What’s On Everyone’s Christmas Day Menu

[JFMFG]

Every year we have Christmas Day at our house. My immediate side and the wife’s immediate side plus her grandparents come. We do filet mignon as the main course. This year I’m gonna smoke a Mac and cheese, do mashed taters, salad, and a vegetable side. I’ll post pics as we go. I hope all of you spend the time with your family and wish all of you a very Merry Christmas!

 

[rivermobster]

I made a crock pot full of Honey Baked Ham bone soup, with their seasoning packet.

Added some fresh Fresno chilies, fresh thyme, black beans, and a little extra salt and pepper.

That and some Hawaiian Rolls should work.

 

[coolchange]

Doing a smallish prime rib. Going to just do it in the oven. Don’t want to take a chance as I’ve got not much experience with prime rib.

 

[Javajoe]

Smoked Pork Shoulder sliders with coleslaw and some smoked wicked beans

 

[monkeyswrench]

Chorizo for breakfast, pizza for lunch and ham and Hawaiian rolls for dinner. Simple and no complaints from anyone here.

 

[GRADS]

We weren't sure what Christmas was going to be like because of my hip so we didn't plan anything. It's just the two of us now so we're going with the basics. Spiral Ham, Scalloped Potatoes, Green Bean Casserole.

 

[HTTP404]

I am smoking a brisket. We are making the best mashed potatoes ever (using a potato ricer), with onion gravy. French onion soup and salad with homemade ranch dressing.

 

[TX Laramie]

Christmas eve dinner is picanha steak cooked on the Weber charcoal, hashbrown casserole with jalapeños, and homemade blue cheese dressing for wedge salads.
Lots of bourbon and wine.
Simple.

Christmas day is Honeybaked Ham, green bean casserole with real onion rings mixed in, and loaded baked potato.

Lots of bourbon and wine.

 

[Andy B.]

Turkey just like Thanksgiving.

 

[Done-it-again]

Our family does breakfast with the MIL and kids then in the evening we all go to
my parents for a traditional Prime Rib dinner with all the fixings and Yorkshire pudding.

 

[DarkHorseRacing]

Christmas is honey-baked ham, green beans and scalloped potatoes.

Christmas eve I'm thinking of doing tacos just to be different.

 

[blue wonder]

Going unconventional this year, lasagna and chicken Parmesan

 

[4Waters]

Going unconventional this year, lasagna and chicken Parmesan

Now we're talking.

Xmas eve turkey + all the normal fixins
Xmas morning breakfast at our house, pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, hash browns.... and fried dough
Xmas dinner ham + all the normal fixins

 

[viperized_jr]

I broke out a @wash11 brisket to smoke. The meat never disappoints it’s just what I do with it.

 

[Angler]

Prime rib, asparagus, mac & cheese, mashed potatoes, salads and Hawaiian rolls.

Prime sliders for days after...

 

[Livewire Fabworks]

Home made pizzas on Christmas eve. Smoking a prime rib roast, salmon, and mac and cheese. Also doing shrimp cocktail, Asparagus, and Claremans bread.

 

[Rajobigguy]

For breakfast:
Ableschivers dusted with powdered sugar and Lingonberries for dipping.

Lunch:
Bunches of munchies.

Dinner:
Half ham glazed with a mix of molasses, 57 and Tabasco sauce. Then slow smoked over fruit wood.Traditional green bean casserole with some chopped water chestnuts added in, mashed tators and homemade bread.

Desert:
Homemade blueberry and pumpkin pies.

 

[endobear]

Hosting Christmas Eve dinner.
Marinating 220lbs of fat for 3hrs before my guests arrive. With mostly Coors Light. Mostly.
Then continue Marinating said meat after my family arrives. They like to help with the Marinating. Add extra bourbon to my Marinade after my mother in law shows up and SERVE.. Should be a good time...

 

[BoatCop]

We generally duplicate Thanksgiving. Traditional turkey, stuffing, mashed taters, etc. but with a few family dishes added. Coming from my French Canadian grandfather and Italian grandmother, we also throw in Tourtiere (French Canadian Meat Pie) and a ricotta cheese gnocchi dish. They were always included in my family's holiday dinners, so we carried it on, and now our kids and grand kids are making it, too.

 

[81Sprint]

Gonna smoke an 8lb beef tenderloin, using the Meat Church recipe. Most expensive piece of meat I’ve ever bought wife is doing twice baked potatoes and wedge salad. My daughter is finishing it up baking cookies

 

[Aces & Eights]

Basic but classic. Honey baked ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn, rolls, cranberry sauce and gravy. Pumpkin pie and Pecan pie for dessert.

 

[81Sprint]

Christmas is honey-baked ham, green beans and scalloped potatoes.

Christmas eve I'm thinking of doing tacos just to be different.

Hell ya taco Tuesday!

 

[Hardly Satisfied]

Ham, salad bread rolls, potatoes and asparagus.

 

[J DUNN]

I’m smoking a couple of spatchcock chickens. Scalloped Potatoes, green beans and rolls.

We usually do Prime Rib every year but my MIL loves the outcome of my smoked chickens. Anyway, my 23yo college going daughter asks what we’re having, I say, “smoked chickens.” She replies with, “Why? Are we poor?”
LOL, I thought it was hilarious, observant but hilarious.

 

[Melloyellovector]

I’m smoking a couple of spatchcock chickens. Scalloped Potatoes, green beans and rolls.

We usually do Prime Rib every year but my MIL loves the outcome of my smoked chickens. Anyway, my 23yo college going daughter asks what we’re having, I say, “smoked chickens.” She replies with, “Why? Are we poor?”
LOL, I thought it was hilarious, observant but hilarious.

Pre college no, currently yes, she‘s lucky you aren’t having chicken nuggets

could be worse, Just me n Michelle so we’re doing white people tacos lol

 

[Bpracing1127]

Smoked brisket, mashed potatoes, 5 cheese mac n cheese, home made rolls and broccoli and cauliflower roasted.

Cheese cake for desert with home made crust with gram cracker and Oreo mixed together.

The best part is doing x mas in our new home and my mom is coming x mas eve to surprise my son x mas morning

 

[Joeman]

Ham and Tales, with lots of pies and cakes

 

[TrollerDave]

I make this chocolate toffee to pass out to neighbors and friends at Christmas. The recipe calls it Almond Rocha, I call it crack candy. My neighbors show up at my door like Tyrone Biggums.

 

[jeteater1]

Christmas eve , chicken Pozole and were make tamales during the day. Christmas we will have everyone make sushi for lunch then .Ham , greenbeans , Raspberry walnut salad and scalloped potatoes .

 

[bonesfab]

I am doing a brisket and Mac and cheese. Maybe potatoes or make a batch of my moms beans. Have friends and family coming over. others will bring dishes too.

 

[Socalx09]

I hosted last night family Christmas.
Prime rib which caught on fire in the smoker, but was saved. Fried turkey and honey baked ham. And, a bunch of other sides.

 

[DWC]

Christmas warm up. Bone-in Ribeyes, Parmesan potatoes and asparagus. Did one of the ribeyes in a skillet and the other on the new hibachi. (Bought it for the boating season).

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[24 Sleekenforcer]

Christmas Eve is tamales, posole, red chili and ham with mashed potatoes. Christmas Day is prime rib with all the fixings.

 

[River Runnin]

Every Christmas dinner, for the most of them anyway is a gold foil wrapped farmer John ham! It’s a heavy one too! For lots of breakfasts and sandwiches!

 

[dspracing]

I only real deal with the meat. When looking at prime rib recipes I came across a video where a guy did “melted onions”. Not something I have had before as I normally do caramelized onions. Can’t find the video now.

Tonight we had some friends over for dinner and I broke in the new smoker with some Tri tip. Great opportunity to test run the onions.

Julienne a few onions. Toss salt, fresh rosemary and a few cloves over garlic in a food processor. I didn’t have the ingredients so I used dried rosemary and jarred garlic. Mix the seasoning into the onions by hand in the cooking pan, the onions will start creating the juice they will cook in. Apply medium high heat. Add more water or broth if you don’t have a little juice at the bottom of the pan while cooking. Once cooked down, slowly add butter, 1/2-3/4 stick, melt and blend,

Makes for an amazing topping for the meat dish. I’ll be prepping these to top the prime rib for Christmas dinner. Amazing flavor.

 

[NicPaus]

My Sister text earlier asking if I would do the cooking if She hosts. Brother replied he has to work. Other Sister no response. Mom should be there so I will ask her what She wants me to cook. Most likely a big bone in ribeye try and find a 6 or 7.

 

[CoolCruzin]

My daughter and I make lasagna for my side of the family and a few friends.
Home made sauce no jar stuff - yes it’s sauce not gravy

 

[Rajobigguy]

Every Christmas dinner, for the most of them anyway is a gold foil wrapped farmer John ham! It’s a heavy one too! For lots of breakfasts and sandwiches!

I couldn’t find a gold wrapped ham this year. I’m a bit disappointed but by the time I’m done smoking the half ham it’s almost as good.

 

[TX Laramie]

Peanut butter cookie baking yesterday!

 

[Pattle]

Wow. Some good looking meats in this thread. Spending $100+ on 1 piece of meat seems crazy to me, but those sure look good.

We went a little nuts at Costco the other day. A personal record for me: $700 for food and booze. I have a couple tri tips that we'll eat before now and then, and I'll probably smoke both pork butts on Xmas day for pulled pork sandwiches and tacos. It's just the two of us, so getting through 16 lbs of pork may take us a day or two.

We did traditional (Honeybaked Ham) for Thanksgiving. The wife seems cool for just a mellow Xmas with whatever I end up cooking.

 

[nameisbond]

Christmas Eve we order Chinese take out. Christmas day we have a big prime rib dinner. I'm buying the prime rib today.

 

[HB2Havasu]

We have all our Kids & Grandkids over for Christmas Breakfast every year.

This year on the menu is:
Bacon / Sausage / Egg / Hash Brown / Cheese Breakfast Burritos
Homemade / Organic Bisquit's & Gravy
Costco Cinnamon Rolls
Soup of the Day: Eggnog & Bourbon for Grandpa

Grandkids all leave around 1:00pm for nap time then we had to Havasu for 2 days, Glamis for 4 days, then Ocotillo Wells for New Years. Can't Wait!!!

 

[HBCraig]

Brisket, bread, mac n cheese, salad, creanes corn
German chocolate pie

 

[Rajobigguy]

Pie day!!
The blueberry didn’t come out as attractive as usual but it’s still everyone’s favorite.
Pumpkin came out looking great.

 

[jetboatperformance]

I bought a package of Iberica Pork from Campo Grande came with several "cuts" dyin to try it

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[mash on it]

Breakfast
Sausage patties and eggs, over easy, hash browns, sourdough

East LA style pulled pork tacos for dinner.

Dan'l

 

[Nordie]

Just the wife and I on Christmas morning, I made a breakfast fatty roll that I'm gonna throw on the smoker at 5 or 6 am. We'll eat breakfast and hang out and watch Christmas movies all day. We were supposed to have company but we're both sick and don't want to be spreading that crap around.

 

[Activated]

Our first Christas where it is just the 2 of us. We celebrated Christmas with the the girls when they were here for Thanksgiving…It doesn’t feel like Christmas to us.

Having said that.

12-24 Sushi and cocktails for a couple hours and Uber home.
12-25 I bought a couple bottles of my wifes’ favorite champagne. So it sounds like we are day drinking at home and then I will grill steaks for dinner.

Merry Christmas RDP.

 

[C-Ya]

This will be a new concept for us…….

In Australia, the Australians do Christmas Lunch. I guess it’s a huge spread. We are expecting lots of Prawns.

Since we are on a cruise, Its kinda hard to tell the nightly dinners from the special event dinners. LOL. Every meal seams like Thanksgiving.

I just got back from the Buffet……. lol

 

[NicPaus]

I was looking at these earlier. Then found another batch. The big cooler they were all marked down 24%. Got one 9.88 lbs for $102. Was the biggest one marked down most were 80$ range.