We aren't having company, but covid or not, we won't have company. We only know a few people since moving here, but usually it is always just the two of us. In years past, we were invited to friends' for the holidays. I know they mean well, but there is little that I like less.

I have to go to town to Sam's....dread it, and plan to fix shrimp gumbo tomorrow. It is Jody's favorite. I would like to do some baking that I keep putting off, and may put off again, depending on how late I get started. I would like to make some cookies and my fruitcake.

We're zooming with cousins tomorrow. So it will just be us two.

Given a huge storm coming our way with almost guaranteed power outages, I'm cooking the big dinner today. If we have no power tomorrow, our generator will keep us going and we can mw the leftovers.

Smoked gouda and boursin shallots and chive cheeses with crackers

Roast pork loin with orange and cranberries

Vegetarian Tsimmes (new to me...looking forward to trying it)

Broccoli and Cheese casserole

Chocolate Crinkle cookies for dessert.

I'm sure there will be some wine and brandy involved as well...

We are getting together with family. We all have had covid so we are in the clear. A good thing I guess. Spiral ham, hash brown casserole, pea salad, cucumber salad, mac n cheese (requested) broccoli with almonds, Homemade pies.

Just us and we are staying home. I have a small spiral Sliced ham, baking sweet potatoes, potato salad, green beans, rolls and rice and gravy. Hubby does not eat sweet potatoes so he wants potato salad. And I am making a strawberry cheesecake cobbler for dessert.

Julia’s bœuf bourgignon is in the oven, and breakfast fixings of croissants, coffee, thin pepparkakor, OJ and splits of Prosecco for mimosas, and wee little jams from our Bonne Maman advent calendar are ready for a gift bag. We will deliver all those to them this afternoon, and zoom brunch tomorrow. Can have the stew tonight or tomorrow, want to do

DH and I are going back and forth on which night we‘ll have the small pork roast and the stew.

In most years, I’d be doing the final assembly of Christmas Eve dinner of pork roast or turkey for anywhere from 10 to 25, and most recently hauling the whole shebang, with tables, chairs, tabletop accoutrements, etc, to the nursing home. Weird to be so quiet here. But peaceful.

We are having our traditional pork Tamales, frijoles, and Spanish rice tonight. My son has to work until 6 and then he, his GF, and their pug named Link will be coming down for dinner and to spend the night.

2-nite = leftovers. Tomorrow: I'm baking a 25+lb stuffed turkey. Mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce & gravy. German chocolate cake for dessert. I plan on having a ton of leftovers. We LOVE turkey! ♥♥♥

Just Hubs and I. Chicken stew tonight. Haven’t decided the sides yet but prime rib will be for tomorrow. Our kids are 2 blocks away , but we social distance as they are in medical profession and get called to the hospital for admissions. Both have received vaccine, but we would rather be safe than sorry. Hopefully we can resume our home visits in the spring or summer.

Just the two of us (and two Australian Shepherds). I'm making a Portuguese seafood stew, it's served over rice with peas. There will be enough for dinner tomorrow night, as well, and can be reheated on our gas stovetop in case we lose our power in the anticipated storm that Annie D mentioned. Shrimp cocktails beforehand. See's chocolates and Bailey's for dessert.

Merry Christmas from Cape Cod!

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DH and I are having deconstructed shepard's pie (meatloaf, mashed potatoes and brussels sprouts).

I’ll tell you when I get back from the restaurant 😊

I have crab legs in the freezer and a small half ham in the frig for tomorrow. Not certain what I will have with them if anything. My niece sent cookies so will be having those tomorrow. I have carefully put them where they were not handy or they would be gone by now.

Today will be lasagna and veggies, dinner rolls, perhaps a glass of wine too. Dessert is peach upside down cake and/or spiced whisky cake with whipped or pouring cream. Tomorrow is prime rib roast, smashed potatoes, sugar snap peas in an orange ginger sauce, Yorkshire pudding, gravy and the aforementioned desserts along with other goodies. We are looking forward to grazing on appetizers tomorrow before dinner, especially Martha Stewart's cheese sticks, a favorite.

Tonight is a Tex-Mex kind of meal to use up some leftover pinto beans: large flour tortilla heated in the air fryer, pinto beans spread over that, then lots of cheese, then chopped onions, then salsa, and on top fried eggs. Having nacho cheese ships and beer with it.

Our tradition for Christmas has been wonder Prime Rib; however, since no large family gathering this year, my daughter and I decided we would have:

Filet Mignon

Garlic Parmesan Roasted Potatoes

Sweet & Sour Brussels Sprouts

Caramelized Onions

Hot Yeast Rolls

Blackberry Cobbler

Red Wine

For After Dinner Snacking Baked Artichoke Cheese Appetizer

I made the filling for a tourtiere last night, and I'll assemble it today and have it for dinner.

Tomorrow will be a small turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing and brussels sprouts.

Both meals will ensure lots of leftovers for the freezer

I'm picking up freshly roasted turkey breast carved from a whole bird at our local grocery store. For just two of us, I didn't want to cook a whole bird. I'll make fresh cranberry salad and kale. Tomorrow afternoon, we will have leftover turkey with rolls and salad. I have frozen cinnamon buns to thaw and let rise overnight for tomorrow's breakfast. What a restful holiday I will have with minimal cooking and no family drama. I'm really going to enjoy it, plus we are supposed to have a beautiful sunny Christmas.

Tonight will be just a usual weekday evening meal.

Christmas Day will be Sauerbraten, Spatzle, Rotkohl, veggie, rolls and Linzer torte for dessert.

@Jasdip, I really want to try my hand at making a tourtier. Maybe sometime next year.

We aren't planning a holiday meal tonight. DH will likely grill something. We're staying home, just the two of us. Although driveway company this afternoon won't surprise me, we have friends or DH's family dropping in several days a week.

I shopped for ingredients for bœuf bourgignon to make tomorrow when we were in Vancouver yesterday to visit at the window with my Mom at her care facility. Stores were packed full of shoppers, tried to get in and out in record time. I got the basics, things I needed for the holiday, things I needed for her little apartment refer, and not much extra ;0) Somehow, no fresh fruit or berries. I did get a nice french bread to go with the beef, not baking my own.

We'll be home alone Christmas Day too. First time in our lives, but it will be fine. Only different.

I signed consent forms for the covid vaccine for my mother when at her facility yesterday. Their director couldn't give me a date yet, but said Walgreens will be coming there to administer the shots and that it should be soon. He'll let me know when he has a firm date.

Oysters from a mile up river, squid, cod and affogato. Followed by a stroll along the seafront. Pretty good for a Christmas gone wrong.

I just took my tourtiere out of the oven. Delicious!

Tourtiere tonight with a cheesy cauliflower side.

Tomorrow is traditional turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, stuffing, broccoli...

Shrimp, pepperoni dip, and french onion dip for appetizers. Potato soup, coleslaw, ham, scalloped potatoes, corn, and buns. Candy cane cake roll, ice cream and cheesecake for dessert. Of course there is boxes of chocolate and a platter of cookies. There will be 8 of us tomorrow for dinner.

Tonight was squid ink pasta with mixed seafood (scallops, shrimp, calamari rings.) Tomorrow: my crockpot version of osso buco with lemon orzo and roasted brussel sprouts.

I did my ride today so when I got home I made myself a polish sausage on a brioche roll. DH had last night's leftover pot roast etc. Tomorrow will be nothing special. I am not making a holiday around food for just the two of us. If it was important to DH I would but he is of the same mind as I am. Just another day for us. I will pull something out of the freezer if we feel like making a meal to have together or we will graze on our own schedules.

No family here for us, so its just the 2 of us.

We've had our Christmas Eve dinner and snacks....our Borsin shallots and chive cheeses with my GF crackers, my homemade sausage rolls, devilled eggs, german salami, his hot salami, our homemade cheese pastry and our delicious jellied salad.

For Christmas dinner we are having roast beef with all the usual trimmings....someday, we'll do a turkey.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Nobody coming here among the three kids' families.

We have a small turkey roast, will make some special deviled eggs, sweet potatoes and some green beans. Should have leftovers this weekend ...

Tonight was grilled salmon, grilled asparagus, and long grain rice with salted caramel cookies I baked today for dessert.

I'm embarrassed to say that I failed to order from Kroger early and the next available delivery was Saturday. So, it will be salmon (canned) patties and homemade mac and cheese.

Of course, this is subject to change. Might get in the car and have brother or sister leave me a plate on their porch. But probably not.

Our meal will be turkey, ham, mashed potatoes gravy, candied sweet potatoes, a vegetable not sure what, stuffing, marinated vegetable salad, deviled eggs, rolls, apple pie, fluffy stuff, and white cake. Just be six of us this year for our Christmas meal.

Sue

I made our Christmas meal yesterday, since I am stuck at work today. Turkey tenderloins, chicken dressing, cranberry sauce (from the can) Mac and cheese, collard greens. I brought some to work with me to eat later, along with the absolutely sinful dark chocolate dipped pretzel sticks SO gave me for Christmas. I assume he will eat some later if he gets hungry while I am here at work. I made a pan of brownies this morning while I was getting ready in case he wants something sweet afterward. The dogs got the ham hocks from the collard greens for their Christmas present.

My sister hosted some of her husbands family for Christmas Eve. A couple of his sisters, that's all. They always have tons of finger food for Christmas Eve and I made some of them for her and delivered them the day before so that I could have Christmas Eve all to myself and SO. Homemade salsa, olive bread thingies and sausage stuffed French bread. She said her kids did NOT want to leave Santa cookies. They left him cheesy olive bread and chip dip. (I guess they wanted to get a leg up on the other kids of the world. To be fair, I would rather have olive bread and chip dip than cookies any day)

I have a mini pizza for tonight

Since its just me and today is no different then any other day

Christmas Eve--scallops, wild mushroom rice pilaf, and roasted glazed brussel sprouts

Christmas Day--spiral ham, sweet potato casserole, pineapple casserole, cranberry sauce, arugula salad.

In between snacks--cookies galore, cheeses, shrimp cocktail

Christmas Eve was very quiet, we didn't have anything special for dinner. We had a nice bowl of Eid's Trader Joes Copycat Harvest Chili with some sourdough bread.

Today is quiet too, just the two of us. But we are "splashing out" on a nicer dinner, and making an exception to our usual meatless meals. We're having lamb shanks braised in red wine and veggies. It's in the oven now, bubbling away in my oval cast iron dutch oven. It smells heavenly in here! Mashed potatoes/cauliflower and green beans almandine to go with.

Just a small dessert--a pumpkin custard.

We will FaceTime with our son and DIL later this afternoon, and of course a phone call to my Mom.

Merry Christmas! Christmas Eve dinner was just frozen sirloin meatballs cooked for 5 minutes in the Instant Pot with grape jelly and Baby Rays bbq sauce with some hot sauce and we also had cheese filled phyllo twists. Christmas dinner was a 1kg glazed spiral ham, scalloped potatoes made with lots of sliced onions, fresh steamed green beans and ambrosia salad. Lemon, raspberry trifle is still waiting to be eaten later. No other family this year than just the 3 of us who live together. I haven't seen anyone else in person in a long time since this pandemic started except for neighbours outside.

Christmas dinner was the same as Thanksgiving...Butterball turkey breast, mashed potatoes, dressing, gravy and cranberry sauce. Dessert was ice cream..choices vanilla, Dutch chocolate, or egg nog ice cream. There's only the two of us....(we used to be 3 counting the peke but he passed away Sept.6.)

>> I’ll tell you when I get back from the restaurant 😊

Sorry, but SMH.

I hope that you, and those you've come into contact with, remain healthy.

Peke, I’m sorry for the loss of your pup.

Although it was just the three of us, adding curbside delivery of dinner, breakfast, and gifts to my son and my brother made it, as DH put it, as much of a schlemzl as ever. And we still delivered one gift to the wrong person, and left at home the Pillsbury poppin’ fresh bread (nothing like fresh-baked bread, even if it isn’t from the bakery, with a stew), the fruit, and the festive tableware. But, boy is the stew delicious.

After a drawn out Christmas Brunch of croissants, bacon, scrambled eggs, fruit medley, mimosas, and coffee, we are never up for a big dinner. We had Tomato soup and grilled ham-and-cheese for our Christmas Day supper, again in the dining room with candles and solo Spanish guitar Christmas carols, and it was very cozy and warm and “hygge “. Ended with watching White Christmas, which DH says he’s never seen in full before. A friend left homemade cookies at our front door while we were watching! They were the perfect complement to the day.

We had a change of plans from our prime rib Christmas dinner. After appetizers and grazing all day, we didn't feel like a big meal and it was postponed until New Years. Sister-in-law celebrated Christmas with us, since she lives alone and is allowed to join another household. We ate leftover lasagna for dinner, together with wine, cheese sticks, rolls and sugar snap peas. More treats during our movie watching - Klaus (which we all enjoyed) and A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim (best Christmas movie ever).