That’s cool!
Amazon has all the basic ingredients like Spanish chorizo, bomba rice, pequillo peppers (jarred) and soffrito (in a jar).
I’m making pumpkin pie, and we’ll have some pre-made Costco stuffed turkey breast with mashed potatoes, gravy, and homemade cranberry sauce. The turkey and pie will fit in the toaster oven (one at a time) as my regular oven is on the fritz.
I’m probably not going to put too much effort into the beautification of the pie this year, but here’s a previous one I did:
Christmas Eve was beef tongue, bread dumplings, gravy, vegetable casserole, bakery rye bread, and eggnog cheesecake.
We’ll be having bacon and sausage quiche for breakfast and roast duck with honey glaze for dinner.
Our daughter is hosting Christmas brunch in her very first house - there will be 5 of us, including a toddler who hasn’t quite figured out the whole gift thing.
I’m taking a peach french toast casserole. Daughter is making biscuits-n-gravy and monkey bread. Then a bit after noon, we’ll return home to whatever and they’ll go to visit SIL’s mom and stepdad. I had no special plans for post-brunch food, but I’ll figure out something.
I have a pot of maztoh ball soup on the stove.
Cool. So it’s essentially risotto with vanilla milk? Might have to give it a try. Maybe make some horchata to go with.
Leg of lamb for the two of us, plus potatoes and asparagus. A huge batch of Xmas cookies for dessert.
Turkey, mashed potatoes, and roast vege: carrots, parsnips and Brussels sprouts.
Lemon pud for a dessert.
I’m going the usual. Here’s the MMP post:
I’ll make creamed spinach with feta cheese, and Mrs. L.A. wants mashed potatoes with gravy made from the beef drippings. (I hope there are enough drippings!)
So, dinner tonight will be black bean tacos and matzoh ball soup. Hey, it’s what I have a taste for. Also have to go to bed early because I have a 3 am start at work tomorrow to help get the store ready to re-open for the general public at 6 am, so it’s an early dinner for me as well.
My part of the family meal is the home made dinner rolls, and traditional iced sugar cookies. With sprinkles of course.
That’s not the problem - the seafood is the long pole in the tent this year. The stores have really cut back on their stocks of seafood and what they do have is eye-wateringly expensive. I assume it’s fallout from the pandemic. Maybe next year!
We do a big breakfast on Christmas - baked apple and brown sugar French toast, bacon, eggs, fruit. General Tso’s chicken tonight - it wouldn’t be Christmas without some (pseudo) Chinese food, right?
I read this and realize how lucky I am to live on the coast in a big, big city.
Quoting myself for context.
That’s not what happened / is happening.
Instead I’m at work. In a hotel in downtown Atlanta. The feast described above is in Miami. I had to get everything laid out & prep-cooked yesterday and give wife the detailed timeline then provide some tips via phone along the way today.
Meantime here in downtown Atlanta I’ve got a crew of 6 to feed and almost all the downtown restaurants are closed today and all the restaurants in the hotels are closed for months by COVID order. So lots of hotel guests and damn few restaurants.
The hotel desk team had helpfully generated a list of nearby restarants still open on the holiday. It’s a real short list. It’s also about 30F out (before sundown), but at least the wind is blowing howling. So “nearby” needs to be real close, or I’ll need 3 Ubers/Lyfts to move 6 people. Because COVID.
Had hoped to make a virtue of necessity and do something super-nice for my crew, since almost all the places open are on the order of Morton’s Steakhouse, etc. But all those places long ago took their last reservation for tonight. They’re full.
So it’s going to be an interesting experience in a nearby diner with an interesting and varied menu from American to Greek to Italian. And 24 hour breakfast. Not the Morton’s I’d promised them, but it’ll be hot & free so they’ll probably like it.
Merry Christmas from the trenches!
Remember in A Christmas Carol when the Ghost of Christmas Present takes Scrooge over the world and scatters good cheer from his cornucopia over people who are working on Christmas Day, like the isolated lighthouse keepers?
That’s what you’re experiencing, with your Christmas-in-a-diner, burgers, moussaka and spaghetti!
Best wishes for the holidays and may your flights be safe!
Best wishes on your holiday mixemup. I hope the food was munch-worthy and the company was fine.
Thank you both. Talked w wife & extended family. That feast went well, net of the vagaries of cooking it at one house and driving it across town to serve at another. But that would’ve been the same issue if I was home.
Leaving in a few minutes for our Diner Extravaganza; I’ll report back in a couple hours.
So far, so Christmas-y.
Here’s another story of Christmas airline-style:
There’s no vanilla in mine. If the link says that, then it’s not consistent with my experience in Norway, either. It’s just short grain rice cooked with lots of milk into a porridge, and then served with cinnamon, sugar, and a pat of butter.