Where Will You Be Eating Christmas Lunch

Will you be having it at home... with or without extended family? Will you be being hosted by family or friends ? Will you be alone by choice or design?....or will you eat out at a restaurant or somewhere else ?

Where are you having your Christmas lunch...if you're having any at all...

 

At my daughter's.

Hopefully...since she's still in Maui....going shopping for food on Sunday after I get there.

Christmas Eve we will be eating seafood (to be determined) and Christmas Day she's making her famous Beef Tenderloin.

l can't recall the gravy for it but it's the best part....lots of roasted shallots and cognac and probably some other things.

Also not sure of the sides since she's not home now, haven't talked about the meal with her too much.

She will be a little behind schedule this year because of their trip, hopefully things aren't sold out.

To be honest...I don't care what I eat as long as I don't have to cook it.

 

Thanks, Holly, for doing a thread about the Christmas meal. Wife and I completely forgot about it, until I was sitting here reading your thread. We will be buying a ham steak and I will make my "out of this world" (my wife tells me) mashed potatoes, along with a vegi, jar of brown gravy (for potatoes), black olives and Pillsbury "Dough Boy" biscuits.

For New Years Day, a ham hock and black-eyed peas. A "wish for a lucky next year" meal.

 

Hungarians have some New Year's Eve and Day foods they eat for luck but I won't take the thread off topic for that now.

I'm not sure yet where or what I'll be doing New Years Eve or day....haven't decided.

 

My Honey will be grilling New York Strip steaks and marinated jumbo shrimp while I do the sides of baked potatoes, tossed salad and garlic bread and we will be eating at home this Christmas Day since our Family get together will be held tomorrow afternoon this year.

Christmas Day is supposed to have only a 20% chance of rain and a high of 72 degrees so it should be a nice day for grilling and chilling.

 

.....and I hope it brings you the best luck for next year and your new home...

 

A miniature feast for one at home.

I will tune in for the Queen's annual Christmas message at 10am and then have lunch around noon.

Christmas dinner will be a scaled-down feast of ham, kielbasa, pierogies, maple glazed carrot coins, and cabbage salad.

Dessert will be mixed berries and whipped cream or a scoop of vanilla ice cream with a drizzle of maraschino cherry juice.

 

We have a big Christmas breakfast; country ham, bacon, link sausage, sausage patties, pork tenderloin, grits, biscuits and eggs cooked to order. Afterward, we open gifts. Then they all leave; to visit other relatives, take a nap or whatever. I used to cook a big dinner but for the last two years, my DIL and granddaughter bring their leftovers from Christmas Eve. They both cook for family that day. They go all out and have lots of leftovers. They come in late afternoon and we have an early supper. My son makes my world famous Peecan pie. I taught him well.

 

In the living room

 

Not in my living room you're not, where would this livingroom be..Sir Cornish sausage roll... ?

 

I will be eating alone in my apartment by choice.

 

my granddaughter and great grandaughter and grandaughters husband came over to eat today --we had smoked turkey roast pork candied yams collard greens cranberry sauce mashed potatoes gravy and dressing the dessert was baklava blueberry pie pumpkin pie and chocolate pie and cookies

 

I may be wrong but I think "Alone" is the saddest word in the English language. If a person had all the riches in the world and no one to share them with, the poorest person who is surrounded by love is richer than they.