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[wdwfan4ver]

What are you having? I might need to come over! Always wanted to do 7 fishes but my mom does boring chicken salad.

It could be worse.

My cousin's ex years ago made bad tofu for Christmas. How this happened was on my mom's side, it was my cousin's turn to have Christmas at his & then wife's house. My cousin's now ex-wife decided to cook instead doing alternate options including going deli or bakery.

What made it bad is she actually doesn't cook, but cooked on Christmas with the cooking skills of a person that belongs on the worst cooks of America tv show. Besides making bad tofu, she couldn't make rest of the food she wanted to make, but made anyway.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

Christmas day at my sister's house this year will be a couple different types of soups. I'm making beer cheese (the Le Cellier recipe) with pretzel sticks. She is making tomato and a chicken wild rice.

Christmas Eve my husband and I will have charcuterie in between his Christmas services. Our feast of cheesy hashbrown casserole, ham, cheddar cheese tartlets, and chocolate mousse yule log will be on Christmas Eve Eve.

 

[93boomer]

Christmas day at my sister's house this year will be a couple different types of soups. I'm making beer cheese (the Le Cellier recipe) with pretzel sticks. She is making tomato and a chicken wild rice.

Christmas Eve my husband and I will have charcuterie in between his Christmas services. Our feast of cheesy hashbrown casserole, ham, cheddar cheese tartlets, and chocolate mousse yule log will be on Christmas Eve Eve.

We'll be right up! @MinnieM123 get the car ready!

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

We'll be right up! @MinnieM123 get the car ready!

You'd be welcome!

 

[Goofyernmost]

What are you having? I might need to come over! Always wanted to do 7 fishes but my mom does boring chicken salad.

For Christmas eve it is the family to my older daughters house. Pot luck combined with a number of finger foods. Not to exciting but my parents always had a Christmas Eve gathering which she apparently decided to continue in their memory. I like it because until the younger kids were born we always had that and stayed at home so the kids could stay home on Christmas day and attempt to break all the toys they got like magic from Santa.

Christmas Day I bring in a large box of gifts to my younger daughters home for a big Turkey dinner. Another tradition from our family. We would invite our parents (both sides) to our house. I will leave full and the box of gifts bounced back as just barely enough to put in the glove compartment of my car.

The day after Christmas I return to the home of my oldest daughter to have a Prime Rib dinner. Myself and my inlaws for a day of making nice. The Prime Rib was a family tradition for my son in law. Again rinse and repeat gift exchange. That whole three day extravaganza gives us enough family togetherness time to last until Fathers Day. With the occasional call to see if I still am alive and/or My daughters birthday (one in January and the other in April) My Grandsons, one on December 28 and the other February 10th, my birthday and my son in law in July, Granddaughter in August the other December 11th. The other son in laws birthday in September. The birthdays have evolved to not be whole family things except mine and Fathers day. So there you have my entire social calendar for a year.

Calamari fried, pulpo grilled, smelts the boys like them pan fried, baccala in tomato sauce, salmon baked with lemon garlic sauce, stuffed haddock, tuna grilled served over baby greens. It's interesting trying to do this with 2 with shellfish allergies. No mussels, clams or scallops this year The 2 going on the grill is weather permitting, I have alternative cooking/serving options should everything get done inside

Nothing on your 7 fish menu except the Haddock and Scallops (if you had them) would be of any interest to me. My enjoyment of Sea Food is very limited. Maybe Tuna, Shrimp or occasional Lobster or Crab Meat. Haddock or Cod is OK.

 

[Figgy1]

For Christmas eve it is the family to my older daughters house. Pot luck combined with a number of finger foods. Not to exciting but my parents always had a Christmas Eve gathering which she apparently decided to continue in their memory. I like it because until the younger kids were born we always had that and stayed at home so the kids could stay home on Christmas day and attempt to break all the toys they got like magic from Santa.

Christmas Day I bring in a large box of gifts to my younger daughters home for a big Turkey dinner. Another tradition from our family. We would invite our parents (both sides) to our house. I will leave full and the box of gifts bounced back as just barely enough to put in the glove compartment of my car.

The day after Christmas I return to the home of my oldest daughter to have a Prime Rib dinner. Myself and my inlaws for a day of making nice. The Prime Rib was a family tradition for my son in law. Again rinse and repeat gift exchange. That whole three day extravaganza gives us enough family togetherness time to last until Fathers Day. With the occasional call to see if I still am alive and/or My daughters birthday (one in January and the other in April) My Grandsons, one on December 28 and the other February 10th, my birthday and my son in law in July, Granddaughter in August the other December 11th. The other son in laws birthday in September. The birthdays have evolved to not be whole family things except mine and Fathers day. So there you have my entire social calendar for a year.

Nothing on your 7 fish menu except the Haddock and Scallops (if you had them) would be of any interest to me. My enjoyment of Sea Food is very limited. Maybe Tuna, Shrimp or occasional Lobster or Crab Meat. Haddock or Cod is OK.

Cookies did I mention there will be over a dozen types of cookies

 

[wdwfan4ver]

Cookies did I mention there will be over a dozen types of cookies

The question though is how long those cookies are going to last?

 

[Figgy1]

 

[Figgy1]

8 days until Christmas