What's Cooking This Christmas?

Hi all, hope your all well and looking forward to Christmas. I'm just wondering what you or your mom's & pa's will be cooking up on Christmas day, and if you have any family traditions as far as the food?. Also, what videogames will you be playing on Christmas day, if any?.

I wont be doing a Turkey myself, that's one bird I've grown sick of, it's bland and lacks flavour, no meat should need a sauce in my eyes, good meat should shine on it's own. Anyway, I've ordered a full rack of lamb instead. Here in the UK, Welsh salt-marsh lamb is the best, those lambs graze on herbs and grasses in sea meadows which are kissed by the prevailing sea breeze. The herbs they feed on consist of exactly what you would add to lamb traditionally; mint, thyme, (sea) lavender, that sort of thing. The meat is sooo tender and delicious, It should look and smell impressive when carving up at the table. So anyway, how about yourselves?    

You know, I was thinking about making a thread similar to this the other day. I was wondering what people have for their Christmas dinner, but thought I'd wait until Christmas was a bit nearer before I'd post it. You beat me to it though.
 
Anyway, we don't have turkey for Christmas, we have a Capon & it's always really delicious. With it we have Roast potatoes, Mashed potatoes, Parsnips, Carrot & Swede, Stuffing, Roast Onions, Brussels Sprouts (which I personally hate) and Yorkshire Puddings. And for pudding a traditional Christmas Pudding with very very very very very very strong Brandy Sauce. 
 
Gah, why did you have to make me think of this, It's making me hungry!!!!!!

My mum ordered a ham, that's about it. We don't really celebrate christmas, it's only the four of us, so there isn't much going on. We don't even get a christmas tree anymore, we usually just stick the presents under a pot plant.

My mum and dad cook Roast Potatoes (with a bit of Mash), Peas, Carrots, Stuffing, Turkey and some Gravy poured over it. My mum, dad , brother and granddad all have sprouts, but I don't like them and give them a pass every year.
 
I look forward to Christmas Day, my mouth is watering just thinking about it.

We generally have a huge cut of Beef, roasted with potatoes (roasted in Goose Fat, so they're light & fluffy inside, super crunchy outside), parsnips, carrots, green beans of various flavours, red cabbage, yorkshire pudding. 
 
Boxing day ends up as another feast as well, where we have cold beef, a bacon joint, salad, spiced meats like salami, chorizo etc, pasta salad, potato salad, baked potatoes.
 
Shit, I can't wait to go home and eat some real food.

Turkey, I normally only have it around Christmas and I love it. 
Also probably roast potatoes, veg, stuffing and gravy you know the usual.

Turkey or Ham. With my family it's always either turkey or ham.

My god, these posts are making me hungry its 9:30am! *runs to the closest Dunkin Donuts*

I will be by myself this year...so the likely answer is Vietnamese noodle bowl or maybe Thai, depends on what's open!  
 
Traditionally, I like doing ham for xmas, or maybe a nice pork roast. So meat, sweet potatoes, green beans, salad, biscuits. Nice and easy.

"Parsnips "

We are having Pork and Chicken with a full compliment of Roast Potato, Mash, Veg (including Sprouts) and those little sausages wrapped in bacon cos they're yummy. Oh and Bisto gravy....  the nice one. I cant be making my own and all that. 
 
And stuffing.  
 
And Christmas pudding with cream for desert. Which I will be setting on fire of course. 
 
I'm hungry now! 
 
 
Oh and cant forget the Yorkshire puds

We get a ham and a 17 pound Turkey - it's always a huge family Christmas. For me, it's not about the meat though, it's all about the stuffing. Stuffing with cashew nuts is possibly the greatest Christmas food. Yum Yum ! 
 
Oh and the Christmas Pudding. Now, I know everyone says this but literally, nobody makes Christmas Pudding like my mother. She makes a huge batch every four years. We're on the fourth year so she's making a fresh batch tomorrow. But honestly, the older they are the better. She basically makes the batch, separates them into little cake bowls and covers then in Guinness and whiskey. Every couple of months she gets them out and re -douses them with Guinness and whiskey again. They keep for years then. Well, they would last for years if they weren't so delicious. Some extremely alcoholic Christmas pud and shit-loads of custard. Who could ask for anything more !?

Salmonnnnn

I'm Jewish and Catholic, so we celebrate between the holiday's midpoint.

Turkey or ham

My parents usually host Christmas at their house, usually including my brother, grandma, various uncles and their families, and myself.  We usually have a turkey dinner at my grandmother's on Christmas Eve, and a ham dinner on Christmas itself.  Beyond the meats, we usually have mashed potatoes, stuffing, rolls, vegetable trays, and a green bean bake (my favorite).  We generally go light on pies at Christmas, though we might have a pecan pie or what we call "possum pie," which is basically walnuts, whipped cream, and some other goodies in a pie form.

It's Christmas?

Ham.

I really dont like turkey, I love me some ham though =]

" @MattyFTM said:

"Parsnips "

The food of the gods! "

I'm actually cooking lamb this year as well.

The standard Christmas food plans are usually: 
 
Christmas Day - Prawn cocktail for starter, turkey dinner with stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and assorted veg for the main, and christmas pudding and custard for dessert. In the evening we usually have a light salad. 
Boxing Day - As above, except the festive fun moves to my mum's parents' house! 
New Year's Day - My dad's side of the family all gather at my dad's father's house for a roast beef dinner. It's a bit of a family tradition. 
 
My girlfriend and I are also having an Unofficial Christmas Day this Thursday (the 17th), because we're not going to be together over the Christmas period. We're having a turkey dinner then, too :)

My sister-in-law's been going on and on about eating turkey once for thanksgiving and then again for Christmas, she also thinks it's pretty stupid. Personally I think there's very little point in thanksgiving, it's pretty much Christmas with no presents and no fun and they're right bloody next to each other, but then I wasn't raised in this country so maybe I don't understand. We had turkey for thanksgiving so I expect something along the lines of ham or lamb for Christmas.

" @MattyFTM: Eeeeww why would you have carrots? I don't like carrots! "

usually make some good stuff. my mom makes some good broccoli stuff, it has like cream-cheese and stuff.  for some reason my grandma has christmas on weird dates that are far from christmas. this year we are going to have it jan, 9th. i'm going to be making some dip that is good. it's like creamcheese, chillie and cheese. i'm going to be adding some things like jalapenos.

We have turkey for christmas and thanksgiving, but i'm Canadian, so our thanksgiving is farther away from christmas. We also have ham occasionally on christmas. Food is awesome! e-mail me some of that lamb =(

Chicken, turkey, bacon and duck mark this year's meats. Most of the family turns up for Christmas so we're well prepared, though less than usual as we're going on a big holiday 3 days later.

they will be cooking ham thats about it i think. because the other family memeber's supposedly bring a dish but will see.

I don't really have anything special for Christmas planned on. My family doesn't usually make some special dinner for Christmas, although we usually get the family and some friends together and go all out with the food. Not only that but my sister is going to be giving birth soon (I'm hoping the little girl will  be a Christmas baby), so my mom is going to go up their and help, so it's just me down here and my old man down here. I will be getting my 500GB hard-drive for my PS3, along with FFXIII hopefully. May get another game, so I guess I'll spend Christmas doing the usual gaming/ music routine.

We usually don't eat anything special on Christmas day, so we'll probably just make some home-made pizza. =D

Sounds nice.Family here usually does chicken and dressing or,if everyone's feeling particullarly southern,fried chicken based off of an ancient family recipe.Wash everything down with a cup of wassel(spelling??),and it's all right.Dunno about this year though,crazy times for now.

Tamales!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hell, I really dont know yet. Whatever my girlfriend and her sister end up making for the most part.

Lamb sounds 1000 times better than Turkey... Turkey has gotten sooo boring. Unless it's deli sliced and in a sandwich that is.

I would say, but it['s against the rules. I think.

" Hi all, hope your all well and looking forward to Christmas. I'm just wondering what you or your mom's & pa's will be cooking up on Christmas day, and if you have any family traditions as far as the food?. Also, what videogames will you be playing on Christmas day, if any?.

I wont be doing a Turkey myself, that's one bird I've grown sick of, it's bland and lacks flavour, no meat should need a sauce in my eyes, good meat should shine on it's own. Anyway, I've ordered a full rack of lamb instead. Here in the UK, Welsh (-from Wales, it's a country Americans) salt-marsh lamb is the best, those lambs graze on herbs and grasses in sea meadows which are kissed by the prevailing sea breeze. The herbs they feed on consist of exactly what you would add to lamb traditionally; mint, thyme, (sea) lavender, that sort of thing. The meat is sooo tender and delicious, It should look and smell impressive when carving up at the table. So anyway, how about yourselves?     "

 
 
 
@spudtastic

" @Linkyshinks said:

" Hi all, hope your all well and looking forward to Christmas. I'm just wondering what you or your mom's & pa's will be cooking up on Christmas day, and if you have any family traditions as far as the food?. Also, what videogames will you be playing on Christmas day, if any?.

I wont be doing a Turkey myself, that's one bird I've grown sick of, it's bland and lacks flavour, no meat should need a sauce in my eyes, good meat should shine on it's own. Anyway, I've ordered a full rack of lamb instead. Here in the UK, Welsh (-from Wales, it's a country Americans) salt-marsh lamb is the best, those lambs graze on herbs and grasses in sea meadows which are kissed by the prevailing sea breeze. The herbs they feed on consist of exactly what you would add to lamb traditionally; mint, thyme, (sea) lavender, that sort of thing. The meat is sooo tender and delicious, It should look and smell impressive when carving up at the table. So anyway, how about yourselves?     "

RE" Lamb is somewhat less popular in the US, but we did used to broil lamb patties (ground) almost every week when  I was a lad. We would serve it with mint jelly. We usually have ham on Christmas, and this year is no eception.Much less laborious cooking regimen than turkey. "

I've got a pack of bacon thicker than a Dr Seuss book ready to cook for breakfast. And some clementines and Brut for mimosas. Dinner will be chinease take out.

try smoked turkey with sour cranberry sauce [the homemade kind with chunks of cran & lemon peel... so tangy!] all over it... it's the JAM!