Prime rib this year

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Originally posted by konata88:
I’ve spent the equivalent of years in across japan over the past 30 years. Areas including hakata, kansai, kanto and hokuriku. I’ve had many meals at homes, at work, outside of work with many many people there. Not once has KFC every been mentioned.

It started with a branch in Nagoya, perhaps it's really only the affluent, impressionable and those who chase Western branding. May also just be a Tokyo-thing, much like NYC trends here in the US, may/may not catch-on elsewhere; see the same with London and Paris. I understand up to 3-mil household buy into it every season, for a country of 126mil people, that's less than 5% of the population.

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Lawson.

Those sandwiches... Japanese really know how to put together on-the-go/convenient food and snacks.

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I think pound for pound, A5 renders more fat than thick cut bacon.

Yup, tasty but, more of a delicacy, very fatty. The fat melts much easier than pork, good flavor but, just a bite or two and I'm good.

Smoked Turkey and a Smoked Ham, potatoes, gravy, green beans, cranberry sauce home made, rolls n butter, wine, coffee, pumpkin pie, an a nap..

Growing up Christmas dinner varied greatly from Italian, ham, prime rib, or whatever my Mom or Aunts wanted to cook. I’ve continued the chef’s prerogative tradition.

Christmas #1 - rack of lamb, horseradish mashed potatoes, and a Greek cucumber salad. Dessert is my maternal grandmother’s peanut butter fudge.

Christmas #2 - Mom’s London broil, paternal grandmother’s baked beans, salad. Dessert is my paternal grandmother’s peanut butter pie.

We usually have a choice of turkey, honey baked ham, and a variety of tamales. Whichever one prefers.

I generally work on the tamale platter.

Costco frozen lasagna, mixed green salad, french bread and red wine.

Simple dinner, emphasis on all of us being together instead of me (the home chef) slaving in the kitchen.

Love these women !

Lasagna with homemade noodles, homemade meatballs, homemade italian sausage, homemade bread, tenderloin for the non Italian side. Then the homemade Italian cookies and Cannoli's come out.

Growing up, mom and her 2 sisters would get together and put out a fabulous spread of eats. Fried chicken (in a skillet), country ham (salt cured), roast beef, and all kinds of vegetables.

While in USAF I was having what the dining halls provided--on Christmas was usually pretty good food.

Now retired and still living alone (never married), I have to make do with whatever restaurants are open on Christmas Day. Once in a while a Choir member will invite me for dinner, but I don't expect or depend on it.

I don't cook much, but I can find something to eat in my larder if I need to.

flashguy

Prime Rib at moms house. Mashed potatoes, assorted vegetables and Rhodes rolls for the fixings….

This year the kids cannot make it over so,

Yesterday - French Onion Soup (cooked them onions down S L O W too.

Tonight is Lobster Bisque (she's cooking the base now)

Tomorrow: Lobster (grilled) Alfredo with fresh pasta (my thing, her sit back and relax day)

Friday: Swedish Potato Sausage (family tradition) Travel over to the cousin's place.

Saturday: [Grilled] Ribeye with potatoes and the fixings. We both do this.

Sunday: KFC

For us, Christmas Eve is Prime Rib. We have a small Christmas on the eve where my wife, myself, and my FIL, have our own "little christmas" together. Christmas day, we have the family over for "brunch": homemade Belgian waffles, fruit, spiced pears, Mimosas, etc. followed by them opening their gifts under the tree.
So, we might have TWO big Christmas meals!!!!

Italian wife, so it's fish of all sorts on Christmas eve. I'm good with that. I like fish. Christmas day it's meat. Prime rib, big ass steaks the size of a toilet seat, ribs etc. This year it's lamb chops with all the fixings. I'll work on my cholesterol next year.

We do the Italian fishes thing Christmas eve; that's our big meal. Homemade pasta and sauce, too.
Christmas day is just lunch - ham, mashed potatoes and some vegetables.

On Christmas Day, we'll be having this...Reverse-Sear Center Cut Tenderloin!



[Photo credit from Christmas 2019, the inaugural year of our annual holiday tradition, which was inspired by SIGforum!]

Christmas Eve will a smorgasbord of appetizers featuring Swedish Meatballs and homemade New England Clam Chowder!
We'll be having leftover Clam Chowder w/ our Christmas meal too...

Not sure, I don't celebrate it and wife doesn't either. Probably do something based on what is available.

I'll be making a Christmas full packer brisket

Local supermarket has choice grade prime rib for $7/lb. I have one being prepped (bone cut off and tied back on) for pickup tomorrow, about 18 lbs. I also picked up a 21 lb still in cryovac for the freezer. At this price I’ll have a nice party later in the year.

Christmas Eve is usually finger foods/appetizers. Christmas Day is steaks on the grill, thick sliced zucchini on the grill, baked potato.

I'm scheduled to work both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at the retirement job as the evening jailer in our very tiny county jail. Mrs. john1 doesn't want to spend Christmas by herself, so she volunteered to come in and cook the Christmas meal for the inmates.

She'll be making ham, scallopped potatoes, green beans almondine, ambrosia salad, rolls and cherry and apple pie.

(Part of the job is cooking supper for the inmates and when I went off duty Tuesday night we had all of 6 inmates...).

Normally a whole raft of traditional turkey/potato/gravy/stuffing/cranberries/etc.

This year just the two of us, so have a Hudson Valley duck to stuff and roast (Heritage Mallard/Pekin breed hybrid), a vegetable gratin from Food & Wine, some traditional muffins and a really nice bottle of wine. The kids are missing out!