Many posted on my turkey leftover thread that they don't like turkey. What do you serve for Christmas dinner? We usually have ham and turkey.

Usually have:

Prime Rib
Mashes taters
Brocolli with a cheese sauce
Rolls

Who knows about dessert since we're usually stuffed from dinner.

This year we are having a good baked ham and hash brown casserole - the other sides have yet to be determined. While we love traditional turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, etc., we want to to have something a little different for Christmas dinner.

We usually have some type of roast beef and at least one other meat or poultry. My whole family gets together for Christmas and eat all the time(especially my very thin brothers and sister) so we need good leftovers for sandwiches. We may have a ham or turkey. I don't know what sides we'll have. My grandmother usually makes some type of Southern greens, either turnip, collard, or mustard greens, and black eyed peas and rice. We make ambrosia salad and then my sister and I try to get creative with the other sides. Appetizers galore too, lots of shrimp(my family loves seafood), stuffed celery, black and green olives, deviled eggs, and usually a few new ones that we come up with. Desserts-sweet potato pie, apple pie, cranberry and banan nut breads, Christmas cookies, pound cake, etc. Lots of food and good times!

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Jocelyn



My babies are the joys of my life and keep me young:
The twins,Tatiana Gabrielle and William Joseph , 1/29/97, and baby boy, Jared Lawrence, 8/27/02.

Roast Beast, or Honey Baked Ham - yum!

ham they give him at work every year and we usually do Mexican food and a bunch of different types of appetizers and desserts.

we have prime rib
scallopped potatoes
salad
cheesy mustard cauliflower
rolls
another veggie

plus tons of appys and desserts and wickedly good egg nog

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We stay home on Christmas Day (make the grandparents come to us). And, I used to make a nice big dinner, but decided I didn't like spending all day Christmas in the kitchen cooking and cleaning!! So now, I go buy frozen food at Costco (coconut shrimp, shrimp scampi, fish sticks for the kids, or whatever they want). Serve with some Rhodes rolls, egg nog and lots of holiday treats!

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Good for you! I used to write all the time about making your own traditions for your kiddo's. that's so great!

I can't decide what to do - we usually do some type of beef, but we are looking at $5.99 a lb for about 10 people. I served lasagna about 8 years ago, and my family looked at me like I had put a bug on the table - it wasn't traditional enough for them. I had a lot of luck a few years ago doing all appetizers for Christmas Day like meatballs in my mom's sauce, crock pot mushrooms, things like that. Christmas Eve though is always pork tenderloin and dressing.

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Catt
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