Thread: What is your traditional Christmas feast?

The main course is usually turkey, ham and kielbasa served with mashed potatoes/gravy, sauerkraut, corn and/or green beans...and its usually not me cooking on Christmas!

We always have turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes/gravy. Green bean casserole, macaroni salad, corn bread to go with some beans my sister makes for her hubby, pistachio salad, waldorf salad. Appetizers are, deviled eggs, cucumber sandwiches, a vegi tray and chips and salsa for graizing. For deserts, we do alot of those too. Peanut Butter Chocolate temptations, crescent apple pie bites, ice cream, and sometimes we have pumpkin pie. This year I am adding some cheesecake bites. I found these small crusts premade. I think it was a Keebler crust. Just trying something different. See how the folks like them. Or not.

We feed a huge crowd, usually 20 people and sometimes it's more then that. But there is always room for more people. Every one provides a dish or brings something to the meal, kind of like a pot luck meal. But it works out great for every one.

I make pretty much the same meal for every holiday.

Turkey, stuffing and gravy and cranberries
Mashed potatoes, baked sweet potato, corn, and rutabaga mashed with butter and brown sugar
Cabbage rolls, 2 kinds of perogies (potato and onion and potato and cheddar cheese) fried in butter and onions
Nalysnyky (crepes with cottage cheese filling and baked in cream)
Black and green olives, dill and gherkin pickles, DD's home made carrot pickles
Lefse, (SIL is Norwegian and adding something for him)

Dessert is all the Christmas baking.

We had our Christmas this past weekend because Rog was off but will be working through Christmas. So our Christmas is over and done already.

Some years it is turkey. Other years it's Ham. There were even a couple of years when it was goose.

We do Christmas eve with dd and her family. We just have sandwiches and such.

Christmas Day, Mr C and I are alone. I make some sort of turkey meal with dressing, gravy, sweet potatoes, maybe a veg, jellied cranberries, rolls and pumpkin pie. Last year, I sautéed turkey cutlets. This year I'm cooking a turkey breast in the crock pot.

I make our dinner as easy as possible. I'm not the Pioneer Woman in the kitchen.

Originally Posted by krystian

The main course is usually turkey, ham and kielbasa served with mashed potatoes/gravy, sauerkraut, corn and/or green beans...and its usually not me cooking on Christmas!

The main course changed a little this year...turkey, kielbasa and stuffed cabbage. Appetizers were a veggie dip and spinach dip, there was a large relish tray, and then a huge after dinner assortment of homemade baked goodies including pumpkin and pineapple pies among other things. The tummy was full but the brain kept saying this is great, keep eating. :)

We always have a regular ham and a pork at Christmas. We get a Honey Baked ham and also get a pork from a local BBQ place. Mrs. feugo and myself decided we would do it ourselves this year and save $60 (it costs about $80 from where we get it already cooked with Brunswick stew, etc. and it's the whole butt/picnic cut together as opposed to just the butt/shoulder) and we just bought the butt/shoulder cut for $20. We've cooked these before. Put a homemade rub on it and cooked it low and slow in the oven for about 9 or 10 hours. Turned out perfect as usual. :)

Looks yummy!

My crock pot turkey breast turned out good. I ate some and froze the rest for when Mr C feels like eating.

I went non-traditional this year...

Since we always eat fish on Fridays, I made herb-crusted, baked Salmon and Mushrooms stuffed with Crab meat.

Also, made my Cabbage N Kale with sweet, vidalia onions, and my 3-Cheese Mac N Cheese.

Baked 2 Sweet Potato Pies for dessert.