/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I'm going to start prep in Saturday, apple cranberry sauce, lemon parsley butter for the turkey, and shopping for everything else.
Anyone else going with a fresh turkey?

Wow, dead thread.

What wine do you guys recommend for a turkey and ham dinner? I'm thinking a chianti, maybe il Ducale.

>>5036949
Same here getting up and out early to do the last of the shopping I'll come home and start prep that night.

I'm doing wagyu fillet over asparagus and roasted aromatics w/ a microgreen and roasted radish salad. I made a nice veal demi-glace to drizzle on top of the steak. On Monday I'll get the fresh horseradish cream done.

I'm just planning to do Roasted Chicken with Stuffing and Mashed Potatoes. Maybe some Ham.

6 kg ham.
Gravlax and cold smoked salmon.
Pickled herring, mustard, tomato and onion.
Potatoes, boiled.
Cheeses.
Beer and wine.
Maybe a smoked lavaret if i can be arsed to.
I also made some mustard and have amassed glögi incredients.

Doing nothing in the kitchen this year (a bit disappointed). Usually it's Christmas dinner at Mum's parents then Boxing Day lunch with Dad's Mother and my sisters and their partners and offspring.
So instead of Grandma's baked ham, chicken and various other delicious home-made treats, we spent $140 to go to the casino and have 3 hours worth of (probably shitty) buffet and monitored alcohol intake.

I miss the tradition already.

Not very sure if the Christmas you guys spend is the mashup of all things holiday oriented, but I just decided to make quiches, a blueberry pie, pesto shrimp pasta, shepherd's pie and brownies with mint frosting.

First time I'm cooking for Christmas, since my mom always orders a caterers.

>>5038963
Has IKEA hustled in on the grocery business now?

Can we get this thread stickied?

duck crown
brussel sprouts
mashed potato

Maybe some other vegetable but i cant think what, perhaps kale or something.

>>5039694
Second for sticky

>>5038941
Oh yeah and dessert will be a NY style cheese cake with a black cherry and port sauce.

>>5038881
Ruffino il Ducale is pretty good, but it might bee too strong for some people to have. It depends on what you're having for dinner.
I'm going with a port for dessert.

>>5038963
I got myself a smaller piece of ham (the mustard will be store-bought regular stuff), cold smoked salmon, a type of a sweeter and more moist rye bread that they make in the archipelago and a potato casserole. Cold smoked reindeer or horse would've been great, but I have a budget to consider. I'm also making both carrot and swede casseroles from scratch. Bought two bottles of Ayinger Celebrator to go with the ham and the casseroles, Hr. Fredriksen to enjoy afterwards and Herrgårds Glögg to enjoy with the pastries in the evening. I also bought some brie and a brand of blue cheese that's probably familiar to you.

My planned Christmas menu is as follows:
Breakfast: my mom is bringing the traditional breakfast casserole

Lunch (to feed four people): Roast duck (seasoned with lemon, pepper, and herbs), baked red potatoes, steamed broccoli, and challah bread. Will serve some kind of wine yet to be determined.

Late dinner (for five, including two vegetarians): Peanut soup, roasted cauliflower, and maple roasted carrots. A desert item will likely be added by one of the guests. I, and two of my guests, will likely drink some bourbon after dinner.

Any suggestions on what I should add or change? I want to keep the food for the two meals fairly light and on the simple side. And any suggestions as for the wine to serve with duck?

Roast pork with loadsacrackling
Roast potatoes and pumpkin
Cabbage and sprouts, I put the sprouts on two weeks ago so idk if they'll be ready for christmas
Warm potato salad and cauliflower cheese
Trifle or rice pudding and a layered chocolate hazelnut and strawberry meringue cake

Boston Creme Pie

+

Chef John's Peruvian Turkey.

Which reminds me,

I need to feed 9 people, which, according to the internet, means 7-9 pounds of whole bird. I could get a turkey at that weight easily, but my family prefers chicken.

I don't see many chickens that large, and even if I did, I hear that large chickens don't taste that good.

wat do, just get 2x 5lb chickens?

>>5040958
Sounds nice but do many people plan things so rigidly, it's weird to me.
>I, and two of my guests, will likely drink some bourbon after dinner.

>>5040983
It's not planned at all, I just mentioned that bit in case somebody here wants to make an alternate suggestion they think might go better with the food.

herb turkey in gravy
spicy cranberry sauce
apple cider
poached rhubarb with melon granita

My parents are making side dishes, and I thought a lighter sorbet-ish dessert would feel better after us stuffing ourselves

I'm making christmas mince.

Before cooking the ingredients, my recipe says to 'leave the mixture in a cool place for 4 hours so the flavours have a chance to mingle and develop."

My question is, could I leave it 24 hours in the fridge instead?

I won't have a chance to finish cooking it the same day.

>>5041001
I wouldn't see why not. I had to do that with some dressing I made once, it tasted good still 2 days later. There's probably a mingling threshpoint

>>5041004
Hey, thanks for your reply, that was really cool...

But I went to my local supermarket and they had no idea what 'beef suet' was so I gave up on that idea.

Anyone got any suggestions for something simple yet awesome I can take to a Christmas dinner party?

>>5039694
I agree.

I am going to be contributing rolls and a dessert. For Christmas Eve, it will be cibatta rolls and a flourless chocolate cake (maybe a yule log).

Christmas morning I will be making my Grandmother's coffee cake recipe, family tradition.

Christmas dinner will be pull-apart rolls and a dutch apple pie with pecans.

Have a cheese factory in town and bought a "salmon cheddar" that they made special for the season, that will be apps.

Going down to a local warf to pick up some crab, probably clarify some butter to go with them.

Some kinda broccoli casserole, a tomato bisque, mashed potatoes. Then a salted caramel sugar cookie for dessert.

I think that's it, can't remember if I planned more.

>>5041299
I remembered. Farina with brown sugar (tradition) for breakfast, and mulled cider for pretty much the rest of the day. There's a small apple orchard near where I work that sells cider and fruit so I'll just get it from there.

>>5041207
best part of working at a meat counter

>>5041306
>Farina
Seriously the worst of all jail breakfasts

>>5041207
>my local supermarket and they had no idea what 'beef suet' was
Where the hell do you live? Anywhere that men have reared cattle, there has been suet. Are you in a hindu dominated country?

My extended family Christmas will look like this;
Christmas eve we will be having Turkey and sides by my foodie aunt.

Christmas day is Ham, prawns and salads for lunch then Salmon and sides for dinner. Mostly done by my mother and aunties, I will probably help out in the kitchen where needed.

Boxing day is left overs and relaxing usually, sometimes my Chinese aunt will make dim sum and other light-ish asian foods.

*various booze throughout

>>5041308
bird food

>>5041347
This is also what I associate suet with. I did not know people went out of their way to eat this.

I agree on the sticky suggestion. Moot, chop chop damnit.

>>5038963
My fucking nigger.
For my Joulupöytä I'm preparing the following:
Candied ham (old southern US recipe, lots of pineapple, cloves, and brown sugar)
Smoked salmon
Karelian hot pot (I'm going to use bison the change things up a bit)
Meatballs and brown sauce
Mashed Potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Shredded carrot, shredded beet, and peas as vegetable sides
And last and definitely least, one tofurkey to keep the girlfriend happy. We picked up a couple of bottles of German Gluhwein and schnapps at the duty free shop on the way home (Chicago). I'd kill to have another Christmas in Finland, so many good memories, so many beautiful blonde ladies...

>>5040978
Disregard family, acquire turkey

My aunt and uncle are probably going to murder some steaks and shrimp(only convinced them of this after boiling lobster tails to the point of being mushy), I'll make some appetizers with whatever they have around the house(Made some great goat cheese cups last year with phyllo dough and nuts/brown sugar, bacon, and pepper jelly respectively.)
My one major claim to fame when it comes to holiday treats is my sugar cookies. I use an old recipe from my mom's grandma's cookbook, but instead of rolling in flour, I roll the cookies out in powdered sugar. Less dry/cracked dough, and leaves the cookies baked with a light sugar crust. Before she passed, the only other treat-maker on my mom's side of the family said they were better than her cookies.
On the note of cookies, what is the best way to package sugar cookies for mailing? It's my late X-mas gift to my various friends, and dont want them to end up with a bag of crumbs

My wife and I are vegetarians. The rest of the family will be eating flæskesteg while we will be having a roast made from nuts, pic related.

>Christmas Eve
Glazed Spiral Ham + Cider Raisin Sauce
Scalloped Potatoes
Peas and Carrots
Sesame Glazed Parsnips

Chocolate Cream Pie

>Christmas Dinner
Turkey + Stuffing + Gravy
Peas and Carrots
Harvard Beets
Mashed Potatoes
Baked Squash
Cranberry Sauce

Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

>>5036945
I just bought a 1kg bag of IQF chicken leg quarters today (probably 4 legs) for my gf and I to eat for xmas dinner. I'm trying to figure out the best thing to do with it and the best way to go about doing it. I love hainan chicken rice, but maybe that would be strange for an xmas dinner and I don't have molasses anyway. The other option would be something like a greek roast, mainly lemon, olive oil, rosemary, oregano, garlic. I don't have a regular oven, just a toaster oven which is sufficient for small roasts (I've had no problem with shawarma) but I'm not sure how to go about assuring the perfect crisp skin. Should I sear the legs on the stove before transferring them to the oven? If I do so, I could also take the chance to deglaze the residue with white wine and add that to the finished product. Also, should I marinate all the shit I'm gonna work with? Choices choicse

>>5041360
Which region did you spend a Christmas in? The contents of joulupöytä sligthly differ regionally. For example, my family always eats white fish roe and cold smoked reindeer (which I personally can't afford). And around here, generally only the ones who trace their bloodline back to Karelia before WWII or can't afford better meats resort to a Karelian hot pot.

I am divering from the standard turkey/roast beef/cranberry paradigm this year.

We start off with a platter of small fingerfoods:
-sweet corn fritters
-onion bhaji's
-Thai fish cakes
With their complementary dipping sauces, all freshly made.
Next on to the soup:
-miso soup with oyster mushrooms and beans
I am keeping the soup light, allthough it'll be very savoury. This soup could make a ideal dinner with the addition of noodles and shredded chicken.

After the soup, the main course:
-ducklegs confit with a port sauce
-lamshanks with a pinenut/rosemary crust
-smashed roots (carrot, parsnip and turnips)
-creamy cheese polenta with a mushroom creamsauce on a bed of rocket

For dessert I've made key lime jelly cheesecake pots. A nice and sweet but zingy end to the meal.

any simple red cabbage recipes?

I don't really like to celebrate a family gathering my killing an animal that's as intelligent as my dog, so a lovely nut roast and lentil dahl for me !!

>>5041627
You have an odd sentiment towards your family. Your respect for farm animals is higher than that of your family's?

I know this isnt Christmas related but to save making an entire thread about this and theres no "Stupid Questions thread" in your boards catalogue but this was the closest thing.

Theres some eggs we were given that have "Best Befores", one lot due in May this year and the other in September. I smashed open an egg from September to do a smell test and it doesnt smell rotten at all. Havent tried the May eggs yet.

Because it's only a "Best Before" and people essentially store these at room temp anyway, are these ok? Looks like they've always been refrigerated

>>5041694
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfwx-9OQVR4

>>5041625
Red Cabbage Slaw
3 tablespoons canola oil
4 tablespoons red wine vinegar
1 teaspoon white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons minced yellow onion
1/3 red cabbage, shredded
Combine all ingredients and toss to coat. Chill overnight or for a few hours.

Just made some rum fruitcake and next stop is christmas tarts. I love christmas pastry.

I'm making out my grocery list right now, as a matter of fact. Not going shopping for the stuff until tomorrow and Christmas Eve, though, as most of the items are seafood and veggies, so I need them to be perfectly fresh.
My biggest worry right now is finding time to do the baking I need to do. I have to make decorated sugar cookies, molasses cookies, date pinwheel cookies, and a huge ass chocolate stout espresso cake, and I don't have enough time for all this, lol.

brunch; cinnamon rolls, bacon, omelette, home fries

dinner; roast beef, gravy, popovers, roasted brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes

dessert; blackberries and dumplings

>>5040941
American yellow or Dijon?

>>5040978
Huge chickens are packed full of crap, more so than regular ones. Get two or three regulars or go with a turkey.

>>5040989
Bourbon or port are good digestifs. Get some cheese and fruits to go along with them.

>>5041327
What does your foodie aunt make?

>>5041577
Bump that baby as high as it'll go (or 420°F/220°C) and put the chicken in for 10-15 minutes after covering it in prepared lemon butter and drizzling olive oil over it. Cook the rest of the time at normal temps (350/180)

>>5041625
Boil it.

>tell dad I'm going to make cranberry sauce
>he says that I should let 'the professionals' do it
>says canned companies know how to do it better
>mfw he licks his plate after eating every fuckin thing I make
>and he tells me that premade is better

I hosted last year so had to do a fuckton of cooking. Thankfully I'm visiting this year, so I will only be preparing 2-3 dishes. I'll be making a pot of potato + bacon + leek soup, and a tiramisu. Still deciding on a third dish, but I have some puff pastry I picked up on a whim so maybe a fig and goat cheese tart.

>>5041789
Just finished making the grocery list.....lordy. It's not so bad, but I'm going to be put through my paces this year. When I do my list, I write down every single ingredient I need, categorized by meal and dish, then check off things I already have (basically I treat it like a bill of materials and inventory, LOL). Once I get cooking, I'm going to have fun, though.
Christmas Eve: Beef and bison sliders with mushrooms, tomato, and aged english cheddar with truffles, Cippino (seafood and fish stew) with sourdough bread, cookies and various beverages.
Christmas breakfast - Breakfast casserole (eggs, spinach, chorizo, onion, tomatoes, jalapeno, potatoes, cheese, garlic, seasonings), cinnamon rolls, Apple cider - champagne cocktails (same as I did for Thanksgiving, because they were a huge hit), coffee, tea, etc.
Christmas dinner - Cold shrimp with various sauces; pasta with langustino, scallops, spinach and a lemon butter herb sauce; fillets of beef with oyster sauce, roasted asparagus; baby greens with blackberries, candied walnuts and orange-champagne vinaigrette; chocolate stout espresso cake with chocolate brandy ganache.

>>5042150
well my toaster oven has 3 settings: top burner (like a broiler), bottom, and both

>>5036945

Standing rib roast and ham, loaded mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, garlic knots and probably some other veggies and things.

Desert, probably a bunch of cookies and maybe some mini cake things I will make tomorrow. 14 people coming to the house. Its going to be a long day.

-Very thin cold smoked reindeer slices rolled up and filled with chili & bell pepper cream cheese and some crunchy greens
-Bite sized bread pieces with caviar and something
-Gravlax and/or cold smoked salmon with something

I don't have the appetizers entirely planned out yet. Salmon roe with onion and smetana is a staple in our Christmas table. Not sure if should make an appetizer out of that and save the caviar for later. We'll see.

Other foods include baked ham, vegetable casseroles (rutabaga is my favorite), rosolli (beetroot, carrot, pickle & potato salad), mushroom salad (mushrooms, cream) and delicious dark Christmas bread.

Dessert will be plum parfait.

Our Christmas menu is a mix of random stuff, but it'll be delicious.

-Very thin cold smoked reindeer slices rolled up and filled with chili & bell pepper cream cheese and some crunchy greens
-Bite sized bread pieces with caviar and something
-Gravlax and/or cold smoked salmon with something

I don't have the appetizers entirely planned out yet. Salmon roe with onion and smetana is a staple in our Christmas table. Not sure if should make an appetizer out of that and save the caviar for later. We'll see.

Other foods include baked ham, vegetable casseroles (rutabaga is my favorite), rosolli (beetroot, carrot, pickle & potato salad), mushroom salad (mushrooms, cream), reindeer mousse and delicious dark Christmas bread.

Dessert will be plum parfait.

Our Christmas menu is a mix of random stuff, but it'll be delicious.

ok this guy that try to hurt me and try to scare me like hes going to try to cast a curse on me and try to give me aids or something now iam scared but the real question is is it possible iam getting scared people that try to hurt me try to put curses on me and try to get me hurt should i be afraid cause iam kind of scared well thats about it i got to go later all

Starting on my cranberry sauce right now.

Why haven't you faggots started prep already?

>>5042903
Go both then bottom, I guess.

I gotta make scotch eggs, ans I'm really hoping my boyfriend will make scratch made tomato soup

>>5041611
Lapland, the family of my friend whom I stayed with all live in Pudasjärvi, but as I've said, I live in Chicago and am unfortunately not a native Finn. With this meal I just hope to recreate the good feelings and tasty food that I enjoyed so much in the frigid winter North.

I want to make a nice desserty thing for my family this year, but I don't know what to make.

Any recipe ideas for something interesting and not horribly complicated I can make? Worse comes to worse, I'll just make a chocolate mint cake with mint frosting.

>>5043544

You could make white christmas

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/white-christmas-L2643.html

The only thing you need to do that involves cooking is melt the copha.

>>5043544
Go simple as fuck and impress them by making from scratch hot coco on the spot, if you want to do a bit more, also make some homemade marshmallows in advance to top it with.

im going to make pizza for christmas

I'm gonna do a beef wellington. Crab legs or lobster, rolls, brussel sprouts with bacon and some other side.

There's only 3 of us so should be fine

>>5042074
I'm not murcan, but it's yellow. Moderately spicy stuff to liven up the somewhat milder tasting casseroles at the same time. I also got some pickled veg.
Notice that the ham isn't shit-tier and actually tastes like real pork.

My parents will be making fondue.
Can't fucking wait. Nom Nom Nom.

>>5043432
Cool. But Pudasjärvi isn't in Lapland. It's still what you'd historically call Finland. The place is actually in Northern Ostrobothnia. I live in the same region.

The cold weather makes that type of food taste so much better. You go outdoors for the day and come back for sauna, have a hearty meal in good company and then go for a short nap... Pure bliss.

shit tier cook coming through

I just finished baking these for the xmas lunch at work tomorrow

caramel shortbread cookie sandwich things, they look like a 5 year old made them but they taste okay

Go home every year for xmas eve dinner

landlord always brings us a large spiral cut pre-cooked ham every year that we just set out on the table

Then we make some chilli cheese dip with... fuck forgot brand chilli and velveeta cheese in a slow cooker. Shit tons of nachos and tortilla chips.

Then we cut up like 20 hotdogs into half inch chunks and put them in another slow cooker and fill with barbeque sauce and grape jelly

We take a beef stick and slice it up, set it out on a tray with ritz crackers and a package of american cheese.

My mom always made this awesome cream-corn cassarole (sugar, egg, muffin mix, 8 tablespoons of sour cream, frozen corn, can of cream corn, half a stick of butter..maybe some other stuff.

Of course all the trays of oreos, covered pretzles and other candy goodies.

There's always a pecan, pumpkin, and cherry pie you always get a slice of each of.

Oh a can of cranberry sauce

relish tray with celary and carrots and a bit middle dipping section filled with ranch

Farm valley mozarella sticks, tyson chicken nuggets.

Then we watch "A christmas story" (the one about the kid and the BB gun), and two years ago we started watching its sequal, while we ate. Then we watch charlie browns christmas, then whatever other movies we think about. While ordeal is like 6 hours.

Then we crash. Wake up in the afternoon and make some swiss mix hot chocolate, throw all the leftovers in the oven at low heat. Open all the presents, and then we just eat whenever/whatever we want from the leftovers for the rest of the night, usually using the ham for sandwiches this time.

>>5044089
oh fuck

I completly forgot about the mashed potatoes and gravy and stuffing. my bad

We're going to do the typical stuff we do every year basically. It's for Christmas eve, of course, since only pleb countries celebrate Christmas day.

Ham
Boiled "fat/thick" ribs (you may not have that specific cut where you are)
Some kind of cheese pie
Some other pie that we're going to do tomorrow
A couple (2-3) of salads that I'm generally not interested in
Smoked salmon
Smoked eel (two kinds since my grandmother found some that she couldn't resist buying)
Various kinds of pickled herring
Meatballs
Janssons frestelse (look it up, it's fucking awesome)
(and sop but I don't really think it counts)

Knäck
Saffron buns
Chocolate toffee
Various bought pralines and what we in Sweden call juleskum (it's kind of a marshmallow thing)

Beer
Wine
Mumma (it's a kind of mix of stuff, I'm not involved in making it so I don't know what but it's with alcohol)
Snaps
Julmust (soda)

There are probably a few things missing, it's a lot of food and all five of us are more or less involved in the cooking.

>>5044213
I forgot the bread, we bought "vörtbröd", cranberry and regular bread from a really good bakery today too. All sourdough too.

>>5044089

So on a scale of poorfag to homeless, how fucking poor is your family?

>>5044222
We have no trouble getting through the month without worrying about money nowadays. And how is your financial situation?

I'm about to make Christmas dinner for me and my girlfriend - as we see our families over Christmas, so we do our own Christmas day today.

We had smoked salmon (seasoned with fresh parsley, lemon and black pepper), with scrambled egg and toast this morning and exchanged presents.

For dinner we are going to have prawn cocktail to start. Then for main:
Roast potatoes (with honey and thyme)
Mash
Roasted onions, parsnips and carrots (not decided how to do them yet - normally with a bit of honey but not sure if it is overkill with the spuds)
Sprouts
Sage and onion stuffing
Mashed carrot and turnip
Veggie sausages for my girlfriend, and turkey breast with pigs in blankets for me.
Obvs with lots of gravy and cranberry sauce

After that we are going to have a very nice cheese board

Then finally, I made one of those malteaser tray bake things yesterday, so we can have some of that with some nice coffee (one of the presents my girlfriend got me was a coffee maker and some posh coffee).

>>5044213
>only pleb countries celebrate Christmas Day
My nigga, do you also open presents at midnight?
Christmas Day is meant to be tamales for breakfast and leftovers the rest of the day while you fuck around with family in the park. Anyone that doesn't have the main celebration on Christmas Eve doesn't know how to live.

>>5044213
Try a salad this year, just a small serving after dinner, makes for a great digestif.

>>5044225
Not him: That's not saying much mate, I feel bad for you guys hope things get better soon.

>>5044259
We have an early dinner and then open the presents in the evening while chilling in the sofa. Christmas day is for eating from the mountains of leftovers and just generally being lazy. We don't usually leave the house more than for a short walk since it's so cold.
I might meet up with some friends for a couple of beers but we'll see what happens when the time comes.

>>5044265
I will try to leave some room for that, it's probably not a bad idea and it's about time I learn to appreciate a good salad.

>>5044259
My family is from Northeastern Italy. We have three Christmases: 6th December (St Nicholas' Day), 24th/25th December and 5th/6th January (Little Christmas/Epiphany's Day).
The first one is for scaring women and children and giving candy.
The second is for the church.
The third is for gifting presents.

Each has their own colours associated with it:
Red, white and gold for St Nicolas' Day.
White and violet for Christmas.
Gold, violet, green and black/dark blue for the Epiphany.

And each has their own embodying personifications:
St Nicolas and a demon slave for St Nicolas' day.
The Christchild and Maria for Christmas.
A witch for the Epiphany.

Pic related: it's a typical Christmastide decoration in Italy.

>>5042257
Hot damn. How much are you allocating to Christmas food?

>>5044278
I used to be like you with the salads, then I had a nice chilled fruit salad after lunch one day on holiday this past summer and boy did things change. Just make sure that you go with a salad made of things you know you'll enjoy (I can't stand canned tuna and mayo, so I stay away from anything involving them) and you'll be sure to like it. They're especially good after a heavy meal, like Christmas.

>>5044294
A witch? Why not the Magi Kings?

>>5044393
I agree with this. I'm making a salad for after the main course for Christmas. Mixed greens with blackberries, walnuts and an orange-champagne vinaigrette. It's refreshing, and like the other guy said, a good digestive.

>>5036945
I am making this badboy for dessert X-Mas eve, although I wasn't sure if I should do it one of the following ways:

- Cake, raspberries, lemon curd, whipped cream
- Cake raspberries, lemon mousse
HALP

My aunt does all the cooking but I'd like to bring something this year. I'm thinking about a really nice cheese & salumi platter
I also want to do an appetizer of pork belly with a blueberry glaze & scallions but I'm not sure I'll have enough time for the pork belly

>>5044399
The story goes that the Kings and the witch set off together to give gifts to the Christchild. The witch, who has a notoriously bad sense of direction, somehow got separated from the Kings, so while they found him, she never did. As it stands, she's still looking for him to this day, to deliver her gifts to him (like the Kings did). She's also of woefully poor sight. Since she can't see all that well and she's not sure where the Christchild is now, she decided to give gifts to all children in the hopes that one of them will be Jesus. So she spends the rest of the year making gifts or earning money (as a chimney sweep; that's a chimney brush she flies on, not a broom) to buy them and Epiphany's Eve to deliver them.

>>5044443
Do children ask for specific gifts or does she bring what she decides?

>>5044465
Yes and yes, both.
When my parents were children, it wasn't proper for children to ask for specific things, but now, it's quite common. There's an office in Marche (or Umbria, I'm not sure which) where all the letters for the witch are received, most of which are asking for things.

My dad bbqs the Christmas turkey, I'll be making roast potatoes, mum does all the rest, got a lot of family coming over, so it's going to be a good one

Just basic stuff:
Turkey
Pork Loin
Green Salad
Mashed Potatoes
Mac N' Cheese
Maybe some pasta, dunno

>>5041621
Fuck that sounds amazing. Enjoy your meal bro

Breakfast will be our standard, tradition American breakfast: Eggs, bacon, sausage, cornbread, etc
Dinner:
Spiral ham with a raisin brown sugar glaze
Green bean casserole
Rustic potato salad with the potatoes cooked in bacon fat
Dessert:
Plum pudding with a creamy rum butter

The usual turkey. But this time I'm going to cut out the back of the bird and cook the legs and thigh separately from the breast. Tired of dry ass turkey. Not going to go near brining because I guarantee I'll fuck it up.

I'll be making my grandmother's sauerbraten recipe. Marinate a beef roast in some vinegar, onions and spices for a few days, then basically cook it like a pot roast. Use the drippings and leftover marinade to make gravy and dumplings.

Breakfast: Everything Bagels with Smoked Salmon and Apple/Cheddar Scones.
Appetizers: Cheddar/mayo cheese dip, hummus, crackers and carrots and shit.
Dinner (2:00 p.m. because someone has to work that night) Sausage/Mushroom Lasagna (noodles are scratch-made), Salad with hot bacon dressing, green beans with garlic chips, etc. I forget.
Recipes courtesy of google.

>>5044225

Just wondering why you eat like shit. My parents are literally millionaires, but I don't rely on them for handouts. Our holidays are also usually not that extravagant either because we weren't always so well off.

Selection of croissants for breakfast (in the process of laminating at the moment)
Duck, pork and chicken liver terrine (already settling in the fridge)
Baked brie w/ cranberry and hazelnuts
Baked apples w/ venison sausage stuffing
Green bean salad
Chocolate and praline tart (starts tomorrow)

It's my first Christmas away from family which kinda sucks but I'm relishing the chance to cook for myself and not have turkey.

Well I don't cook anything but my sis and grandma cook turkey, roast pork, dirty rice, potato salad, glazed ham and hopefully green bean casserole. Sometimes my grandma will have corn as well. Idk what kind of desserts we're having but I'm sure there will be pies.

>>5044225
that did come across as a homeless person's christmas dinner though. only thing that seemed alright was the corn casserole

>>5044594
>My parents are literally millionaires

I assume you are about 50 because no one these days is actually impressed by that. You can barely even buy property for under a million.

>>5044571
Smother that bitch up in butter and cover it with bacon. I always get a juicy turkey.

>>5044596
That sounds lovely.
Simple, but deceptively complex. I can imagine the flavors will be wonderful.

>>5044597
Why are you on here, then?
Not being mean, just wondering.

There's so many replies in this thread that make me sad and depressed. So few people know how to cook real food anymore.....You know which posts I'm talking about.

>>5044232
are you me?

>>5044627
Thank you! It helps that I'm only cooking for two I think, lots more option and less people's tastes to cater for.

>>5044639

in what regard? similar plans?

>>5044630
I cook plenty, I just don't cook Christmas dinner. Just sharing what I eat for Christmas.

>>5044225
Oh fuck, I was the one who wrote this, but I confused his post with mine. Disregard it and keep on thinking about that guy as a poorfag.

smoked turkey
ham
mashed potatoes
mac n cheese
brussels sprouts
some other veggie dish probably the butternut squash I have on hand

>>5044697
cherry cheesecake for dessert

Dinner

>>5036945
Duck.
I've never made it before, so I'm kind of nervous.

>>5044089
>Then we cut up like 20 hotdogs into half inch chunks and put them in another slow cooker and fill with barbeque sauce and grape jelly

What the balls? BBQ and Jelly? Please tell me this is trolling?

Mashed Potatoes with Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Cheesecake
Other things
Turducken

>>5045048
actually its true.

Ok first since I'm getting crap about being a homeless dinner or whatever, we used to use a package of little smokies sausages and kc masterpiece. But come to find out you can buy two packages of hot dogs for the same price and their the same damn thing.

Anyway I was skepticle at first too, but someone I worked with actually did this as well so I tried it. Not a lot of grape jelly, but a couple spoonfulls adds a nice flavor to the KC masterpiece. I could see on spicer and different flavor sauces though this not being a good thing.


>>5044602
>>5044222
I don't see how this comes off as a poor thing. And I'm not the one who responded about not worrying about money, but whatever, thanks.

It's just a large spread, more like a buffet or party tray, not really intended as a traditional dinner.

Before we started doing that we never really knew what to have for xmas because we always had turkey on thanksgiving and ham on new years. We'd eat on xmas day but everyone would be spoiled from all the candy and such.

So now we pretty much just set out a fuckton of food and we snack as we see fit until new years day, where we actually have a really nice, more thanksgiving-like sit down meal with ham and turkey leftovers and the stuffs that go with it.

>>5044294
di dove sei?

>>5044089

oh fuck we might have the same landlord. Ours owns several houses along with a couple of those mini-mall layouts around town, so he's pretty rich. But he goes and gives this huge ham to every family that rents from him. Great guy, getting old though. He's not even delivering them himself anymore

I'm going to the market tomorrow because I want to make some stuff but I haven't gone shopping yet, so I need some things that I can make within a day (doesn't need a lot of prep)

I'm thinking a fruit cake and some other stuff like a roast and yorkshire pudding?

I am making a late xmas dinner. served at 9 or 10 pm.
> appetizer of pan fried oysters
>seared duck breast
>con fit duck mashed potatos
>Duck demi glace
>homemade cranberry sauce
>birthday cake (jesus lol)
>Glogg to drink

this morning i butchered 2 ducks. breasted them out and have the legs in a salt cure for the con fit. also rendered them down, so i had a nice snack of duck cracklings tonight.

the duck stock has already reduced to about 1/3, and will continue to reduce over night. i am expecting a yield of about 8 oz of demi.

also champagne.

and maybe booze

>>5046377
>duck breast
I want to make duck breasts but I can never find any. Whole Foods and Fresh Market don't have it. Where can I find it?

>>5046392
Butchers often carry duck breasts, Chinese markets carry whole ducks.

Made all my bits for a trifle, I'll assemble it when the jelly sets properly. Hopefully I can do that tonight because I have too much to do tomorrow.

Also made gingerbread cookies for tomorrow. Never done it before but they're piss easy and taste amazing.

Tonight I also have to put some chicken in to marinate for the BBQ tomorrow, and then tomorrow I have to make pizza bases for the pizzas I am making.

>>5046392
well friend, i actually bought mine at whole foods. i bought whole ducks though. I bought 2 whole ducks and cut out the breasts. then i cut the legs for con fit, the cut off all the fat and rendered it for delicious duck fat, then cooked down the carcasses into stock (which is well on its way to becoming demi. frankly i like the other parts more than the breast.

duck demi is like flavor reduced into its purist form, and con fit is so good it could ruin your life. the breast is just a bonus

>>5046377

Grand.

>>5036945

Nothing. The boyfriend, or what's left of him, is currently with his biological family in the outskirts, and undergoing "therapy".

Since when has it become acceptable to go to therapy when you had a fully unlicensed but licensed healthcare professional at your personal disposal?

Pic somewhat related. My boyfriend periodically surrenders himself to the science monkeys, and gets raped by some long-haired loser just to make me hurt.

>>5046498
Where have you been then?

>>5046510

I found love in a hopeless place.

>>5046522
wasn't it in a homeless cave?
(although if they make the cave their home, technically they're no longer homeless)

Eastern European cooking here, assorted vegetables in a slaw. This shit took me nearly 2 fucking hours to make, I had to dice roughly 20 carrots and turnips, then 8 eggs and 10 pickles. What a nightmare, at least I listened to an audiobook so the time was not wasted.

Maybe I'm shit at using a knife, any dicing tips?

>>5046561
Also gingerbread. Sorry for the ugly pics, but my home ain't Santa's mansion.

>>5046548

She's worth all these extra lives.

last night i did fish curry with sag aloo, pumpkin and lentils, and little pistachio/caramelised white chocolate cakes with an apricot ganache melting filling

tonight i'm taking care of the ham (marmalade/mustard/sherry glaze) which will be with mash, red cabbage and apple crumble

then tomorrow it's gonna be a traditional roast turkey (i wanted to debone it, brine and stuff it because that worked well on thanksgiving but my sister vetoed the idea) with roast potatoes, butter roasted carrots, sprouts, the usual stuff really. then little melting middle cakes again but this time with dark chocolate and either cranberry or chestnut filling.

also breakfast tomorrow in the form of eggs benedict with asparagus. that's been a family tradition for the last few years.

boxing day's gonna be salmon coulibiac i think.

>>5044002

sounds like alfajores

fucking love alfajores

>>5043544

http://fxcuisine.com/Default.asp?language=2&Display=135&resolution=high

>>5046561
Chop faster, chop smarter.

Practice.

>>5046561

what's your method?

with carrots i usually chop them in half, take a piece and rest it on its cut edge then cut the very edges off to make it a cuboid. then i lay it down and make lengthwise cuts that stop just short of the end away from me. roll it on to a perpendicular edge and do the same thing, then turn it sideways and do widthwise cuts all the way down. all the trimming just get chopped up at the end or i throw them in a stock pan.

>>5046561
More knife skill and possibly a sharper blade.
Also try cutting more than one item at a time. Only do that If you're completely comfortable doing so.

Probably not going to be cooking anything Christmas Day, but I am going to make some Banana Bread as a treat for my family today. Should be pretty good, trying out a new recipe.

>>5046638
That also means having something like a 10"/24cm chef's knife, which a lot of home cooks don't have nowadays. Have to be comfortable with it, too, of course, but some 20cm Wusthoff or 18cm WalMart santoku doesn't have the reach to cut three carrots or a fist full of celery at the same time.

>>5044697
Smoked turkey is pleb turkey

half a turkey, ~7kg in the oven
had it on 220°C for about an hour and it's been roasting in there at 110-130°C for the last 3h.
Current core temperature 66°C. still got about 2h, probably gonna turn the heat up a bit.

for sides some red cabbage and Schupfnudeln.

shitty smartphone pic related

Thinly Sliced duck as an appetizer

A venison joint in mushroom cream sauce
Red Cabbage
Knödel

And Red Whine creme as Dessert

>>5041558
fuck... I take pride in being a hater of imitation vegetarian dishes but that LOOKS real good.

8 of us eating here.

Foie Gras, brown toast, butter, rocket to start.

Then obligatory turkey dinner, with pigs in blankets, a rib of beef and a tenderloin.

Homemade trifle or Lemon Tart for dessert.

>>5046794

this sound great!

I prepared home-made Blaukraut yesterday, today we'll have a nice duck with Spätzle, for dessert hor berries and family recipe yoghurt cream.

Tommorrow I'm looking forward to some Bruschetta, beef Carpaccio and home-made Ricotta-rocket pasta with Carbonara sauce

I got banned by /ck/'s faggot coward mod for wishing merry christmas.
So merry christmas, /ck/. With the exception of that shithead. I pray to Jesus you get raped by a pack of nigger midgets and your whole family dies in a house fire.

>>5046843
Rocket heisst Rucola oder?
Klingt alles genial!

>>5046843
>duck with Spätzle
wat

Protip to Americans: You can't just mix and match German foods to your liking. Spätzle don't fit duck, but venison. For duck, you should eat potato dumplings.

>take some thin slices of that glorious mustard glazed ham
>put it on ryemeal bread
>mfw

I'm about to burst.

Roast turkey
Stuffing
Mashed potatoes
from-scratch dinner rolls

Yam pie for dessert

keeping it simple.

>>5046870

yup

>>5046880

lmao

I'm German, my sister got tired of Klöße and made me make Spätzle

chicken and sausage gumbo and seafood gumbo just like we do ever xmas eve

bump

>>5046565
Looks great!

>>5046899
sandwich shit for the leftovers

I'm in the middle of prepping all the seafood for Cioppino right now. Had to take a break for a breathing treatment (damn you asthma). Dungeness crab, shrimp, clams, mussels, rockfish, and a broiled lobster to decorate the the top. Mmmmmhmmmm, can't wait.

>>5040978 we are doing Peruvian chicken as well, only two of us to serve, so we have a 5lb chicken and will halve the recipe. side dishes are mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and cresent rolls. dessert is canolis and vanilla ice cream. we will use a probe thermometer to make sure the recipe translates.

>>5047735
that sounds really good. masny in my family try to make huge turkeys, giant hams, or expensive prime or standing rib roast. not neccesary. a baked chicken, some mashed taters and green beans or peas. some bread and butter. maybe some pie and ice cream or custard pie with cool whip for dessert. what more could you want? ok, maybe to sneak a dressing and roast sandwich with a beer late in the evening. that sounds very good. maybe butter pecan instead of vanilla. or redvelvet cake. sounds great. I thiink that translates to most people. very nicely. thanks for reminding me .

We have a smoked ham ready to go, potato rosettes with roasted garlic butter, haricot ver with sherry cream sauce all in various stages of prep, sage and caramelised shallot buttermilk cornbread with a spicy orange honey marmalade done.

We had a small get-together for Christmas Eve. I made some green beans with sauteed almonds. They're sauteed in this new olive oil I picked up (hot pepper infused.) Tastes pretty fuckin' good. Also threw some garlic, s&p in. Everyone seemed to like them.

>>5046742
I've got a 31cm santoku, maybe I should have used that?

>>5048458
when he wrote 24 cm he meant just the blade ...

>>5048570
That is the blade length. The thing is massive.

>>5048458
Its 17cm santoku

completed my first christmas in Japan with one IH burner and a single-slice toaster oven (tinier than you can fucking imagine). I also have a gas stove, but had no space to set it up so fuck that

menu:
- roast chicken legs with lemon herb butter
- creamy tomato basil soup
- provolone salad with onion dressing
- baked macaroni and cheddar
- latkes
- nappa, bell pepper, onion sauteed with bacon and white wine
- garlic bread and parmesan-basil pesto bread
- moscato d'asti

Somehow everything really came together, but reheating everything at the last minute was suffering, and I had no way or time to prepare a hot cider before dinner

>>5048573
>31cm santoku
That isn't the blade. It's hard to find a carving knife that long. And if it's pic related, that's a 17-18cm blade. If it isn't pic related, post a pic with your actual knife next to a ruler because I'm genuinely curious to see a santoku with a 31cm blade.

Saw Christmas lasagna online, replicated it.

I have a 25 pound turkey I'm in charge of this year. I brined it for 48 hours and it's now baking as we speak.

I'm worried that by the time the deepest part of the turkey is cooked the breast meat will be dry as shit, but I won't know until I temp all parts of the bird.

Pray for me /ck/

>>5048672
Looks good.

>>5048715
start it out at 425, uncovered, in a roasting pan with a rack
once the skin starts to brown up and tighten, reduce heat to 300-325, cover with foil, add stock, aromatics, and light flavored beer or wine
baste at least every 20 minutes, more = better
bring turkey temp to within 5 degrees of desired finish temp
reduce oven temp to as low as it'll go (if 140f, awesome, but no lower), and let it rest for about 1/2 hour

>>5048789
I followed something similar to this, I just checked my turkey and all seems fine. Just never cooked a bird of this exact size before. lol

>>5048723
It actually did come out good, computer-illiterate relatives thought I was OMG SO ORIGINAL.

So what's everyone doing with their leftovers?
I made ham, cheese, and green bean omelettes this morning. I plan on making some soup and possibly a ham and apple tort.

We did lamb 3 ways: Rack, leg, and chops. Soooooo good. Pic sorta related: My present to myself. I made a wine rack and finished it with Tung Oil.