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A lot of my friends are doing boiled or steamed shrimp and other hors d'oeuvres for Christmas Eve. I also know some who now do beef tenderloin. Let me know if you want some hors d'oeuvres recipes. I love sharing them and many can be prepared ahead of time or at least prepped ahead of time.
I assume your Thanksgiving has been turkey only. If so, how about a ham for Christmas eve? I am going to try a bone-in rib roast this year. This will be served with crab legs, pierogis, veggies, devilled eggs, bread, jello salad and a dessert such as cheesecake. Other ideas would be to make lasagna ahead of time and then pop it into the oven, serve with a salad or 7 layer salad, bread and dessert. I have also done heavy appetizers and desserts on Christmas eve and that goes over very well since there can be a lot of people, present swapping, etc. Finally, you can do a meat tray (roast beef, turkey, ham, cheese, etc. , bread, pre-made or bought side dishes and if it is cold, a soup in the crockpot. Hope these help.
A lot of my friends are doing boiled or steamed shrimp and other hors d'oeuvres for Christmas Eve. I also know some who now do beef tenderloin. Let me know if you want some hors d'oeuvres recipes. I love sharing them and many can be prepared ahead of time or at least prepped ahead of time.
That gave me an idea about a crab boil with lots of seafood,sausage,veggies.
My hubby can't do spice so that would not be fair to him...
I assume your Thanksgiving has been turkey only. If so, how about a ham for Christmas eve? I am going to try a bone-in rib roast this year. This will be served with crab legs, pierogis, veggies, devilled eggs, bread, jello salad and a dessert such as cheesecake. Other ideas would be to make lasagna ahead of time and then pop it into the oven, serve with a salad or 7 layer salad, bread and dessert. I have also done heavy appetizers and desserts on Christmas eve and that goes over very well since there can be a lot of people, present swapping, etc. Finally, you can do a meat tray (roast beef, turkey, ham, cheese, etc. , bread, pre-made or bought side dishes and if it is cold, a soup in the crockpot. Hope these help.
We do a ham and a turkey at Thanksgiving.. This year I also tried my first duck!!
Christmas dinner here has always been a crown roast of pork with apple/onion/sausage/celery stuffing. asparagus, glazed carrots and fingerling potatoes roasted in Dijon/mustard/garlic and olive oil. Cheesecake for dessert and Amaretti cookies with after dinner drinks.
Christmas Eve it will just be two of us and I am making mushrooms stuffed with crab, shrimp cocktail and seared jumbo scallops.
We usually have a Swiss Cheese Fondue. Really easy, delicious and fun and convivial. You can also have a meat fondue with different sauces ( using fillet steak) and chocolate fondue for dessert with fresh fruits to dip in.... Having a fondue means you can spend your time with guests rather than in the kitchen. Each person who drops a piece of bread in the cheese has to do a forfeit which is also quite fun...
Last year was beef stroganoff. This year I'm thinking maybe filets with twice-baked and fresh asparagus.
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