Christmas Eve tacos (Mexicali style, not Taco Bell kind). Tomorrow, roast goose.
** PORK ROAST at the White House **
I doubt the authenticity of the recipe, having been to culinary school now, but when I told the sibs what I was making, this first year without Mom at Christmas, all I got was a choked up: "aww...sh..."
/johnny
Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.
I hate it. People started bringing me shrimp just so I could eat.
Ha, chicken soup with rice. We have that Christmas Crud/ cold and bronchitis. I will eventually make Norwegian Christmas bread, however, with candied cherries and slivered almonds, like Mom used to make. And ham.
Turkey, yams with orange sauce, ham, raisin sauce, pumpkin pie, apple pie and fruit cobbler. Tomorrow, the chuch is having lamb, chicken, salad, game hens, potato salad, pies.
Just got a gift package from Zabar’s Deli in New York. Bagels, rye bread, pastrami, salmon, cream cheese, salami, deli mustard, cinnamon something-or-others, and some kind of cookies. That’s today’s breakfast, lunch and dinner!
My husband’s Sicilian Christmas eve: Marinated calimari salad; shrimp scampi with spagettini.
Tomorrow my tradition: Turkey with mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, brussell sprouts and beets, mince pies, and British Christmas cake.
Baked Red Snapper with red potatoes, carrots and peas plus spinach salad on Christmas Eve; Baked stuffed shells with sausage and meatballs plus layered salad on Christmas Day and finally, black beans, yellow rice, roast pork and plantains plus tossed salad on New Year’s Day.
January 2 starts the starvation diet.
Traditional New Mexican Christmas food. Tamales, posole, red chile, empanaditas (fried pastry filled with sweet, spiced pork), chiles rellenos (not really rellenos, but roast beef cooked, ground in a meat grinder with roasted green chiles, dipped in egg batter and fried - delish.
Tourtière, seafood newburg, pies: mincemeat and razzleberry, and Bûche de Noël
Chinese food! Egg Rolls,Pork Fried Rice,and some Lo Mein....MMMMM. Deck the Halls with Bows of HORRY FA RA RA RA RA Merry Christmas Everyone.
Steak & Shrimp tonight. Turkey and traditional fixin’s tomorrow. DH has to have his holiday turkey. I’d like to try a prime rib or something but nope, it must be turkey.
6th Christmas without Mother here. First is very hard, doesn’t get much easier this time of year.
Family in Texas is have Tamales & fixin’s . . . not sure how that got started in recent years. Always been steak & shrimp. But tamales are popular with lots of folks in TX.
We used to do crab legs. Now that we no longer live in the dessert we have started a Thai food tradition. When back in the dessert next winter (God willing), we will go back to the crab legs. Go figure.
Sea bass with pomodoro sauce and a salad.
After church snacks, cheese and crackers, sausage rolls, rosemary pecans, Christmas cookies, etc.
That’s what we have. Oyster stew and rice pudding for dessert.
Sounds like you married a really really good woman. Solid. And then ruined her. (teehee)
Merry Christmas.
(I guess you won’t be here for dinner. But the invite is always on)
“Oyster stew...”
We have been on the Savannah waterfront today, and so far we have had a ceasar salad topped with Georgia shrimp while enjoying some house brews, and then a dozen oysters on the half shell with a good microbrewery beer (darft, of course). Tonight we are going to enjoy some good draft Guiness with some live Irish music. Perhaps we are beginning a tradition...
I had stone crabs with Nancy’s mustard for Thanksgiving. $22 a pound.... :0(