OT: What is your main course for Christmas Dinner?

What's your choice for Christmas Dinner?

  • Christmas Turkey

    Votes: 2 7.7%

  • Christmas Honey Glaze Ham

    Votes: 3 11.5%

  • Christmas Prime Rib

    Votes: 12 46.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 34.6%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
Ben Rumson said:
Being Norwegian, I can't forget the lefse!
Unfortunately with my grandparents all gone and mom and aunt too I haven't had it in years.
Damn I wish I could turn back the years for just one of those Christmas dinners and oysters too!
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Dude, norsland lefse out of Rushford, MN sells it online. It's pricey at about $2.50 per piece plus shipping, but worth it once a year. My grandma taught me how to make it, but it is a pain in the ass and I don't have the proper pan or sticks to turn it, so I just buy mine premade. They sell it in a lot of grocery stores in the Midwest if you live there.
 
EstronHawkKing said:
isn't it suppose to be really bad for you health wise?
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I have been advised by my nutrionist, aka, my wife, that I am only allowed to eat white gravy once per month because she claims that I "use too much butter and whole milk and the cholesterol is not good for a man your age with your cholesterol profile." That cream of mushroom is basically just a white gravy. It ain't health food. Plus the fried onions on top ain't very healthy, either. I used to make my white gravy with heavy cream, but after I started a health kick I scaled it back to whole milk and cut the butter from a stick to a half a stick.
 
My mom was Norwegian and my dad Italian but we lived near my dad's large extended family of 7 siblings etc etc so Italian food is part of Christmas and many times Thanksgiving. For xmas we usually have ham ( sometimes turkey and my wife and I have done prime rib a couple of times which is great) and a pasta casserole dish called pastchina (pasta-cheen-a) where meatballs are about the size of marbles, pasta and meatballs is layered with sauce and scamorza cheese or some other really good melting mozzarella, and hardboiled eggs are sliced up in the casserole. As it is cooking it is stirred to mix cheese, eggs, pasta (usually rigatoni or mostacholli noodle). Often Italian steak roll or braciole was served along with various vegetables and or a really good salad and italian bread. We also have Graziano's Italian sausage here in Des Moines simmered in tomato sauce as another side dish.

It is a great meal and hard to wait to eat it which is why if anyone is late too bad for them as we start on time.
 
Those Kaukuna Port Wine Cheese Balls aren't bad for a holiday treat. Once you dip a cracker into one, you can't just eat only one! Was at a Christmas party a few years ago, one of these was put out and was gone in about 10 minutes.


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Eyehawk320 said:
My family has been making Christmas Pho. Started 4-5 years ago and has become tradition. My family is Asian and usually have it at my brothers place. My sister in law is Caucasain and she makes really good pho. My mom approves and thinks hers is really good as well.
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Sign me up for that, any time!
 
eledmonster said:
Prime rib would be my call but for the fourth year in a row, I am curing my own ham, it will be smoked on Christmas eve. Damned tasty and way better than most of the commercially available hams.
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yep - curing my own it takes 4 days for a really good cure. probably easier to twice smoke an already smoked spiral sliced.
 
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