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Christmas Eve [4 of us]:
bruscetta
cheese board
veg tray
turkey
smashed potatoes
some sort of veg side I have yet to decide on

Christmas [6 of us]:
MIL said she's making prime rib and she wants me to bring a sweet potato casserole. That's all I know. I'm hoping that my 100% Lebanese MIL will make some delicious Lebanese food though!!

...and lots of wine. Christmas really snuck up on me this year. I am completely unprepared and unmotivated. I haven't even baked cookies But there's always next year!

Christmas Eve:
Boneless Turkey breast (whole thing) with garlic, sun dried tomato and basil butter "glaze"
Cornbread and mexican chicken chorizo stuffing
Roasted Parsnips
Tangerine Cranberry Sauce
Roasted Cauliflower and Garlic

Tangerine and Cranberry cupcakes


Christmas morning:
Kringle (yeast based bread product with almond paste,sugar and butter filling)
Eggs
Turkey bacon
Tangerine juice champagne


Christmas Day:
Desk breast in a fig,shallot and red wine sauce
Roasted carrots and rutabagas (aka swede)
Some other veg yet to be determined but we do have a very full fridge. . .

Christmas morning is ALWAYS pancakes - American-style with maple syrup, bacon and grapefruit or cantalope.

This afternoon, if our oven complies (the bottom part isn't heating properly at the moment and the top part only has about five inches of clearance!) we'll be having a tiny brown-sugar-and-pineapple glazed ham, roast beef, green beans, roasted veg a la Jamie Oliver, cheesy mash and rolls.

Christmas Eve-nibbles..cheese and crackers, smoked salmon, olives, etc
Christmas Day
Breakfast is fruit and yogurt
Lunch is roast pork with crackling (we gave up on the cashew loaf idea)
cornbread dressing
roasted potatoes and parsnips
assorted veg
gravy!!
pecan torte with mocha cream frosting later on in the day
PLENTY of red...
Followed by a walk through the village
Boxing Day
Breakfast-sausage and eggs, biscuits and gravy, homemade apple butter and hash browns
Bean soup
Probably lasagna on New Years Eve. 
On News Years Day we will have black eyed peas

I'm making Steven and his family Christmas dinner today:

roasted leg of lamb
roasted veg (carrots, potatoes, onion, swede, turnip)
mashed potatoes
bread rolls

dessert is a variety of cookies, pumpkin bread, sugared nuts and mince pies

The turkey came out super moist!

But in a fit of blootered-ness, I went and gave away most of the cookies to one of the neighbours.  Now I'm probably going to get roped into baking for every fund-raiser in 2009!  hey ho, I like to bake, especially for others.

Will have to bake some more before we visit the other ones on Boxing Day, although I'll probably just take them a bottle of wine.

Christmas Eve - steaks and baked potatoes with salad

Christmas morning - monkey bread (quick and easy)

Christmas dinner - roast beef, ham, yorkshire puds, gravy, broccoli and corn casserole, mashed potatoes, collard greens with ham, cherry pie, Italian pear cake, and home made peppermint bark and cherry pecan bark.

I did the big turkey dinner on the 14th for friends and students.. (turkey, stuffed shrooms, cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, veggie platters, baked potatos with onions, garlic, rosemary.)  So, for Christmas:

Tom Yum, Thai glass noodle salad with crab, avocado, veggies, jasmine rice. 

New Years Eve dinner is always soba in Japan, so as long as I nab some tasty noodles, I'll be set.  It's tie to start hunting, though.. the best noodles sell out fast.