Christmas 2024

Maison Rustique · Tuesday at 12:28 PM

I don't want to know how you send it to fishy heaven. I need to buy my fish already on the other side. Otherwise, I'd have it living in my bathtub permanently.

liuzhou · Tuesday at 12:40 PM

The market people will send it for you here, but they give you funny looks. Few people want fish already deadified, Freshness is paramount.

gfweb · Tuesday at 01:51 PM

First of several meals. Bunch of people arriving for a few days.

Salad and one of several trays of cannelloni

rotuts · Tuesday at 02:05 PM

@gfweb

that cannelloni top looks memorable .

love to see it plated .

one of my very favorite dishes , alongside Lasagna.

Edited yesterday at 01:55 AM by rotuts (log)

lemniscate · Tuesday at 03:19 PM

Christmas Eve meal is various pierogis and smoked sausage today. I bought the pierogis frozen, I don't have the temperament or the assembly line help for making pierogis ( and tamales for that matter).

Alexandra's is a very good brand. The store didn't have the plum ones, only blueberry. I don't like blueberries, so no fruit ones this year. Kraut, mushroom, sweet cheese and the ubiquitous potato are the menu.

**ElsieD** · Tuesday at 03:29 PM

8 minutes ago, lemniscate said:

Christmas Eve meal is various pierogis and smoked sausage today. I bought the pierogis frozen, I don't have the temperament or the assembly line help for making pierogis ( and tamales for that matter).

Alexandra's is a very good brand. The store didn't have the plum ones, only blueberry. I don't like blueberries, so no fruit ones this year. Kraut, mushroom, sweet cheese and the ubiquitous potato are the menu.

I've never had blueberry (or any other fruit) pierogis. Are they boiled or pan fried?

lemniscate · Tuesday at 03:31 PM

16 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

I've never had blueberry (or any other fruit) pierogis. Are they boiled or pan fried?

Both. On preference. I like them boiled and then sauteed in butter with a dust of nutmeg.

Edited Tuesday at 03:46 PM by lemniscate (log)

Maison Rustique · Tuesday at 11:57 PM

I don't think I can find fruit pierogis in this area--I've never seen or heard of them either, but they sound delicious.

lemniscate · 2024-12-25T00:05:52Z

5 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

I don't think I can find fruit pierogis in this area--I've never seen or heard of them either, but they sound delicious.

You'd be surprised. I get them from my local (oldest established) Asian market. Lee Lee. Asian markets here are also really good about handling European foods, especially in freezer section.

gfweb · 2024-12-25T01:51:12Z

Christmas Eve Dinner...eaten early due to an infant who rules the roost

Airedale at the Nativity

Smoked yams, roasted broccoli, augratin potatoes, cornbread, tenderloin served with compound butter and sticky toffee pudding

Edited yesterday at 01:53 AM by gfweb (log)

YvetteMT · 2024-12-25T02:39:08Z

Christmas eve dinner was halibut chowder. Step daughter doesn't get seafood unless she's at our house so something from the ocean is always on the menu.

Be just partner and I tomorrow for dinner and no plans for food yet. Maybe leftovers, maybe just desserts !

C. sapidus · 2024-12-25T03:34:28Z

We did our big holiday bash in mid-December, but younger son is visiting for a couple of days.

Looking like matar paneer and patiala pilaf for Xmas dinner. :smile:

I do not expect the leftover carnitas to last long.

liuzhou · 2024-12-25T04:28:33Z

4 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

don't think I can find fruit pierogis in this area--I've never seen or heard of them either, but they sound delicious.

1) Pierogis are basically the same as the Chinese 饺子 (jiǎo zi) 🥟 and are probably derived from them.

2) In summer 1997, I was in Beijing and visited a jiaozi restaurant near Beijing Zoo. This place boasted a menu of 50+ possible jiaozi. I forget exactly how many. There were the usual meat or fish or other seafood types, but also less common meats such as venison, horse, donkey, yak, camel etc. Then the vegetable jiaozi containing your choice from a list of every vegetable known to China, which is a lot.

There was also a list of fruit jiaozi, again of most varieties you could think of.

Most memorable was the ice cream jiaozi again n enough flavours to shame an Italian gelateria.

So, if it's good enough for one culture, I vote it's good enough for all.

I still prefer the more traditional Chinese types, though.

Donkey Jiaozi

Edited yesterday at 04:39 AM by liuzhou (log)

haresfur · 2024-12-25T10:03:16Z

Christmas lunch. Clockwise from top left: sangria with nectarines and orange, prawns fried in Korean chili oil, gravlox, savoury biscuits, soft blue cheese, Camembert, smoked ham, Swiss cheese, bresaola, homemade fermented pickles, marinated artichoke hearts, olives, marinated eggplant, sun dried tomatoes.

Didn't even break into the Camembert, much to Dalmatian Jazzy's chagrin (she loves Camembert but still made out ok).

We were stuffed so are having Pavlova for tea. The noisy miner birds ate my ripe blueberries so only mango on the pav.

**Shelby** · 2024-12-25T15:19:30Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Hope to have a very calm and quiet day today. A small prime rib has been seasoned and in the fridge for a couple of days so that will be dinner along with whatever sides I feel up to making. Yesterday I had Ronnie's two kids, two grandkids and one daughter's boyfriend over for brunch. We had a really good time. It's been a tradition for years that Ronnie and I buy scratch off lottery tickets and we go in rounds --people can steal other people's tickets etc. Lots of fun. One of his daughters eats GF so I tried to be very mindful and have tons that she could eat.

Purchased some new Christmas glasses--I loved my old ones but I hand washed them last year and all of the gold and the Christmas trees came off 😮. I forgot that happened until a couple of days ago. Thank you Amazon for delivering my new ones in time for yesterday. Hard to see but these have holly etched in them.

Fruit salad--dunno why I make this. I think only two of us ate any lol

Broccoli salad (GF daughter loves this and took a bunch home)

The usual cheesy potatoes --I did those the day before in the slow cooker because they never seem to get done if I start them the day I'm having the brunch. GF daughter took a huge ziplock of these home too lol.

Ronnie--bless him--cooked heaps of sausages and bacon in the garage which saved me from a huge mess in the kitchen. I used 20 eggs and made just cheesy scrambled eggs which everyone seemed to like a lot more than the breakfast casserole I usually do (grandkids don't like a lot of veggies). No pics of all that.

Charc. board. Bottom bowl had GF rice crackers that are actually pretty good.

Cookies I made along with two boughten cakes. The cakes have M&M's and sprinkles inside--just something fun.

The surprise of the day was the GF brownies I made from a Ghirardelli mix. I made them the day before and had a little taste and I was like wow these are really good. One grandkid declared them the best brownies she'd ever eaten. I gotta get more of that mix. I also bought some delicious GF macarons.

Everyone hung out for several hours and then had to leave to go to jobs or another Christmas. So, two dishwasher loads of dishes later (all while drinking wine lol) I heated up our usual Christmas Eve Cioppino--I love this stuff. So, I consider that kinda like the Feast of Seven Fishes

Hopefully I don't screw the prime rib up tonight.........

**TdeV** · 2024-12-25T15:43:37Z

Wow, @Shelby ! That's a beautiful spread. I'm filled up just lookin'.

Do you make your own Cioppino? Got a recipe?

**Shelby** · 2024-12-25T15:47:51Z

2 minutes ago, TdeV said:

Wow, @Shelby ! That's a beautiful spread. I'm filled up just lookin'.

Do you make your own Cioppino? Got a recipe?

No --it's a splurge I buy from Phil's Fish Market through Goldbelly. I think I've done this for at least three years now. Here in KS I'd be hard pressed to find decent seafood anywhere around here to make my own......and this is so good. And after a big day yesterday I was thrilled to have something already made that I could just heat up

**ElsieD** · 2024-12-25T15:54:46Z

@gfweb. can you tell me more about the smoked yams?

Tropicalsenior · 2024-12-25T15:55:35Z

32 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Fruit salad--dunno why I make this. I think only two of us ate any lol

Everything looks so good.

Next time with your fruit salad try a dressing of sour cream, lemon or lime juice, and honey to taste. You will have to make a double batch because everyone will love it.

35 minutes ago, Shelby said:

The surprise of the day was the GF brownies I made from a Ghirardelli mix.

They make the very best brownies. I don't even bother to make them from scratch anymore.

**TdeV** · 2024-12-25T15:55:39Z

I'm in the midwest, @Shelby, and wonder about my ability to get fresh seafood. (I used to live in SF Bay area, so Cioppino was rediculously easy).

I did recently get two lobster tail which were easy to do in the Anova steam oven.

But Cioppino, I'm going to buy some today. Thanks!

**Shelby** · 2024-12-25T16:02:26Z

3 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Everything looks so good.

Next time with your fruit salad try a dressing of sour cream, lemon or lime juice, and honey to taste. You will have to make a double batch because everyone will love it.

They make the very best brownies. I don't even bother to make them from scratch anymore.

I'll do that! I just did a mix of 2 TB OJ and 1 TB honey.....I bet the sour cream would do the trick. Thank you! And yes, I use the reg. Ghirardelli mix always--I can't make them from scratch any better either! I was just so surprised that the GF was so good lol.

3 minutes ago, TdeV said:

I'm in the midwest, @Shelby, and wonder about my ability to get fresh seafood. (I used to live in SF Bay area, so Cioppino was rediculously easy).

I did recently get two lobster tail which were easy to do in the Anova steam oven.

But Cioppino, I'm going to buy some today. Thanks!

You'll LOVE it. It ships with dry ice--mine was delayed by two days and it was still frozen solid. Mine always comes UPS which, for me this year, has been the more reliable method over FedEx.

gfweb · 2024-12-25T16:31:15Z

32 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

@gfweb. can you tell me more about the smoked yams?

In the past, I have smoked the yams (in slices) but this year just boiled and added liquid smoke sparingly, salt, a little sugar and enough allspice to give it a taste of something, but not scream allspice. I might have added some lemon juice too.

Its a savory dish. My grown daughter squawks if its not there on Christmas. Which is nice.

gfweb · 2024-12-25T16:32:39Z

@Shelby How do you make those cheesy potatoes?

**Shelby** · 2024-12-25T16:43:13Z

5 minutes ago, gfweb said:

@Shelby How do you make those cheesy potatoes?

Cheesy Potatoes

Super easy. I omitted the onions due to grandkids not liking them (I think lol). If they weren't coming I'd def. do the onions. My slow cooker takes longer than what the recipe says (it also gets hotter on the left side than the right but sigh it still works so I'll not buy another one yet). The day before I cooked it on low for 3 hours, stirred and then did 2 more hours and put it in the fridge. At 6 in the morning I started it on low again for 2 hours. Stirred. Added more cheese to the top. Let it go another hour then turned it on warm. Worked like a charm.

**ElsieD** · 2024-12-25T16:49:02Z

16 minutes ago, gfweb said:

In the past, I have smoked the yams (in slices) but this year just boiled and added liquid smoke sparingly, salt, a little sugar and enough allspice to give it a taste of something, but not scream allspice. I might have added some lemon juice too.

Its a savory dish. My grown daughter squawks if its not there on Christmas. Which is nice.

I have a stove top smoker. If I were to try smoking them, would I cook them first, slice then smoke? I have some I'm planning to have with our turkey this year and wouldn't mind trying this,

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