MGoMerry Christmas...what's on your menu today?
Merry Christmas MGoEveryone!
So what are you all cooking or doing for Christmas dinner today?
We're doing something different. We moved away from turkey for Christmas a few years ago. We've done ham one year and beef Wellington for a few years.
This year the MGoWife said she wasn't cooking anything so I decided it would be Korean barbeque for Christmas. The first time I had was in Uijeongbu back in 1983 when I was a freshly minted 2nd Lieutenant stationed in South Korea. After getting married I would occasionally recreate what I remembered it was like.
So for today, the beef and pork have been marinating for a week in the fridge. We have kimchi, kkakdugi, diced raw garlic, bean sprout, rice, lettuce, bean sprouts and a couple of other Korean side dishes. All 3 MGoSons will be here for the feast.
What are you all doing?
MGoMerry Christmas!
December 25th, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^
Winner!
December 25th, 2021 at 11:44 AM ^
Winner!
December 25th, 2021 at 11:42 AM ^
bacon.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:49 PM ^
Bacon and other pork products: proof positive God loves us.
December 25th, 2021 at 11:45 AM ^
I know there is ham-a very good Virginia ham...in more ways than one-since we have, in fact, made the trek from KS to VA. My wife has made a broccoli salad. I've got dinner rolls raising, yesterday I made apple, blueberry, pecan and key lime pie...and homemade ice cream to go with the pie.
Wish us luck on the "moderation" thing.
December 25th, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
Homemade pie is the best. I usually make apple but did a cherry recently for my husband's birthday. It's a close second to apple, but I also like a good peach pie in the summer.
December 25th, 2021 at 11:50 AM ^
Prime rib, city chicken, pierogi, kielbasa, and probably some sort of vegetable that no one cares about.
For dessert a homemade apple pie and a 7 sisters cake from New Palace Bakery.
Merry Christmas everyone!
December 25th, 2021 at 11:58 AM ^
First Christmas in South Florida…drinking beer in Lauderdale by The Sea today and then will be searing a Brush Creek Ranch Tomahawk steak later this evening for the family.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:19 PM ^
We spent our last pre-COVID Christmas week there. We had come across it on a previous trip and, it was so pretty we decided to make it our destination. We're still not traveling (well, one trip to A2 to see our daughter, who has a post-doc fellowship), but if things have opened up next year, we'll be back. We loved a Cuban restaurant named Mario's Catalina. If you go, say hi to Mario. Maybe he'll give you a bottle of wine when you leave, as he did for us.
December 25th, 2021 at 3:08 PM ^
So many great restaurants in that area, will definitely check it out next time we go for dinner over there. I’m currently living in Plantation but our Canadian friends have a vacation home in Lauderdale, they haven’t been able to visit for obvious reasons so we pop over to check in on it.
Appreciate the recommendation.
December 25th, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
We’ll be pretty simple today, since it’s just my mate and me. Spatchcocked Chicken in Adobo sauce, mashed spuds to sop up the extra sauce and a cauliflower wreath. Think of a smaller Bundt cake, but consisting of cauliflower, leeks, and ricotta wrapped in pastry dough. Dessert will be blueberry pie with ice cream. Yum.
December 25th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
Running about 4 hours behind but the blackstone is fired up and breakfast / now lunch is going.. in a few I'll be smoking prime rib ( Malcolm Reed style ) with home made mash potatoes.
This 50 degree weather in central Indiana sure is nice
December 25th, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
Made cole slaw and cheese grits casserole for family gathering that I can't attend due to cold.
Family is getting together at a beach house. Non-traditional seafood meal. Upper 60s with mostly blue skies today.
I will make some oyster stew for me later.
R&R for me.
December 25th, 2021 at 12:33 PM ^
Merry Christmas to you and your family Mr EQ?
Have a wonderful and safe holiday season!!!
December 25th, 2021 at 5:37 PM ^
Back atcha Blue!
December 25th, 2021 at 12:10 PM ^
Gumbo for lunch steak baked potatoes tonight
December 25th, 2021 at 12:46 PM ^
Smoked Prime Roast over hickory that was soaked in bourbon. Served with caramelized vadalia onions, buttered mushrooms, and twice baked potato casserole.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:04 PM ^
Lebanese Feast served on the 24th, usually much bigger gathering, but not this year:
4 different dips, Hummus, Baba Ghannojus, Toum (garlic whip), Labne
2 different cheeses, Middle Eastern
chopped veggies
2 different salads, supreme citrus with olives and a date palm with feta and spinach
Housea, Hushwa, Riz y Yukni, Djaj Mishwa.
Didn't serve Kibbee Nayee this year or lamb chops with spices or the Spanikopita, but normally would have.
Still was a big hit.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:53 PM ^
Can I come to your feast next year? That sounds amazing !
December 25th, 2021 at 1:11 PM ^
Clam chowder, salad, and meatballs last night.
Bacon egg quiche, sausage egg casserole, and cinnamon buns this morning.
Turkey and stuffing tonight.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:12 PM ^
Zingerman's pecan ham, au gratin potatoes, biscuits, and tossed cran/apple/pecan salad.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:19 PM ^
Prime rib tonight, and currenty smoking a pork butt for pulled pork tomorrow!
December 25th, 2021 at 1:51 PM ^
Just made a queso with tortilla chips, and am on my third Paloma of the day. Before noon here still haha.
December 25th, 2021 at 1:57 PM ^
Rediscovered the joy of frying a turkey this past Thanksgiving so we are doing it again today.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:07 PM ^
Family tradition salmon bowtie pasta. With persimmon pudding cake for dessert. My wife is making hot toddies for everyone but I don’t drink anymore. Sticking to pellegrino
December 25th, 2021 at 2:11 PM ^
58 degrees in Kansas City so I am firing up the Rec-Teq and getting a 600 degree reverse sear on some bone-in rib eyes and double baked potatoes.
While my wife wears a Ryan Day mask in lingerie.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:12 PM ^
Lee’s Chicken lunch, Dearborn ham for dinner.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:22 PM ^
December 25th, 2021 at 2:31 PM ^
Per tradition, I made cinnamon rolls for my wife for breakfast. Family is spread around the country, and I'm proud to say that each of my kids made cinnamon rolls for their spouses, too. Should get us through until dinner, which will be a beef standing rib roast, with creamy mashed potatoes, homemade dinner rolls, roasted Brussels sprouts, and green beans. For dessert, some of the 60 dozen cookies that I baked in the past two weeks. There will be plenty of food for the three of us: me, my wife, and my 92-year-old mother-in-law.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:32 PM ^
I slow roasted a 7lb brisket yesterday with onions, carrots & parsnips. Dinner tonight will be brisket, mashed potatoes, and garlic sauteed green beans. Pumpkin pie later. Scotch late in the evening in front of the fire. Either the Oban or the Lagavulin.
December 25th, 2021 at 5:39 PM ^
Merry Christmas, Don. From one OG to another.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:32 PM ^
Basic turkey dinner with the turkey cooked sous vide. I used to go balls-out but the in-laws would complain so <shrug> No point in buying a prime dry aged prime rib from Lobel’s if people want it cooked well done.
December 25th, 2021 at 5:00 PM ^
How do you cook a whole turkey sous vide?
December 26th, 2021 at 12:49 AM ^
I butcher the bird first.
1. Remove the wings and freeze for next year’s gravy.
2. Remove the drumsticks.
3. Remove all skin in the biggest pieces possible.
4. Remove the thigh and debone.
5. Remove the breasts.
You can use the carcass for gravy but since that has long been made I usually just discard it.
Bag the drumsticks, thighs, and breasts up separately with S&P, olive oil, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
The night before I drop the drumsticks and thighs and give them 8 hours at 151º.
Next morning I refrigerate the drumsticks and thighs and drop the breasts at 145º for 6 hours. You can go lower longer (I like 138º) but it can look a bit pinky, although safe to eat
As serving time approaches reintroduce the dark meat to warm.
Place that reserved skin, seasoned, between two hotel pans and roast at 400º for 30-45 minutes to make the best part of the meal. Cut it into chips and stick them in the mashed potatoes (or puréed cauliflower).
Half an hour prior to serving roast the drumsticks at 450º until crispy.
Retrieve the bags, remove the herbs, and slice. Moist and herbaceous.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:39 PM ^
I'm frying chicken and making French fries!
December 25th, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
New England feel for our Christmas meal. Ordered crabmeat from Maine and Legal Seafood clam chowder.
December 25th, 2021 at 2:56 PM ^
Grilled bacon wrapped venison backstrap
Smashed red potatoes
Garlic and red pepper green beans
Cheese and garlic drop biscuits
For dessert: brownie and vanilla ice cream with Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream poured on top.
Merry Christmas MGoBloggers!!
December 25th, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
Breakfast blueberry waffles l, eggs and bacon.
My wife has made lasagna for Christmas the last 10 years or so. Yesterday she spent most of the day making the sauce from scratch.
Also this year she added a side of glazed Brussel sprouts that were delicious.
Desert my daughter made mini cheesecakes with choice of blueberry or strawberry topping.
December 25th, 2021 at 3:02 PM ^
Enchiladas and Hazy IPA
December 25th, 2021 at 3:22 PM ^
Baked turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, yams, pumpkin pie.
December 25th, 2021 at 3:26 PM ^
Red cabbage w/ green apples, green onion and some white wine vinegar, slow cooking in a crockpot with pork chops.
Not our usual Christmas dinner but when they leave it up to me they get pork. :)
December 25th, 2021 at 3:28 PM ^
My traditional prime rib recipe that has been used for a great many years and still turns heads with the delicious aroma it spreads throughout the house.
Add to that the chocolate yule log (which basically is a giant ho-ho) that I have learned to make.
Nobody goes hungry in our house.
December 25th, 2021 at 4:39 PM ^
+1 on the Yule log. Something I have yet to attempt.
I resorted to an imported British steamed pudding which I’ll serve in a pool of warm brandied custard.
December 25th, 2021 at 5:04 PM ^
I used to work at a pastry shop in my younger years and was the point person on Yule Logs (Buche de Noel in French). I have rolled, frosted and decorated many of them with chocolate ganache and meringue mushrooms. My at-home one is much easier -- just a chocolate sponge cake rolled and filled with whipped cream, dusted with powder sugar and served with chocolate sauce. I also refer to it as the Giant Hoho.
December 25th, 2021 at 3:29 PM ^
Meatballs with bbq sauce and chili seasoning in a crockpot. Super easy for potlucks or family meals. A familiar/common item in meatballs, but the seasoning and sauce makes it just different enough to be special!
December 25th, 2021 at 3:57 PM ^
Only have our youngest daughter home for Christmas so we kept it simple. Ham, mashed taters with gravy, green beans, mac n cheese (we live in the south, its a tradition!), baked beans, dressing and rolls. One year I may venture into doing steaks or BBQ perhaps, but not this year.
December 25th, 2021 at 4:31 PM ^
My family is from South Carolina, so my grandma did homemade mac and cheese for Thanksgiving and Christmas every year. She made it with sharp cheddar and mozzarella. God, it was the best. I always miss my grandma so much on Christmas day.
December 25th, 2021 at 3:58 PM ^
Doing our traditional family Christmas dinner: standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding. My mom started this a long time ago and it’s too good to not enjoy once a year.
The Korean dinner sounds delicious.
December 25th, 2021 at 4:05 PM ^
Prime rib, green beans, potatoes. Chocolate cake to close.
December 25th, 2021 at 4:09 PM ^
Sausage gravy and biscuits with eggs and bacon for breakfast. Beer cheese dip and bacon wrapped crab for lunch, rib roast with roasted veggies for dinner. All while watching us beating Ohio then Iowa then Ohio then Iowa, hopefully I can add a couple more to the collection soon.