variation on apple strudel that my brother made (not as good as I had in Salzburg, but good anyway) and the remains of a fruitcake I made last week. we're going to my brother's house tomorrow for soup. I don't know what kind of soup he's making, but I'll take the rest of my mushroom soup.

[Joshua]

Our meal was tonight... tomorrow we'll be going to my wife's parents home for lasagna... my Italian mother-in-law thinks the Christmas tradition of Baccala (salted cod) is second only to Mussolini in terms of Italia's "Bad Ideas".

My mom cooked prime rib and mashed potatoes.
My sister brought a broccoli casserole.
My aunt brought brown rice casserole and some dessert concoction with oreos and whipped cream.
My wife made a combo of couscous with cranberries and string beans with bacon.
I made homemade egg nog with organic dairy/eggs, fresh nutmeg, turbinado sugar, a very small amount of sea salt, copious amounts of Sailor Jerry rum, and a flask of Jameson's to float on the nog.

I personally put down two slabs of prime rib and some green beans, as I don't each starch very often and no grains whatsoever. Dessert was the egg nog... which not surprisingly (with 1 pint of heavy cream and two pints of whole milk to a 1 gallon batch) was more filling than anything else I put away tonight.