Christmas meals

[nynole1]

Just thought it was an interesting segment. The whole 7-fishes bit has no historical Italian base. Just Americans doing what we do. My family is IA and does the whole fish thing every year too.

Yes, lots of things like that. If you have some time, do a search for linguistic differences between IA and italians, fascinating article. I'd you can't find it, let me know and I'll dig when I'm home.

 

[noleit]

Smoking an aged rib roast and grilling some small red potatoes and asparagus. Wife is making a bourbon chocolate pecan pie and a rum cake!

 

[NoleRN]

We get the family, friends and misfit's without a family for the Christmas night party and since everyone has already had traditional dishes like turkey, ham, rib roast we change it up with shrimp and crab legs. We do a low country boil with 15lbs of large shrimp, corn, andouille sausage and potatoes... dump that then bring the 80qt pot back up to a rolling boil and drop in 20lbs of snow crab legs. It's always a hit and keeps people at the table socializing.

 

[MIKE_G]

Chinese restaurant Christmas Eve. Schnitzel and potato salad Christmas day.

 

[FreeFlyNole]

- We are doing pork shoulder, black beans and rice and maduros tonight
- Tomorrow we are doing Portillo's Chicago beef sandwiches (family tradition)
- Christmas eve is my wife's lasagna (all from scratch, it's the best thing she cooks, we are making 200 meatballs today.
- Christmas day is Alaskan King Crap legs (20lbs).

 

[RTM58]

I wanna be Italian. We just sit around and drink.

 

[EL73]

We do eggplant parmigiana on Christmas Eve, and I think I'll do a rib roast for Christmas.

We used to do the fish thing on New Years Eve, but it never really came out that good. I used to only really like fish beer battered, and the result wasn't worth the effort, but I'm more flexible now, so maybe we'll do some fish, or scallops or something, along with the eggplant.

Our Christmas Eve tradition is shrimp creole. It’s a good deviation from the other usual meals we will have. Very tasty and by the way the red and green are in keeping with the colors of the season

 

[Bartdog]

We get the family, friends and misfit's without a family for the Christmas night party and since everyone has already had traditional dishes like turkey, ham, rib roast we change it up with shrimp and crab legs. We do a low country boil with 15lbs of large shrimp, corn, andouille sausage and potatoes... dump that then bring the 80qt pot back up to a rolling boil and drop in 20lbs of snow crab legs. It's always a hit and keeps people at the table socializing.

just found out we're doing a low country boil next weekend with my family in Bainbridge. (go bearcats)

 

[DFSNOLE]

Our son was in from Ohio last week so we did Christmas then. Ten pound rib roast, baked potatoes, brussel sprouts, rolls and two pies.
We're doing a small ham, mac & cheese, sweet potato casserole, green beans on Christmas day. Not sure what the dessert will be.

 

[totallynot321Nole]

- Christmas day is Alaskan King Crap legs (20lbs).

I usually save my 20 lb king craps for the 26th.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

We have one family member with a bunch of food allergies and for some reason people bend over backwards to accommodate it. So half our food always tastes like crap.

Your meals sound wonderful.