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Now How Many Are Planning Their Christmas Menu!

8 years ago

Yes, I have started mine. Will ask for some suggestions from my kids, some things will change and some will stay the same. From there we go on to plan New Year's Eve. That will be entirely different. How are your plans coming along :)

Sue

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fawnridge (Ricky)

8 years ago

Lasagna, meatballs, garlic bread, salad, several bottles of Chianti. Done.

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angelaid_gw
8 years ago
Just another day for us. Just the two of us. Thinking about crab legs for me and a steak for hubby. Baked potatoes and a Caesar Salad.
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seagrass_gw Cape Cod
8 years ago
We're planning to leave New England for places south for the first time ever, so we are working our way through our freezers and will have whatever is still there. No festivity for us at Christmas but I plan to eat a lot of Gulf shrimp when we're away!
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8 years ago
Dh wasn't home for Thanksgiving and won't be for Christmas either, so we're having a holiday celebration the second week of December.

Seagrass, if you get a chance to try Royal Red shrimp ... do! They're like mini lobsters. Peak season is September, but they're flash frozen when caught, so some restaurants may still offer them.

http://eatalabamaseafood.com/articles/royal-red-shrimp-alabamas-gulf-coast/
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seagrass_gw Cape Cod
8 years ago
Thanks for the info, CindyMac. We have all kinds of fish and shellfish in New England, but shrimp aren't one of them.
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Anglophilia
8 years ago
We have the same thing every single year and have done so for decades. If I varied it, there would be bloodshed!

We'll be having lobster stew. I will go down to the lobster pound (yes, there IS one in KY - we have a UPS hub here!), and buy the frozen claws and leg meat - SO much easier than boiling up multiple lobster.

I already have the Stonewall Kitchen Popover mix - used to make my own but discovered they were very sensitive to the atmosphere and not reliable - these are reliable.

I've already bought the miniature cream puffs - in basement freezer. I'll buy the raspberry sorbet next week - they always sell out.

I always make the lobster stew at least 3 days before Christmas Eve - it gets better as it "ages".

I'll order the fresh grapefruit to be sectioned a week before Christmas and pick it up on Sat before. I'll buy the red currants at Whole Foods that week if they have them.

Champagne was bought at Whole Foods weeks ago when thy had a 30% off sale! Oysters will be ordered about 10 days before Christmas Eve and picked up at 4:30 that day, already opened, but still on their shell.

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Table will be set on Fri before Christmas, as soon as my cleaner leaves. I enjoy admiring it for a few days! Got a note from the laundry in WI that it will be shipped to me in time for Christmas - they had to concentrate on the "before Thanksgiving" orders first.
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dedtired
8 years ago
After this weekend , I plan on never eating again.
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