War at my house! I'm changing our "Traditional" Xmas Eve & Xmas dinner

[GingerSnaps]

We usually have prime rib tonight and then we have a honey baked ham and a hoka turkey on Christmas.

Since there will only be 3 of us plus our cats I am changing the tradition that my Mother made up that was passed down from her large family that consisted of 9 people and 9 people can eat a ton of food!

Omaha Steaks had a huge sign outside of their door yesterday for $240.00 worth of meat marked down to $70.00 bucks.

Tonight my family will be getting Fillet Mignon and tomorrow I might make Moussaka which will also be served on paper plates.

Dessert will be a bowl of ice cream and a couple of chocolates from Fields.

[Sporadicus]

1. Chinese Has Become a Christmas-Eve Tradition with My Family

ever since the first year we moved to western KY and couldn't find anything open except the Chinese restaurants.

[eyesroll]

3. It's been a Jewish Christmas tradition for years for that reason.

Movies, too.

[Texasgal]

2. Yummmmmmmmmmm!!!

I wouldn't be complaining! That sounds good!

btw- what is moussaka?

[GingerSnaps]

5. Greek Lasagna

We are Irish & Scotts and Dutch. I grew up in a greek area and I love the food.

[MuseRider]

4. HA HA HA

BEEN there. My mother quit talking to me one year when she noticed I changed the way I make gravy! No kidding, she berated me and then pouted as she got rip roaringly drunk one year because I did not make it the way she always had. Christmas has become much calmer since the older family has all passed on.

Good luck, I do not envy you the war but your menu sounds great.

[GingerSnaps]

6. My sister can't even make toast and she complains

Mom made cornbread...so I make cornbread and then she tells me that Mom's cornbread was better so I add some buttermilk to it and it still isn't good enough so I go out and buy a Jiffy mix like my Mom did and she said that it tasted just like Mom's.

You bake a turkey and it's just not good enough. I buy a Ham at Honey-made or something like that and they bitch because it's not the place that we use to live by that only has one shop and it's not sugary.

Oh, but that's ok they will eat but remember you got ripped off because it just wasn't the same. :grr:

I will put the food out if they eat it then they eat it if they don't they don't. :D

Good luck to you also.

[MuseRider]

7. For you

a GIANT Christmas :hug:. Oh GingerSnaps, I remember too well. In the kitchen with my mother and grandmother whispering bad things about the in-laws, sniping about the way I cooked etc. etc. etc. I hated it so much. The in-laws were Jewish so they complained about Nazis and what "our" people did to theirs(we KNOW what they did). It is a wonder I wasn't too drunk myself to serve dinner but we got through it. Now there is nobody but my immediate family, my husbands step mother (she is fine) and friends. Sometimes I would give anything to have them all back but not at Christmas. Another :hug:. Try to have some fun and remind them that they do not have to eat it. Jeeze, some people can't ever just be happy.

[GingerSnaps]

11. My Sister offered to get me a gift

She is "broke" again this year so she asked me if she could clean my entire apartment for $150.00 bucks which I had out of my student loan. I was thinking that for a change that she was going to buy some gifts but she spent the money on herself.

So get this one, I bought several books for College and I have them in a bag with a receipt that I haven't had the time to return. She asked me if she can return them and get me something with the refund :wow:

I hate freeper relatives :grr:

:hug: Merry Christmas!

[leftofthedial]

8. I slow roasted a new mexican prok roast overnight

for Christmas Eve. That used to be our traditional christmas dinner.

Now, on Christmas, we have meatballs and various fixings (our own family tradition).

Man, does the house smell good!

[hfojvt]

9. Sing along with Fiddler on the Roof

Tradi-shuuuuuuun. Tradition.

[GingerSnaps]

17. "If I were a rich man....

Hy yida yida yida....

[AlCzervik]

10. Sounds good to me.

I had the nerve one thanksgiving to change my stuffing receipe, i wanted something different, i heard about it all day and every holiday since. People don't like change. I'd rather be eating at your house tomorrow.

[GingerSnaps]

13. I'm making a mushroom Madeira or Jack Daniels sauce tonight

Or I might just give them some A1 and tell them to shut up and eat. :D

[AlCzervik]

14. That sauce sounds wonderful!!! I love mushrooms.

I also like A1.

[GingerSnaps]

16. Instead of cranberries I might make a cranberry salsa

:wow: Stop the presses they would go nuts over that one.

My sister would ask about the green stuff in the salsa and say that it doesn't taste like parsley. :D

Next thing that she would say is that I ruined Christmas.

[Zuni]

12. They aren't complaining about the Omaha Steaks are they?

Omaha steaks are the best steaks out there, in my opinion. They are so juicy.
I don't even like steak very much, but I could eat the shit out of an Omaha

[GingerSnaps]

15. It's the tradition that you can't change at my house

This is the first time that I will be trying Omaha Steaks. I couldn't pass up the deal yesterday because I went to the TI by my house and I priced Prime Rib and they wanted $50.00 for a bad looking cut of beef.

I am going to make Moussaka and some meat. I have two huge chickens in my deep freeze and I will make one of them tomorrow along with the pork chops with a rum raisin sauce.

The package from Omaha Steaks came with potatoes and 10 pounds of meat. I think that was a pretty good deal.