It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!
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Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas this year. Karla’s schedule is absolutely nuts. She’s been going from 8-2 then again from 5-10 with vacation sits. And Lucas is covering every hour he can at Benihanas to get extra spending cash for his trip to London next week, so he’s working 10-10 today and tomorrow. So Christmas is basically me and Finley… I’m getting up at 6 to make breakfast and we’ll do presents and breakfast as a family from 7-8, but then it’s me and Fin… Snd a Beef Wellington is kind of wasted on him…
But I still felt like cooking something a little extra today, so Finley and I made a huge pot of Sunday Sauce…chicken, Italian Sausage, peppers, onions, zucchini, garlic… and a crapload cheese along with diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and Italian Seasonings and a little paprika…
I’m going to gain 5 pounds by Thursday…
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Leftover Costco rotisserie chicken made into:
- Chicken miso broth with carrots, shiitake mushrooms, dried dates (rehydrated in broth), goji berries.
- Chicken fried rice with egg, onion, bean sprouts, and cilantro.
Peach slices drenched in root beer liquor as dessert.
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Ham, smoked sausage, pulled pork, dirty rice, green bean casserole, cowboy beans, chicken and dressing, candied yams and a few other sides. Desserts included lemon pie, pecan pie, pineapple cake and banana pudding.
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@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
I had the most Christmasy Christmas Eve in 25 years.
We had visitors (11 of us total), ate well, played games, etc.
Not counting kids, we had around 20 of us gather up. Seems like it's a bit less each year. Mostly just visiting, eating and singing around the old piano.
Groups can be fun...
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Traditional meatless Xmas Eve dinner here. Delicious.
The 9 lb turkey bird carcass currently brining in the basement is for the teen; dad doesn’t like it that much (but will eat when fresh out of the oven) while mom, is a determined Pescatarian (although she will eat eggs). Turkey carcass soup on the stove starts right after the dishes are done.
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Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
Asian female, 2 oclock
Peruvian. More clear if you saw her face.
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@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
@Horace said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
Asian female, 2 oclock
Peruvian. More clear if you saw her face.
Whatever. Everything is a starter kit to an Asian female.
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@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
@Horace said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
@jon-nyc said in It’s Christmas Eve! What’s for dinner?!:
Asian female, 2 oclock
Peruvian. More clear if you saw her face.
Peru has always seemed to me to have a lot of folks of Japanese ancestry, I never knew why.
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It does but we have that impression more than we do for Brazil (with 3x the %age of Japanese) because we’re old enough to remember when Fujimori was president.
We did Mayla’s ancestry with 23andMe and she had trace amounts of Japanese and trace amounts of Jewish heritage, in what is otherwise a mix of Spanish and Indigenous Incan background.
8 lbs. We’ll have leftovers for days!