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Thursday, December 18. 2014

Life in Yankeeland: Planning a Christmas Day lunch menu


We want it easy but good. We're thinking something like this:


Eggnog and/or Champagne, and Martinelli's of course for the teetotalers, then wine
A spiral-cut full-size Harrington's Country Ham big enough for 20, with some cool sauces and mustards for it
Corn Pudding
Scalloped potatoes with bacon
Asparagus
Biscuits
A green salad
Misc. Christmas cookies for dessert - bring homemade ones with you


We do church Christmas Eve, not Christmas morning as I did as a lad. We forbid gifts with extended family so we omit that silliness - except gifts of homemade cookies. In fact, we are not too big on gifts in general anymore. Instead, we'll have Mrs. BD on ye olde Steinway playing Christmas songs for us all to sing off-key, and some group games. We often play the "Who am I?" game.


At night, the kids go off to the movies with friends.


What's your plan?

Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 16:24 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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This year, a quiet Christmas Day with the daughter and prospective son-in-law -- one gift apiece only -- take-out Chinese, and a Doctor Who marathon. We will do midnight church the night before.

I'm so looking forward to it. Merry Christmas to everyone at Maggie's!
#1 Elizabeth Crain on 2014-12-18 16:45 (Reply)
When our fifth child was almost a year old we went to a movie, Christmas Eve church and out to dinner. From 7 of us that first time to the the 17 of us that will go this year, no one has missed in 25 years. Our first dinner was at MacDonalds (about all we could afford). The dinners have steadily improved until the last few years we've settled on a really nice Argentinian steak house.
The whole day is on my husband and I, and that is our gift to everyone. I get the grandchildren each something small that can be played with right away ( this year, flashlights).
One year we had two with pink-eye, two in casts, and one with flu. And a good time was had by all.
#2 Clearisabella on 2014-12-18 17:37 (Reply)
Oops, 'on my husband and me'
Should have previewed 😔
#3 Clearisabella on 2014-12-18 17:41 (Reply)
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#4 Steve on 2014-12-18 20:07 (Reply)
Quiet Christmas Eve for us this year, just the two of us. But we will go to Mass on Christmas morning because my husband and son are the altar servers and I am the reader. Then home to do stockings and presents with 4 grandkids and their parents. Breakfast/brunch with our traditional favorites. Easy supper of sandwiches with good meat and cheeses on spendier bread than we usually buy. We get a new game every Christmas, so the evening will be filled with figuring out rules and playing together.

It's a nice day.
#5 Terry on 2014-12-19 07:53 (Reply)
The two of us will have a quiet evening gazing at the pretty Christmas tree and the modest pile of presents under the tree. (the pile is small because we've finally learned not to try and make every Christmas the best ever for our kids and grandkids).

Christmas morning will be a full house with grown kids and their families including an energetic, lively 2 1/2 year-old granddaughter who who will lift the proceedings to a new level of fun.

On the table will be a ham I baked according to my mother's recipe: stud the top with cloves and cover it with a mix of orange juice and dry mustard. It adds a lot of flavor to the meat.
I'll make a couple of vegetable dishes, cheese biscuits, and a thrice glazed orange bundt cake. Yum!

After everyone leaves, my husband and I will tell each other yet again, that being with each other and with our nice family made this the best Christmas ever.
#6 portlandmermaid on 2014-12-19 11:05 (Reply)

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