What's on your Christmas menu?
Since our regular meal planning is all higgledy-piggledy this week due to the holidays, I thought it would be fun to talk about what everyone is making this Christmas! It's so unusual that Chanukah is overlapping Christmas this year, but we usually just have a quiet family day at home: Lox & bagels in the morning and turkey & potatoes in the afternoon, with board games + movies all day long.
And maybe some snack nuts in between... see this little CVS trip in the Hot Deals group, and come share yours! I also picked up one of the $.49/lb turkeys at Jewel last week, which is currently thawing in the fridge. MashupDad just got back from Costco with the lox & bagels, so he's the true hero of the holiday just for venturing over there two days before Christmas. (He called from the 10 minute line waiting to turn in -- cops directing traffic and everything -- but said inside was OK; navigating the parking lot was the bad part...)
CVS was enough excitement for me, though. Who else is VERY glad that the stores will be getting back to normal next week?
Even more than the turkey itself, I look forward to making soup with the leftovers. Just trying to decide which sounds best this year -- roasted garlic turkey noodle soup, or slow cooker turkey soup with sausage, or southwest turkey soup, or some kind of new scratched up turkey soup I haven't made before.
So that's our simple little menu plan for Christmas Day. What's on yours?
I'm going to put my Brisket of Love seasoning (from the Spice House) on a big brisket and serve it with two recipes from the Pioneer Woman I have become somewhat obsessed with, her make ahead creamy dreamy mashed potatoes and Edna Mae's Escalloped Cabbage, plain corn, and homemade sweet potato dinner rolls. Happy Holidays!
Oh yum! I love brisket, but haven't made one in forever.
Homemade pierogi and kolachky for dessert.
I've never made homemade pierogi -- do you have a good recipe to share? 🙂
I'm sorry I don't. I know what goes in them, but not the measurements. mom never wrote anything down. I'm glad I lived next door to her for the last 15 years of her life, because I got to see how she cooked. I, like my mom, do not write down anything either, just put stuff together like she did.
🙂 I have a lot of recipes like that. Enjoy!
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Rachel, did you happen to get the Jennie-O turkey at Jewel? I got a 22 lb. one and just roasted it today and it is AWESOME! Probably the best turkey I have ever had. I usually let my husband do it, I really never have done a turkey myself, but today I did it all myself this time. I just rubbed a small amount of butter under the breast and roasted it with foil covering it for the 1st 3 hours and checked the temp after about 5 hrs and it was done. We just had sandwiches today but will have the trimmings tomorrow when I have free oven space (and energy!) We usually celebrate early since my husbands birthday is tomorrow. I hope your bird is as good as ours!
Yes, but just got a 14 lb one! We had a Jennie-O from Jewel for Thanksgiving, too, and it was excellent.
We are having a beef rib roast I bought from Jewel along with PF Chang green beans and twice baked potatoes tomorrow. I've never made a beef rib roast so I found a few recipes and marinated it with spices and horseradish! Hope it's good! Christmas Day we are heading out and having pasta, beef tenderloin, twice baked potatoes again and hoping my cheesecake comes out ok. Never made that either!
Rachel, now at the holidays is a good time to thank you for all your work providing good deals this year. I lose track of how many good buys I got because of mashupmom that no one else seemed to be aware of!
Hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday, and the best to you in 2017!
Like a lot of you, I'm already getting started on Christmas dinner preparations and with all side dishes (some still undecided), I expect to be busy the next 24 hours.
Thanks! Enjoy your holiday weekend 🙂
Bone in ham, sweet potato's, mashed potato's and sauteed baby bok choy. Looking forward to pinto beans with ham and split pea and ham soup for the leftovers. For dessert: pistachio cake and broken glass jello.
I finished making my broken glass torte last night! Its a recipe passed down to me by my husband's late aunt. You are the first person that I have ever heard talk about it! We will have Italian beef and sausage, lasagna, cheesy potatoes and veggies today at my daughter's for 25 people. Tomorrow will be much quieter at my house with a few family members and a stuffed beef tenderloin (Martha Stewart recipe from 20 years ago) green beans with pearl onions and mashed potatoes. Happy Holidays to all and thanks to Rachel for all you do throughout the year to help us save!
I'm so glad to hear that someone made broken glass dessert too. I was expecting a yuck remark about jello dessert. My Mom 1st made it back in the 50's and I only remember 1 Christmas without it. So pretty and tasty.
Now I had to look that up -- not a Jell-O fan, but how pretty! (And everyone else in this house actually really loves Jell-O, lol.)
It's my husband's favorite desert! When his aunt passed away I asked if I could have her pan and the ice cube trays she made the jello in. They were the old fashioned metal kind that had the lever you pulled back to release the ice cubes. I am sure you could use a loaf pan to make the jello in but I wanted mine to be as close to hers as possible.
Breakfast will be French toast sticks made by son #1. Lunch is TBD, maybe just assorted appetizers? Dinner is beef roast, green beans, Yorkshire pudding (which is actually bread http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/yorkshire-pudding-recipe.html) and twice baked potatoes (store was out of anything but Idaho potatoes).
We are going low key this year. Chicken pot pie....yum! I also made a Cranberry Ambrosia side dish and for dessert we are doing brownies with peppermint ice cream. 🙂