I always have

turkey
roast potatoes
roast sweet potatoes or candied sweet potatoes
asparagus
brocoli
roasted onions
& raspberry mousse for desert.
this has pretty much been what it is at my xmas dinners for 18 years. love it though.

I'm amazed at how extravagant all of your meals seem! Ours is rather simple.

We have a cheese ball with crackers and my mom is making an avocado pomegranate salsa if we are hungry before Christmas dinner.

Our Christmas Eve dinner this year is a Chicken Corn chowder. Christmas dinner we have spiral cut ham, steamed carrots, and a potato casserole (We call it "Heart Attack Potatoes" because there is so much cheese, sour cream, and butter in it. So unhealthy but SO good.)

Dessert this year is cheesecake with homemade cherry sauce with homegrown cherries.

This has been my third Christmas on my own. I am still learning how to cook and am failing miserably. Our Christmas Eve dinner (my husband works Christmas day so we had our dinner the day before) was instant garlic and herb potatoes, Stove Top Stuffing chicken flavored, and a rotisserie chicken from Walmart. As sad is it is, it was pretty good. I must learn to cook! lol

Well we ended up with three Christmas orphans here and one of my besties turned up for a bit too because he was visiting family nearby.

We ended up with homemade vegan icecream and cookies from one orphan, a shedload of alcohol from all the orphans and a really delicious chicken salad to add to what we already had.

We forgot to do the bon bons and we were too full for Christmas bade and fruit mince pies, so they are still untouched! Our fridge is full of leftover salad, potato bake and cold cuts. I know what we're eating for the next week.

Helen

Christmas eve it is tradition in our house to have fish and perogies for dinner. I do not eat fish any longer so I had these puff pastry things with mushrooms and spinach and cheese. Yum! Christmas Day my mom and brother had snacks such as sausage, crackers, coconut shrimp, bread, ect... I was at work so I had a cold cheese tortellini salad and cauliflower.

Today we are spending time with family and having build your own chicken fajitas because this way I can just have veggies on mine and everyone else can have chicken.

So no turkey dinner for us this year. We bought everything for one and we were going to have it today, but then we got the invite. Maybe we will do it New Years Eve instead. That could be fun.

well I didn't have a 'full' polish dinner. She basically did a polish/British combination. We had:

Home-made Mushroom soup (we going to have borscht but apparently its messy to make and she didn't want to clear up

Roast Turkey topped with a stuffing/dumpling mix
Roast potatoes
white/bread sauce (tasted a tad spicier than normal bread sauce but yummy)
sauerkraut with kabanos - loved the sausage...not so sure on the sauerkraut
beetroot with horseradish
home-made coleslaw
redcurrant sauce

I actually really enjoyed it, although I found it strange not having gravy as I LOVE gravy.

We had gingerbread biscuits before and after dinner too. No vodka as his nan doesn't drink. but we did have some bucks fizz with dinner

All in all it was a lovely day.

Now I'm off for Boxing Day with the Irish side of his family.

MOOM

At my Aunt's house on Christmas Eve, she puts on a good spread. This year was no exception:

Starters:
seafood, soft cheeses, dips and crackers

Mains:
Roast pork, roast beef and roast lamb
Roast potatoes, roast zucchinis, potato salad, garden salad, mango salad, watermelon salad (and possibly one other salad, but I can't recall what it was)
Plus home-made sauce and dressings

Deserts:
Gingerbread, Christmas cake, lemon curd tart and my mum's famous berry meringue ice cream. (All home-made - we all bake a lot for Christmas) And fresh berries.

And at my BiL's place on Christmas Day we had similar, on a much smaller scale:
Home-smoked meats (chicken, pork), salads, and home-made chocolate and home-made ice cream for dessert.

And at each venue, a lot of very nice wine was consumed.

For Christmas Eve we were supposed to go over my sisters house. This is the second year she has had it. Her apartment is so tiny that she has never had a table before and certainly not one that seated 8 people. However, a week or 2 before Christmas Eve my mom got sick w/a virus that is going around all over the country. I also got it for a week. Then she got benign positional vertigo. She needed help walking anywhere. After that, my dad fell on a gallon of milk. The milk survived but my dad's knee didn't. He has 2 fractures in it, the kind that will heal on their own if he stays off of it. He has a walking cast and a walker. Nobody could go anywhere so the party came to us. My sister cooked at our house instead of hers. She made a stuffed pork roast w/gravy and extra stuffing. I didn't care for the stuffing or gravy much but I ate some of it anyway. She also made rosemary roasted potatoes and frozen corn. Last but not least she made her cheese popovers which are really good. Oh yeah, maple syrup brussel sprouts. I hate maple anything so I didn't eat those either. For dessert we had butter cut out cookies, guru goodies and buckeyes. I think we may have also had ice cream.

Since my mom couldn't cook much w/her being dizzy she just made the ham. I made bacon mashed potatoes. My niece insisted I make my mashed potatoes & if I do say so myself, they were amazing! I also made yellow and white frozen corn and a new green bean casserole recipe. It has french style green beans, peas, cream of mushroom and cream of potato soup, shredded cheddar cheese and the french fried onion rings. I had never made that one before and it was yummy! There were more popovers and mom's famous cole slaw that she made the day before. We also had apple sauce. Everything was yummy as usual. For dessert we had an apple pie that was so watery (my sister bought it at a farm stand) it leaked all over our kitchen floor and our oven while it was cooking and when she took it out of the oven. Guess whose oven needed a good cleaning the next day? My dad loves apple pie. We also had a razzleberry pie from Marie Callander. We had more of my cookies and a Friendly's Holiday Roll which is lots of ice cream in a roll with nuts and cream on it. They sell it at Christmas time frozen in the supermarkets. Forgot to mention that my sister made some cheese thing that she served w/pretzels for an appetizer.

We are happy and full! LOL