Christmas Eve/Christmas Dinner thread

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Originally Posted by ketel&tonic

Last year for Christmas Eve I gave my mom the night off and I took over cooking duties. I made a caprese salad as the first starter. Followed it up with crispy panko coated fontina-risotto cakes. Then came lobster pasta in a creamy tomato herb sauce. The main course was an herb-stuffed, bacon-wrapped roast tenderloin, scalloped potatoes with gruyere and truffle oil, and rosemary and garlic roasted baby beets. Topped the meal off with cranberry granita.

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DAMN.... I knew you knew your grub, but that's a feast fit for Royalty!!! Screw you coming out here Jo.... I'm canceling mine and coming to you! Unreal! Man, I can smell that truffle oil already........

so i'm back from the inlaws and this is what we had:

christmas eve - traditional réveillon dinner (the kind french people have just after midnight mass): boudin sausage with apples and mashed potatoes. paired with louis jadot beaujolais.

christmas lunch - ham from costco (which was really good because it wasn't too salty), roasted potatoes, cranberry & pear relish, brussel sprouts, yorkshire pudding and a green leaf/mandarin orange salad. paired with a jadot pinot noir. dessert was a bûche that my mother in law makes every christmas.

all the above is comfort food to me... damn, i wish xmas wasn't over. :(

I've eaten like 20 tamales over the past 3 days. It's the food you NEVER get sick of.

Had shabu shabu for my Christmas dinner. :)

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Originally Posted by OrangePuck

I've eaten like 20 tamales over the past 3 days. It's the food you NEVER get sick of.

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... especially the cheese and chile verde