/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9840148
I'll have a pre Christmas Dinner with mates today before we all head home for the holidays.

Two are vegan so I'm making a lentil and porcini roast. Brown sauce, shiitake, tomato, miso and soy sauce for that umami. Pic related, mushrooms soaking.

Additionally Brussle sprouts, bread stuffing, chestnuts, honey parsnips and rosemary taters I recon.

Drinks will include self made Glühwein aka mulled wine.

I have a vegan sister so I don't fucking know
Last year I made vegan Stollen and that came out great, but I don't know what to cook this year. Vegan eggnog sounds disgusting.

Pretty much a traditional swedish christmas dinner, probably toned down a bit from last year because we're down one person.

I've been learning how to make pralines so I guess I'll make a couple of varieties. I've got recipes for a caramel filling and a raspberry mousse filling sorted out already, and I think I'll make a liquorice fudge one as well.

>>9840148
asking daddy to pick up a durian so I can watch everyone try it and also get at least segment to myself. I spent my recent durian budget on a gift for the bf.

right now I’ll be making ginger bread

Trying to make beef stew for some friends, how can I make the liquid more viscous? At the moment after adding the vegetables it just seems like beef/vegetable and soup

Recipe said to add two teaspoons of flour and it's currently simmering for an hour, doesn't seem to be thickening.

>>9840148
I'm Jewish.

>>9840439

Strain out the solids after they are done and simmer the gravy down for an hour. Cornstarch or a little gelatin will add body too. Definitely recommend adding a teaspoon of unflavored gelatin if you have it.

>>9840148
Nothing since I'm going to be alone

>>9840460
Ohhhh, cornflour and not actual flour. Righto! Thanks!

>>9840520
Regular flour work just as well, adjust the amounts to your liking

>>9840460
>>9840534
Turned out delicious, thanks!

>>9840520
Cornflour just has double the thickening power of flour. Also, tapioca gives a really strong gel if you want to invest in buying it online.

>tfw alone on Christmas Eve
I'll just get fat on my own. I'll probably set up a cheese fondue and grill some meat while watching The Muppet Christmas Carol.

>>9840455
Aren't celebrating Hanukkah?

>>9840694
Sounds like legendary /comfy/ levels tbqh, why so sad?

a big ass fuckin brisket

My grandma is having pre- Christmas dinner on Sunday. She requested I make some checkerboard cookies, so I'm going to make those. I also might try to make some berry tarts and bring those if they turn out well.

>>9840704
Just bought ingredients for potato pancakes and Israeli-style doughnuts (sufganiyot). Anyone got any tips?

Not sure yet. We are having people for dinner on Christmas eve and will probably make chickens, roasted potatoes, salad, stuffing, and some roasted veggies. Then tamales for the next day. Trying to think of some nice desserts to make.

Guys give me a foolproof recipe for a pork leg roast, I'll be using the oven

you know I love me some walnuts
>walnuts

>>9840148
Glazed ham with red apple-cinnamon-cabbage and fried bread dumplings, afterwards baked apples with almonds, marzipan and rum with a cold vanilla gellato. Drinks will be eggnog and mulled wine. Meat is already ordered at my local butcher, next week will be much to do.

Pretty traditionally german.

Probably gonna do ham and stuffing. I want to make a side dish that doesn't come in a can or box though. What should I make?

>>9840148
brown rice and baked chicken

>>9841507
>rice for christmas

>>9840148
Buying chinese food a day in advance and just heat up on christmas

>>9840148
either spanish bacalao-stew or something called pinnekjott, pinnekjott is dry-salted lamb steamed on top of birch wood, its a traditional thing over here and i think it tastes great, will probably celebrate Christmas right here with my internet family

>>9840148

URGENT

So I am going to make Beef Wellington and as a starchy/carbohydrate intensive side dish I already got truffled mashed potatoes but I've got no idea what kind of coloured vegetables I could add to that without looking too bland. I mean just carrots and brussel sprouts would be embarrassing, wouldnt it?

Any suggestions?

>>9841507
Poverty meal.

Visiting my mom for Christmas. She's single, and I have no spouse or kids, so it will probably be a lonely event. As far as food goes, who gives a shit. Happy Holidays.

Tiptree christmas pudding and not sure what else I'm bringing. mulled wine wasn't a hit with anyone but me last year so I need a savory.

>>9840694
>Doesnt have to waste money on family
>Can skip this retarded holiday entirely with no bitching
I envy you

>>9843939

The lack of responses to this post demonstrates the state of this board perfectly. Sorry lad

>>9843939
What sounds good to me as a side with color, would be sauteed yellow zuchini. with some sugar up in it.

>>9844187

Yellow Zuchini would be kind of the same colour as the potatoes already. Maybe I am just overthinking it but I just think that only sauteed brussel sprouts and carrots are too boring? How could I make them more interesting?

>>9843939

What about mac'n'cheese, yo?

Turkey, green beans with mushrooms, collards with hamhocks, mashed potatoes, roasted butternut squash, stuffing and sweet potatoes pie.

Anyone have any gravy tips?

>>9844229
it didnt strike me as boring to use carrots and brussels sprouts. in fact i like the color combination, as well as the flavor of the two. i think you are OK with that.

>>9844519
gonna need a dark colored gravy for that spread, imo. my grandmother would use grease from the turkey, add flour, salt and pepper, and make the gravy that way.

Pork and Beef Tamales

>>9840158

Why are Germans always the best posters on ceekay?

>>9840148

My family is doing Raclette and I don't care for that shit.

Doing a pre Christmas with friends and we'll have lamb Döner with home-baked bread

>>9844523
Ok, so how do I get a darker gravy?

>>9841385

>fried bread dumplings

Semmelknödel, in der Pfanne rausgebraten?

Your Christmas dinner sounds amazing. Though Usually 'traditional' it's a goose, not a chicken, no?

>>9844550
bits of the cooked meat. you need pieces of the skin that have cooked, for one thing. pepper also helps to darken it. but mainly the dark coloring comes from pieces of the bird that have become crisp. you can find them in the pan.

>>9840148
a noose

>>9844559
one last thing, forget the pepper advice. i recall my grandmother not using much if any pepper in the gravy. just salt and flour and the fat and cooked parts of the turkey. pepper is one of those things that people like the amount they like, and its never good to add ahead of time for this reason.

Turkey roulade with pork, sage and cashew stuffing

>>9841272
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhkjPBuabLc

>>9844229
carrots and sprouts are a classic for a reason
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/carrots/
sautee the Brussels sprouts in bacon and bacon fat, with some garlic and onion

>>9844557
Yeah, homemade Semmelknödel cut in thick slices and fried in Butteschmalz to get them some golden crust and extra flavour. It's also easier to present them in that way and reduces eggnog-drunk flying ones. I'm not sure if I shouldn't go straight for Serviettenknödel at that point. Probably.

Well, really traditional would be fish as the 24th is still part of the phillipus fast but goose, ham and even Wienerwürstchen with potato salat (Pott) are used as traditions. Ham is more the older germanic one taken over from the more pagan days before the whole no-meat friday/ christmas.

But thanks, it will be my first real one with friends I hope it comes out the way it's planned.

>>9844559
Unfortunately I don't have a mesh strainer. I'll try it out though.

>>9844574
Ok, thanks anon. I'll keep that in mind.

>>9840148
Maple dijon glazed ham
Potato gratin
Roasted root vegetabes
Green beans and button mushrooms sauteed with shallots
Maple-bacon-pecan sweet potatoes

Haven't decided on dessert yet, I switch that up from year to year but I'm leaning toward baked Alaska. Cooking the super rich dinner and serving it to my family is genuinely my favorite part of Christmas.

>>9843939
Orange and purple tiny carrots roasted with butter and sage. Something like pic related.

flæskesteg

>>9844550
When you make the roux from the turkey fat cook it longer than you would normally untill it's a darker shade of brown. Make sure hat when you're pouring the juices in that you do it slowly, a bit at a time and whisk vigorously.

>>9840148
>What are you making for Christmas dinner?
Fucking inlaws are visiting us so we're cooking it, father-in-law is such an anal retentive faggot and probably gonna drink all my beer along with his own stash he brings.

Either way its a join effort with me and the wife

Starter:
>Bruschetta

Main:
>Roasted chicken stuffed with onion & lemon, pierced with rosemary, basted with olive oil
>Roasted potatoes, standard seasonings
>Roasted sliced parsnips and carrots
>Boiled peas and brussells sprouts
>Pigs and blankets
>Bisto gravy

Dessert:
>Probably a frozen raspberry pavlova or some shit

Shame we're not doing to my dads, he just cooks all the fucking meats

>>9840769
I personally hate when latkes are too mushy on the inside, so I make them like hash browns but with added onion/egg. My way makes eating them with applesauce a lot better because they're so much extra crunchier

>>9846328
>latkes
>adding egg and onion
>eating with applesauce
Those are fucking Reibekuchen, not those kike wannabes, mein Neger.

>>9846274
stash your beer
replace it with cheap sacrificial beer

Will be alone, so will just cook a couple goose breasts, one for lunch, one for evening cold cuts. Pan seared and finish in the oven with clementines, garlic and thyme. Crate of good wine, a decent cheeseboard, movies and books will see me through quite happily.

>>9846695
sounds pretty good to be honest
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEQ2y7QCFc

>>9840148
So far I plan to make:
Smoked strip loin
Mushroom and red wine cream sauce
Roasted garlic mashed potatoes
Broccoli or green beans sauteed in garlic, lemon and butter
Cheese straws made with puff pastry
Undecided dessert, not sure if I'll bother to make something to just have someone bring something.

I'm also going to make a big ass pan of lasagna the friday before christmas.

>>9842237
looks pretty good

>>9846824
I'm strayan and lasagna is more of a winter dish do I am kind of wondering how comfy it must be to sit down to hot christmas lasagna

bump

My mom will be cooking the dinner like she usually does. I'll probably bake some cookies to bring over, though. For Thanksgiving I made peanut butter cookies. Maybe I'll make white chocolate macadamia cookies this time around.

>>9844748
>just over half eat turkey
>But 62% have fucking brussel sprouts.
What faggot country is this from?

>>9850546
>other ingredients listed include parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, and bread sauce
I wonder where that might be

>>9850585
I donno, gotta be in the EU if the love Brussels so much tho.

>>9844229
Saute the carrots with butter and ginger. It's fucking delicious.

>>9840148
I'm helping my dad with the Turkey this year. He usually roasts it empty and naked, but I'm gonna fill it with aeromatics and stuff some herbed butter under the skin.

Our family usually doesn't have Christmas Dinner, but my dad makes a hugeass breakfast instead. I might make a stew or something on Christmas Eve and throw it in a crockpot.

>>9850612
does your dad do ham steaks, this is important

Maple basted turkey
Caramelized onions and black garlic gravy
Sous vide salmon and hollandaise
Stuffing
Scalloped potatos
Caramelized cranberry and Apple sauce
Maple seared Brussels sprouts
Honey herb carrots
Green beans and bacon
Homemade dinner rolls
Spring salad

Dessert is Apple pie and lemoncello tiramisu

>>9851465

Nope, can't say he does.

>>9851964
buy a ham and cut off half inch slices
pan fry it instead of bacon, make sammiches, then boil the bone with split peas for soup

p u d d i n g

>>9852000

Thanks, I'll give that a shot. Also nice trips.

>>9840148
I cellebrate Saturnalia and this year I'm going to be making salmon broiled with a coating of pesto sauce. I'll be serving that with some indian style rice and a side of penne in maranara.

If I have time I may try to make a bit ofPuglise style bread.

For h'ordeurves I'll put out some breadsticks wrapped in mozzerella and prosciutto, some crackers with brie and roasted garlic and some green olives.

>>9840455
Ok what Chinese restaurant you gonna go to?

>>9840148
Basque dressing, baked boneless leg of lamb, green pozole, and red enchiladas. I like to get all the pickled stuff we normally don't eat like sweet pickles, pickled sweet peppers, green olives stuffed with blue cheese/pimento/jalapeno.

>>9852059
Good for you, breaking away from this co-opted holiday worshipping a theoretical construct derived from the crucifixion of thousands of jewish criminals and turned into a worship of Mammon. Feasts and debauchery are the true celebration of the solstice.

>>9852505
eh, my family have never been religious but love the christmas traditions which all stem from paganism anyway. Yule was banned for almost a century in England even but people celebrated anyway... eventually the English church coopted the festival, remembered that actually Jesus was born on that day and encouraged it's celebration but only if you convert
it's all pagan
even the tree and the feast, the kind old man who rewards good children of the village and still gives something to the rotten ones to keep them from freezing, it touches our souls in a way that we almost remember how we're supposed to live, how we lived for millennia

>>9849101
Well, christmas is in winter for the majority of the world's population

>mfw making a brisket and handmade potato pancakes tonight for hanukkah

fuck off christfags

Making a prime rib roast for the first time. Sick of the turkey/ham shit of the last 30 years.

Not sure what sides to make with it, though. Some manner of potato, but beyond that, not really sure.

>>9852751
no bully :(
>ywn have a white christmas in Australia unless there's a nuclear war

>>9852505
Honestly it's just because I'm a Roman pagan. I worship the major feast days in place of normal holidays.

I even spent some time on line chatting with some sweadish friends who wanted me to join their Yule celebration. Basically they set up a video feed and we drank beer together for a couple hours.

Honestly pagan holidays are more fun IMO. Feasting and drinking with good company is the real point.

Mix up a slurry of a couple tablespoons of flour with just enough water to liquefy it. Maybe a half cup or so. Slowly stir it into your stew as it is cooking. You should see it begin to thicken as you add the slurry. Stop adding the sjurry before you reach the desired consistency for it will continue to thicken more as it cooks.

>>9840439
Mix up a slurry of a couple tablespoons of flour with just enough water to liquefy it. Maybe a half cup or so. Slowly stir it into your stew as it is cooking. You should see it begin to thicken as you add the slurry. Stop adding the sjurry before you reach the desired consistency for it will continue to thicken more as it cooks.

>>9852694
Agreed. Even someone as jaded as I am who scoffs at the idea of good capitalist Scrooge reforming because of the 3 ghosts, reads "A Christmas Carol" every year and gets tears in his eyes. Talk about describing feasts, Dickens was a master. He was either starving or just liked eating.

>>9853162
*tips fedora*

>>9840227
hvorfor laver du gingerbread?

>>9844794
>not having both porkroast and roast duck.
wew lad

>>9840148
Making prime rib.

>>9853177
Wtf, why because someone questions your sacred cow?

>>9852759
Potato pancakes aren't jewish you stole it fucking heebs shit fucking desert rats

>>9853349
No, for reading a book.

>>9853376
potatoes weren't even introduced into Europe until the 15th century
also trust the Jews to make a holiday about frugality because they were too cheap to buy more oil

Nothing because I'm poor and alone

>>9853588
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpEQ2y7QCFc

>>9846375
you're a complete fucking retard if you didnt know that jews eat their latkes with applesauce

>>9840160
Just buy Silk nog for her and regular nog for everyone else.

I'm surprised by the lack of Christmas buffets/table here, I suppose it's a swedish or nordic tradition.

>>9853588
Most if not all of us here are too anon, don't worry about it.

Me personally? Nothing. My mother is taking over my kitchen for the vigil and for the first time I can remember, my dad wants to do Christmas dinner itself, so he's taking over my kitchen Christmas day. Two days where I ain't cookin' shit.

For the vigil, there will be various fish dishes with roast carp with potatoes and sour tomato sauce being the main. Not sure what else will be there.
For Christmas day, my dad wants to do either individual mini-chickens or a lamb roast.
What is it called in English when you roast meat in a dry pot in the oven? It's not potroast, right? Cuz potroast is when meat is roasted in gravy, yeah? Well, whatever the dry one is called, that's how he wants to do the lamb if he does that rather than the chickens.

christmas eve dinner is where its at christmas day is for chumps.

>>9844229
I suggest bourbon glazed carrots. It's usually the first side dish that gets devoured at most of my family events

>>9855163
our family does out of necessity otherwise there'd be no room on the table, there's 13 adults this year and 13 children, usually it's 22-24 adults but my eldest sister, her husband and their kids and their kids partners aren't coming unfortunately, so there will be lots of yummy leftovers

this year there is my turkey roulade >>9844589
as well as 5 roast chickens quartered, a roast duck, a ham and 4kg of prawns.
there's also three kinds salads, garlic bread, potato bake (potatoes au gratin) and plenty of cheese and drink.
christmas cake, pavlova and trifle for dessert

>>9840148
Nothing I have a family, they can cook for me

>>9856268
t. roastie

Overcooked turkey and dried stuffing

Thanks ma

>>9856421
sounds comfy, make Jamie Oliver's gravy and it will cover all sins

I just made a practice dinner yesterday. The prime rib roast came out prefect

>>9843944
Are you gonna fuck tho?

>>9856223
That sounds awesome, big family celebrations are so comfy. Are you cooking everything yourself?

>>9856555
nope just the turkey, we all nominate ourselves for the thing we want to do. got an 8kg bird ordered that I am going to debone and stuff with a cashew, pork and sage stuffing

>>9844794
Har Merkel fremdeles ikke innfort svinekjott forbud i Danmark?

>>9856475
your brown to pink ratio is off you should reverse sear a rib roast to minimize that

bump

>>9840439
potatoes, they eventually start breaking down and thicken your stew

can one of you retarded non muslim britcucks tell me how to make christmas pudding

Bone-In Standing Rib Roast, we are smoking it
Black Peppercorn Gorgonzola Cream Sauce

Scalloped Potatoes

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus Stalks

Croissants with Herbed Butter Disc

Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Pie

Shrimp Cocktail
Cold Crab Dip
Cinnamon Candied Nuts
Salmon Chez Ball
Chocolate Peppermint Cookies

>>9858462
coastal state?

>>9840158
fuck off with that toilet grab.

>>9858228
google Delia Smith mate, her Christmas pud recipe is the best

I'm not sure yet what to make, this thread gave me some ideas though.

roasted potatoes or potato pancakes
roasted carrots, various colored
maybe some pumpkin
brussels sprouts from the oven
apple sauce

Still have to look around for the meat, either chicken or a roast.

>>9846645
>replace it with cheap sacrificial beer
Decoy beer sounds like a great idea. Just keep it only slightly out of sight in the kitchen and when people need drinks, go get some (good) beer for them, when your FiL is grabbing some, say nothing.

>>9850546

You can have other meats like goose or capon though.

>>9858462
First good answer. Merry Christmas, you delicious bastard!

>>9858228
Fill a bowl breadcrumbs, suet, sugar, flour, raisins, eggs, whatever the fuck else you want.
Mix it up.
Splash it with booze.
Cover and steam for 8 hours.
Set aside for a month.
Steam for another 2 hours.
Remove from bowl.
Splash with more booze and light it on fire.
Eat.

Christmas Eve (Meatless): Salmon teriyaki, borscht with mushroom dumplings, and sides
Christmas Day: Turkey, ham, and sides

>>9854290
Kikes just stole the Reibekuchen from the germans where they lives like parasites for centuries. It's Reibekuchen, complete fucking retard.

I'm in charge of desserts this year. Gonna be making some lemon cookies using an ancient legendary grandma recipe and a pumpkin cheesecake.

>>9861086
>Christmas Eve (Meatless)
>Salmon teriyaki

>>9862020
Fish doesn't count as meat according to the Roman Catholic tradition

>>9862092
>>9862020
The reason is simply the thought behind a fast ( the 24th beeing part of the nativity fast). In medival times fish was always salted or cured, which made it not too pleasant and more suitable for food consumed as a penance.

Although it's only still done in Poland and Italy for the most part, the only catholic nations still alive.

>>9840148
>>9840148

Reposting this because my thread is dying anyway

This year I'm cooking for my grandparents and close family (total of 7 people). Can zou cu/ck/s help me out with my menu? It'll be 3 courses:

Deep fried, beer-battered fish with a spicy chilz Hollandaise variety

I want to serve it w/ some greens and maybe some variety of corn. What about grits and roasted leeks? Anyone have ideas?

Pork Belly marinated Vietnamese style with a miso-lime glaze, mini Chinese steam buns, XO Sauce

Thinking about some kind of root vegetable that would fit well here. Maybe parsnip or parsley root, roasted in the oven, then cleaned and pureed?

Cream of caramel with thyme and a Creme-Brulee crust

What do you think about the menu? I'm thinking rn that it isn't filling enough.

What the fuck are you having for Christmas, or the holidays in general?

>>9858462
>>9861646

amazing desu senpai

>>9840148
>TFW mom and dad are divorced
>Go to 2 parties every year one is auntt on my dads side the other aunt on my moms side
>Dads is on Christmas eve Moms on Christmas
>Both have ham potatoes and corn
>Both send us home with left overs
>Ham potatoes and corn all fucking week

>>9843944
Tap into her sweet Christmas hole, buddy. Fill her up inside with your Christmas spirit

>>9840148
>What are you making for Christmas dinner?

Same thing I make every year: a scene.

>>9863971
two main courses plus dessert is enough food but it's not balanced. start dinner off with cheese, crackers, charcuterie, pickles, and fruit with mustards and jams.

>>9864323

thanks for the comment. the fish isnt rly a main course. just a little piece, the size of italian suppli if you've seen that. I was however thinking about cheese as an alternative, maybe Ill go for that.

>>9843939
Blanched green beans, oven roasted beets and other root vegetables

>>9863971
>filling enough
Are they almost puking? If no then you need more food. It is christmas. I didn't like your menu, too asian for my taste. I would put some european/american classics dishes like

my plan is:

>black coffee all day
>panetonne and stollen
>chocolate cake
>nuts and fruits
>mutton
>handmade pasta
>roasted vegetables
>eggnog
>beer all day
>mojito and pina colada

Basically my christmas is a fuckton of sugar and alcohol.

>>9840148
Not me but my father :
-Lumpfish roe on toasts
-Smoked salmon
-Foie gras
-Guineafowl
-Crayfish
-Yule log

>>9840148
Anyone have good recipes for chinese style whole duck?

>>9844187
>summer squash
>in the winter

>>9864681

desu my grandparents are both overweight and diabetics so I can't rly go too hard on em, I want them to live a couple more years

There's only three of us for Christmas this year, so we're going with some classic family dishes that we love. Holstein Schnitzel, red cabbage (cooked with apples, onion, vinegar, red wine, etc), hot potato salad, cucumber salad, homemade pumpernickel bread, and some assorted candies and cookies for dessert. Simple, but tastes like home. For Christmas eve, I'm making a rich cream of mushroom soup using a variety of mushrooms, with salad and yeast rolls. Cream of mushroom soup on Christmas Eve is a family tradition.

>A bucket of the best KFC in the world
>6 boxes of mac and cheese
>cheesy garlic mash potato's
>5 gallons of sorrel
> 3 ounces of weed

>>9844748
OMG america holiday food sucks ass

>>9840148
if i was going to be at home i'd have ham,mushroomsallad,gravad lax, carelian pirogis (not sure if that's correct in english), whitefish roe, different types of herring,carelian stew and 3 different casseroles, potato,carrot and rutabaga.
prolly something that i've forgotten but those are the most important ones

>>9864681
Feast on 24-25/12 then diet the rest of the year. No point in living if you can't indulge here and there.

BTW today was christmas test day (because we do't want to fuck up the recipes). I already ate 2 entire panetonnes with lots of beer and I have I cake in the oven.

>>9840148
keeping with tradition my father in law demands no one cook but him so we all have to eat his garbage shit he no doubt will burn, underseason, or generously overseason with comically exotic out of place ingredients that taste like drinking bath soap

I'm baking bread

>>9865325
where are you (or more accurately, he) from ?

>>9840148
I'm on ham duty, again. Every ham I've made tastes like ass by my opinion but my family seems to like it. Not sure what recipe I'll go with this year.

Maybe throw in a cake as well, make some fancy icing decorations for presentation too.

>>9840148
>tfw jewish
Happy Hollidays my abrahamic Santa Worshippers

>>9861391
Nobody fucking cares about your potato-fryer wewuzing, stop sperging out you stupid nerd.

>>9866960
>recipe
Boil until done, coat with egg, mustard and breadcrumbs and into the oven it goes until you get a nice crust.

If you want to be fancy make your own mustard to serve with the ham.

>>9867570
I generally go with maple based, never considered boiled ham

>>9858462
>tfw thought I had it bad with the four things I have to make for christmas dinner
You're just another level senpai. Do you have anyone helping you with that?

>>9866960
Fuck the ham and do pork shoulder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLn6ijPCLE

>>9867755
Nah, someone else was given pork. I'm on ham detail

>>9867800
Well, Chef John's got you on that too. It's literally impossible to make a shitty tasting ham if you just follow in his footsteps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRPnatHrPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL6CjHLDK2M

>>9843944
It probably means a lot to your mom to have you with her for the holiday

>>9867822
>all that presentation
>have to slice it before taking it because they basically buffet the meals so no presentation
I hate my family. Might try the honey glazed one though. Did something similar a few years ago and people seemed to like it.

>>9840148
>reads
>chuckles
>reads again
>sweats
>looks around nervously
>this motherfucker asking some difficult shit

>>9840148
Main food
>Prime Rib - 12 pounds, tied
>horseradish sauce
>mashed potatoes
>cheesy potatoes
>mac n cheese for the kiddies
>corn
>yams
>deviled eggs
Munchies
>relish tray
>fruit tray with cream cheese dip
>Ham and cheese ball with crackers
Desserts
>2 pumpkin pies
>lemon pie
>chocolate pie
>French butter tarts
>possibly a cheesecake
I think that is all.

Okay real shit I was making fried chicken today and accidentally dredged it in powdered sugar instead of flour (unlabeled box and i didnt taste it), I later realized and dredge it again in flour and forgive me for this sin but it was actually pretty good. Along with the hot sauce batter it was like sweet and spicy

>>9867856
Are you making all of that?

>>9867861
Yes! Not just for me though. I think some people are bringing soda/juice and maybe a salad. Otherwise I will make punch.

>>9867856
12lbs of prime rib
are you feeding 24 people?

>>9867869
I planed on 20 people eating the prime rib, little left over just in case. It is hard to tell with kids, some times they go all out on the mac n cheese, sometimes they take meat.

>>9867869
>>9867877
I will have the ribs, should I make a BBQ sauce for them?

>>9867885
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCn9Wdyppck

>>9867895
Interesting watch. I might use some of that actually. I like olives and adding them in to the dip could be interesting. Maybe for my own use though.

I'm having it alone since my mommy's on vacation. But I'm probably making a couple fried chicken drumsticks, instant mashed potatoes and jar gravy (I like it's cheap shittiness), fried mozzarella sticks, crawfish, boiled boneless salmon nuggets. and some obligatory green vegetable, maybe turnip greens in shrimp sinigang. No dessert because I don't care. I'll only leave enough leftovers for one meal to conveniently pop it in the oven.

Roast beef, mashed potatoes, lasagna, stuffing, fresh baked bread, roasted Brussels sprouts, Apple and pumpkin pie, christmas cookies, stollen and lots of eggnog

On Christmas Eve we’re having family over so we’re having pierogi, bigos and mizeria. We’re also making a goats cheese, beetroot and clementine salad to start

>>9840148
Im celebrating Christmas tonight with friends and making a red wine braised pork tenderloin roast with onions carrots and red peppers spiced with thyme, rosemary, applewood smoked salt, marjoram, sage, minced garlic and fresh ground pepper with a side of rosemary roasted garlic potatoes and sauted kale
and crimini mushrooms.

Im pretty excited this is my first time braising and Im aiming for fall apart tender and juicy

>>9840148

On Sunday, I'll be not only making a cake for Monday's dessert, I'll also be making a ham with my own glaze recipe.
>need ideas as to what to have with it.

And on sunday, my sister and i will be making duck. With sliced potatoes, and we still have yet to discuss a vegitable, with rolls and BOOZE.

>>9870085
Looking good anon, I hope it works out well for you. My party is on Saturday with the family, I am looking to get a collage for all of you.

>>9870119
What are you making?

>>9844748
That whole image is offensive, the gravy is thin as piss.
idk what Brits they surveyed for this, probably Londoners.

>>9870176
See >>9867856
Amended with rolls, spinach and artichoke dip, 7-layer bars, and a banana pie

>>9870115
Ok, here's my recipe for the glaze:

2 cups of brown sugar
3/4 cups of pineapple juice
1/2 cup of honey
2 tablespoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

bring to a boil, reduce to simmer.
1 large orange, juiced and zested.

>>9840148

Beet soup with sour cream and dill/fresh bread.

Full fillet of Salmon marinated in herbs/olive oil/lemon and spices. Probably going to bake it.

Garlic mashed potatoes, green beans, asparagus, roasted root vegetables.

Pistachio cherry tart pastries (didn't make them) for dessert.

I'm roasting a goose and I'm torn on whether or not to stuff it.

Pros
>might be tasty as fuck

Cons
>effort
>read that goose is so fatty that it makes the stuffing too rich

If I do it'll be mainly apples chestnuts and prunes, no sausage or anything fatty so I'm more leaning more to doing it but I want to hear your experiences!

This year I thought I had everything fucking planned out. Will arrive back from a holiday tomorrow and get started. Main meal in my family is Christmas Eve which will be :
Roast turkey with chestnut stuffing
Brussel sprouts, cabbage, roasted taters and parsnips
Onion sauce
Pigs in blankets

Also will make a shit ton of mince pies (pastry to be made tomorrow), gingerbread (ready and waiting in the fridge to be rolled out and baked), and candied orange peel.

But my gf is threatening to fuck it all up, wish I hadnt decided to let her spend christmas with me and my family

Rotisserie chicken a 5 cheese mac and cheese. My mom is making spinach and my grandma is making some African style fried rice. Carrot cake for dessert. Any tips for rotisserie chicken?

who /justgonnagetdrunkasshitandeatpremadefood/ here

>>9870508
Get the nicest chicken going, dont rush it, and put a good bunch of herbs in the cavity.

t. Worked at a rotisserie stall at a market when I studied in uni for a while

>>9870513
Yes to the first one. What are some good recommendations for Christmas spirits?

>>9870457
>implying there's such a thing as too rich stuffing

>>9870519
i have no idea dude i just like 2 get drunk ill prob drink cheapass vodka lol

>>9870513
Closely related /justgonnagetdrunkasshitandplaycards/ here. Got a fucking nice bottle of gin ready, 3 bottles of PX (popular even with less heavy drinkers in my family and has replaced Port for me), 6 bottles of red, and 3 of Prossecco

>>9870457
Did a goose last year; go for it and dont worry about the stuffing. Just make it a little leaner than normal and enjoy the richness. Better fucking make sure you capitalise on all that delicious fat for top tier roast potatoes btw

>actually enthused about celebrating holidays with family
>twenty-two days late in planning dinner

What would anon consider a quality but comfy dinner?
Planning on surprising them and I don't want it to be absolutely terrible.

Trying something different this year. Going to make choucroute garnie, but with a whole ham in it. I love sauerkraut, I love wine, and I fucking love goose fat, so I figure I could really punch my ham up with that.

i just wish i had someone to eat it all with

>>9870508
What's African-style fried rice?

Turkey with giblet gravy and homemade stuffing, a cherry glazed ham, pulled venison (its a pulled beef recipe but I have plenty of venison on hand ill just reduce salt) roasted and mashed potatoes, a roast root vegetable medley and 8-10 side dishes from everyone coming with a dish to pass. First time hosting a Christmas dinner, the thanksgiving dinner went really well but that was only 8 people.

>>9840148
Same as last year and every year before that.
Swedish Julbord. It is comfy not having to be creative, just go with what tradition dictates

>>9852772
>Making a prime rib roast for the first time. Sick of the turkey/ham shit of the last 30 years.
>Not sure what sides to make with it, though. Some manner of potato, but beyond that, not really sure.
Have fun with your beef drippings and buy a popover pan to make english popovers.

>>9863971
With your fried fish with spicy sauce...I would think southern sides/fish fry accompaniments but with your twist of course.
Kale/collards/turnip greens, sauteed w/ onion, bacon.
Lima beans, black eyed peas, or even a medley idea like hoppin john to incorporate corn, okra, peppers.
To add in some other meat, you could make a jambalaya side, dirty rice with lots of liver, or grill some boudin, or drop in some boudin balls or hushpuppies or corn fritters into your frying fat before that fish goes in. If your pan frying, consider fried okra (just dust with corn meal), or green tomatoes.
Simple roasted new potatoes, or seasonal winter squash medley, with parsnips, or whatever root you might want to throw in there, might be nice. Can spice how you wish.

I am sick, so I am not doing short order cooking labor intensive anything. I will be buying rolls and dessert from a nice bakery in town. My mashed potatoes will be baked under a crust of butter and cheese (made ahead). And, I will be studding a rump roast with garlic cloves and roasting in my covered graniteware roaster in coffee, so I get rich dark gravy. Gonna steam green beans. Then, I'm going on a night sail to relax and look at Christmas lights. Drinks and fruitcake and rum balls I made ages ago. I might have eggnog if someone can locate a Farm Stores and bring me some of the #1 nog in the nation.

>>9872471
Jollof rice. I know Tasty did a vid on it a while back. My grandma is Nigerian so she would make this for my family all the time. Damn good stuff.

Making a seitan wellington, not made seitan before, should be fun.

Pic related will be the main dish.

>>9858462
>black peppercorn gorgonzola cream sauce
Im diamonds

baked city ham (in natural juices) with maple glaze
boiled to hell and back green beans and onions in chicken stock
potato gratin (not from box)
sage stuffing
glazed carrots
Pilsbury crescent rolls.

>>9872667
He who says you won't eat xmas rice let him die by fire

>>9840148
Schnitzel
Bratwurst
Frankfurter Wurstchen
Potato salad
Sauerkraut
Rotkhol
Gluhwein

I'm American, but my grandpa is from Austria, so this is what we've always eaten for Christmas.

Normally my family goes to the buffet at the local casino.
Pretty good desu.
All you can eat crab legs. And they aren't those shitty pencil thin crab legs either.
I'm not big into sea food, but they've got a good assortment of other food. And a really impressive dessert selection.

>>9872799
ask him about alto adige

>>9840158
Did you take a shit n a pan and pop it in the oven?

I'm making corn casserole and a cake for the get together.

>>9843939
The fuck is wrong with carrots or Brussels?
Do up the Brussels with rice vinegar to finish and/or prosciutto, bacon or whatever.
>>9844187 Good idea with the zucchini. Gonna try it since I usually do carrots that way.

>>9872866
I would, but he’s been dead for like 6 years.

First batch of Mince Pies are in the oven! This is it! The festive period has officially started

>>9841485
You could still make stuffing in a slowcooker or oven

Pasus Tolma
Koo-koo Sabzi
Rosemary Trout
Goan Pulao w/ Sweet Potato

Our guest is Armenian, and has severe gluten intolerance and minor lactose intolerance.
Dinner is Christmas Eve. Doing the first batch of dolmas tonight in case I fuck up and have to retry tomorrow, since I've never made them before.

barley groats with porcini
carp soup
fried carp
potato salad
pork and chicken schnitzel

>>9873469
How do I improve on my barley? Last time it came out kinda soggy and shit textured.

>tfw 7 people cancel the day before the party
So uhh, anyone wanna come fill some seats?

Cacio e Pepe and Veal Parmigiana