This used to be a Christmas staple - Oyster Stew. I think I'll get a big pot out and get it ready for the day! Oyster Stew and champagne in front of the Christmas tree is always great at the end of the day.
Christmas Day dinner will probably be ham, standing rib roast, potato salad and cranberry frozen whip cream salad, and an antipasto tray. And more crunchy bread and rolls. Maybe a large, cold brocolli salad from the deli.
Looking for a menu for a keep it simple for famly Christmas eve supper. Maybe whole grain crunchy bread, oyster stew, and slices of roast beef and horseradish & brown mustard, left overs from night before, potato salad and a fabulous cake. I would like to go out and eat on Christmas day, but I would feel guilty being served by people who probably would love to be home with their families and friends.
Maybe mufalettas on Christmas day as well with leftover ham, spread thick with olive salad, provologne and other cheeses.
What are your Christmas food traditions?
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for Christmas we usually have lasagne and stuffed squid or bracchioles which is flank steak stuffed with a variety of things, i like the kind of plain ones with parsley, garlic and parmesean cheese, mr punxxi likes to add italian sausage and sometimes spinach. Sicilians like to add hardboiled eggs and so do Calabrians( where my FIL was from)
we always have lox and bagels for breakfast, who knows why, other than we love it, and mimosas( yay)
---- oh, Punxxi, when I go on my trip to eat my way around the world, I will be for sure stopping by your house around Christmas! And yes, can't forget the Mimosas. I also love Lox and Bagels...only one in my family that does though.
I would love to see your recipe for oyster stew! I love oysters! I also love the sound of your Xmas day menu. We have a traditional turkey dinner up here in our family, but yours sounds so much more lighter.
I love this post!
Years ago, I was searching for something light to serve on Christmas Eve when I came across the turkey carcass from Thanksgiving in our freezer. Ever since then, that carcass has become turkey noodle soup with homemade noodles on Christmas Eve. We serve lefse with the soup and have rommegrot(a traditional Norwegian cream pudding) for dessert.
Christmas Day we have Christmas stocking candy for breakfast(needless to say, the kids loved this tradition when they were little). Then we go to my parents' house for a lunch of hor d'doevres that holds us over until we have our turkey dinner at 5.
Ok, come on over anytime, we love to have company come and eat, and if you are lucky mr punxxi will make you homemade gravlax which is the Norwegian version of lox ! it is sooooo good...he really is a great cook. ( i can and do cook, but only stuff that he doesn't cook, kinda more involved or vegetarian) But that oyster stew looks soooo wonderful!!! I love me some oysters!
Oh, it all sounds fun. We always have turkey carcas soup when the turkey is stripped - onions, celery, carrots n rice.
I found a source of Lefsa - I think I'll ask "H" if he wants some soon - now have to find a source for Cod - I probaby don't do it right - I make buttery mashed potatoes, bake the Cod, soak the Lefsa, then spread butter, mashed taters, and Cod on the Lefsa and roll up - mmmmmmmmmmm
And, now ya'll have me in the mood to find a Kringla recipe - "H"'s decendants deserve a bit of tradition from his side of family - - -
Grandson's teacher has an intriquing idea - they had family Thanksgiving and Christmas together and she and her husband are sailing off to Puerto Rico for Christmas....woo hoo!
I try to make some tradition Polish food each Christmas, like Patychky, or "meat sticks" as we called them as kids, and pierogi, and some years I'll make cabbage rolls, cooked in a roaster lined with cabbage with a lid of back ribs. This year, on Christmas day, I'm making a crown roast pork, with stuffing in the crown, as well as a some special dishes for a new vegan in the family.
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Plain cod sounds a LOT better than lutefisk! ;)
mmmmmmmmm - cabbage rolls ----
Sounds delicious so does your oyster stew.
We've got two meals on the 24th...well one long appetizer with deviled eggs, chili (no beans...a real proper stew) some cheese and crackers then cole slaw, turkey hame brussle sprouts...
it's pretty simple for us this year.
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