Christmas Dinner Menu?

Question

My family are coming to my house for Christmas dinner this year. We've just had a big new house built and will be having a baby around the very end of Nov or the very 1st of Dec. So any ideas to side dish recipes I can make with my turkey? Any holiday drink ideas as well? Thank you!

Answer 1

Dressing

Cranberry Salad

Green bean casserole

Sweet Potatoes

Yams

Dinner rolls

Burssels Sprouts with Pecans

Wild rice pilaf

Spiral Ham

Mashed Potatoes

Corn

Squash

For Desserts you could do the following

French silk pie

Apple pie

Pecan pie

Fruit cake

Mincemeat pie

Christmas cookie

Yule log

Plum pudding

Peppermint bark

Answer 2

Baked Corn: 1 can creamed corn ,2 cans whole kernel corn, 1 stick melted butter,8 oz. sour cream, 1 box Jiffy corn bread mix, 1 egg-Mix all together and put into a sprayed baking dish. Bake at 375 until set,about 40-45mins.

Answer 3

We always have hot apple cider, with cinnamon, cloves & ginger (you can add some brandy or Triple Sec too)......

Green salad with drained mandarin oranges, carmelized almond slices (stirfry nuts in sugar, until sugar melts & coats the nuts), thinly sliced red onion and Balsamic Vignarette dressing.....

Garlic mashed potatoes (use softened cream cheese)-can be made the day ahead & reheated ....  Whole baked sweet potatoes  ....  The standard Green Bean Casserole (with Campbell's cream of mushroom soup) .... fresh fruit salad

CHOCOLATE PECAN PIE

3/4 c. sugar

1 c. dark corn syrup

1/2 tsp. salt

3 eggs

2 TB flour

2 TB butter, melted

3 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted

1-1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 c. pecan halves

9" pastry shell, unbaked

whipped cream

Combine, and heat together, first 5 ingredients.  Add next 4 ingredients and mix well.  Pour into pastry shell.  Bake at 300 for 1 hour, or until set.  Cool.  Serve w/ whipped cream

Pumpkin Cake - Hagen Daz Rum Raisin ice cream

Answer 4

HOMEMADE TURKEY DRESSING

1 c. chopped celery

1 c. chopped onion

3 chicken bouillon cubes in 1 c. water

Crumble up a small pan of baked corn bread

Crumble up 3 slices loaf bread

3 eggs

1 tsp. poultry seasoning

1/2 stick butter, melted

Mix all ingredients together and bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes            

CANDIED SWEET POTATOES

4 sweet potatoes

1/2 cup dark brown sugar

1/4 cup frozen orange concentrate

1/2 cup sherry (optional)

1/4 cup butter

Scrub and boil potatoes until tender, about 25-30 minutes, depending on size. Peel, then cut into 1 1/2-2 inch chunks.

In an ovenproof casserole (or an aluminum foil loaf pan), melt butter with brown sugar and stir in sherry (optional). Add orange concentrate, stirring to combine well.

Put sweet potatoes in the casserole dish and coat well with the butter/sugar mixture.

Cover dish with aluminum foil to seal.

Bake in a 350°F oven for 30 minutes, turning to baste potatoes with liquid every 10 minutes or so.

7-UP EASY EGGNOG

1 qt. commercial eggnog

1 pt. vanilla ice cream, softened

2 c. (16 oz. total) 7-Up, chilled

Nutmeg

Combine eggnog and ice cream in punch bowl. Slowly add 7-Up. Sprinkle with nutmeg. Makes about 16 (4 ounce) servings.

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