Looking at Christmas eve ideas...Instead of roast turkey and glazed ham ideas please....

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still for turkey and ham...I was thinking of a ham pie with puff pastry?? and the turkey..deboned and rolled, turduken is what I had in mind but it will take too much trouble I think...just trying to get away from the same old, same old....

menu ideas so far

Snacks and drink like bellinis - a friend will supply

Burrata and grape tomato salsa and basil pesto with rye toast

Smoked salmon, blini and sour cream

Egg mousse

Roast lamb, Turkey somehow different, ham pie??

Cranberry confit, cranberry sauce,

Roast tats, gravy, broccoli

Salad with cranberries and nuts, arugula from the garden

Pineapple fluff, cheese cake with rumptoff and fluffy fig flan.

We always have too much but the sprogs wont let some dishes be allowed to rest.

Oh well!

 
It used to be that we'd pick a country and that would be our menu. Now we do beef tenderloin.

Then for Christmas we do beef stroganoff.

 
If you wanted more puff, how about a beef Wellington? Although that's a bit of a duplicate with lamb

A Lobster Newburg sort of dish? Snapper in salt crust. Stuffed fish? Oooh do you get conch down there? I miss conch.

 
This year I'm going to do a deconstructed tourtiere. I haven't worked out exactly how.

Ramekins will be used to shape the mini pies and I can foresee they will be topped with a star or tree shaped piece of puff pastry.

 
Luce, a whole boned turkey sounds kind of daunting. What about a boned stuffed breast of turkey?

Here's the first recipe I came across but there are many others on the net.

I love the idea of a ham pie, especially if you are talking about an English-type turnover rather than a soupy pot pie, but either would work.

Do you really need a third meat? If doing lamb I would splurge on racks because they can be done quickly and divide so neatly into chops.

I'm getting hungry!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/anne-burrell/sausage-and-mushroom-stuffed-boneless-turkey-breast-recipe/index.html

 
Pork tenderloin stuffed with spinach/goat cheese and/or sundried tomatoes, etc.?

Tons of recipes out there or you could concoct your own stuffing.

 
I must be getting old . . .

I can hardly remember our Christmas Eve dinners, though I am very certain that it was always my Mom's lasagna . . . "Would someone PLEASE go up to the roof to get the lasagna?" is one of my favorite "Mom-isms".

We used to have ham for Christmas day . . . then Mom would slap/clap her hands and say, "Okay. I'm not cooking until next year. You're on your own! Make yourselves a ham sandwich. I'm not cooking."

But, of course, Mom would always make her Tarragon Shrimp for New Year Eve. She was so cute.

 
Syliva, do you eat/serve creton? I'm thinking about the similarities if a tourtiere has no shell.

I'm not sure if I have eaten creton but it seems that maybe I have. It's amazing how much FR CDN isms are on the west coast because of the armed forces bases here. Kinda fun.

 
Marg,I have made and served cretons but it is quite different. The seasonings are not the same and

texture is fattier.

 
Last Christmas I must have felt pretty tired by the time I sat down for dinner and I

made the announcement that it was definitely someone else's turn to prepare Christmas dinner in 1012. There was a huge silence and then finally my husband's sister said she would do it. Yay! I get a year off. Of course, I will do Christmas Eve this year. Perhaps we can do a trade off each year. Someone else can do Christmas Eve and I'll do Christmas.

 
We do an appetizer contest. Each person makes an appetizer

and we vote on the best one. We used to do a cookie contest, but ended up with too many cookies. I also make a tenderloin for those that might want something substantial.
The appetizer contest is so much fun. My grown children are all great cooks and the trash talking and secret alliances result in much hilarity. Our friends daughter is coming home from London and she says she has a winner. Last year I came in second..this year, my name is going on the Winners Wall!

 
I'm going the path of least resistance this year.

We always have a Honey Baked Ham and carrot and spinach casserole and blue hubbard squash and rolls. Pretty simple.

I'm considering asking if my FIL can do the dinner because I'm leading the Christmas Eve service at church (our minister is on sabbatical). I don't want to handle two big things in one evening; plus I'm going to be too busy getting nervous. smileys/smile.gif

 
Actually, your menu sounds great without any extra meat. More and more I'm enjoying

vegetarian and vegan meals and don't miss the big "meats" at all.

Out of my T-Day dinner, the item I enjoyed the LEAST was the most expensive item on the ticket...that $65 turkey that took over my oven and my life for 2 days.

 
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