What's on your 2007 Christmas menu?

what do these people eat?

Frozen vegetables?

what do these people eat?

Prepared food that only requires heating up. 

They do eat salads (prepared packaged ones), too.

I would do the following:

to fill up a large roasting dish:
3 packs of fresh green beans
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1-1/2 cups grated cheese (red leicester is good, or cheddar)
french fried onions (if you have or can find them)
salt and pepper

boil the beans until softened, then mix in a bowl with the soup and cheese, salt and pepper.  put this mixture in the dish and cover with the french fried onions.  bake at 190C for 25 min, cover if it starts to brown too much.

a substitute for the crunchy topping could be corn flakes?? then mix in some sauteed onions with the rest for the onion-y flavor?

YUM! Comfort food at its best....

thankyou so much, I cant wait to try it, i have never had it before.

thankyou so much, I cant wait to try it, i have never had it before.

when I made my GBC at Thanksgiving I forgot to get the soup so I fried up some mushrooms and added double cream ... it was SO much nicer than using the soup .. you should try it! But I don't put cheese in mine, it might be a bit heavy of you're using cheese.

what do these people eat?

it seems my ILs eat some sort of stew, every day.
Beef stew, lamb stew, chicken stew.

when I made my GBC at Thanksgiving I forgot to get the soup so I fried up some mushrooms and added double cream ... it was SO much nicer than using the soup .. you should try it! But I don't put cheese in mine, it might be a bit heavy of you're using cheese.

I've never had it with cheese before my friend made it that way, and it sooo good!! Gives it an extra zip!

How did everyone''s Xmas dinner turn out? Ours was yummy! That filo pastry thing I made was really tasty, although not terribly Xmassy, I think next year I'll do something more traditional but I'd definitely make that pie again for a dinner party.

Although I was not the cook, the meal I was invited to share was wonderful! I even got a share in the leftover Brussels Sprouts. Yum! 

How did everyone''s Xmas dinner turn out? Ours was yummy! That filo pastry thing I made was really tasty, although not terribly Xmassy, I think next year I'll do something more traditional but I'd definitely make that pie again for a dinner party.

Mine was great!  We're very traditional here.   And the turkey was cooked at my house because of a last minute oven disaster at the MIL's but that was fine and in fact seemed to take a lot of the pressure off.  Plus, the brussel sprouts were forgotten and had to be sent home in care packages to the people who actually like them and that didn't bother me at all!

Mine turned out great.  All the veg and roll dough were made Xmas eve, which took a lot of pressure off on the day.  Just nuke and serve.

Was a touch disappointed with Nigella's Ginger Ham in that it said to boil 12lbs for 4.5 hours.  When I took it out of the boil, I did seem a tad overcooked and was falling apart.

Then, like a do-do bird, I put my new digital thermometer in the ham, cap and all (!) and proceed to lose the white cap inside of the meat.  Nothing left to do but pop the ham in the oven to finish off the glaze and hope the plastic bit didn't melt in the meat.  Thankfully it didn't. 

I ended up cooking the whole damn meal (MIL did ask if I'd mind, which I didn't but I expected more help from the rest of the family - which never surfaced ).

We had roast chicken, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, 4 boiled new potatoes for BIL who is a pain in the ars*, savoy cabbage with bacon, broccoli and carrots, peas, a green salad, and sprouts which MIL did. Apple crumble for dessert. Pretty boring IMO but it was what I had to work with. Can't wait to be in the US next year and have a more interesting meal.

MIL whipped up a great meal. which was all ready for us when we arrived. The usual stuff  chicken,potatos,gravy,mixed veggys etc.

I had a Nigella Christmas meal...more or less.....lol and it turned out great

Gingerbread stuffing
Brussels with pancetta and chesnuts
Turkey
Ham
Sweet potatoes with marshmellow and pecans
Maple roasted parsnips
broccoli rice and cheese
and a lentil and bean nut roast for MIL
and the wrapped sausages, bacon rolls, and stuffing balls

we had:

roasted turkey
a small ham
pigs in blankets (sausages in bacon)
sausage stuffing w/ apricots and maple syrup
roasted potatoes, carrots, and parsnips
cauliflower
broccoli
cabbage
sprouts
mashed swede
cranberry sauce
yorkshire puddings
homemade gravy (it was gooooood!)

and i made a raspberry trifle the size of a rhino (just for the two of us!  )

I had a Nigella Christmas meal...more or less.....lol and it turned out great

Gingerbread stuffing

Oooh, i made that last year!    Everyone hated it except me... i thought it was nice!