What's on the menu tomorrow?

[DFSNOLE]

Last weekend our daughter graduated with her Master's degree and we had my in-laws at the house. We did the gift exchange and dinner last Sunday so I did a standing rib roast for that meal. (Btw, Publix still has them on sale for $6.99 a pound).

Tomorrow we're going more old time traditional with a ham, sweet potato casserole, etc. since it's just going to be me, my wife and daughter. Our son is still away for work.

What's on your menu?

 

[Fijimn]

Today we are making tamales and 1/2 of the family coming over. the rest of la familia makes to our house tomorrow and we have brunch: MIL brings a smoked whole brisket, SIL brings the barbacoa, I set up a waffle bar and breakfast taco bar (with fresh tortillas), wife makes monkey bread various other sides. Then in the afternoon I throw chicken wings on the smoker (mostly for an excuse to stay outside with my BILs and drink beer)

 

[OrlandNole]

It's just the immediate family this year. We're going to change things up a bit: I'm going to smoke a butt and we'll have corn casserole, mac and cheese and apple crisp.

 

[ggmike1992]

Bacon wrapped filets, baked potato, and corn on the cob. No family for supper so it’s just me and the Missus.

 

[Bartdog]

We had our inlaws get together last night, which normally would have been today. My wife baked a ham and I smoked two enormous butts. They turned out to be the best results I've ever gotten. One was completely gone and the other will be eaten today.

For tomorrow, as usual, I'm making Jambalaya!

 

[SeaPA]

Depends on what we find open Lower Manhattan tomorrow. Our youngest will probably want a couple of slices from one of the local pizza joints, hope one is open.

 

[DFSNOLE]

Depends on what we find open Lower Manhattan tomorrow. Our youngest will probably want a couple of slices from one of the local pizza joints, hope one is open.

I think you'll be alright. A lot of people in NYC don't celebrate Christmas. Things will be open.

 

[goldmom]

I think you'll be alright. A lot of people in NYC don't celebrate Christmas. Things will be open.

Chinese restaurants do big business in Manhattan on Christmas Day.

 

[bryanscho]

Smoking a standing rib roast. Can't wait

 

[bigloum]

Today we are making tamales and 1/2 of the family coming over. the rest of la familia makes to our house tomorrow and we have brunch: MIL brings a smoked whole brisket, SIL brings the barbacoa, I set up a waffle bar and breakfast taco bar (with fresh tortillas), wife makes monkey bread various other sides. Then in the afternoon I throw chicken wings on the smoker (mostly for an excuse to stay outside with my BILs and drink beer)

Tamales and barbacoa - reminders of my childhood.

 

[billanole]

Depends on what we find open Lower Manhattan tomorrow. Our youngest will probably want a couple of slices from one of the local pizza joints, hope one is open.

Slip into the Famous Paris Cafe for a drink. For more than pizza, hit up the oldest continually operating restaurant in town, the Bridge Cafe next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Andy Rooney asked my brother to take his coat there one night. Look for a corner bodega at some point and get a big ole deli sammich on a “roll”. The bread is awesome. If you wind up near Rockefeller Center sometime, there is a great joint on 48th Street between 5th and 6th Ave. across from The Christie’s loading dock. Asian name of some sort.

 

[RangerNole]

Prime rib and all the fixings that go with it. I am looking at being in a meat coma early.

 

[runkpanole]

Pork marinaded in mojo
Yuca
Black beans and rice
Cuban bread

 

[FSUTribe76]

My family (parents and sister + BIL) is meeting for a German style Christmas Eve Party. My wife is baking some type of German bread (bauernbrot) that’s a sourdough rye bread with aniseeds, coriander, fennel and carroway in it while I’m making German potato salad, stollen and zimtsterne cookies. My sister and parents are making sauerbraten, bratwursts and some other sides.

For Christmas, I’m not involved for some reason. But my in-laws are making something for brunch. Then Christmas dinner...I guess we’re eating Wawa or something. We’ll be free floating without a real plan.

 

[noleclone2]

A spiral cut ham, and after reading all these posts, I am now quite pissed about it.

 

[ggmike1992]

A spiral cut ham, and after reading all these posts, I am now quite pissed about it.

My go to menu item when I have family over. Nothing wrong with that. Scalloped potatos and corn casserole. Yummy !!!!

 

[billanole]

It's just the immediate family this year. We're going to change things up a bit: I'm going to smoke a butt and we'll have corn casserole, mac and cheese and apple crisp.

Wow. That sounds yummy.

 

[goldmom]

Beef tenderloin, asparagus, fresh green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed green salad with heirloom tomatoes, Homemade pecan pie, lemon pound cake, and a fresh fruit tart.
Doing the baking today!

 

[billanole]

Beef tenderloin, asparagus, fresh green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed green salad with heirloom tomatoes, Homemade pecan pie, lemon pound cake, and a fresh fruit tart.
Doing the baking today!

Nice. Toast leftover pound cake slathered with butter...

 

[F4Gary]

Grilled flank steak, asparagus, and mashed potatoes.

 

[Bill From Tampa]

Ham w/ gravy, mashed potatoes, asparagus, pumpkin pie.

 

[SeaPA]

I think you'll be alright. A lot of people in NYC don't celebrate Christmas. Things will be open.

Yeah, I’m fairly confident we won’t starve tomorrow.

Slip into the Famous Paris Cafe for a drink. For more than pizza, hit up the oldest continually operating restaurant in town, the Bridge Cafe next to the Brooklyn Bridge. Andy Rooney asked my brother to take his coat there one night. Look for a corner bodega at some point and get a big ole deli sammich on a “roll”. The bread is awesome. If you wind up near Rockefeller Center sometime, there is a great joint on 48th Street between 5th and 6th Ave. across from The Christie’s loading dock. Asian name of some sort.

Is the Bridge cafe on the manhattan side? We are in the FiDi so that would be fairly close

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

We had our inlaws get together last night, which normally would have been today. My wife baked a ham and I smoked two enormous butts. They turned out to be the best results I've ever gotten. One was completely gone and the other will be eaten today.

For tomorrow, as usual, I'm making Jambalaya!

Pix?

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

Beef tenderloin, asparagus, fresh green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed green salad with heirloom tomatoes, Homemade pecan pie, lemon pound cake, and a fresh fruit tart.
Doing the baking today!

Sounds great. Just keep the noise down in the kitchen, and refill the men’s drinks from the side so as not to block the television. Should be a glorious day.

 

[goldmom]

Sounds great. Just keep the noise down in the kitchen, and refill the men’s drinks from the side so as not to e block the television. Should be a glorious day.

I'm the boss, Holmes. It's my house...and my enormous big screen can't be blocked.

Merry Christmas and God Bless Mrs. Holmes.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

I'm the boss, Holmes. It's my house...and my enormous big screen can't be blocked.

Merry Christmas and God Bless Mrs. Holmes.

Luckiest woman alive. She will love the new iron, vacuum and riding lawn mower tomorrow AM.

 

[billanole]

Yeah, I’m fairly confident we won’t starve tomorrow.


Is the Bridge cafe on the manhattan side? We are in the FiDi so that would be fairly close

Yep. Head east from the Battery, which is the favored spot to look at the Statue of Liberty, and bump right up against the side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
My brother was stationed on Governors Island for years and that was a go to spot. Good eats, drinks, and crowd. Lamb with rosemary and scalloped potatoes is a pleasant memory from there...

Aah shoot. Just looking to find the address (279 Water Street) and it looks like Super Storm Sandy closed her down. Work was undertaken to reopen and it is unclear online if they were successful. Yelp shows them as closed.

 

[helmetnuts]

Prime rib in the smoker (with a creamy horseradish sauce and/or homemade au jus on the side), Martha Stewart's recipe for mashed taters (creamed cheese is the main different ingredient), squash casserole (Paula Deen), green beans sauteed with onions and bacon, mushrooms slow cooked in red wine and beef broth (Bobby Flay recipe), Yorkshire pudding and whatever dessert the in-laws are bringing.

Got the prime rib seasoned and wrapped to go on smoker at 11 tomorrow morning, squash casserole is done, green beans are done, sauces are done; and the breakfast casserole for tomorrow morning is ready to pop in oven.

Start the mushrooms as I pop breakfast into the oven, throw the rib roast on the smoker once gifts are done at 11, boil the taters around 4 and whip that together, grab the rib roast off about 4:30 to let it sit, pop everything into the oven around 4:45 to heat up and dinner about 5:30.

 

[TexSkills]

Beef tenderloin, asparagus, fresh green beans, mashed potatoes and gravy, mixed green salad with heirloom tomatoes, Homemade pecan pie, lemon pound cake, and a fresh fruit tart.
Doing the baking today!

Glad I don't have to do any cooking this year

Tonight we're having a Costco spiral ham, cheesy potatoes and Brussel sprouts with bacon, garlic and onions.

The Costco ham was a good find. It rivals Honeybaked in terms of taste and quality. This is our 3rd year having one.

 

[BelemNole]

Family at my place tonight. Ribs were requested for some reason so the smoker gets fired up in a bit. Home fries, cornbread, etc. Tomorrow my dad will over cook a crown roast like he does every Christmas. I bought him a new thermometer set one year just to fix that but he won't believe the temp because "it hasn't been in long enough!"

 

[funksouljon]

Ham (non spiral), green beans, green jello casarole, salad, cream corn, Hawaiian roles, pumpkin pie. Just us.

 

[goldmom]

Luckiest woman alive. She will love the new iron, vacuum and riding lawn mower tomorrow AM.

LOL .

 

[SeaPA]

Yep. Head east from the Battery, which is the favored spot to look at the Statue of Liberty, and bump right up against the side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
My brother was stationed on Governors Island for years and that was a go to spot. Good eats, drinks, and crowd. Lamb with rosemary and scalloped potatoes is a pleasant memory from there...

Aah shoot. Just looking to find the address (279 Water Street) and it looks like Super Storm Sandy closed her down. Work was undertaken to reopen and it is unclear online if they were successful. Yelp shows them as closed.

Found some info about it. I like the seaport area, we will end up down in that area at some point over the next few days. Will find out if they have reopened

 

[RunRonnieRun]

7 lb beef tenderloin is on the BGE now.
Baked potatoes, salad, and homemade creme brûlée to go with it.

 

[DFSNOLE]

7 lb beef tenderloin is on the BGE now.
Baked potatoes, salad, and homemade creme brûlée to go with it.

I haven't done a tenderloin in a while. Probably because it's easier to get rib roast. Y'all do your big meal on Christmas Eve?

 

[RunRonnieRun]

I haven't done a tenderloin in a while. Probably because it's easier to get rib roast. Y'all do your big meal on Christmas Eve?

We do. Christmas is leftovers, snacks, drinks.

 

[DFSNOLE]

We do. Christmas is leftovers, snacks, drinks.

That makes it easier especially with young kids.

 

[funksouljon]

Boss lady decided they'd do church on eve PM and then I get to cook on Xmas for Xmas night dinner.

 

[runkpanole]

We do. Christmas is leftovers, snacks, drinks.

Ditto.

I have friends that have family in town, so we will find an open bar tomorrow night and escape for a couple of hours. Doing the leftovers will make it easier.

 

[cmanole]

Roasted duck and turkey today. Honey baked ham sandwiches and leftover tomorrow...