Offer to bring the turkey. Cook it in a roasting bag. See if they like tender, juicy turkey. Or offer to cook the one they have when you’re there. Or let them cook their turkey, and you bring another one. 
Going to in-laws, but she’s a very good cook. Turkey and traditional things.
I’m providing a Virginia salt-cured country ham(my roots), and making biscuits to go with the thinly sliced ham.
It’s just me, my sister, and bro-in-law. This our third year of pigs in a blanket, so I guess that’s our holiday meal. I wanted to buy a prime rib but BIL wants PIAB. Hey, these are gourmet PIAB, beef hot dogs, Velveeta slices and jumbo PILLSBURY rolls, not that store brand. We’ll have Aunt Vera’s Tangy Onion Jell-O, and corn souffle. Dessert will be lumberjack cake which I’ve never made but sounds like a cross between sticky toffee pudding (the best dessert in the whole world) and a fruitcake. How could that not be delicious?
For “occasions” (not necessarily “special”) I like cutting Brussel sprouts in half lengthwise and roasting them in the oven after tossing with oil and a little salt, pepper and garlic powder. You gotta get a little char on them!
You forgot the rolleyes smilie. :eek:
Zuni style roast chicken, super crispy skin, served over a weird but amazing salad/stuffing of crunchy croutons, pine nuts, currants, champagne vinegar and rocket.
‘You might be a redneck if…’
I’m sorry, what?
I appreciate the advice, but to to suggest that anybody besides MeeMaw do the cooking would make me a pariah. The Horror, Johnny L.A.. The Horror.
It would turn you into a ravenous fish that can strip the flesh off of a man’s bones in minutes? 
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Listened to an NPR(I think) story about how they only eat dead things. The guy swam with the fishes and they don’t eat live flesh.
I think I heard that same story on NPR (about piranhas.)
Meanwhile, I’m still waiting for the deets on:
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I’m having what is basically our traditional Christmas lunch at Mums place.
There’s Mum, me, her brother, his son, my son and his GF and my daughter and her BF.
Never mind the fact that it’s the middle of summer, we’ve always had the Roast Lunch.
Roast Turkey
Roast Pork (with crackle)
Ham
Baked Potatoes
Baked Pumpkin
Steamed Broccoli, Cauliflower, Zucchini, Carrots, Peas
Tomato and Onion Pie.
Cauliflower is served with white sauce, the carrot, Zucchini and peas are garnished with some butter and honey.
Serve with apple sauce and gravy.
Desert, Plum Pudding, Ice Cream and custard.
There are only 3 of us this year so I’m having rib eye steaks (pan fried), baked potatoes, corn (on the cob I think), cranberry sauce (the canned, jelly, stuff) and rolls of some kind and pumpkin pie.
Bob
Roommate will be in a nursing home recovering from surgery over Exmas. I may have to smuggle in some food to him. I’m planning on the Traditional Exmas Meal of Our People.
Protip: have someone standing by with a cell phone. Ask them to dial nine, and one … And to wait.
Please be careful.
I am intrigued by both your holiday gourmet pigs in a blanket, and by this onion Jell-O of which you speak. I must know more about the latter. I must.
You forgot the bacon, and the onions, and to use real garlic. Render bacon down until it is shatteringly crisp and has left behind lots of lovely grease, use that, add onions somewhere between quartered and coarsely chopped depending in preference, seriously for the love of all that’s sacred it’s a damn holiday use real garlic … and give consideration towards a shake of red pepper flakes while it’s all coming together in your pan.
Details if not the entire recipe would be greatly appreciated, please and thank you.
Which is … ? 
I made that last year! This year I will make, as always, Paul Bertolli’s Dungeness crab salad with roasted artichokes and tomalley dressing to start. Main will be either Zuni again, or… I have been longing for shrimp and grits my way. Grits will be done Edna Lewis-style, with shrimp butter stirred in, and topped with a saute of shrimp and country ham, sauced with tomato-tarragon buerre fondue. Cheese for dessert.
We’re Jewish, and the Traditional Exmas Meal of Our People is Chinese food.
Me, the s.o., and her 86 year old Mom. Mom lives in a complex reserved for single women 70’s plus who can still take care of themselves, what a bunch! They’ll all be cooking all week sharing their favorites, then the 3 of us we’ll go out to a little bar downtown for our Xmas eve meal of fried Missouri catfish and onion rings with sufficient beers and hopefully a flirty waitress, then Xmas dinner is roast chicken, yeasty yeast rolls and gravy,sweet tater fries, herb dressed salad, and home made mac and cheese.