CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED
Yes folks, we are giving away TWO Cuisinart 9 Cup Food Processors in Brushed Stainless. I still haven’t slept a wink thinking about all of you who don’t have a working food processor. Hopefully this will brighten your holiday chopping load!!
The Rules:
Only ONE comment per person telling me, “your favorite holiday meal, as in, what you like to eat for your big celebration.”
Contest is open to everyone.
Contest ends, Wednesday, December 1st at 12 Noon (Pacific Time)…winner announced later that day.
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~This is not a sponsored contest from Cusinart…just from us. Happy Holidays
Baked ham!
HAM, or anything pork related. yup that’s it
My favorite holiday meal is when we get a Honey Baked Ham – usually only at Christmas. We make homemade dinner rolls, and hubbys favorite thing is to put a slab of ham on a dinner roll – heaven to him!
I think what usually says holiday to me is champagne…although stuffed mushrooms run a close second. 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway.
Lasagna!
Ooooh…
My favorite holiday meal is:
Cornbread dressing
Candied Yams
Seafood Gumbo
Fried Cabbage
And Collard greens
; )
The classics, of course: Honey ham, green-bean casserole, mashed potatoes, corn pudding, and to top it all off, my mom’s famous Amaretto Cookies. SO GOOD.
Pumpkin pie is hands down the best thing about the holidays!
Turkey or filet, creamy garlic mashed potatoes, peas, goat cheese salad, chocolate pot de creme or pie!
I use a food processor to make my famous cranberry relish for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
lobster and champagne is my choice!
Christmas Eve…Italian Feast of the Fishes…11 different types of seafood all on one plate. Need I say more?
My favorite is our traditional Christmas dinner: brown sugar glazed ham, scalloped potatoes with gruyere and bacon, broccoli salad, deviled eggs and rosemary rolls. Yum!
Beef and noodles with mashed potatoes! Apparently it’s only an Indiana thing, but it just doesn’t feel like the holidays without it!
my new favorite, orange zest sweet potatoes
STUFFING!
I love having Chili on Christmas night – It’s not very festive but very nice after all the rich holiday food I’ve had that month.
My favorite holiday meal would be my birthday where my grandmother fixes the BEST prime rib ever. Mashed potatoes, green peas, and red wine complete the meal.
As a vegetarian, my favourite holiday foods all involve copious amounts of prepared vegetables! Ginger glazed carrots, marshmallows and yams, stewed red cabbage, cream of cauliflower… yum!
Coconut coated sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top
My favorite holiday meal is one that reminds me our holidays as a kid. My grandma would make a huge spread of polish food that included everything from keilbasa to guampki to krischiki. Tons of salt, butter, and meat…yum.
My favorite is when my mom makes roast filet of beef. An indulgence since I usually don’t eat too much red meat!
My favorite holiday meal is Roast Beef with Yorkshire Pudding!! Mmmm….
Anything sweet! Pie!!!!!!!
My favourite food for the holiday season is roasted lamb. It is so delicous and I just soak it in mint sauce yummmmy!!!
Oh, boy! I would love to have one of those : ) Believe it or not I use a mini chopper or blender when a recipe calls for a food processor!
Anyhow, my favorite celebration meal is Turkey with dressing and all the typical sides (squash, corn, yams) YUMMO!
Every Christmas Eve for as long as I can remember, up until three years ago when she was too frail to continue cooking, my Japanese grandmother made sukiyaki for our family dinner. Sukiyaki is a beef/vegetable/noodle hotpot served with rice. We all helped chop vegetables, stir the pot, and then watched the cooking on an electric skillet on the table. I miss these days – my sister and my cousins also have their own families, so Christmas Eve is rarely spent all together, as it was in our childhood, but every other year, I make sukiyaki at my Grandma’s house for anyone who can stop by. And of course, I make plenty for my Grandma & Grandpa to have leftovers (they are in their late 80’s and still live independently).
I also make sukiyaki for my friends for New Year’s Eve every year, and of course, whenever my husband and I are in need of a special Japanese meal, this one makes an appearance.
stuffed lobster eatten with my husband and dog on the boat.bliss
I never beg, but today I’m going to make an exception! I have been PF-less for almost a year. 🙁 I miss it so much but just haven’t been able to afford to buy a new one. Oh my gosh I would be so thrilled!
My favorite holiday meal is actually prime rib roast, but the rest of my family always wants ham 😛 So we usually end up having ham. 🙂
Prime Rib – rare of course
I love any kind of beef dish, but I’m partial to the almighty standing rib roast. MMMMMmmmmmmm!
Ham, any kind of potatos, my mother in laws awesome cornbread stuffing. And lots and lots of sweets, my Moms peanut butter cups will be the end of me!!
Our favorite holiday meal is Christmas eve where we do The Feast of the Seven Fishes with all the side dishes. The amount of fish in itself is a meal on its own and the whole family loves it!
My mother was born in Germany so our family always has German-style meals for our holidays (except Thanksgiving). Goose, stuffing, mashed potatoes, red cabbage, cucumber and celery root salads. And of course, a good glass of red wine.
Christmas dinner is one I love a lot. I love having a nice spiral cut ham. Add some sweet potatoes and a spinach salad and dinner is complete.
I always love green bean casserole!
Sea scallops, braised beef short ribs, scalloped potatoes, sautéed swiss chard, and last but not least…..strawberry bread pudding!
My favorite holiday meal has to be ratatouille! My aunts make it for every holiday dinner and it is AMAZING. It combines my two favorite things; veggies and sauce! Yummmm! I’m so excited for Christmas Eve just thinking about it!
Baked ham with potatoes, peas, and all the trimmings!
After my mom passed away , I decided to honor our Italian heritage and make lasagne for Christmas Eve dinner. It’s such a cozy, ‘good memory’ food from when we were young and although I’ll never make it as well, I love having that link with her and our past!
My favorite holiday meal is a fresh ham sandwich and twelve beers. (The ham sandwich is optional.)
My family always had traditional Swedish Meatballs! Yummy!
I would so love this handy little gadget!!
It would make me alot more creative and my family would be happy with all the new foods they would experience!!
Thanks for the opportunity!
My mother was born in Germany so our family always has German-style meals for our holidays (except Thanksgiving). Goose, stuffing, mashed potatoes, red cabbage, cucumber and celery root salads. And, of course, a glass of red wine.
Christmas Eve dinner is the best at our house: Filet Mignon, twice-baked potatoes and other yummy sides, topped off by a decadent chocolate dessert of sorts. All washed down by a big glass of red wine. Mmmmm, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
“Every day is a holiday, every meal is a feast.”
Prime Rib with horseradish cream sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans and for dessert, cheesecake with a gf gingersnap crust.
I had a food processor but nice sister that I am sent it to my sister who was living in England, soooo badly wish I had it still.
My favorite holiday meal is prime rib! Paired with a nice glass of red, of course! 🙂
A delicious honey glazed ham with corn, mashed potatoes and rolls! And whatver else anyone asks for that day. Then going to the Aunt’s house later for delicious pies, strawberry shortcakes, punch and hot chocolate!
Chocolate Cake Log, yummo!!!!
Roast duck – yummy, Traditional for christmas dinner in my family.
We always do a British Christmas Eve, with lamb and Yorkshire puddings…
I like to have a big ham dinner.
I love to have non traditional food for the holidays. Italian or Mexican food usually wins!
I would like to honor the Italian tradition of Christmas eve seafood feasts by making a seafood Lasagna – with shrimp, crabmeat, and lobster. I think it’s going to be such a rich meal, I would keep appetizers (except maybe some bruschetta topped garlic bread to soak up the sauce) to a minimum.
For desert, some Pavlova should keep everyone from skimping, with its delicious sugar-based crust and light filling.
Baked Stuffed Flounder on Christmas Eve.
Green Bean Casserole! An oldie but a goodie!
My fav. holiday meal is one spent enjoying the kinship of my family and friends. Along with all the warm fuzzies I receive I also enjoy partaking in a scrumptious meal of Stuffed Pork loin-bread stuffing w/mushrooms, onions, celery, and raisins,and chopped walnuts, roasted potatoes with caramelized onion sauce,Garlic green beans w/shallots, mini corn casserole cups, yeast rolls with real butter, and dessert of wonderful blackberry cobbler-berries from the past summer put back just for this purpose and to help wash it all down sweet tea, southern style.
Cornbread dressing, kale salad, sweet potatoes with pecan topping, creamed spinach with cippolini onions, pumpkin pie…. and now I’m hungry!
To me, nothing’s better than waking up the intoxicating scent of sugar, butter and cinnamon baking away into a delicious monkey bread masterpiece. It’s the simple things. 🙂
last year it was an apple stuffing stuffed pork loin with a ginger pomegranate glaze – I think that was one of my favorites so far and came out of the oven looking amazing! This year I may even do it again =)
My fave holiday dish is deviled eggs. The year I didn’t come home for Christmas, I made a batch and ate them all by myself.
I enjoy all different holiday foods and just the gathering at the table is wonderful to me. If pushed to choose one food that I really really love at Christmas…it is turkey gravy and whipped smooth mashed potatoes. I can’t help it. It has been my very favourite since I was 4 years old. I get very excited about them. So sad!
Baked ham, scalloped potatoes, green bean almondine, baked pineapple and fresh baked rolls!! Thanks for another wonderful opportunity at something I desperately want!! :0)
I always look forward to my Grandmother’s yeast rolls. So light and fluffy. She brushes melted butter on the tops. Yum!
Only one favorite meal!? I don’t know if that’s possible. However, we’re going to celebrate first night of Hanukkah this week and my mom’s making her fabulous brisket. Oh my oh my oh my do I love this slow cooked goodness. I told her the last time she made it that I wanted to be buried in a vat of her brisket. Of course, we’ll have potato latkes and some noodle kugel and all sorts of other goodness, but it’s the brisket I adore….
Bone-in rib eye roast
I’d have to say my late mother-in-law’s seafood choux puffs. So delicious.
I love a salt-rubbed prime rib, and the smells of it cooking all day. I love cornbread and bacon stuffing, because having it just at Thanksgiving isn’t enough. I love teenie weenies marinated in teriyaki sauce, and stuffed mushrooms are also usually on our menu. Potatoes au gratin are a big fave. The spinach, strawberry and feta with almond salad usually goes over well, too. But my all time favorite is holiday-spiced waffles with homemade whiskey-spiked whipped cream & berries (frozen from the summer blueberry bush), French press coffee with leftover cream and big, fat stockings filled with prizes to start the day. And we wonder why we immediately change into sweat pants after dinner? 🙂 Happy holidays!
Chicken parm and spagetti on Christmas Eve.
Every Christmas my dad would make Portuguese cioppino. Since he past I have been trying to figure out his recipe
A leisurely fondue dinner Christmas Eve in front of the fire is my very favorite!
Green Bean Casserole! And lots of gravy. 😀
We go all out for Christmas! Favorite meal is foie gras and toasts for first course; second course is roast goose with fruit stuffing, mashed potatoes and carrots. Finale is a buche de noel.
Though the meal is not nearly as important as having family around the table, we all like the traditional turkey meal. Cornbread dressing, green beans and yams round it out and we eat cranberry sauce slid right out of the can. I must make pea soup, a tradition from my dad’s Bohemian side of the family. Everyone must eat at least a little of it. It’s a rule!! We like pecan pie, an old recipe from hubby’a mom and various candies and cookies made with love. I have been cooking for well over 55 years and have never had a food processor and while I suppose I really don’t need one at this point, I would love to have one. Thanks, Ava
I’m pretty boring–turkey! I love how moist and tasty it is when baked in a slow-cooker with McCormack poultry seasoning and brown sugar.
Pie! This is really the only time of the year I eat pie. It’s kinda weird, I love pie, but for some reason the holiday season is the only time I eat pie. Pie doesn’t even taste the same the rest of the year ;). However, I will say that after trying the Pioneer Woman’s Dreamy Apple Pie recipe with Hard sauce (a.k.a. Whiskey sauce) I am rethinking the whole not eating pie thing during the other 11 available months.
I look forward to my Grandmother’s pies…unfortunately she is 93 now so she rarely bakes them. Now I bake the pies for my family.
My favorite holiday meal has to be beef tenderloin with gorgonzola sauce, mushrooms, fingerling potatoes and salad.
Being a nurse my family doesn’t always do Christmas on Christmas, be we always make sure to have the Christmas meal regardless! It’s prime rib, twice baked potatoes, green beans from the garden, and fresh rolls! My mom and grandma do all the cooking, this would make a wonderful gift for one of them!
Honey-glazed ham, my grandmother’s peas-&-onions casserole, hari cot vert beans, home made rolls and apple pie. Yum yum!
Prime rib, medium rare with pan roasted potatoes and Yorkshire pudding.
You had to ask, pictures here.
http://menu.vldyson.com/2010/11/20/thanksgiving-weekend-2010.aspx
Second Version
THANKSGIVING WEEKEND 2010
WEDNESDAY DINNER
Appet: Mini sun dried tomato & goat cheese tarts CIA
Entrees: Brisket with Dried Cranberries GM 12/98 152
Spaetzle
Braised Red Cabbage
Desserts: Xmas Cookies
Chocolate Cookies
Pizzelles
Hazelnut Sandwich cookies
Finger Print Cookies
THURSDAY BREAKFAST
Pumpkin Cranberry Bread GM 11/96
Savory Chive and Cheese Quick Bread AMFT
Juice
Coffee
THURSDAY LUNCH
Escarole Soup with Turkey Meatballs BA 2/03 141
THANKSGIVING DINNER
Appet: Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms BA 11/02
Shrimp in Caper Sauce – Tapas
Hot Artichoke Dip with Baked Whole Wheat Tortillas GM 5/03 64
Madeline Kamman’s Smoked Trout with Horseradish Pate on Belgian
Endive IMK
Country Pate
Pork Terrine with Pork Tenderloin Inlay Charcuterie 219
Home Cured Proscuitto
Hard Sausages
Cheese Platter
Entrees: For Everyone:
Sugar Free Brined Turkey Lightly Smoke Roasted on the Grill
For the More Sophisticated Palatte:
Ancho Rubbed Turkey with Coffee Maple Sauce GDMT
Sides Oyster Sausage Stuffing YDHTB 289
Mashed Potatoes and Celeriac with Mascarpone GM 11/97 107
Parmesan Roasted Asparagus BCFS 46
Braised Fennel with Tomatoes and Black Olives Gm 1/86
Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Cream BOFW 115
Marinated Butternut Squash with Mint BOTB 2001
Desserts/Kids
Mint Chocolate Pots de Crème YDHTBD
Miniature Pumpkin Pies YDHTBD
Goat Cheese Cake YDHTD
Coco Chewies DiabD
Orange Frozen Yogurt- Cuisinart
Chocolate Frozen Yogurt – Cusinart
Desserts/ Adults
Lidia’s Chocolate Hazelnut Torte LI 158
Patricia Wells Lemon Tart FW 10/96 108
Pumpkin Cake with Caramel Ice Cream FW 2008 371
Killer Chocolate Cake WWJ
Bourbon Pecan Pie BA 11/09 144 or
Georges Perrier’s Pistachio Ice Cream Ba 1/99 1 3 2
Mango Ice Cream CC II 627
Cheese Plate
FRIDAY BREAKFAST
Roasted Vegetable Fritatta BCHEIT
Sausages and Scrapple Platter
Coffee, Juice
FRIDAY DINNER
Appet: Red Pepper Tapas with Whole Wheat Tortilla Chips
Jean Georges Beet Tartare
Jacques Pepin’s Salmon Bites
Country Pate
Chicken Liver Pate with Pear and Pistachios
Home Cured Prosciutto
Cheese Platter
Entrees: Ham Braised in Burgundy TLG
Beef Tenderloin with Cornichon Tarragon Sauce GB 10/84 116
Sides: Asparagus Mushroom Risotto YDHTB
Potato Gratin with Black Olives FW 2001
Roasted Red Peppers and Cauliflower with Caper Vinaigrette GM 7/08 82
Braised Red Cabbage
Haricots Verts in Gorgonzola Sauce LFT 147
Desserts/Kids
Mini Maple Pecan Pies Dibetic Living Winter 2010
Orange Pots de Crème YDHTBD
Reduced Sugar Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Flourless Chocolate Cake DiabD
Frozen Berry Yogurt- Cuisinart
Desserts/Adults
Pumpkin Mouse SPCB 287
Bourbon Pecan Pie BA 11/09 144 or
Killer Chocolate Cake Etc.
Blueberry Ice Cream GM 6/90 123
Strawberry Ice Cream – Cuis
Grandmas prime rib and cherry cream cheese pie!
My favorite ‘Celebration’ food is Tres Leche’s Cake!! Take cake to the sweet extreme! Think I could get my wedding cake to be Tres Lache’s? Hmmm… 🙂
My favorite is roasted pig and homemade tamales!
“your favorite holiday meal, as in, what you like to eat for your big celebration.” OK, SOMEONE had to do it! I thoroughly love white brad stuffing like momma made!
My grandmother taught me to make biscuits and gravy the old fashioned way. So that is what I make each Christmas morning for my family. We all love it and it is tradition.
The holiday season is cold and I love having something spicy and creamy (not thinking about the calories at once :P).I love eating chicken-bell pepper flat breads with salty fetta cheese,a hearty clam chowder,creamy spinach and artichoke dip with crisp leeks spicy pan fried noodles,chicken-spinach manicotti….hmmmm!! its heaven!
My sweet and spicy brisket with fried potato latkas is my favorite holiday dish – but a meal of appetizers is a very close second!
Turkey and my mom’s sausage stuffing with mashed potatoes and gravy!
It would very possibly be Christmas Eve dinner, where we always have cracked fresh crab and my mom’s clam chowder for dinner. Followed closely by Christmas dinner which is always prime rib!
My favorite is an Apple Pie that has been passed down through out the family for years. I made 4 of them for the first time for Thanksgiving that I had to hand peel all of the apples myself since I don’t have a food processor.
Prime rib and champagne 🙂 Great giveaway… thanks for the opportunity!
My favorite holiday meal is:
Brined turkey
crockpot stuffing
grilled vegetable medley
garlic mashed potatoes
sourdough rolls
Prime rib with horseradish & rosemary crust! Yummy!
Holidays growing up was always roast chicken and spaghetti and meatballs still a favorite
Ham and Cheesy Potatoes. The best ham is from a smokehouse in the town where I grew up.
I like to make a stuffed chicken breast..I stuff it with mozzerella or pepperjack depending on my mood, lots of garlic, spinach and then wrap it all up in bacon. The bacon seeps into the chicken and keeps it moist and flavorful. It goes well with garlic mashed potatoes or a nice buttery rice
Sweet potatoes with pineapple, brown sugar, butter and burnt marshmallows!
We spend every Christmas with our family in Sunriver, couldn’t find a more Christmas type of place. Our favorite dinner is Prime Rib with all the trimmings. Can’t wait.
Hot buttered rums while decorating the tree…
My favorite is Prime rib roast with pan browned potatoes and Yorkshire pudding.
Preface the meal with oven-baked brie and red pepper jelly on mini toasts. Start entree via flute of Prosecco, two pints of Guinness, rack of lamb with balsamic reduction and mint, garlic-rosemary potatoes, homemade dinner rolls, and various vegetable goodies. After eating, a bourbon on the rocks to cap the festivities ensures the attending relatives are too tipsy to begin bickering.
A hot Italian meal on a nice, cold holiday evening.
We’re traditionalists – roast turkey, homemade roasted garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin or pecan pie!
My favorite holiday meal, hands down, is turkey with all of the sides, for both November and December holidays. But, it’s not complete without my mother-in-law’s sweet potato/brown sugar/coconut bake.
Oysters on the grill to start then Prime rib, home made bread, sweet potatoes, green beans cooked with a hamhock…
We like to switch it up a little for Christmas Dinner and have my mom’s homemade Chicken Enchiladas w/ homemade tortillas!! Yummm! For Christmas morning breakfast we have round food…Abelskievers and Scotch Eggs (we bake them to make them a little healthier :).
Hmm.. Sweet Potato Bake and Breadcrumbed green beans and Rice Pudding!
I’ll take traditional fare every time!
Turkey, stuffing, mashed & sweet potatoes, gravy, green beans right down to the Jello mold!!!
I love a mellowly spiced silky pumpkin pie. 🙂
My favorite meal is our Christmas Eve dinner (Wigilia in Polish). My grandmother makes a full vegetarian meal complete with fish, buckwheat golobki, potato/potato & farmers cheese and kapusta (sauerkraut) pierogis, and a number of other dishes. My favorite part of the meal is when she gives us all an individual blessing with an oplatek (wafer) with raw honey on it, then we all do the same with each other. It works well since my family celebrates on Christmas Eve and my Mexican husbands family celebrates on Christmas Day (with tamales-yum) that we keep both time honored traditions alive in our family for my son and son-to-be.
Ham!! with melt in your mouth biscuits!!!
Turkey with stuffing!
My favorite holiday meal is Christmas Morning Breakfast. We make pancakes or waffles, with maple syrup and ice cream and a dusting of powdered sugar….Mmmm… We have orange juice mixed with yogurt & spices in wine glasses and we have fresh fruit. … Oh again… Mmmm…
Happy Holidays Everyone and may the New Year bring many wonderful memories.
Being Italian, we make raviolis for Christmas. Being Naples-Italian, we use loads of cinnamon in the cheesy filling.
Beef Wellington! So delish.
traditional 7 fish christmas eve dinner! baclava, shrimp, crab cakes, and the list goes on!
Braised short ribs and mashed potatoes!
My favorite meal during the holidays is one I don’t have to make! :o) My mother-in-law makes wonderful dinners with all the fixins’ but one of the things I look forward to the most at Christmas is her cheese ball!
One of my favorite things to eat during the holidays is pork chitterlings which I haven’t had in a very long time. Yes, I’m from the country and grew up eating all parts of the hog. Guess I’ll have to settle for the heritage pork belly with sea island peas, charred chili and braised heirloom apples served at a local farm to table restaurant.
Tamales and Bacalao!
My favorite holiday meal begins with an italian antipasto, fruitta di mare (cold seafood salad with simple lemon, olive oil, salt & pepper dressing)and stuffed artichokes. For the main entree, my favorite is a roasted fresh ham with applesauce, roasted butternut squash, mashed potatoes and sauteed spinach with garlic & oil. My favorite dessert to top off the meal is a chocolate fondue with frozen cheesecake balls, strawberries, bananas and angel food cake for dipping AND snowy coconut cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (recipe from Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa). Yum!
This year we will be spending the holidays with my in-laws. We have a big seafood feast on Christmas eve and a goose on Christmas day. It’s making my mouth water just thinking about it.
My favorite dish for a holiday meal is sweet potato casserole. Absolutely love it!
Keeping with our Dutch heritage, my family has oliebollen (literally “oil balls”) on New Years Day. They are balls of a sweet dough with raisins that are deep fried then dipped in powder sugar. So bad…so good!
I look forward to all my mom’s tasty Asian cooking. She’s tried to teach me how to make all these goodies, but they’re never quite the same as mama’s!
Spiral cut baked ham
Anything as long as it’s followed by apple pie and cheesecake 😀
My favorite foods for the Holiday Season is swiss corn bake, gingerbread cookies and eggnog.
why latkes, of course! tunafish on a bagel and latkes. perfect for chanukah.
Its cold around the holiday season and I love eating something creamy and spicy to optimize (not thinking of the calories at once).I love the bell-pepper and salty feta cheese flat bread,spinach and artichooke dip with crunchy leeks,a hearty traditional clam chowder,spinach-chicken manicoti with spicy pan fried noodles with the most heavenly
new york style cheesecake!!! yummy! and ofcourse some nice cocktail to go with it would make it perfect!!!
Our biggest tradition is getting together about a week before Christmas to make traditional Norwegian cookies known a “krumkakes” (pronouced kroom-kaa-gaaz). It takes hours as each cookie is made by pouring batter into an iron over the stove for a few minutes, and as each one comes out another person has to roll the delicate lacy cookie around a wooden cone before it cools. They are super fattening (1 lb of eggs, butter, sugar, and flour) and take forever, but they are soo soo delicious!! They taste the best a few days after they are made, and all of our family friends now request a plate from us. I think in Norway most people just buy these from the store, but we like doing it the old fashioned way!
Potato Latkes for my Ashkenazi side and Loukmades (fried dough) for my Sephardic side… yum!
Lasagna! My grandma started making it for Christmas since it seemed like we were eating turkey and ham for a month straight will all of the holiday festivities.
Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
Well my favorite part of christmas dinner is my families pineapple cake. It never has big chunks of pineapple in it and it is really thick(almost pound cakish), with yummy pineapple infused powered sugar frosting. I wait in anticipation all evening on christmas eve for my mom to roll that one out. We will be without family this year, except our four children, so I will be doing this cake. And other Irish inspired dishes to honer my father in law that passed away on thanksgiving while we were eating our thanksgiving meal. We will be paying extra special attention to love on everyone around us and appreciate even more what the holidays really mean. And I hope my children will see that it is food and love that make the holidays, not just material things.
It’s Mom’s rice and gravy for me 🙂
I love seafood salad and homemade new england clam chowder! I am from the chesapeake bay area in Va and we love our seafood!!
Ham with cherry sauce, mashed potatoes, and all the trimmings! Oh, and PIE. Lots of pie!
I love roast turkey with sage bread stuffing, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, cranberries and pies. It is almost a repeat of thanksgiving but we just love this meal. Christmas Eve is shrimp/cocktail sauce, a few other Hors d’oeuvres, a large salad and the main dish is Alaskan king crab legs. My Cuisinart is on its last legs but has lasted over 20 years. Yikes!
I like anything with mashed potatoes. I rather ham over turkey, but will eat either. I have recently become a fan on sweet potatoes too.
Anything that evolves around dessert!
On Christmas Eve, we have mostly finger-foods. Cheeses, summer sausage, crackers, fruit, and of course, baked goods – cookies, fudge, etc. It’s so nice to be able to relax and enjoy each other and not worry about feeding everyone.
We get together on Christmas Eve and everyone brings something. My favorite is a Christmas ham (with croissant rolls!), a delicious sweet potato souffle, a corn casserole, my mother-in-laws delightful salads (I love her recipes!), and the BEST pies and chocolate layered souffles EVER! I would love a food processor to help with my baking for the holidays!!
my family likes comfort food on xmas eve while we all sit around the tree and open our gifts. mom will make homemade fried tacos or salmon patties, salad, etc. it is easy-going on xmas eve. 🙂
I don’t really have a favorite holiday dinner. As long as it tastes good, I’ll eat it.
I’m up for just about any foods.. traditional and not so much… but the one thing I HAVE to have is Oregon Pinot Noir… can’t be Christmas without it ( or any holiday for that matter )
todd
My favorite holiday meal is a big juicy turkey, a scrumptious rice bake, delicious veggies, and lots and lots of wine!!
My favorite dish is stuffing which can be so time consuming if you don’t have a food processor. This one you are giving away is so beautiful and I would love to use it during Thanksgiving and Christmas time!!!! Good luck to me 🙂
Ooooh, that’s tough! I have a favorite dish for each holiday! Since Chanukah is here, I’m going to say my mom’s latkes. They’re awesome!
My favorite holiday meal is the one we have on Christmas Eve ~ eggs baltimore (crab cakes in lieu of canadian bacon)on cheddar & black pepper biscuits, asparagus, homemade hasbrowns, fruit and of course christmas cookies for dessert! It’s a family tradition that I look forward to every year! Yum yum!
It’s all about my mothers stuffing. She didn’t make it for Thanksgiving (my sister made it instead) and it just wasn’t the same.
Thanks for the chance to win one of these.
Ham and mashed potatoes with any kind of bread. Thats my fav!!
My favorite holiday meal is broiled scallops, roasted potatoes, asparagus & anything chocolate for dessert! LOVE your website!
My mothers stuffing!~always the best…She just passed away in October of Alzheimers…so it looks like I have to perfect the recipe to keep it in the family~
We usually do the traditional meal of Turkey or Ham, but this year we are “shaking” it up! We are going to have Italian & other Meat dishes like Italian Beef, salads, and of course wonderful desserts!
My favorite meal is the one I had with my mom for the first time in 22 years. Classic Turkey, her homemade stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. It was simple, but the best meal I’ve eaten in a long time.
Turkey!
My very favorite holidy meal is prime rib, we ususally have it on Christmas eve with all the trimmings and as much family as we can.
Anything sweet! Pie!!!!!!!
Ham and mashed potatoes if my fav!!
My favorite meal is Christmas morning while opening stockings. Monkey bread and bacon!
Beef tenderloin, au gratin potatoes, creamed spinach, popovers and cheesecake for dessert.
I like to eat turkey with mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole and all the fixings. Mostly my favorite meal consists of deviled eggs and stuffed celery, my before meal snack.
Pie- cake- anything sweet!
Baked ham and mashed potatoes with any kind of bread! That’s my fav!!
Pork Roast & Sauerkraut is my favorite meal and we grew up having this on News Year Day — Tradition to ring in the New Year
my mom’s meatball recipe!
Cornbread dressing!
Prime Rib, and don’t forget the chocolate!!
My favorite Holiday meal has to be a great big Christmas Ham, with loads of vegetable sides, like smashed potatoes, swet peas, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, ginger-maple carrots… the more veggies the happier my ham and I are.
Christmas Eve – Tortiere and Salad with a Cranberry Vinaigrette
Christmas Day – Pierogi, Cabbage Rolls, Meat on a Stick – a very traditional Polish meal.
I love baked ham and mached potatoes with any kind of bread.
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i love cornbread stuffing with sage and sausage topped with gravy! we have it for thanksgiving and christmas
Our traditional Christmas breakfast is coddled eggs, toast and bacon with mimosas!! Then, Christmas dinner is a garlic and Rosemary encrusted Beef Tenderloin with a red wine reduction sauce and cheesy-potatoes 🙂 🙂
Every Christmas Eve, my family would make Eggs Benedict — the one thing we would all happily eat — so that has become a huge favorite over the years.
Popovers for Christmas breakfast and carrot souffle with dinner.
Cranberry relish! I just love that stuff!
I love pumpkin bread~! 🙂
My favorite holiday eatings are ‘Sugar Cookie Tarts”, ummm , boughten good sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting, assorted fruit on top of that, then drizzled with a special glaze. ummm
My favorite holiday meal is christmas morning breakfast with scratch biscuits, home made preserves and LOTS of butter (and of course the candy santa leaves in stockings…)! Gotta love the opportunity to have a real breakfast with the family now and then as the typical law student breakfast is a cup of black coffee and a banana!
I have to have my homemade pecan tarts, then, purchased on Christmas Eve ready to heat up and eat during gift giving, from our favorite Mexican taco shop: carne asada burritos with champagne, topped off with prime rib dinner!
Tamales! That’s our Christmas tradition.
I confess, I cant live without gravy during the holidays. Its good on everything!
Mashed potatoes are my comfort food. I could eat them at every meal, just not very good for the diet.
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It isn’t very traditional but I love to eat lamb!
I always look forward to a spiral sliced ham, garnished with whole cloves, and pineapple slices. Then finished off with a holiday treat of
deviled eggs, with a hint of horseradish in them.
My favorite holiday meal is a bone-in rib roast. Although for me the holidays are full of home made cinnamon rolls.
Oh, I have always wanted one of these!!!!
My favorite holiday meal is the one my in-laws make when the come to stay with us. We have an Austrian Christmas and it is full of flavors that have become my new comfort foods. These dishes include: warm potato salad (no mayo), a cucumber salad, a butternut squash soup that is heavenly with a special pumkin seed oil they bring with them… and the new family special holiday dish – Wiener schnitzel.
I’m beginning to think that I would like anything that I don’t need to make and clean up after…….
The best part of the holidays is spending time with my whole family. My favorite holiday meal is turkey with home made gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and home made rolls!
my favorite holiday meal? prime rib roast, yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, green beans, & a big green salad 🙂 yum yum… now i’m hungry!
I think our favorite side is mashed potatos, my kids like them any which way, and of course stuffing, the meat can be turkey or ham, doesn’t matter. And oh I would just love to win this, I have never owned one of these and my daughter was saving up to buy it, so that would be a nice surprise for both of us:)
A traditional holiday dinner can’t be beat..turkey and all the works!
Cornish Hens without a doubt. . . .jsut fancier .
I always look forward to the cheesy potatoes with corn flakes on top! It’s the easiest dish to make but a total crowd pleaser – we usually have to make two because they get eaten so quickly! Yum! Can’t wait for Christmas!
We usually eat the standard of ham with rolls and veggies, but this year our family was not able to get together for Thanksgiving, so we are doing our favorite Thanksgiving meal: wild turkey fingers, rolls, green beans, mashed potatoes, and enough cookies and pies to feed an army.
Clove studded baked ham with raisin sauce on the side, twice baked loaded potatoes, green beans fermier, ambrosia with toasted coconut, refrigerator yeast rolls with honey butter, and suet pudding with fresh whipped cream for dessert.
Happy Holidays!
My favorite holiday dish has to be my moms home made stuffing with her secret ingredients: apple cider and walnuts! delish!! and top it all off with some pumpkin gingerbread trifle for dessert 🙂 happy holidays
Holiday meal….since I’m the cook, I guess I just try to please my family. Isn’t that what all cooks do? My favorite meal would be chinese take out…..
Ham and mashed potatoes with any king of bread is my fav!!
Last Christmas, I did a red, green and white meal — white roasted turkey breast; fresh green beans and broccoli; red cabbage coleslaw and red potatoes; with green olives, cauliflower florets and sliced red peppers as a starter. For dessert, strawberries over angel food cake with green-tinted whipped cream (OK, I cheated on that part).
My FAVORITE holiday meal is our family’s traditional Christmas combination of a Turkey dinner alongside of baked ziti! I know it doesn’t quite go together, but being Italian-American, we can’t have a holiday meal without some kind of pasta in there =)
My favorite holiday food which needs a food processor is potato latkes for Chanukah!
Turkey and all the trimmings!
Our tradition for Christmas Eve dinner is oyster stew with homemade lefse. Everyone sits around in the kitchen watching my husband and daughter make the stew while the rest of us are sipping on wine.
Standing rib roast with horseradish sauce …. *drool*
This required no thought….
Thanksgiving Meal
Roasted Oysters
Clam Chowder
Cornbread
Fried Venision tenderloin
Pumpkin Pie
My very favorite holiday meal is standing rib roast, roasted winter veggies, a nice red wine, and most importantly family gathered from all over.
Being a Hispanic-American family means eating traditional foods from both sides of the border at holiday time. We have turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and I mean ALL the trimmings; but we love to add some south-of-the-border favorites: tamales, chile-con-queso, bunuelos, frijoles, sopa de fideo, and flan!
Roasted organic turkey, smashed yukon gold potatoes, tons of fresh vegetables and if we’re really lucky and industrious we substitute homemade ravioli for the potatoes.
Pierogies! They alwayss remind me of my grandmother and Christmas would not be complete without them.
OK, I’m a very traditional kinda guy.
Let my holiday feast include; turkey, mash potatoes, dressing, lots of gravy, cranberry sause, green bean salad, and apple pie.
But I think I’m going to add Christmas Cranberry Salad this year !
I love the standard turkey and fixings but ham seems to be more traditional for Christmas.
My favourite holiday meal is one I don’t get to make very often (as my guys are turkey lovers all the way). But my fave is Honey-glazed ham, scalloped potatoes, brussel sprouts with white sauce, homemade cranberry sauce, and apple-cranberry pie for dessert.
My favorite holiday dinner is all traditional. Turkey dinner with all the wonderful sides, especially when the matriarch “Mom” is cooking.
My favorite Holiday meal is Thanksgiving dinner, especially this year. It’s the dinner I’ve most taken over from my mother-in-law, I used to just do the turkey and stuffing itself but this year I chose and prepared mashed potatoes, butternut squash, sauteed brussel sprouts in balsalmic vinegar, my wife did the yams, and a friend brought glazed carrots and fresh made cranberry. We didn’t even need to argue about where or how big a turkey to get as my son won it in the turkey shoot for his bowling league. I’m a deciple of Alton Brown so of course I brined the turkey with apple cider. Pies, cheesecake, Flan with dulce de leche, and pineapple upside down cake were all available for desert. We blew a gear on the legacy Braun food processor I inherited from my grandmother this year and the new kitchenaid mixer doesn’t have a shredder/slicer attachment so the food processor you’re giving away would be a real boon. Though it won’t make it in time for latkes tomorrow for the first night of Haunakha.
My favorite holiday meal would be my mother’s famous pie with cheese and dill!
Fried turkey! I would love to win this; broke our small one not too long ago. 😉
I love a good chicken permesan but anything with bacon and garlic will do just fine!
Perfect way to start Christmas day is with some Champagne and smoke salmon on toast while preparing the perfect meal.
I love the traditional turkey and dressing and all the side dishes that go with that….pecan and apple pie for dessert…yum
On Christmas Eve, we eat snack foods and sandwiches, usually ham & turkey. I love the snack mix and cheese ball and just being able to have a taste of everything without having a heavy meal.
I love a nice crusty Prime Rib Roast with buttery mash potatoes. I guess you could thrown in some fresh green beans, if there HAS to be a vegetable. : )
My favorite holiday meal is comprised of only side dishes. Mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, gravy, biscuits, all the fixin’s.
Lobster Thermidor, made by my husband.
My family always does steamed crab on Christmas eve. It’s my favorite!
Don’t know how you’re going to choose, there are so many great menu items! And there is a part of me that thinks you’re doing this contest just to get some great ideas for a few meals of your own 🙂
My favorite holiday meal is a big messy crab feed! After the season opens, hopefully tomorrow, the friends and family will pull out our calendars and schedule this year’s annual Holiday Crab Feed. There will be fresh baked French bread, crisp green salad and a pot of steaming Dungeness crab with melted butter for dipping in a bowel on a warming plate…all atop at newspaper clad table surrounded by smiling faces of my loved ones.
Fruktsuppe (Fruit Soup) It’s not a “meal” but my mother and my grandmother before her always made this as a starter before our Christmas meal. We usually eat it at room temperature with cream. mmmmm….so good!
Ham and mashed potatoes with any kind of bread is my fav!!
My grandmother used to do roast goose, simmered cabbage and Czech dumplings. I miss it.
My favorite holiday meal was one year I mad a prime rib with all the works.
We always have a standing rib roast – I have a dedicated smoker and so that’s how I cook the roast (Amazing) – also make Yorkshire pudding to go along with the roast beef.
duck with potato dumplings 🙂
Christmas Eve, we always found different ways to do the Seven Fishes thing, but there was also always pasta and, from the Hungarian side of the family, sauerkraut soup. Now that my family is just my dad and I, we do our best to recreate it, but usually opt for a seafood stew to get those seven fishes in one dish, instead of 7!
Here is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner menu. Roasted duck stuffed with prunes and apples. Red cabbage, mashed potatoes and duck gravy. For dessert, rice almond pudding made with slivered almonds. We hide one whole almond on one dessert plate and the person who gets the lucky plate receives the first present of Christmas. Always have to have our butter-almond cookies, too. Additional sides and desserts are welcome, but if these dishes aren’t on the table, it’s not Christmas.
What fun, mouth-watering reading all these menus are!
i look forward to the side dishes most… i can have chicken or turkey anytime but i rarely have the occasion to have a large vaiety of veg in one meal, especially my dads aniseed-braised carrots.
the bacon-wrapped-around-cheese things are also something i can never have too many of!
Lobster!
My favorite holiday meal is breakfast Christmas morning we have:
Thick sliced Bacon
Scrambled Eggs
Grits
Sausage
Fried Scrapple
Homefries
Pancakes
Waffles
Thinking about it is putting me into a food coma. Mmmm…
Pierogi. With potato, with cheese, with turkey and sage, with sweet potato, with fruit. Pierogi, how I love thee.
My favorite holiday meal is Filet with a red wine sauce 🙂 mmm
Hmmm … my favorite holiday meal is one where my whole family is together. I don’t really care what we eat as long as we sit down and share it together. My best childhood meal memories are ones with an Italian theme, so bring on the pasta, italian greens, salad, and bread. Oh, and chex mix to snack on. YUM!
Pecan pie! It’s a tradition that I look forward to every year.
Our celebration starts with our annual appetizer contest. Contestants must make something they have never made before. Those that don’t participate are the judges. We then give prizes for 1s and 2nd place. We have prime-rib every Xmas and change up the sides. Doesn’t much matter what the sides are we have a family of fabulous cooks, so it always all taste good. Followed by many of our mother’s Xmas cookie recipes.
My favorite meal is one with my family; turkey and mashed potatoes with a little “boat” that I can put corn and gravy in! I’ hungry just thinking about it…
My mom’s cranberry trifle. The most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten, and it screams Christmas!
My favorite holiday meal would have to be what I make for New Years Eve every year. And, yes, I know it’s a Southern thing. We make ham, black-eyed peas, greens, and cornbread and eat it at midnight on New Year’s Eve. And the more peas you eat, the better luck you’ll have! 🙂
Beef Wellington, grilled asparagus, crusty french bread, scallop soup, and chocolate torte with a big red with dinner.
If I could have any holiday meal it would have to be a combination of my mom’s macaroni & cheese and collard greens, my aunt frances’s rolls (to die for!), my uncle bishop’s oyster stuffing, his ribs and his ham, and, deep fried turkey. That would be the perfect meal
I looooooove da cake!
….and sutffing….yams…and ham…oh my I can’t hardly wait 😀
I love to make a spiral slice glazed ham with roasted asparagus or brussel sprouts and scalloped potatoes. Home made rolls and a ambrosia cream cheese pie. yum.
Very traditional-to my fam-turkey, dressing, ham, mashed potatoes, my Mom’s sweet potatoes fried in butter and brown sugar, ham gravy, Grandma Main’s cranberry relish, green beans, scalloped corn, spinach salad with hot bacon-honey dressing, pumpkin pie w/real whipped cream, fruit salad and hot from the oven yeast rolls.
My favorite meal is the traditional Thanksgiving turkey w/dressing. My mother makes homemade noodles and they are the best I have ever eaten. Oh, and her yeast rolls are wonderful. She also makes a wonderful cranberry salad using fresh cranberries. I guess Mom’s meals are my favorite.
Christmas!- the Christmas Eve meal is steak fondue, crusty bread (with butter of course) and what my brother and I coined back in the day, “Build Your Own Salad.” We set up bowls of everything you ever might want to put on a salad and help ourselves. The next day any left over meat and veggies are sauteed w/ eggs for steak and eggs served along side my mother’s pecan rolls, otherwise known as “Brenda’s Better Buttered Buns.”
Appetizer Chilled Shrimp & Sauce
Sweet & Sour Meatballs
Chip & Dip
Mimi – Cheese & Bacon
Cajun Nuts
Entrée Prime Rib
Ham
Mashed Potatoes & Gravy
Cheesy Potatoes
Green Beans/Beets Alm/p
Corn Casserole
Fruit and letuce Salad
Rolls
Desert Cherry pie
Ice cream cake
pecan pie
Key Lime
Cake
Coffee
Tea
lamb roast
red wine and rosemary roasted carrots, potatoes, zucchini
caesar salad
light dee light cake
espresso
My favorite meal is the traditional turkey with dressing and cranberries (must have cranberries with turkey).
I also like to try something special for Christmas breakfast each year.
Please pick me! I need the food processor badly! I’ve actually been researching different brands over the weekend.
Favorite meal is mom’s homemade Swedish Christmas Eve dinner with meatballs, red beet salad, pickled herring, small sausages and fresh bread and cheese. Yum!
I love a good salad and blueberry pie 🙂
My favorite meal is an antipasto salad and fresh tomato sauce with homemade ricotta and basil.
I *love* homemade tamales containing leftover turkey, some cotija cheese and pomegranate seeds…YUM!! Can’t wait to make them again for the holidays this year!
It’s got to be a good old-fashioned turkey sandwich on white bread with freshly cracked black pepper and a dollop of mayonnaise.
Wow u guys are good..Im so hungry.We are Polish so we have a Polish Christmas Eve dinner (all Polish foods usually meatless)which is tradition to make 12 dishes (representing the 12 months) so here are some of our favs over the years.Oh BTW i had to include dessert rite ladies?
Homemade Pierogies
Rum Babas
Polish style roast chicken
Candid Kielbasa
Halushki-the best eva……
Paska Bread….Egg bread
Platski-Fried Potato Pancakes
Happy Holidays all
Prime rib, mashed potatoes and gravy, and pie!
My mom makes pork tenderlion waffles…its my favorite meal…
I LOVE Mexican food!!!! Yummy with a nice tall Margarita!!….guess I know what I’ll be having for dinner tonight! 🙂
Every year my Mom and I get together to make Rosettes cookies. I think of her when I eat one!!
Chicken fried deer backstrap with baked potato and tossed salad.
My favorite holiday meal is the day AFTER Christmas. Open-faced ham sandwiches with mashed potatoes and green bean salad.
I’m a traditionalist. I have to say, the turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and my cranberry sauce.
I figure I can experiment with recipes all year long, I NEED my turkey with all the fixin’s though!
Spare the Noble Pig! Rare Roast Beast(beef) with Yorkshire pudding and gravy!
My favorite holiday meal is that surrounding Christmas. Christmas Eve, my grandfather would make frito misto and Mom would make pasta with a tuna sauce (the tuna had been caught by my Dad!). We would have all sorts of homemade goodies for dessert. Christmas Day, a big ole turkey with lots of apple sausage stuffing, pasta, escarole, and pie for dessert – lemon cream, pumpkin, and apple!
My grandma’s mashed potatoes…If we didnt have anything else and I had to just eat those potatoes I wouldnt mind it at all! But I also love turkey and homemade dinner rolls.
My favorite holiday meal would have to be roast chicken, twice baked sweet potatoes (yummm), roasted asparagus, and lots of dessert!
My favorite holiday meal is more or less the same for the last 15 years. My “big sister” Teri and her husband Gary invite me and 5 other random guests for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner. All we have to do is show up! We have either tomato bisque or butternut squash bisque (fixed in the Cusinart) from their garden for soup course. The everybody gets 12 shrimp over asparagus or mixed greens (with homemade dipping sauce) (and toasted almonds). Entre is perfectly roasted organic turkey with mashed potatoes and dressing and gravy over everything! The additional veggie varies from year to year. This year it was roasted parsnips and carrots. The entire menu is WHEAT FREE GLUTEN FREE including the desserts! The bread this year was onion dill in sorghum flour! DElish! With Irish butter! We had pumpkin pie, raisin pie, apple crisp and pumpkin custards . . . all with real whipped cream. IN CONCLUSION: My favorite holiday dinner is the one Teri fixes! Always perfect! Always delicious! And the bonus is . . . Teri sends everyone home with leftovers! I can nosh for 3 days more!
I’m Jewish, so I love some potato latkes and apple sauce for Hanukkah! I’m one of those poor readers without a food processor.. Shredding potatoes would be a lot easier with one!
Kassler rib with German potato salad, red cabbage, and homemade apple sauce. Fröhliche Weihnachten.
My favorite meal for celebrations is lasagna. I love making a huge dish so everyone can eat as much as they’d like and there will still be leftovers the next day.
My favorite holiday is ham, green beans, sweet potato casserole, creamed corn, rolls. and lots of desserts. It’s what we fix, what we had at grandma’s house growing up. I can’t imagine eating anything else.
Love to have two choices of meat, Turkey #1 and either ham or prime rib… Must have garlic or regular mashed potatoes, butternut squash, herb and sausage stuffing, asparagus, brussel sprouts or corn for a veg, and homemade scrumptious rolls. Any holiday meal would definitely not be complete without my Grandmothers apple pie 😉 NOW I AM HUNGRY!!!
We eat a heavy breakfast and then around 4 in the afternoon we roll out butcher paper along the dining room table and have a feast of Grilled King Crab Legs, a variety of dipping sauces, i.e. passion fruit vinaigrette, grilled baguettes and champagne. Heaven!
Baked ham, mashed potatoes, homemade rolls and to top it off…cherry pie. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.
Cake, cake, cake, all kinds of cake, and above all, cheesecake! Oh yes, and when my boyfriend makes pasta. Not only he’s sexy while cooking, but the food is heaven 😉
The best part is having all the leftovers on a sandwich the next day!!
Chanukah is my very favorite holiday.
We celebrate by having potato pancakes with sour cream and applesauce.
A new food processor would help me grate the potatoes without adding my secret ingredient—-knuckle skin.
For Christmas, a standing rib roast w/pan gravy and yorkshire pudding, hands down! In my family for every holiday gatherings we also have to have something called “the salad” (it has many other proper names I realize) which has toasted hazelnuts or pecans, sliced pears, blue cheese, thinly sliced onion and baby lettuces with a basic balsamic vinagrette. YUM!
New Years, King Crab and Rib-eye, Now this is the stuff to start a new year, Happy New Year.
I love “party” food. Any kind of pre-meal food is my favorite.
I like to make Pastelles and other Puerto rican dishes that require ground up plantains. without the machine you have to use a grater to get the right consistency to the Masa. It takes hours sometimes days. But with the machine it is a much easier task. Puerto Ricans love their Pastelles around this time of year and my family is no exception. I would love to have this Machine for for reasons then I can count.
For my money, nothing beats a great Christmas ham. A thick honey glaze, a touch of nutmeg and clove… yeah, that’s the best! For the side, I love green beans braised in some white wine, and with a little bacon or lardon thrown in.
My favorite would be our New Years Day meal of Prime Rib baked in a salt dome with garlic smashed potatoes, roasted asparagus and some pecan pie!
Christmas day brunch: sausage, mushroom, egg, and cheese casserole, scones and croissants with clotted cream and jam, maybe bacon, fresh fruit, and lots of assorted candies and pastries.
Beef Tenderloin and garlic mashed potatoes
My favorite holiday meal is the same if cooked by my grandmother, my mother or by me…we love tradition. It includes turkey, mashed potatoes and corn (from the garden) and then my favorites sweet potato casserole (the one with the pecans!), green bean casserole and crescent rolls. Of course it has to end with coffee and pumpkin pie 🙂
Meatless Christmas Eve dinner for sure. Pierogies with mushroom dill sauce, cabbage rolls and borscht are my favorite dishes out of the traditional eats. A variety of homemade dainties top off the meal for dessert. Can’t wait!
Definitely Christmas dinner! We always make ham and au gratin potatoes! Some nice cranberry/apple sauce, some sweet potato rolls and a nice sour cherry pie! It’s the best!
And I always have to have some nice sparkling wine, too!
turkey!
Our Favorite or Traditional?? The thing is we change it up every year at Grandma’s on Christmas Eve. This year the kids want to try cooking live lobster probably accompanied by twice stuffed baked potatoes and other yummy things I borrow from food blogs. 🙂
On Chirstmas Day it’s a traditional Turkey Dinner. The best part is my sweet pototoes. That cuisinart sure would come in handy. 🙂
Happy holidays!
My favorite holiday meal is a baked ham with mashed potatoes and gravy!
My favorite Christmas dinner is…(drumroll, please!)Cheese enchiladas with Chili Gravy, Guacamole, Pico de Gallo, Refritos, Mexican Rice and Tamales! We make everything from scratch, except for the tortillas and tamales…and we try to buy Tamales from our neighbors because they are so-o-o-o good! Merry Christmas or should I say…Feliz Navidad!
My favorite holiday meal MUST include apple and sage sausage stuffing! nomnomnomnom
My Favorite thing to cook for the holidays is my grandmother’s spekalatus-which are little German spice cookies! They are made with crushed almonds which I usually just bang with a mallet-so this would be helpful!
turkey noodle soup, two days post thanksgiving…. delicious!
In the south it’s always chicken and cornbread dressing.
Potato latkes and pecan pie . . . Hanukkah with some southern style.
My favorite Holiday Meal requires lots of chopping and cutting for the Cornbread Dressing to accompany the Deep Fried Turkey,Deep Fried Pork Chops,fresh cranberry salad,Fresh Fruit Salad,Brussels Sprouts with Bacon,Candied Sweet Potatoes,and Coconut Italian Cream Cake.Sweet Tea, of course.That’s my bit of Heaven in Tennessee
Brussel Sprouts roasted in the fat from a slow cooked pork belly…topped with golden crispy skin bits and a shaving of pecorino romano and lots of cracked black pepper.
On Christmas day we have turkey, ham, stuffing and all the trimming – pretty much like Thanksgiving and I love it!
A beautiful roast, usually beef but sometimes ham or even goose! The house smells lovely all day.
One of my favorite holiday meals was the year we loaded up with take-away Indian food, put it in our prettiest dishes and ate ourselves silly!
It has been our tradition over the last few years that my husband buys a nice BIG Honeybaked ham for Christmas. It really is like the best ham. I like some kind of potato gratin with it and veggies and fruit.
Growing up in South Texas the traditional Christmas food will always be tamales. They’re extremely delicious and always a crowd-pleaser.
We also eat more traditional food but the tamales are definitely what make the holidays really feel like Christmas!
Fried turkey, dressing, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole…your usual Southern style holiday meal. 😉
Our family is big into tradition and for as long as i can remember we have had cheese fondue on christmas eve with our own personal family cheese blend (parmesan, Dubliner and Jarlsberg). We make homemade baguettes to dip. Christmas night we make crab cakes and individual beef wellingtons. The crab cakes with my secret ingredient of cheese its instead of bread crumbs, and the beef wellingtons made with tenderloin slices, homemade basil pesto (instead of liver mousse) and very finely chopped portobello mushrooms sauteed in butter and then all wrapped up like a little present in puff pastry. Happy Holidays from Vail, Colorado!
Thanks for the chance! Lasagna has to be my favorite holiday dish. I usually make it for a holiday party.
When I was a child (some 50 years ago) we started a tradition of getting carry out Chinese food for Christmas eve. My parents were both working and mom would be doing a lot of cooking the next day. In addition to that, there was still so much left to do-presents to be wrapped, midnight church service to attend. So dad brought home egg rolls, fried rice and chow mein.In recent years we use the leftovers to make a fabulous scramble on Christmas morning.It’s not Christmas until you’ve had Chow Fun in your scrambled eggs!
I love to make these baked apples where you top them with an oatmeal crumb mixture and top them with whipped cream or ice cream. Oh my.
Christmas crab swimming in butter, salad, artisan bread and a good sauvignon blanc. Something chocolate for dessert…yummy!
I can’t wait to have some of my Mom’s baked stuffed shrimp and scallops! YUM
Our favorite is Grilled Beef Tenderloin, Current Glazed Carrots, Broccoli in cheese Sauce and Stuffed Baked Potatoes. My brother won’t come to my house for dinner if I don’t have those potatoes!
Ham! I could eat it every single day! (I’m not sure that my family could!)
Our favorite family holiday “meal” (which we eat while opening presents on Xmas Eve) consists of our favorite hors d’oeuvres along with Champagne for the adults and sparkling apple cider for the kiddos. Every year I make the same 3 things: crab canapes, stuffed mushrooms, and mini shrimp puff sandwiches. For sweets, we always have peanut butter blossoms (that were baked up to leave out for Santa) and some of the candies that I usually make for gift-giving (cranstachio bark and toffee crunch bars). The holidays wouldn’t be the same for our family if I didn’t make this exact combination of things every year!
I’m never one to turn down a good Honeybaked Ham! YUM!
Juicy prime rib with horseradish sauce, twice baked potates and a big green salad
For breakfast, sausage breakfast casserole, dinner prime rib roast with Bearnaise sauce….and for dessert a white chocolate peppermint cheesecake.
Beef Tenderloin, yummy potatoes, chocolate cake, and a deep red wine!
Christmas is my favorite holiday and an early Christmas dinner (all the better to accommodate seconds and thirds later)of glazed ham, my mom’s cornbread stuffing, cranberry sauce, mixed souther-style greens, and macaroni and cheese with pound cake and sweet potato pie is my favorite holiday meal!
My favorite holiday meal is dinner at the sushi bar.
Steak and potato…latkes! With applesauce and sour cream.
Breakfast – sausage sourdough casserole
Dinner – Prime rib roast with Bernaise sauce and a white chocolate peppermint cheesecake
Can’t wait! Happy holidays to you all.
My favorite holiday meal is to load up on appetizers- baked brie in a puff pastry, mini quiches, spinach dip, cheese, crackers, turkey rollups… I love em all!
My favorite holiday meal starts with a special drink designed for the occasion.
Then it would be a traditional turkey dinner with all the trimmings. We are traditionalists in my family and the children do not like to deviate from it.
Plus, tomorrow is my birthday!
Happy holidays to all!
Xmas eve is traditionally an important day for Italians. So we celebrate with a feast of seafood. I invite some close friends over for Calamari, Scungilli Salad(snail/conch), Baccala(salted cod), Ipswich clams, Quaghogs(raw cherrystone clams), Clams Oreganata, Clams Casino, Schrimp and somtimes Lobster & Crabs. Oh yes, and alcohol.
The prep, the cooking and the wonderful
fellowship makes for a truly special occasion.
My favorite things are turkey, cheesy hash brown potatoes, cream cheese corn in the crock pot, pumpkin pie and my mom’s cranberry relish w/ oranges and apples. I don’t have a food processor or food grinder and believe me,it’s hard to make w/ just a blender and takes forever!
I love Turducken! And of course lots of wine and champagne and kir royales!
Aw, I wish I had a food processor:( My favorite thing to make is my new cookie invention! Mince-pie cookies. I made up a batch of sugar cookie dough but I was about half a cup of sugar short, so whilst searching in the cupboard for more, I came across a jar of mince-pie filling, so i used half a cup of that instead of the sugar. They were AWESOME. I’m making more next week to give as gifts to our landlord and neighbours, and I will definitely keep them in stock during the holidays.
Christmas eggs with homemade biscuits. I always make them for breakfast during the holidays…it’s what my kids request most!
anything made by my grandmother.
The only thing I require that my holiday meals have is something with pumpkin.
My favorite Holiday meal is Christmas dinner. Our family gathers in Sunriver every year, no better place to spend Christmas. Prime Rib with all the trimmings has been the family favorite.
Has to be Prime Rib with Horseradish. Yum!
My mom’s ham biscuits, they’re unbeatable!
Our family’s traditional Christmas Eve meal involves a huge ham and multiple veggies, green beans, big huge salad, cooked carrots, etc. My favorite meal of the holiday season is December 26th, my grandma and I batter up shrimp and oysters and Dad fries them with hush puppies, cole slaw, and other seafood fry sides. The homemade batter is the best!
For years we would spend all day in the kitchen cooking our sit down Christmas dinner. As my brother and I got older and had families of our own, the holidays became more and more hectic. A few years ago we decided to skip the sit down meal and to just make a huge selection of finger foods and appetizers. We still have our traditional smoked ham! I love having a selection of “tapas” for Christmas!
Happy Holidays to you!!
Twice baked red potatoes with every fattening add-in under the sun…butter, cheese, bacon, sour cream, cream cheese…oh my! And brioche rolls!
Aren’t you just the best! I have a food processor on my wish list for Christmas, but winning one would be even better!
My favorite Christmas dinner is (shhh, don’t tell my mom) my mother-in-law’s beef tenderloin, boursin scalloped potatoes, asparagus and any other goodness she graces the table with… I dream of the year includes a Yorkshire pudding, simply TDF *drool*
Anything with champagne in my Waterford Crystal Flutes. Champagne makes any day a holiday!
My favorite ‘Celebration’ food is Tres Leche’s Cake!! Take cake to the sweet extreme! Think I could get my wedding cake to be Tres Lache’s? Hmmm… 🙂
I LOVE cranberry sauce…just a big bowl of homemade cranberry sauce. :]
My FAVORITE holiday meal is a mixed breed of many items: steamed king crab claws, steak, herbed corn, scallop potatoes, and my apple spice cake. Wine is a given throughout the evening:)
On Thanksgiving, my sisters, Mom, and I decided we would go back to an old favorite for Christmas dinner…After hot buttered rum, there will be grilled steaks with sauteed mushrooms, baked potatoes, and King Crab. Desert will be cheesecake. We are foregoing gifts, so we can swing the expense…
Incidentally, a food processor has been on my wish list for years. I have never owned one. Maybe this will be the year.
Happy Holidays to you and yours!!!
MY favorite holiday is pot roast, creamy garlic mashed potatoes, and green beans. Yummy!
Oh wow. Mashed rutabaga and russian tea cakes say Christmas to me. But not together, of course!!
Fillet Mignon stuffed with garlic cloves and served with creamed spinach and potato gratin!
Honestly, my favorite part of the meal is sitting down with the entire family for the epic gathering. Yes, the food is amazing….as is always the case when my parents are cooking. From crown pork roast to cranberry walnut ambrosia salad, I love it all. But it wouldn’t feel quite as special without multiple tables lined end to end from one end of the dining room stretching all the way into the living room. Something I am very excited about this year is that we have decided to make it a pajama dinner party. This way everyone can take more time to enjoy their mornings without the stress of having to get gussied up for the big dinner.
Love your site BTW, and thanks for the opportunity to win such a great giveaway.
My fav is roasted brussel sprouts with olive oil, bacon bits and Parmesan.
Christmas Eve is my favorite holiday meal. We are Italian, so we always do the 7 fishes, but must eat at least 13 different things to provide good luck for the year to come. We always have:
smelt
calamari in marinara sauce
shrimp – breaded and peel n eat
clams
bacala
lobster
clam chowder
scallops
breaded cod
stuffed mushrooms
pasta with marinara sauce
pizza
3-4 assorted cheeses
stuffed eggplant
assorted fresh veggies
lupini beans
pepperoncini
assorted family made cookies
assorted adult beverages
King crab legs
I love brussel sprouts roasted….yum….
I love Christmas dinner…my mom makes these little sandwiches made of canned chicken spread (I know, but it’s really good) on white bread cut into little triangles….we eat plates of them….
A glass of eggnog with nutmeg on top! Oh and Mom’s Russian teacakes of course.
My mom’s pot roast with all the trimmings, and Grandma’s apple pie! I look forward to it during all my finals because it reminds me of home and relaxation.
My favorite Christmas dinner is crown roast with cornbread stuffing, potato au gratin, roasted vegetables…and this year we are making upside down apple cake 😉
My famous homemade dumplings – pan fried or steamed with a side of homemade cranberry compote. Heaven!
Lasagna… we are Italian so we always have an Italian dish as a side… that’s my favorite!
Commenter #342 loves standing rib roast for christmas!
Lobsters and grilled shrimp with garlic butter!
My favorite meal for Christmas is tenderloin, potatoes, roasted brusselsprouts, and turnips for good luck
Dutch Bunny on Christmas morning for my family. This simple comfort food, a baked apple pancake, says love
I love Christmas Season, the aroma of ginger and spices wafting through house as we make our cookies is divine. A food processor sure would be sweet!
Thanksgiving’s turkey, dressing, sweet potatoes and dumplings are hard to beat. But, we splurge at Christmas, usually having beef tenderloin on homemade rolls. The gang insists on sweet potatoes again aperhaps with creamed spinach and a festive salad of some sort. My mouth’s already watering!
Well, my holiday meal is for Chanukah. My favorite food to eat is, of course, potato latkes(which definitely need a food processor to make!. I make my own chunky apple sauce with blueberries. We also have a brisket of beef, fruit compote using apricots and prunes. A food processor would be awesome this year, to help make our celebration a breeze!
My favorite meal is the same for Thanksgiving,Christmas, and Easter. Turkey cooked upside down to get the white meat juicier, stuffed with oyster dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberries, veggies, jello salad, coconut cream, pumpkin, cherry, and pecan pies. What a feast!
I like anything that is “candy”
Just writing this makes me hungry for Christmas dinner 🙂
Salad, Steak, Homemade Rolls, Scalloped potatos, green bean casserole, and my great grandmother’s recipe for homemade apple pie and her famous chocolate angel food cake!
Yum Yum!
I would definitely have to say a spiral cut honey ham with all the fixin’s!
Every Christmas morning, my mom makes a delicious breakfast casserole with french bread, sausage, cheese, eggs, and more. We eat it with grits (yes, I’m from the South 🙂 and biscuits. It is so delicious and it is the ONE time we have it a year. I look forward to it all year long!
I love the traditional ham with stuffing and mashed potatoes. Plus as always a lovely dessert.
Christmas Eve tradition:
Swedish Meat Sausage, Mac & Cheese
and Green Bean Casserole
I LOVE greenbean casserole! and Cheesecakes!
We do soups and sandwiches on Christmas Eve, and it’s the best! All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins get together, and not having a big sit-down meal enables us to float around and see everyone.
my favorite holiday dishes are my famous fruit salad and caramel pecan pies my future mother-in-law makes. i’ve always had a sweet tooth!
My father always makes garlic roasted lamb and a big bowl of creamy parmesan mashed potatoes! A plate of that with some eggnog can cure ANY holiday stress (although be warned, it isn’t exactly a light meal)!! 🙂
We always have ham for dinner, and my dad makes what he calls his “buffet tray” for snacking before dinner with various goodies like smoked oysters & crackers & veggies & chips along with a shrimp dip that he only makes for the holidays.
turkey with all the trimmings, it’s basically thanksgiving part II
I love my Grandma’s yeast rolls and dressing.
Our main course changes every year, but there are ALWAYS beautiful crepes for Christmas breakfast! Light and simple, and you’re just hungry enough in time for the big meal.
I think the best quality free-range roast beef (Yorkshire pudding, et. al.) or turkey (cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes, etc.) are my top two. They’ll work for many big holidays! Thanks.
A seasonal mac and cheese with butternut squash and thyme. Mmmm…
I just really want mashed potatoes 😉 I’m a simple girl.
Pork and Pinot…without a doubt, thats an easy one!
Honey Glazed Ham, with mashed potatoes, corn custard and green beans wrapped in bacon. Oh, and my moms homemade rolls!
Honestly, in my opinion, you can’t beat a good smoked turkey, some of Mom’s cornbread stuffing (which makes heavy use of a food processor, I should mention), and some giblet gravy. *slobber*
I’d love to win one of these Cuisinarts. I have a dirt-cheap, several-years-old Black and Decker food processor that’s about ready to give up the ghost.
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L obster stew
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Ii enjoy ham, greenbeans, potatoes, congealed salad and coconut cake.
Being from Texas, it’s not a holiday without cornbread stuffing. My god, I could eat a whole pan of that stuff…
Beef and noodles with mashed potatoes! Apparently it’s only an Indiana thing, but it just doesn’t feel like the holidays without it!
On Christmas Eve I love catfish stew and southern hot water cornbread,soooo gooood!!!!
I made a prime rib roast for Christmas dinner last year, with Au Jus and horseradish sauce, all turned out so yummy… its going to be our holiday meal for at least the next few years! And FYI, I’ve never owned a food processor other than a tiny one for making baby food!! 🙂
Mashed Potatoes are the best!
Fav holiday meal is salt-crusted beef tenderloin with potatoes anna and a big spinach strawberry salad plus an apple linzer torte for dessert!
Snowball salad!
I would have to say that a lobster meal, shrimp, or Rao’s Lemon Chicken.
The best part is eating with loved ones and friends.
Despite all of the normal holiday fare, my family always looks forward to my Lasagna. It’s a recipe that was given to me by my dear late mother-in-law, and it was given to her by her mother-in-law. No matter what else we have for dinner, whether it’s Turkey, Glazed Ham or a Standing Rib Roast, Nana’s Lasagna is always the first to disappear. Happy Holidays!!!
Ohhh Thats easy! Veggie Lasgna – I make a kick ass sauce with it!
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A beautifully prepared ham with all sorts of finger foods and casseroles surrounding it…this is what we like to have at our Christmas celebration… oh, and my Daddy’s southern biscuits..they’re the best! Kay Guest
That would have to be Hanukah I get to cook from all the traditional food I grew up with for my family It is so unique and different from the Thanksgiving meal we just had and the Christmas meal we never have
Thanks for the chance to win the amazing Cuisinart! Our holiday meal changes from year to year, depending on who is hosting the always incredibly generous and delicious meal. The best part that always remains constant is family being together. Thanks again!
Roast beef (my brother makes the best ever), Yorkshire pudding (from the pan drippings), Parmesan-garlic mashed potatoes, steamed veggies. A grand family tradition.
Coachala: A delightful stew of shredded pork and chicken. Made out of a spicy broth thickened with corn masa. The stew gains consistency and flavor with roasted tomatillos and chiles blended into the broth. Must go with: a dash of lime, a crispy radish and some crazy tostadas!
If you don´t believe me ask Diana Kennedy!!
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Greetings from South Carolina !
Since I haven’t made home made pasta and sauces in a while – I became inspired after watching Eat,Pray,Love. What a gastro-wine fueled pasta orgy. Got to have some of that at Christmas. At least 5 dishes with some of those stuffed mushrooms of yours. Just waiting for everyone to cast their favorite vote. I love your blog and followed you for a while now – could it be I have over a collection of 400 + pigs. Cathy
Hands down, my favorite holiday dish is Duchess Potatoes. Handed down from my mother it’s a mess of onions, velveeta, bacon, mayo…and of course, potatoes. And the best part if you don’t even have to peel them. YUM!
I like the classics – turkey dinner with all the traditional sides. Second best: ham with scalloped potatoes.
Turkey, turkey gumbo, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, brussels sprouts with bacon, green bean casserole, spinach madeleine, schoolhouse rolls, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, pecan pie, and apple pie. Mmmm.
My favorite meal is simply a lot of appetizers: cheddar and asparagus quiche, mushroom and cream cheese quiche, bacon and artichoke quiche… you get the idea. And for dessert: cheesecake. Yum!
Homemade mac and cheese – with homemade noodles. yum!
Every year for Christmas, since I was little, we have gone over to a family friend’s house and made ravioli. We make the dough, roll it out, add stuffing, and cook them. The stuffings and sauces vary, but the food is always good and the company is always amazing.
yummmy! Im all about turkey, stuffing, graving, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce…
I also love turkey and all the trimmings. I love making AND eating that meal and could do it several times a year! Sadly, my hubby is not fond of turkey, so we swap in a prime rib or something now and then…
Always a turkey basted with wine, butter, honey and orange juice, and stuffed with a mixture of sourdough bread, spinach, mushrooms and parmesan!
Tamales on Christmas Eve
Christmas dinner is my favorite, especially the sweet potatoes. Actually I just love it all, and it would be so much easier with a food processor!
I love turkey and homemade cranberry sauce.
We make a beef tenderloin with a mushroom cream sauce… its AMAZING!!
I’m a traditional purist. I need a good turkey, some killer cranberry sauce, Mom’s stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy and at least 6 different desserts to choose from 🙂
Growing up, my family always served ham on Christmas Eve, and I always hated it. A few years ago I finally decided to try making it, and discovered now I really enjoy it. So ham it is!
tutcake pie, a french meat pie. my great grandmother would make it for my grandmother’s birthday but when my grandmother first made it for my grandfather, he loved it so much that it goes in the thanksgiving and christmas rotation.
I celebrate everything. Christmas/Chanukah. Easter/Passover. And, I will eat anything as long as it is food.
A piece just broke off my Cuisinart last week and now it only works if I hold it together while it pulses … this would be great!
I adore turkey and stuffing and all the fixin’s.
Every Christmas we make Crab Bisque with crusty bread.
I love chex mix and fudge during the holidays!
Turkey, dressing (with a little sherry and butter poured on top to keep it moist), Rice & Peas (family is from Jamaica and its a tradition), mashed potatoes and gravy. Anything else that comes along is fine but these are required.
Green bean casserole is divine! I wish I could have it every day of the year. It’s so deceptive because you think you need 5 a day from the veggie content.
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Leg of lamb with gravy!
I wasn’t able to get home for Thanksgiving, and I realized that, while we had a great feast down here, I really missed chopped liver and knishes. (Since when am I so Jewish?!)
butter and sugar, in excessive amounts.
Honey baked ham!
Beef tenderloin – with extra horseradish!
My grandmother’s candied sweet potatoes, much different from what everyone else thinks of i learned later in life. Hers are cooked so the candied bit turns into a glaze on them. first time someone gave me a sugary swamp with sweet potato islands and called it candied sweet potatoes i thought they were crazy. 😛
Ducken (deboned chicken stuffed in a duck) with Corn Tomalito and Sausage stuffing! It’s also my favorite thing to make.
My favorite holiday meal is any meal I get to share with my 4 daughters. It can be grill cheese sandwiches and soup or ham with all the trimmings or the soft gingerbread cookies we make together. The girls are the special ingredient in any recipe.
Thanksgiving is always my favorite – all of the family recipes, tried and true additions and new favorites. But really, if we’re talking a big party, new years eve’s ham hocks and black eyes peas is great before a night of drinking.
My favorite meal is the pumpkin pancakes and buttermilk syrup for breakfast!
Warm, gooey cinnamon rolls Christmas morning. I think I look forward to those more than the presents themselves.
My Mamie’s stuffing. My aunt tried to make it one year — she added pickles and pickle juice. Disgusting. Learn from our horror. Don’t ever do that.
My sister has since learned how to make it. I really need to bug her for that recipe…
Shortbread! Wait, is it bad that I consider Christmas cookies a meal?
Favorite holiday dinner would be prime rib, rare, made by me!!
My favorite is my grandmothers crab dip, I’m from maryland and despite having hundreds of different crab cakes, soups, dips, salads, etc., her crab dip is undoubtedly the best use of crab ever!
My favorite holiday meal is our traditional Christmas morning breakfast featuring:
-2 types of sausage: maple and sage
-thick cut peppered bacon
-fresh made cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing
-eggs over easy
-fresh squeezed orange juice mimosas
Yum.
Oh, just thinking about this makes my mouth water…..
for Christmas dinner we have prime rib with horseradish sauce…..
….or maybe I should say cheese fondue for New Year’s Eve….
Steak with my family. I don’t have it often now that I’m in college so I get really excited when I go home and my uncle is cooking up a whole bunch of steak!
Any day I make Tarte Tatin is like a holiday.
Oh man, I’m so not picky…but I love a good stuffing!
Prime rib or honey baked ham
Mom’s mashed potatoes and gravy. I could eat them all month.
A traditional New Mexican dinner with tamales, posole, enchiladas, and biscochitos.
It’s gotta be my mom’s pumpkin pie.
Christmas Eve filled with appetizers and desserts. I love eating a little bit of a lot of different things.
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My favorite holiday dinner is prime rib and I have been making it for 40 years.
Traditional Norwegian Dinner: Meatballs, mashed potatoes, lefse and lingonberries!
My favorite holiday meal is my dads smoked turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, creamed corn, cranberry stuffing and homemade cranberry relish.
Our holiday dinner is basically a glorified Thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, ham, beans, corn. YUM. Can’t wait. I also can’t wait until tomorrow when Hanukkah starts and we make our Latkes 😀
halupki and mashed potatoes
I love my dad’s homemade eggnog and mom’s peanut butter kiss cookies!
Oh my GOODNESS!!! I hope I win this one, good gravy I could use a food processor!! My favorite holiday meal is definitely the turkey and all the sides. It makes me happy. 🙂
My mom’s stuffing…the recipe is handed down from my grandfather, and its the best!
Christmas is my favorite holiday and what I really like for dinner is Prime Rib with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and fresh green beans and carrots steamed together. Can’t say what I would really like for dessert with this meal as there is never enough room. Although it should, or even could, be salad something like a Apple Waldorf Salad would be what I would have. Might as well finish off the beef with a semi-healthy dish. Plus with this processor it would be easy chopping up all the parts.
I love to cook and eat MONKEY BREAD!! It is my absolute favorite, I wait all year to eat it!
My favorite holiday meal is maybe a little non-traditional, but it would definitely be pierogies! My great-grandmother used to make them from scratch, and we’d go to her house for lunch on Christmas day, so her home-made pierogies were definitely my favorite meal of the holidays!
Baked Ham with Raisin Sauce the way we always had at home and Mother made. Oh the great memories there are.
The Family Fruitcake Prepared and baked for everyone to share Family and friends alike 🙂
Mac n’ Cheese and my mom’s oxtail (Filipino style)
Pork tenderloin, vanilla bean whipped sweet potatoes, fried apples, strawberry spinach salad and biscuits!
I NEED this! My favorite holiday meal is my mum’s Christmas Morning breakfast. She makes an amazing baked french toast with peaches and pecans…to die for.
My favorite holiday meal? My mom’s turkey and dressing with her famous egg custard pie for dessert. She is 87 years old, so now and my sisters and I have taken over all the holiday cooking. Still, the memories give me a warm feeling and make me hungry! Mmmmmmm………….
My favorite holiday meal is Christmas breakfast – whether its my mom’s “California Breakfast” (aka make-you-own breakfast burrito) or my mother-in-law’s delicious homemade cinnamon rolls with a side of bacon Yummm
My favorite holiday meal would have to be traditional Chamorro (Native of Guam) dressing (also known as Riyenu). It’s unlike any other dressing I’ve tried, complete with ground beef, fried potatoes, chunky bread crumbs, relish, evaporated milk, and pimentos. My family actually adds in a surprise ingredient: Apple Pie filling. I know it sounds quite odd, but it’s absolutely delicious!
Well, what I’d like to have is different from what we will have, but I love a good baked ham, au gratin potatoes, green beans and dinner rolls. Yum!
My favorite holiday meal would be my Filipino grandma’s recipe for pancit and lumpia.
I love cookies. I could live on them!
My favorite would have to be pumpkin pie. It’s not something that I make year round so I really enjoy it when I get to have it. 🙂
I like to have Thanksgiving all over again – a big turkey, mashed potatoes, etc. Why only eat turkey once a year?
Prime Rib with scallopped potatoes!
When I was a kid I could ask for whatever I wanted to for my birthday dinner, and I usually asked for spaghetti and meatballs…homemade sauce and homemade meatballs…yum.
Ham! I’m the only one in my family who’s really adamant about having it for Christmas, but I put my foot down and they love me, so they oblige. 🙂
Every year my sister and I make Alton Brown’s fruit cake recipe as a present for our parents. I look forward to breaking into it every year after we give it to them!
prime rib with real horesradish and au jus
twice baked potatoes
roasted asaparagus
green salad
rolls
pumpkin bread pudding for dessert
My fave food is pumpkin mousse trifle!
Many years ago I was lucky enough to spend Christmas Eve with a family from Mexico. We had Menudo which had been simmering on the stove all evening. The great odors filled the house. All of the children went to bed at 8PM and were woken up at Midnight to see what gifts there were for them. Then we ate the Menudo and had fresh corn tortillas and beer. It was such a good time.
Finger foods! Everyone brings their favorite…delish…snacks all night 🙂
When it comes to a big meal, I don’t care what the main course is, as long as there is some form of Ridiculously delicious, creamy, and completely unhealthy macaroni and cheese! Mmm Mmm!
king crab legs and stuffed shrimp for xmas dinner!
My favorite holiday meal: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, hot dinner rolls, carrot souffle, and lots of pie (pecan, apple, rhubarb, etc…)!
My mom’s pumpkin bread pudding cannot be beat!
On Christmas eve we just have appies and sit around and visit. Nice and relaxing way to connect.
cheers
We always had chili and oyster stew with the aunts, uncles and cousins on my dad’s side for Christmas. I still crave the oyster stew at holiday time; I can have chili anytime!
My mother makes an amazing roast ‘beast’ and Yorkshire pudding with gravy… still my favorite holiday meal!
Pistachio, pumpkin & yellow squash lasagne..
YUM-O!
Ham, scalloped potatoes, corn, all of it – bring it on!!
My favorite is roast beef, Rosemary potatoes, Worcestershire pudding and Caesar salad. My dream dinner!!! 🙂
Turkey or ham with mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, homemade buns and pecan pie with whipped cream!
My favorite holiday meal usually features Cornish game hens. A prime rib roast is also way up there on the list.
I love making sweet potatoes for thanksgiving! Everyone always expects to hate sweet potatoes and end up pleasantly surprised. 😀
A most succulent prime rib roast, with all the delicious accompaniments. Our “must” with every holiday dinner is Baked Curried Fruit.
Turkey Casserole!
Oops I meant YORKSHIRE… What a dork.
Honey baked ham makes the most amazing brisket, so that with some of my sister-in-law’s green beans and something sweet to finish it off is all I need!
lasagna 🙂
traditional thanksgiving meal…turkey, potatoes, cranberries, veggies, and rolls!!
My grandma makes the BEST noodles. She makes them homemade and uses stock from the turkey to make the tastiest amish noodles you’ve ever had!
My favorite holiday meal is eating all p the holiday cookies I bake after finally finishing baking them 🙂 I also love potato latkes… they are amazing!!
Oooh, that’s tough. I really love the finger foods that my family usually has on New Years, but I love turkey on Thanksgiving too!
Roast beef- slow cooked, roast potatoes, roasted vegetables, and fresh French bread and butter.
I am looking forward to eating Christmas breakfast… grits, bacon, eggs, and my favorite, sausage gravy and biscuits.
i love a big bowl of noodles with loads of fun, savory toppings on top – simple but it definitely hits the spot!
Turkey, savory sides, a sweet, rich dessert, and a champagne cocktail.
My favorite Christmas meal includes beef tenderloin on the grill, with twice baked little red potatoes, asparagus gruyere tart, salad with candied walnuts raspberries, in parmesan baskets, homemade sour cream crunchy biscuits and then the traditional grilled turkey breast with cornbread dressing made from my grandmothers cornbread recipe, butter beans, sweet potatoes in orange cups (1/2 marshmallows, 1/2 pecans), ham, fresh cranberry relish, and then dessert roulage with raspberry sauce, croquembouche, peppermint ice cream with chocolate sauce and lemon curd tarts. Yummy can’t wait!!!
I love pasta! But really, my favorite part of holiday meals is the desserts! 🙂
I LOVE our christmas eve tradition of making christmas tree pizzas with my sons!
my fave holiday meal is baked ham, scalloped potatoes, and roasted brussel sprouts. Any homemade dessert makes it perfect!
My favorite is the pecan pie. Yum!
Cracked crab, crusty sourdough bread, and ice cold champagne!
I love leg of lamb. Or any meal that includes polenta.
We don’t have a traditional meal yet. Every year we either eat at a fancy restaurant, or stay home and have meals ranging from prime rib to hot dogs and fries. After each meal I always say, “Wow, that was great. We should make that a tradition.” It never happens. I haven’t decided what to do this year, but I am sure that it might be a new tradition.
Christmas brunch of strata, baked french toast, fruit, bagels and lots of coffee.
Soup for dinner.
I actually love salmon for New Year’s – roasted brussel sprouts, puffed pastry wrapped brie and the rest of the menu is still up in the air…I did make your corn/cranberry bread for Thanksgiving and absolutely loved it!!
Thank you for the opportunity!!
Standing Rib cooked to perfection!
It is odd…. I can make all kinds of extravagant dishes – that take all kinds of skill — but the family loves the old fashioned Broccoli Salad! Go figure!
Favorite holiday meal: Lobster Bisque, Oysters on the half shell, Champagne, New York Strip Steaks w/ Crab Salad, Raspberry Triffle
My grandma’s sauerbraten with potato dumplings the size of “an eight year old’s fist.” There’s nothing like a recipe perfected over 70 holidays and oh so many generations!
my favorite holiday meal is HAM AND MORE HAM plus pecan pie and more pecan pie
My favorite holiday dish is Christmas cookies, for sure! 🙂
christmas morning, we have ambrosia, egg casserole, and monkey bread. this consists of biscuits rolled in butter, cinnamon and brown sugar, then smooshed together and baked. delicious!
Our traditional Christmas dinner is a bone-in rib roast with au jus & horseradish sauce, garlic mashed potatoes and a wedge salad with popovers. Dessert is always something chocolate, I’m thinking this year it will be a chocolate ganache torte with a macadamia nut crust. The food processor would come in handy so that I don’t have to hand crush all the nuts.
Glazed Ham!!! It makes my mouth water every time I think of it. We only have it for Christmas because it’s just too much work for every day. I love trying a new glaze each year. Even though that part is different, it’s still salty and delicious.
I host a Christmas-Eve get-together for my side of the family (25+ people) and each year we choose a different theme for the menu. My favorite by far is “Breakfast/Brunch”…lots of muffins, french toast, and ham & biscuits.
I love to serve a pork loin with an apricot sauce, scalloped apples and a mixed green salad with spiced pecans, apple and swiss cheese
My favorite is free-range, locally raised turkey with my mother’s homeemade gravy & stuffing recipes!
Our favorite holiday meal is ham and scalloped potatoes. I’ve become a more avid cook over the past 5 years but alas do not have a food processor. The scalloped potato prep would certainly go a lot faster this year with that gleaming cuisinart on the counter!
The marshmallow-topped yams make it a holiday for me, no matter what the meal is! 🙂 That and lots of desserts… 🙂
My favorite holiday meal has to include my mom’s cereal party mix. Not sure if that counts as a whole meal, but I sure do eat a lot of it! 😀
Well, for Christmas, my family celebrates a different country every year so every year the food is different! We’ve enjoyed a Greek meal, Italian, Polish, German, Mexican, British, French and this year it will be Scandanavian. I would have to say the best year so far was Germany.
Stuffing…. MMMM
I love the traditional meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, scalloped corn & lefse!
Prime rib / spinach casserole / mac n cheese and bread pudding for dessert!!
I don’t have a traditional meal. As long as I’m sharing food and drinks with my family, I’m happy!
latkes!
I like all the sides: almond stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green bean casserole… just not the protein main dish.
Lamb, mashed potatoes with rutabagas, and carrots
Fresh Dungeness crab on Christmas Day!
My favorite Holiday dish is called Pecan Pumpkin Crumble. It’s a secret family recipe and tradition. It is so yummy and unhealthy that I love making it. This would be perfect because I love whole roasted pecans around winter time, but hate chopping them!
This year, Mom is making rack of lamb which really makes me happy. But I usually look forward to Yorkshire Pudding…my mouth is watering just thinking about it.
I love stuffing with gravy and peanut butter fudge the best!
Our traditional meal for the Holidays consists of:
Escargot in the shell with homemade french bread
Peppercorn and herb crusted Prime rib marinated in port
And Duck A L’orange (for those of us that aren’t red meat eaters
Wild rice pilaf with quinao, cranberries and dates
Roasted root vegetables with herbs de Provence.
Yorkshire pudding
Harvest salad with winter greens, pears, blue cheese and seasoned pecans with a raspberry vinaigrette
nearly flour less dark chocolate cake with a grand marnier infused creme anglaise
Then we top off that decadence with
Homemade eggnog and homemade orange liquor
My family has a Mexican feast every Christmas. Delicious.
Oh my…
Roast
Herb and goat cheese mashed potatoes
Grilled asparagus
Tidewater feather rolls
And of course….dessert!
i like sweetbread, sausage and stuffing. yum..
We always do Raclette, a special swiss cheese melted on a small hot oven and poured over boiled potatoes. It isnt the holidays without that. yum
Chicken with mole and rice! My mom makes the best!
We don’t have many traditional dishes centered around Thanksgiving, but when it comes to Christmas, more often than not, we have a ribeye roast with a horseradish crust. And lots of Brussels sprouts, potatoes and popovers!
My dad makes the BEST breakfast egg strata that the entire family looks forward to every year.
Beef Tenderloin w/ Roasted Carrots and Fingerling Potatoes. Keepin’ it real.
It starts with creme brûlée french toast, mimosas,
Fresh citrus fruit salad, then from there …. It ‘s hor’s d’vores, pick, pick, and then It’s shrimp, or crab cakes, a yummy potatoe dish, greens, a dreamy cake or two and cherries jubilee… And to all a good nite!!!
Mmmm Fondue…
Turkey, dark meat, mashed potato, salad Olivie and for dessert – homemade Napoleon or my Mom apple cake
Sweet corn bread pudding!
we like turkey and ham on the holidays and of course the left overs!
We’ve adopted my husband’s Swiss-Italian family tradition, which is polenta and stew made with Swiss sausage (distinct from Italian sausage in that there is no fennel). 🙂 Yum!
Turkey, Turkey, and some more Turkey!!!!!
Bourbon glazed ham!
As long as I can have mashed potatoes and gravy, I’m happy.
My favorite holiday meal is Christmas dinner at my in-laws. We usually start with prosciutto wrapped cantaloupe, then cheese filled homemade ravioli. The main course is slow roasted rib roast, twice baked potatoes, broccoli rabe, mashed cauliflower, homemade bread and of course WINE! Oh my goodness I can’t wait!!!!
what a generous giveaway!
i have been deciding on my holiday baking as desserts are so much more appealing to me…
gingerbread cookies, buche de noel & a lot of chocolate baked goods!
Homemade Red Lobster style dinner: Snow crab legs, baked potatoes, and cheesy biscuits. Followed by real whipped cream fruit salad and something chocolatey for dessert.
I love Christmas…..traditional….turkey, dressing, and all the trimmings!
Beef tenderloin with garlic mashed potatoes!! Yummmmmmm.
I would love to win the food processor!
My family loves a beautiful prime rib roast with garlic mash potatoes, two vegetables, rolls, and a trifle for dessert. I’ve served many different menus over the last 40 years and this gets the most requests. Happy holidays to you and yours!
My favorite holiday eat is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner at the family’s favorite restaurant! Last year was the first year we have EVER missed the dinner (due to my grandfather being in the hospital) so we are all really, really, really looking forward to getting back together over this meal.
Happy Holidays!
Anything sweet! Fudge especially!!!
My cousin made a wonderful roast last year. Definitely at the top of my list.
I love the traditional meal roast turkey meal, but my favorite is the memory of one I did years ago. It was so much work, but so delicious. It was a roast turkey with a stuffing made with black beans, pumpkin seeds, shrimp, oyters, etc… The glaze included reconstituted dried ancho chiles. Someday, I’ll make it again.
I miss my Norwegian grandmother’s holiday meal with salmon and crock pot meatballs! I do have a food processor but, it is on it’s last leg. It was a wedding gift for my parents back in 1977! It’s name: “La Machine!”
A nice Chicken & Mushroom Julliene …baked in little pots – delicious!
Thank you for this wonderful giveaway Cathy!
I love all the veggies; creative combinations of these delicious articles are yummy!
I would love to just once more have my Italian mother’s Christmas Eve fish feast. Wonderful
Steak and scallops or crab….
Steak, baked potato, sweet poatoes, rolls, chocolate pie. Oh dear me, I can’t wait for this meal!
I love turkey and stuffing. I know that sounds lame, but my family likes it so much we do the turkey and such for Christmas too!
Standing Rib Roast for Christmas or a traditional turkey meal as a back-up. A pot of Posole shared with the neighbors is a big hit on Christmas Eve.
Turkey, turkey, turkey!
Turkey, stuffing, gravy. I can eat it for days. Apple pie to finish it off.
my favorite meal for the holiday is prime rib with blue cheese ravioli and wonderful vegies.
For all holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter), my mom makes eggs benedict for breakfast, and it’s fantastic. I love Hollandaise sauce.
I love green bean casserole! So simple, so delicious! and I can’t get enough of those french fried onions!
Standing rib roast, of course!
One of my absolute favourites is my Mom’s Wifesaver breakfast. It’s sausage, egg, cheese, and bread all in one and baked in oven. It’s good hot on Christmas morning and cold as a mid-day snack before the big Turkey Dinner. And it’s now a tradition in our family.
Definitely scalloped oysters. yyummmm!
My favorites will always be homemade tamales and lasagna! I always look forward to them more during the holidays it seems.
We always do turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes… the who traditional she-bang.
This year will be my first year making dinner at my house and I think I might opt out of tradition and make my family a crown-roast with parsnip puree and an apple compote!
Happy holidays!
My husband is making Lobster stuffed beef tenderloin for Christmas, it is a huge hit, super yummy and best of all I only have to help with the initial prep work!
I look forward to Christmas Eve and making homemade Lasagna. I serve it with frsh rosemary breadsticks and it is one of my favorite meals and time of year 🙂
My mom makes a bourbon sweet potato dish that is ah-ma-zing!
My favorite holiday meal is (and will be) prime rib with popovers and veggies….and lots of cookies for dessert, along with some super nommy Italian pastries, like cannoli, sfogliatelle and cake. Haven’t decided what kind yet though!
When I was younger we always used to have a “roast beast” which was really just a big roast- but the name is from “The Grinch” I think. That was always fun, but now I’m a veggie… so my favorite holiday meal is probably the homemade green chili tamales my Dad and I make every xmas eve for the family to enjoy 🙂
For my holiday meal around Christmas time, I definitely look forward to the traditional turkey and ham. However, I also look forward to an antipasto platter. I also make a trifle for dessert that consists of cake, pumpkin custard, and sometimes a cranberry curd.
Awesome!
For Christmas Eve, standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding.
Homemade macaroni and cheese, hands down. With asiago and pepper jack and sharp cheddar…mmmm.
Ham, mashed potatoes, mac and cheese, and my MIL’s cherry cheesecake.
my grandmother’s stuffing and gravy
The first thing that I thought of was the scalloped corn we had when I was young.
I realize it’s rather lame, but i love a Thanksgiving repeat: turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy, asparagus, and pumpkin pie.
Every year my best friend has a big red chile chicken enchilada dinner instead of buying presents. These enchiladas better better than anything you could wrap. I know its not ‘the norm’, but they just scream Christmas to me. Oh, I can’t wait…
ham started on the grill and then baked
along with winter squash, broccoli, and a variety of pies for dessert
I have 2 favorites.. Stuffing and green been casserole!!
I love the turkey, cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes, and green beans we eat for the holidays.
Thanks so much for this contest! I have a mini-processor that came with my blender, but it’s broken and thus even less useful than it was before.
I loooooooooove da cake 🙂
Stuffing. Need I say more?
I love all the veggies; creative combinations of these delicious articles are yummy!
appetizers.
This sounds silly but my favorite holiday meal is breakfast! We always make Belgian waffles with fresh strawberries and whipped cream. It’s the perfect way to start a fun-filled holiday!
Last year was my first time hosting Christmas Eve for family & friends. I made Martha’s Honey-Orange Baked Ham and it was amazing. Definitely making it again this year.
sweet potato pie! yum. oh! and some egg nog.
Chicken curry, biryani and a bbq with tabouli and hummos on the side.
My favorite is brisket & latkes!
Smoked turkey with my grandma’s cornbread-sage dressing…and pumpkin and pecan pie for dessert!
My favorite holiday meal would have to be bourbon sweet potatoee. I’m from the south and we LOVE our bourbon 🙂
Mmmm…it’s a tie between turkey and dressing. Maybe both with lots of gravy poured all over it!
My favorite holiday meal is green bean casserole, my Nana’s coleslaw and Apple pie, and birthday cake! A weird combination, but my favorites, and my birthday is near Thanksgiving!
I love ham!
Oh my, I love a big meal – turkey, ham, stuffing – all the fixins! Gotta include some cranberries, and plenty of snacky things beforehand!
Hanukkah is definitely a favorite holiday. We celebrate with potato pancakes with homemade applesauce on them.
italian roast beef…mmmm
Definitely the pecan pie. Mmmmm.
Prime rib and my mom’s special wild rice dish!
My favorite holiday meal is homemade soup, cheese fondue, and chocolate fondue! It’s my family’s Christmas Eve tradition and I look forward to it every year.
My favorite holiday meal is the one we have with my family on Christmas Eve, which is potatoes au gratin and meat balls. It has been served by my grandma for as long as I can remember….it’s my favorite by far!
Country ham and cheesy grits. Major yum!
My favorite holiday meal is butternut squash soup, Honey Baked ham, mashed potatoes and green beans! Soo yummy!
Our big celebration is Christmas Eve…we have soups of all kinds: creamy corn chowder, bean and bacon soup (with lots of celery and tomatoes), beef barley and Manhatten clam chowder. With a plate of cheeses, muffins and crusty bread we stuff ourselves silly.
Portuguese Sopas, which contains pot roast and cabbage with many, many spices and french bread. Mmmm…
Fudge!
Hands down, TURKEY! With sweet potatoes, my mother’s Italian sausage stuffing, my really good broccoli soup and a chocolate nut pie that starts with spiced tea bags in the water to melt the chocolate in! Every year I say, “why don’t I make this meal during the year too?” and never do. But I love it so much!! Maybe in 2011.
I like the standard turkey with stuffing as well as mashed potatoes and veggies!
Popovers from my grandmother’s cookbook.
My family celebrates Velija on Christmas Eve. It’s the traditional dinner of my Slovakian heritage. I’m excited to have sour mushroom potato soup, pierogi, bobalki (poppy seed dough balls), and all the other things we have. Yumm:)
Roast beef and yorkshire pudding. My Mom made this for us.
I have to admit that every holiday I look forward to deviled eggs. I love them so much.
Last year I prepared a large spiral cut ham for Christmas dinner. My in laws brought a wonderful smoked turkey. Roasted sweet potatoes, fresh steamed green beans and baked bread. We put a spiced wine in the slow cooker to enjoy throughout the day. Good meal.
It depends on the holiday! For Turkey Day, a meal without sweet potatoes is blasphemy. And for Hannukah, potato pancakes are a must. And homemade apple sauce all the time! My Mom Mom (grandma) spoiled the whole family for years with her applesauce, cranberry sauce and sweet pickles. She’s 93 now and can’t make them anymore, so I do!
My favorite holiday meal is any meal I share with loved ones 🙂
Must have munchies before dinner like warm crab dip, cold vegetable cream cheese “pizza”, and bacon wrapped water chestnuts. YUM. Dinner: Roast Pork, au gratin potatoes, fresh carrots cooked in orange juice and cinnamon with currants, tossed greens salad with candied almonds and mandarin oranges, fresh orange cranberry relish, fresh crescent rolls, and homemade cherry pie for dessert. Accompanied by a fine Pinot Noir (like Noble Pig!) After dinner sip of Bailey’s tops it all off!
I love Christmas dinner. We have prime rib or filet with Amish potato filling, cole slaw, veggies and for dessert – homemade cookies and nut roll. Yum!
Honey baked ham, baked green beans and home made custard.
I love having roasted chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans and gravy. In dessert, macarons, chocolate hazelnut truffles and chocolates are a MUST!
I despise turkey from the depths of my soul and I certainly don’t want to cook one myself, so I’ve started making a Mexican feast instead. I love my huge dinner of pork and veggie tamales, delicious enchiladas, fresh corn and flour tortillas, beans, rice, and roasted corn. Mmm… Now I’m hungry for Mexican!
Every year at Christmas, we make beef tenderloin wrapped in pastry with mushrooms and green onions. I know it’s Christmas when I come home and see a large tenderloin in the fridge.
My favorite holiday meal is the big breakfast we make after opening presents on Christmas morning. Eggs, bacon, cinnamon rolls, mimosas – yum!