Winter Holiday Home Cooking and Dining

[prima]

What are your plans for the holidays?

Tonight is Festivus, as well as Tibb’s Eve in Newfoundland. I am trying to clear out our freezer, so tonight’s Festivus meal will be some green chile tamales from Arizona that I ordered through Goldbelly last Xmas, that have been in the freezer since they arrived in Feb.

I’ll be making a Mexican Xmas Eve Salad with beets and pecans:

Rick Bayless Xmas Eve Salad

Isabel Eats Xmas Eve Salad

Pati Jinich Xmas Eve Salad

and Michelle Bernstein’s take on Peruvian Chupe de Mariscos for Xmas Eve.

Xmas Day, we will start with panettone, fried pork chops, and poached eggs with hollandaise.

Xmas dinner will be chilled sour cherry soup, roast goose, potato dumplings from a box. Dessert will be a friend’s home-made Xmas Pudding with whisky sauce.

Boxing Day, I will make a spanakopita with spinach, arugula, leek, endive, green onions, dill, parsley, feta and egg.

New Year’s Eve, a friend with be making a seafood stew and I’m in charge of the cake.

New Years Day, I plan to make Shuba Salad, and maybe some lucky lentils and lucky pork.

[attran99]

Tried these tonight:

Hasselback Potato Gratin Recipe

Pretty solid. Love the crispy edges.

[prima]

I love Hasselbeck potatoes and Potatoes Gratin!

I will have to try this hybrid.

I ended up making regular Potatoes Gratin last night, and a can of cheese stuffed jalapeños, instead of my frozen tamales!

Merry Christmas!

[aaqjr]

Date and walnut tart recipe from Adam Byatt

[joe]

spinach lasagna.

ricotta + spinach velouté + cooked spinach.

crushed tomatoes, prosciutto, onion & garlic & chili flakes for the salsa.

fontina and mozzarella cheeses in the casserole, with parm added on the top.

40 mins covered at 375f, then 15 uncovered, and broiled until it looks right.

[prima]

yum!

[prima]

here is my Chupe de Mariscos

Xmas Eve salad with beets, oranges, asian pear and peanuts

yule logs

[aaqjr]

I was wondering why there was bacon on top of the Yule log! (Just the glare lol)

[prima]

it does look like a slice of bacon. Lol

it’s been done, apparently

Decadent Christmas Log with Bacon & Strawberries - Le porc du Québec

[Dommy]

Oh my!!! Do you have a good recipe for Chupe?!?

[prima]

I like this Chupe de Mariscos recipe by Michelle Bernstein. I’ve made it twice.

[prima]

Our Xmas goose

red cabbage with apple and cranberries

baked apples

potato dumplings

[Dommy]

Thanks so much for the recipe! Evaporated milk! So obvious now. Can’t wait to try!

[prima]

I hope you enjoy it!

[ElsieDee]

Low key Christmas dinner:

Field Roast, mashed potatoes, dressing, green beans with almonds, rolls. Everyone had seconds, no one had room for dessert.

[js76wisco]

Our Korean American Christmas lunch. Mac n cheese, twice baked potatoes, Thai brussel sprouts, baked ribs and sausages. Ttokboki, kalbi jjim, mandoo, slow cooked pork belly, pig ear and some kimbap.

[attran99]

As much as I enjoy the Christmas roast and all the fixin’s, my favorite holiday tradition is the soup made with the bones as soon as dinner is over. Christmas is always a vegetable and beef soup where the stock is simmered over a period of 12 hours. It’s a couple of days of soup and salads to offset the roast dinner leftovers.

[prima]

I made 2 different soups yesterday with my leftover goose carcass. I made a variation on Hank Shaw’s Ganseklein, and a Goose Pho. I looked at several Goose and Duck Pho recipes for inspiration, including this one from Elevated Wild and this one from Idaho Fish and Game..

I froze all of the soup for later.

1 DC had enough goose after having it for dinner on the 25th and the 26th. I had a bit more as a midnight snack and then a small piece on toast this morning. About 3 ounces is left in the fridge.

Tonight, I am making Tourtière meatballs and spanakopita.

I am adapting this Tourtière meatball recipe.I added an egg and a grated potato. I omitted the celery salt.

I also made spanakopita

and egg noodles with walnuts, Gorgonzola, Parm and pepper.

Vanilla raspberry yule log for.dessert.

[pomodoro]

i’m cheating on “home cooking” here because i just reheated these from Maison Nico in San Francisco

beef wellington. pretty good for takeout (which of course is not ideal for a wellington).

tourte Bourbonnaise

[aaqjr]

Fun!