Christmas & New Year’s Meals

Prawns, smoked salmon and pate for starters with oat cakes and salad.

Gammon Joint slow cooked in Coca Cola (the gravy from the stock)
Roast silverside beef
Roast chicken
Roast and mashed tatties
Carrots in butter
Roast Parsnips
Brussel sprouts
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage/apples cooked with cinnamon, brown sugar and cider vinegar

Mrs AR made a ginger cake banoffee pie and a mango cheesecake

And a meal off for good behaviour.
 
Cornish Game Hens w/Cherry Glaze
Green Beans
Roasted Red Potatoes w/Olive Oil & Thyme
Chocolate Cake w/Chocolate Frosting

Everything came out perfect with one exception: the gluten free cake mix was an interesting experiment, but I think I'll stick to my typical scratch recipe. My scratch frosting came out amazing, the cake was a bit dry with a grainy texture.
 
For my family, Christmas dinner is similar to Thanksgiving dinner:
- Vegan roast and gravy
- Green beans
- Roasted potatoes & carrots
- Bread stuffing
- Cranberry sauce
- Vegan ice cream and chocolates

While I do all of the cooking, I must say it was delicious! We finished all of the leftovers today.
 
dmatthews said:
Indeed. Mine was a little over 5lb as well. I let it rest for 30 mins which is about double my usual.
Unfortunately the meat thermometer quit while resting so not sure what it ended up at.
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I did a 5lb prime rib, 12 hour dry brine and a reverse sear - 3.5 hours at 250 to get to 126 degrees, rest for 30 min, back in the oven at 500 for 10 minutes. Came out fantastic, nice medium rare with very little gray ring and crackly browned exterior.
 
xxxadixxx said:
For my family, Christmas dinner is similar to Thanksgiving dinner:
- Vegan roast and gravy
- Green beans
- Roasted potatoes & carrots
- Bread stuffing
- Cranberry sauce
- Vegan ice cream and chocolates

While I do all of the cooking, I must say it was delicious! We finished all of the leftovers today.
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Do you do the packaged vegan turkey breasts with stuffing inside and the gravy packets? Those are good. We are no longer plant based at home, at least for now. Still we get that se sometimes. Or do you have a different vegan option?
 
Deep fried turkey, injected marinade a day early. Add in spiral sliced ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potato soufflé, gravy cranberry sauce. Apple pie in a pate sucree crust, mince pies in the same. Best part is having the kids and their families over to share it all. We have a stack of to-go dishes ready for them to take plenty home for later. It’s a Christmas tradition that’s been going on over 20 years.

New Years is much less so, just a relaxed day to start the year.
 
deathworlder said:
Dad was a G.I. as well...
Learned most of my Korean from him....
Do you know how to insult someone by describing their mother's genitals?
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All of the Korean troops attached to my unit were HapKiDo/TKD masters.
.... so we just didn't joke around like that.

But I did learn how to say all the punches & kicks, pronounce anything on the BBQ menu, & hit on girls in Korean, that's all I needed.
 
aamefford said:
Do you do the packaged vegan turkey breasts with stuffing inside and the gravy packets? Those are good. We are no longer plant based at home, at least for now. Still we get that se sometimes. Or do you have a different vegan option?
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Close. The Vegan roasts from Trader Joe's are a winner for us. It has a small amount of stuffing inside and comes with gravy packets. It is more like a breaded meatloaf in consistency.
 
I made a meal that my wife and MIL go nuts for... Brunswick Stew. First time making it on Christmas Day, though. Don't ask me why they like it so much, it probably got its origins as a "clean out your refrigerator" meal; just throw whatever you've got in the pot.

The recipe I use is a chicken stock, tomato, and Carolina vinegar BBQ base, with vegetables, and the protein is pork shoulder and ham. I make it my own by smoking the pork shoulder in 1/2 lb pieces til partially done (did it longer this time, til about 160F) before it goes in the cast iron, then back on the green egg til done. I finally got it to be worthy of the fuss they make over it!

I'm considering making a dish called "Calvados Chicken" for New Year's, it's a French dish, but I haven't actually been able to find Calvados (a specific French brandy) for it yet. I just make it with regular brandy, and it's still delicious. Same kind of thing, cast iron on the green egg.
 
New Years is usually a cured leg of ham, mashed yam and a Greek salad. I would gladly do up an Aussie style fresh leg ham but meat counters never seem to have any of them anymore around here. I've been known on occasion to make up a selection of Maki rolls, sashimi, marinated beef tataki and some sunomono salad. But since I was in the city last Monday and brought home a bunch of sushi I won't do that for a while.
Great thread @aamefford!!!👏
 
Simon Says said:
We are eclectic family so food was British, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish
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Same-ish mix here, with a couple of additions: Swedish and Austrian. M+F-in-laws eat meat, but in deference to the majority, it's a veggie/pesc-y (veg-aquarian?) event.

Lots of different herring, gravadlax, roast salmon with hollandaise sauce, sprout kraut, roast potatoes, more herring, tofu in mustard and dill sauce. Dutch pancakes, cheese with truffles, saffron ice cream with ginger biscuit crumble, and stuff that I can't even identify.


My wife and I got home late last night, and shared a baked potato and tiny salad. I may not eat for some days now.....
 
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