Even if you don't celebrate Christmas, this time of year is a great excuse to get together with family & friends and make some special dishes or, whole meals.

Every year over the last 5-years, I've been making a porchetta roast for the family. Roast potatoes and root vegetables with a crab salad in a light vinaigrette to help cut through the heavy dishes.

All the familiar sweets, from fruit cake, a big box of See's candies, gingerbread homemade cookies to Italian specialties like pannetonne and panforte, along with some rich hot chocolate for the kids.

What will you be cooking or, eating the next few days?

Big Christmas meal in the works.

Elk backstrap, brussell sprouts, new potatoes.

Alaskan king crab legs for Christmas dinner...4 hours and counting.

Steak on the grill Wednesday which was the last decent day around here.
2 filets last night with asparagus in cast iron.
Today is Prime Rib with my family. Potatoes, veggies, bread and more.
Tomorrow I'm laying low.
Sunday is more family that can't be here today with more filets.
Do love me some beef.

Yep.......
Prime Rib roast (gravy or horseradish sauce)
Scallops coated in butter and garlic
Stuffing with peppers, nuts, cranberries, broth, sausage, and onion
Deviled eggs
Sweet potatoes with brown and marshmallows
Rolls
Gravy for the stuffing

When I get off work, I'm going to thrown together whatever I have in the house and eat it.

The usual Christmas fare at my place...

13 lb Prime rib in the sous vide since 7 am. Will sear it in the oven after a 7 hour bath.

Mashed taters, gravy, sautéed mushrooms, green beans, corn, and rolls to round things out.

Pecan pie and vanilla ice cream for dessert.

Right now I've got a turkey breast and about 5# of standing rib roast smoking.

In a bit, we'll start making the twice baked potatoes from a Cowboy Kent Rollins recipe that we like and I'll make Yorkshire pudding.

This morning we had home made sourdough apple cinnamon rolls, another Kent Rollins recipe we discovered recently.

Cooking 2 16lb Prime Rib, and oven full, that's for sure. Wife's doing twice baked taters. Oldest daughter brought shrimp, and I have no idea what others are bringing.

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
13 lb Prime rib in the sous vide since 7 am. Will sear it in the oven after a 7 hour bath.

Didn't know they made vacuum seal bags that big

Was at Costco earlier in the week, along with very nice prime rib roasts, they had quite a few rack of lamb and a rack of pork, each was about 8-ribs. Nice to see the other crown roasts getting some attention, I love me some beef but, the other meats are just as good.

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Originally posted by wreckdiver:
Cooking 2 16lb Prime Rib, and oven full, that's for sure. Wife's doing twice baked taters. Oldest daughter brought shrimp, and I have no idea what others are bringing.

Two 16lb pounders......Who the heck are you feeding bro?

My Christmas dinner is finished and sitting here like a full dog tick. Pork tenderloins from oven cooked w/salt/pepper/worcestershire sauce, smothered okra and canned tomatoes, mashed potatoes w/gravy from tenderloins, dinner rolls with real butter and for desert a slice of pecan pie. Best part of the tenderloin will be sliced on toasted bread w/mayo and mustard for lunch tomorrow. .............. drill sgt.

We’re doing black garlic seared steak with homegrown horseradish, mashed potato and green onion cakes, and spinach salad followed by Christmas cookies for desert.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I started early this morning with my well seasoned(rub) 7lb. Boston Butt into the smoker with hickory @ 225F. It will take most of the day, and I will let it rest for a least 1 hour. With this will be scalloped potatoes with bacon(of course) and a spinach bake with cheese and balsamic vinegar reduction. White pita bread.


Of course to utilize my smoker, one has to consume the obligatory HOT Bloody Mary to make sure that things come out correctly.

Chocolate cookie dough ice cream will finish it off.

I am looking forward to it all. Merry Christmas all!!

As we have done for the past 10-12 years, it's prime rib for Christmas dinner. Although past years where at my sons house, this year it's just the wife and I at home. Romaine salad baked potato loaded, spinach soufflé, fresh made rosemary roles and of course the prime cut prime rib. We got a small two rib roast this go-round @ about 4 lbs with the bones, but there still will be left-overs.

Start the diet tomorrow

Since it is just the wife and I, we decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner and are headed to a fancy steakhouse this evening.

Just had short ribs and twice baked potatoes. so good.

Due to other family having been sick recently, we're down to 4 for dinner tonight. Normally, we do a prime rib - this year, I picked up some ribeyes. They are in the sous vide cooker right now. A cast iron pan is in the oven being seasoned. We're also having mashed potatoes, cranberries, salad, and pie. Simple, but nutritious.

My wife has Ham, Scalloped Potatos, and a Green Bean Casserole in the over as I type this. I'm so hungry...

Just ate 3 hot dogs with yellow mustard, and a dish of cold sauerkraut. Merry Christmas!

flashguy