Turkey
Cranberry sauce
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes and gravy*
Steamed broccoli with cheese sauce*
Tray buns with butter*
*All slightly intermingled.
What I’m having is a Caesar salad, a 20 oz. chili-rubbed rib eye, King Crab mac & cheese, and Kaua’i Sugarloaf Pineapple Upside Down cake for dessert.
What I want is somebody else to be paying for it! 
The same thing I have every year:
Ham
Pierogies
Saurkraut and mushroom soup*
*This isn’t my grandmother’s recipe, just the closest I could find
Like **TriPolar, **I really want goose. What we’re having is ham. (I did get to have a small duck at Thanksgiving.)
My favorite Indian restaurant is Woodlands, a vegetarian place in Orlando. They have a special lunch buffet on most US holidays (Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), and my former wife and I loved to go. We were usually the first ones in line, waiting for the restaurant to open. So what I want to do is go there and have a big lunch. Delicious!
Any word from the warden?
I’d like some honeybaked ham. But even their smallest chunk is way more than could be eaten up in our house, and it doesn’t freeze well. I only get to taste it now and then at some office buffet.
I could go for a whole plateful with baked sweet potatoes and brussels sprouts for Christmas dinner.
Baked beans on toast. I had it for Christmas dinner a few years ago because I was, due to circumstances, alone on Christmas Day, heading down, with my son, to have Christmas with my family the next day. I was going to cook myself something more substantial but thought it would be funny to later act pathetic and whine that I only had something really ordinary - baked beans on toast. And I love baked beans on toast.
Well now my parents are both dead, my brothers and my children are away for Christmas and I will be at home alone, and it is pretty funny to tell people that you “only had baked beans on toast for Christmas dinner,” so I think I will have it again. Because I still love baked beans on toast.
Someone else doing the cooking. ![]()
Hope to pick up a rotisserie chicken and a turkey breast at a local grocer’s deli counter tomorrow. Only thing being made from scratch is the pecan pie.
A mixed greens salad with blue cheese dressing
Roast beef, not too rare
Mushy lima beans drenched in butter and salt
Fresh rolls
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Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts
Broccoli
Sage & onion stuffing balls
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce
Chicken gravy
Steamed Christmas pudding with custard
The important thing is to make far too many pigs in blankets and roast potatoes: the following morning, slit the pigs lengthways then lay them in a dry frying pan over a low heat to allow the fat to render out, smash the leftover potatoes flat and pop them in the pan too. Turn 'em, pile 'em on a slice of bread, add a fried egg and HP sauce, top with another slice of bread.
We were gifted a turkey, so we had turkey. We were OK with that.
What we really wanted was mincemeat pie with eggnog ice cream, only no store here had any eggnog ice cream. So the pie crust is in the freezer, the jar of mincemeat is in the cabinet, and we had a frozen cherry cheesecake. Ho hum.
Oh my god! Chocoflan!
Fair play, that sounds like a strong contender for the final meal I’d request as a condemned man. Christmas is a time of many traditions though, so regardless of how much I love the sound of that (or anything else), I want roast poultry for the same reason I want a tree in the house: it’s what I look forward to at Christmas.
For anyone who’s strong enough to pull themselves clear of the clichés by which I’m bound however, that sounds utterly spectacular.
Many, many long years ago there was a place that sold the world’s best tasting ham. I want that ham for christmas dinner again
What do I really want?
Turkey Breast
Mashed Potatoes
Mac & Cheese
Green Beans (not a casserole - just drizzled with olive oil, salt, and pepper, and baked)
and a slice of Blueberry Pie for dessert
What did I have? Well, actually, I had two Christmas dinners - one on Christmas Eve with my oldest brother, his family, and my mother, and another on Christmas Day alone.
The first one:
Tortellini in chicken broth (a “family tradition”)
Ribeye roast
Mashed potatoes
Yorkshire pudding
Asparagus
I didn’t stick around for dessert, but I think it was chocolate chip cookies
The second one:
Turkey breast
Mashed potatoes (instant - Idahoan Applewood Smoked Bacon)
Spanish rice (I can’t really do both green beans and the turkey at my home as both need the oven)
and I think a bran muffin (with raisins) for dessert
Now that sounds intriguing…what was it like? Anything in particular that it was flavoured with, or just really spot-on hamminess? I always do a ham at Christmas, but not for the main Christmas meal: we have cold-cuts and whatnot in the evening and on Boxing Day.