(Question is for screenshots.)

What are you making for Christmas dinner?

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Clarification of Question by missy-ga on 24 Dec 2003 11:46 PST

Hrm.

To clarify:  this has been posted so *I* can make screenshots of the
rating process.

I need someone to actually *answer* this.

Maggie --

It may be that everyone's out shopping!

But here goes:
*  roast beef
*  Yorkshire pudding
*  feta cheese stuffed tomatoes
*  salad
*  cranberry sauce

Make sure that all of the Christmas stars are present for the rating process!

Merry Christmas,

Omnivorous-GA

Thanks Andy!  This was just what I needed!  (And I want the fets
stuffed tomatoes recipe - YUM!)

Hi and merry christmas missy-ga,

why always goose or turkey on christmas ? as we visited the christmas
concert of our favorite artist Guildo Horn yesterday and did not hav
much time left today ( our fansite http://www.guildo-online.com ) we
decided to make some tasty italian food:
we already had some antipasti (including cheese filled red peppers (YUMMY !!))
and the main dish is in the oven right now:
we will have a lasagne:
http://www.linguaitaliana.com/immagini/lasagne.jpg
sorry: screenshot is unavailable ...

till-ga

Search strategy:
I visited our kitchen some minutes ago. ;-)

Goose or Turkey?

Not at my in-laws house. My wonderful Mother-inlaw will be making
filet mignon, and stuffed salmon, as side dishes we can expect mashed
turnip, string beans, twice baked potatoes, fresh salad, and biscuits
(for you southerners, not real biscuits...more like...buns). After we
cram as much of this in as possible, we will move on to dessert. Apple
and pumpkin pies most likely, and then my wife's special candy. Milk
chocolate and peanut butter flavored white chocolate swirled together
with rice krispies...she calls it "crispy candy" I call it crack. To
make sure we have eaten quite too much chocolate, and will most likely
need medical treatment, she adds to the crack candy, chocolate covered
pretzels, and homemade chocolate lollipops (santa heads, wreaths,
candy canes...etc). Thankfully, we won't be eating on an empty
stomach, she usually puts out roasted peppers, provolone, ricotta
salata, black and green olives, salami, pepperoni and some bruschetta
with some nice hard bread.

If medical services clears us, we sit and open gifts.

Turkey!

Here's the screenshot that you requested:

http://www.adiyamanli.org/MapofTurkey/turk_map.htm

And for 'Afters' we're having Greece and Italy.

Have a Fantastic Festive!

Bryan

Dear Probo

Just have the Italy.  Trying to mix Turkey and Greece is a sure recipe
for heartburn.  They don't do well together.

Aw, C'mon Digs, Greece and Turkey will look great on the screen shots.

(My artistic side is uppermost tonight.)

Bryan

Oooh, yes, please share the feta-stuffed tomatoes recipe!

We are having turkey with traditional breadcrumb stuffing (with
mushrooms added), my husband's heavenly giblet gravy, mashed potatoes,
green beans, salad, cranberry sauce, a few extras, and, for dessert,
pumpkin pie.

Why so conventional?  If you have kids, you know that in some ways
they can be the most conservative traditionalists around--they want
certain things always to be the same.  Our boys, 20 and 17, put up
such a fuss when we suggest a different menu for the holiday dinner
that there is no use fighting it.

I happen to love the standard fare, and I don't mind having it twice
in the season, once in November and once in December, but it does seem
a little limiting.  Once we cooked a stuffed turkey with all the
trimmings in July just for the fun of it.  When the kids were younger
we got away with rock Cornish hens at Thanksgiving or Christmas a few
times, and once we did roast beef with the most extraordinary flop of
a first-timer's Yorkshire pudding, which our hungry guest ate all of
anyway; but now that the boys are old enough to be very sure of their
opinions, they insist that we must do Christmas "right."  That's fine
with me.  I smile and think, just a few more years and *they'll* be
the ones putting on Christmas dinner.  It's interesting to see which
traditions really stick, despite the youngsters' desire to go their
own way.

Merry holidays to all--
Apteryx

We're not christian Chez Missy, but we do gather with family and
friends on Christmas Eve to relax, have dinner and watch movies (and
help the spouse critter unwind after a fairly hellish afternoon at
work.  Retail being not so much with the fun...)

Now that I have my screenshots, I'll share my menu:

-- Fried kibbee
-- Stuffed grape leaves (dolmades) made with 3/4 lamb, 1/4 beef, currants and rice
-- Freshly made tabouleh
-- Homemade hummous
-- Pita
-- Homemade baklava with rosewater syrup
-- Sahlab custard

...and the Monsters helped with everything except the baklava!  We've
had the same thing every Christmas Eve since the spouse critter and I
married nearly 13 years ago.  It's a fairly labor intensive meal, but
now that the Monsters are old enough to help, it's not so bad!

--Missy

Hey there! Merry Christmas.
Dinner? I'm in charge of 'afters' this afternoon (it's going to be 31
degrees C -- is that around 90F?) and despite the heat, we still make
sure we follow the traditional Christmas fare of goose, turkey, ham
etc. And to follow, I've made plum pudding (it's been hanging in its
cloth under the stairs for a few weeks now) brandy butter and mince
pies and gingerbread and trifle. We'll roll home this evening and
sleep it off for the next few days and avoid any cholesterol tests for
a while. We've sung carols all morning (O Holy Night is my all time
favourite) and we're about to head into Melbourne for dinner with 30
of our family. It's going to end in tears, either through pleasure or
pain, but at least it's Christmas and we're all together.

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a happy Yuletide.

If you were in the Philippines you'll probably be having some of the
things I ate last night.

Palabok
http://www.duyan.com/recipes/noodles/palabok.shtml

Kare Kare
http://www.filipino.com.au/categ/cuisine/menu/karekare.htm

Chinese Ham
http://www.tsinoy.com/Roots/Cuisine.cfm?ID=203

:)