What's Christmas like at your house, anons? What do you usually have for Christmas dinner?

What's Christmas like at your house, anons? What do you usually have for Christmas dinner?

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I usually just get drunk alone while hanging out on Veeky Forums.

Cornish game hens

i'm alone and don't have family to celebrate it with so I'm making tempura vegetables and going to a potluck at my church

we wake up and open presents, tidy up a bit, have a small breakfast snack like a croissant or something, then we start cooking. i've been trying to perfect a beef wellington for about 5 years now. wife does the sides. christmas music on the record player and a shitload of wine. sometimes we take in a stray friend who isn't going home to family.

oh yeah, how the hell do i keep the bottom of my wellington from getting soggy? i've oiled the dough, i sear the meat properly. i can't get it to stay together when i cut it up.

About to make some tacos and get blitzed on gin

Overcooked turkey and shame

cringy as fuck, brother always tries to get the atmosphere better but mom is an annoying cunt and dad is a silent depressed hobo wannabe

>bipolar mom rambling
>drunk incoherent dad
>estranged siblings
>minimal conversation
>first flight out on the 26th
every year

Merry christmas you guys

My family's Christmas meals are usually pretty shit. I'm Australian so it's too hot for roasts and stuff, so every meal on Christmas is usually cold past salads with cold dry chicken and cold ham.
I hate it.

Mom will put on The Christmas Story marathon because it's her favorite movie.
Food is usual pleb tier shit, but mom always makes it good. A nice glazed ham, green bean casserole, corn soufflé, scalloped potatoes, store bought rolls, with a pie as dessert.

We have goose and bottled up resentment.
Could be a lot worse.

After eating the goose we wait for maybe an hour while we regret having entirely too much of that delicious food. Then we have dessert, which is this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risalamande
The we hobble around the tree and sing a couple carols, then open presents.
It's all pretty much on autopilot these days but people keep their mouths shut about their disagreements all night and that's really nice.

Christmas Eve we have our traditional cranberry and beef stew, followed by midnight mass. Christmas morning is a breakfast casserole followed by opening presents. If it's a christmas with the extended family we have ham with all the sides for dinner, if it's with small family we order chinese food and watch a movie.
Pretty nice if you ask me.

>sing a couple carols
Jesus Christ

...

>singing carols
holy shit that's lame

I don't think ANYBODY actually enjoys that part, but it is tradition and must be done.

The risalamande we have for dessert has only a single whole almond mixed into it.
The person who finds the almond gets a special present which has been made for the purpose.
Since everybody is absolutely stuffed by then it is also traditional to not reveal that you've found it, making people eat more than is actually enjoyable in hopes of finding it themselves.

Usually Italian-American comfort foods. My grandparents were from Italy and we typically have our family dinner there. I'm bring the gravy this year. Sorry for the blurry pic, braciole I was browning.

Then the rest being added.

I'm glad I have no Christmas traditions because this is weird

>prime rib
>scalloped potatoes
>stuffing
>sweet potato casserole (some crumble on top, none of that fucking disgusting marshmallow mess)
>a big platter of Triscuits, baby pickles, baby corn, and deviled eggs
>pecan pie and eggnog for dessert
I don't do anything for Thanksgiving (because fuck Thanksgiving, you should be thankful year round you fucking cunt) so I try to actually.. do a spread and shit at Christmas.

>it is also traditional to not reveal that you've found it, making people eat more than is actually enjoyable in hopes of finding it themselves.
I'm laughing my ass off. This sounds amazing.

>comfort foods
dont talk to me or to my country's cuisine ever again

I did that one year. I was stuck in a hotel after the weather grounded my flight. Hired an escort later that evening so it wasn't all bad.

My mother then reimbursed all of my expenses so she practically paid for me to get laid.

>Irish coffee and popovers for breakfast
Now that's what I call a good start to x-mas

We don't really have traditional Christmas dinner, but we do cook for a lot of family. This year we're making lasagna.

>i'm alone and don't have family to celebrate it with so I'm making tempura vegetables and going to a potluck at my church
Whatcha bringing to the pot luck, the tempura veggies?
When I go to potlucks, I bring meat dishes. It's the one thing that the thrifty won't be bringing. I adore composed or marinated salads and other people's casseroles. Dessert choices is also nice. These are things I don't often do at home in a fussy way.
I typically grill veggies, argentinean sausage chunks and skirt steak strips, douse the whole thing with microwaved and steaming hot chimmichurri once I'm at the party, and watch the nibbles and french bread go down in a way that brings on the compliments.

>having absolutely zero Christmas spirit
Plebs

6 am. AA meeting, 11 AA meeting, AA potluck (I'm making bread and churning some butter), work with my current sponsee, leave voicemails for my sisters (they never pick up) and talk to my dad for 5 minutes.

Happy Holidays all!

>forced singing and overeating
I'll pass

Make roll the meat in seasoned flour and dry breadcrumbs, and use a very well done mushroom mixture, or not that fatty of a pate. The breadcrumbs and flour will take in some of the juices and keep them next to the meat. Having a dry filling allows the mushrooms to soak up some of the liquid too. Try baking it on parchment or a rack, to get a little air circulation or damping action to cook that bottom crust.
Rest it 15 minutes, uncovered, let some of the softness firm back up on that dough. Slicing beef wellington requires a very sharp knife (your call to do serrated or not) but no vigorous back and forth sweeping sawing motions from a tougher knife where you pull or tear that crust with each sawing motion. Double up the bottom on the dough, when you are wrapping it and make sure it is tight by rolling around in a plastic wrap layer first. Get it well rested, even refrigerated until ready to bake. Consider mini wellingtons next year if it really really bugs you not to be able to present it well.

I suspect this is really one of those dishes that sits a good long while and is served lukewarm as part of a prepared spread, why you see it cut so pretty elsewhere. It can get a drizzle of amazing au jus to warm it back up, passed around.

This guy uses a single sheet of phyllo as the moisture barrier. It's a tough sheet of dough.
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>What's Christmas like at your house
shit
>What do you usually have for Christmas dinner
arguments

Did you pay her extra for working the holiday?

Doing Xmas with my dad's side today. Had cheese and crackers and whatnot with my grandparents and aunt, family friend is coming over later for dinner. Turkey, mushroom patties, mushroom stuffing and gravy, regular stuffing and gravy, veggies, potatoes, bread. Will open presents with them after dinner. Tomorrow ill have Xmas morning with my mom and brother and eat pancakes and omelletes then open presents and go to my aunts on my dads side for a bit to see extended family. After dinner (mushroom burgoyne and turkey) friends will come over and well smoke weed and hang out and watch Xmas specials

I'm sorry you are so cynical and cold. May the Spirit of God warm your heart this season.

>her

How feminine was the penis?

Everyone in my family bukakes my mom and then we get the youngest person to lick it off

ham and cranberry sauce with a nice salad and some bread on christmas eve, Turkey with stuffing on christmas and maybe barbecue on boxing day. I live in New Zealand so it's always bright and hot outside at christmas dinner, so we have traditional stuff but also summery food.

Well, assuming you live in Italy the foods that we consider "comfort foods" will be vastly different. Hence why I specified Italian-American.

pretty much this
although I usually can't afford booze ;~;

of course

Merry Christmas, man.
And stay strong. I know it's no picnic.

I hate the singing but seeing you talk trash about it makes me want to defend it all the same.
If someone one year suggests we skip it I will vote against him too.

It's also traditional that dog gets pic related even though it only takes her 3 minutes to destroy and it makes a mess.

>making people eat more than is actually enjoyable in hopes of finding it themselves.

sounds like a Festivus tradition to me.

I don't celebrate christmas. Shalom.

>chop

We do Christmas breakfast, not dinner

I just drink all day until I stop feeling. Might cook a roast at some point.

>too poor to afford more than one meal

The rest of my family hates cooking and I love it so I do the whole dinner. Past few years it's been for my parents, sister and her husband, maybe a spare person or two who didn't have other plans. I had a pretty bad relationship with my family growing up but my dad stopped drinking recently and both parents have been smoking weed the past few years, really makes them easier to be around.

I've settled on this as my standard:
>maple dijon glazed ham
>roasted root vegetables
>green beans sauteed with shallots and mushrooms, fried onion on top
>jalepeno cornbread stuffing or scalloped potatoes
>maple-bacon-pecan sweet potato casserole

Dessert changes every year, this year will be classic pumpkin cheesecake. I've also made a good amount of cookies and candies, and some treats for the dogs.

Smoked wings and smoked pork butt every year. Started as a drunk thing and has remained part of the tradition.

It's usually extremely sweet ham and sometimes turkey.

Sure the ham is practically candy but it's still pretty good.

I don’t have a usual. I like to do all sorts of different things. Last year was a roast duck, year before was ham I think? This year I’m making pork tamales.

My family used to do this. Not once was it ever fun and it felt creepy.
>group of people
>knock on a strangers door
>sing at them even if they want it or not

>mushrooms

>in japan
>in the barracks
>no family here
>friends went state side for holidays
>only people i can talk to are depressed and angry duty officers or other left behinds

no christmas this year lads.

I really like mushrooms, theyre probably my favorite food.

>What's Christmas like at your house, anons?

That was my plan for the day, but a friend/colleague wants to get a bunch of us together to have some drinks, so I get to drink at home and then drink some more with people I deal with professionally. I'll probably call my parents to say hi at some point.

Thanks, you too!

I wish I knew where to find an escort around here. I'm thinking about taking a trip to Pattaya over NYE to grope some female flesh.

Go out and people watch user. Get yourself some chicken and christmas cake.

>We have goose

German heritage?

Ever since my parents split up, there hasn't been any real tradition to follow.
>one year was duck and sides at dads
>traveling up to illnois to visit grandparents
>visit mom and her new husband
If they didn't reimburse me for my travels on account of being broke ass. I would just buy a nice bottle of vodka and drink christmas away.

>another quality post from the guy who thinks complaining about tripfags makes them go away

Christmas Eve we do Seven Fishes with some family friends. Christmas Day we put booze in the stockings, open presents, eat some breakfast, then nap, wake up, blast Jimmy Buffet and make a standing rib roast.

There's 20 million alcoholics in this thread and you picked me as a banter target

i just looked online

You can still love your family even if they annoy you.

SNEk!

not the caroller, but wanted to know if reading Gift of the Magi aloud to gathered family is also lame.

Maybe this needs further clarified; we just sing a couple songs by ourselves while we walk around the tree in our house. We don't go to other houses. That type of caroling is not really done here.

Danish. There's probably a lot of overlap between the two in terms of traditions but I know lots of people who have duck.

If you were my neighbor I'd turn the hose on you.

NAMEFAG

I think it’s a good tradition. We also sing at Christmas

I dont really get the whole christmas thing

I never fucking cared about it. not even in the edgy way

I dont really celebrate any holiday or birthdays. I dont see the point

sounds bleak dog

Through our living room window?

The point is to have some good food with people you can tolerate.

I don't actually read your posts because you are a name fag and do not understand what this South African hacky sac support group is all about.

A politically defined geographic region sharing the same leadership at the highest level?

I hope you will be less salty

Why waste your time here/reply to people then?

It’s about conformity. No namefags

because if I jerkoff more then three times a day I get sore. Next question, quizmaster?

As a kid it was exciting. When I grew up (reached my 20's) I said fuck this consumerist bs and told everyone I will not give nor excepf gifts. Sure enough one brother's wife tried to give me one and I went off. No one ever tried it again. But it's gotten to the point where I can't even attend the gathering because people are completely frazzled and have trigger tempers. I've started just avoiding socializing for the month surrounding xmas and am much more content.

tl;dr it's something special for kids but sucks for everyone else.

It's about crying like a little bitch over four letters someone put in the name field apparently. Do you feel that you're improving the board by doing this? Just filter me out or use forced anonymity. I'll talk you through the process if you need help.

you got that thing mikal j fox gots?

Get rid of the name. It goes against what this place is. You are not your comments. Get identity elsewhere. That is not what this place is.

Thanks user, Merry Christmas.

Unique time limited experiences. Stealing a Christmas tree out of the woods without being caught. Making ginger breads and gifting them to random faggots on work. Photoshopping hats on random faggots and somehow they will even like you for that. etc

Navyfag?

usmc