What's for Christmas Dinner?

[Gileswench]

Christmas Eve is usually an evening out at our fave Indian restaurant, but this year our lovely next-door neighbors provided us with homemade tamales and pozole. Yum. Have I mentioned I love our neighbors?

Tonight I'm making pot roast with lots of lovely veggies in the gravy. Yum.

[StaciNadia]

P.S. What is yuka? I could search for it but it's more fun to find out from someone else 

FMiL says that it's kind of like a potato, and you cook it in water the same way.  Then she adds onions, garlic, and lemon, and she puts oil over the top.  I think I tried it one year, but it wasn't for me.   

[Alida]

Do you mean yucca?

[kkl123]

P.S. What is yuka? I could search for it but it's more fun to find out from someone else 

Manihot esculenta root, aka cassava, manioc, manidioca, among others.
Often served peeled, sectioned and boiled, like a potato, or made into dumplings or gnocci type dishes.  The purified starch is probably better known -- it's made into tapioca and foufou.

This is a root you really do need to know about before eating, as it's cyanogenic -- when eaten raw, you risk cyanide poisoning.

[StaciNadia]

Do you mean yucca?

Eeep, yucca, thank you!  Shows you how much I know about the stuff...  And I didn't know that you could get cyanide poisoning from eating it raw!     Learn something new every day!

[platys]

For Christmas, I made:

Turkey (I brined it, and then roasted it - it was amazingly juicy and flavorful)
Yukon Gold Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Stuffing for one of my guests - I always ask folks what they need to make their christmas dinner a real christmas dinner.  I personally can't stand the stuff, but she was happy.
Weird fruit salad with the marshmellows - again, a guest needed it.
A horrible green been experiment, but we all laughed about it.
Freshly baked yeasty rolls
sweet potato fritters.

There was only three of us, so I had to stop there before all died.  And then I had a ton of homemade fudge and other chocolates.  I need to find more Christmas Orphans.   Oh, and we had cheese, sausage and crackers whiel I was putting together the last bit of dinner. 

[AndreaBeth105]

Someone mentioned prime rib?!  I want to be invited to that Christmas dinner! 

Friday night, I had some friends over for Lasagna, salad, garlic bread, and a ton of desserts.

Saturday and Sunday were more traditional Christmas dinners.

And on Christmas day, my family always has Egg-McMuffins (My kid brother worked at Mickey-Dees in HS) for breakfast at around 10 and homemade pizza for dinner at 5.

Ugh, I don't think I'll need to eat for a week! 

[Brentwood]

Christmas Eve Eve: Meatballs, potatoes, rolls, carrots, lefse, cookies, and rumballs

Christmas Eve: Ham, meatballs, twice baked potatoes, carrots, jalapeno/cream cheese corn, rolls, lefse, spinach salad, Jell-o fluff salad, and a huge assortment of appetizers and goodies, including more rumballs

Christmas Day: Black pepper ham, green salad with homemade Green Goddess dressing, asparagus, broccoli, zucchini, baked potatoes, rolls, cake, cookies, and also a huge assortment of appetizers and goodies, including several dozen cookies my MIL and I made on Friday 22nd.

[kckgirl]

What is lefse?

[Brentwood]

What is lefse?

Lefse is a Norwegian flatbread treat made with mashed potatoes. Learning to make it is an art, usually passed down from generation to generation (you can get many recipes for it, but the only way to learn how to make it properly is to be shown by someone who knows).

It's delicious! We eat it with butter and sugar and rolled up.

www.mrsolsonslefse.com/

[Clara Bow]

What is salmon with rocket? I love salmon and any new recipe would be most appreciated....

[weirdfae]

Mine was simple.

Coke glazed ham, greenbean casserole, cheese and bacon deviled eggs, stuffing, scalloped potatoes, and rolls. For dessert chocolate silk pie (made by moi), apple pie, and pumpkin pie.

And I didn't lift a finger. My SO, who is an amazing cook, cooked it all with the help of his brothers, also good cooks. They banned me from kitchen (I tend to burn things). So I sat and nibbled the deviled eggs and watched TV.