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I’m by myself. I made a frozen pizza. I didn’t realize it was Christmas Eve until I saw this post and read some of the replies. I really don’t care about the holidays.

My infant daughter is in the hospital so it’s a Chinese takeout feast for us.

Breakfast for dinner with challah French toast! First time trying it with this bread

Something I had for breakfast upset my tummy so I'm skipping dinner tonight. My husband is currently making himself some veggie (soy) chorizo and eggs. I may make myself some chicken broth later.

Did you decide what you're making?

South American here, we celebrate on the 24 at night. Spent all day cooking with my parents, there's turkey, baked potatoes, Caesar salad, 6 topes of hot sauce, carrot pudding for desert. Egg nog, spiced wine and a drink called canelazo made with naranjilla a relative of tomatoes and golden berries spiced with cinnamon and star anize

We had guests over, and they made homemade perogies.

They were great.

I'm having a ribeye, gratin potatoes, brussel sprouts, and a slice of pie. I'm having a glass of Maker's 46 to cap it off.

I chose to eat alone tonight so I didn't do all the fixings, but it's enough for me. Last week was a tough one and for three days I've chosen not to deal with people. I may go out for a nightcap later but I'm not going to be dealing with anyone while I do.

Indian takeaway for Christmas Eve on my end. Going thru a rough time and I have no family or friends, so this is the best way I know to enjoy myself.

Tomorrow for Christmas I'll be making a small ham with brown sugar glaze and will use it for sandwiches, and I'll use the leftovers for ham, green bean, and potato soup in a day or two.

No idea but tomorrow I'm making pork katsu curry

Eve, we made Cincinnati-style chilidogs. Homemade chili was great, but store-bought buns weren’t great, and neither were the dogs, but it’s rough to get proper ingredients on a different continent. I may try it again this week but with cornbread (I have extra maize flour around, but no spaghetti).

Leftover chicken con mole, in an enchilada. And some scraps of banana bread I made the other day.

I'm marinating a salmon steak in an Asian sauce mixture, and roasting that. I'll make some fried rice and steam some broccoli, and pour the remaining sauce from the salmon over the broccoli. This is something I meant to do last night but didn't get around to it, so it's my christmas eave dinner tonight.

Normally, I would roast a chicken (Turkey is expensive and too big for my Japanese oven and Goose is also expensive and I have no experience with it), make dressing, roast some veg, make mashed potatoes and gravy, and probably make something like brownies for dessert. This year, we're going to hang out with friends of the wife, so I'm not sure what the plan is.

I am making oatmeal-chocolate-chip cookies, though, using my grandma's old recipe. I actually put in a bit less sugar today and they turned out more like she used to make, so I'm guessing some things were left out of the recipe. I guess it's also possible that the type of sugar differing is an issue (we don't really have brown sugar that's the exact same here in Japan as in the US, and we also tend not to use granulated sugar in a lot of stuff) as I'd end up with rather flat, crispy cookies rather than the more pillow-y type like I made this morning. Shortening could also differ somehow, I guess, from the Crisco she used.

Hungarian Fisherman's soup with fresh bread. It's very common to eat fish in some form on this day in Hungary.

Texas barbeque because I'm sick of having turkey for every holiday and my SO doesn't want to get Peking duck because we're getting that for lunar New Year.

Chicken divan. Delicious stuff, easy to make, give it a shot if it looks good to you.

https://thecozycook.com/chicken-divan/

I had raclette and I'm about to go down on some delicious riskrem with cherries and I will hopefully find the hidden almond.

Just made some home made chicken fried rice for me and the wife. Dunno about tomorrow yet, we haven’t decided between pork chops or chicken fried steak.

First year we have been alone for Christmas so we aren’t doing anything special. Didn’t even put up a tree

gonna play some dino nugget roulette. some were recalled a couple of times recently.. dunno if the bags in the freezer are 'ok' or not. don't care, but i think they predate the recalls.

Prime Rib with roast potatoes and all the fixings.

My wife and I make a big baked ziti every Christmas eve (well, she does most of the work but I help wherever I can) and eat it over the next 2 days. It just came out if the oven!

Also got some cheese/meat/crackers/jam for a low-rent version of charcuterie to snack on.

For drinks, various holiday cocktails we can make out of brandy, rum, whiskey, amaretto, schnapps, coffee, eggnog, cider (not all at once of course, just various mixes we make on the fly). We are also gonna mull some wine later and there is some beer in the fridge for if we get lazy or sick of all the holiday stuff.

This all goes down while we have an endless stream of christmas movies/specials/episodes playing.

Tamales

Mayonnaise potato salad.
Somehow you caught me on a day when I have something for dinner.

Tomatillo tamales and chile.

Fried trout fillets, potatoes, broccoli and green beans, with lemon, butter and some hot sauce. Chestnuts for afters. And half a bottle of Baileys.

Chicken gnocchi soup and sandwiches

It's my first time making my own gnocchi 🤞

I'm celebrating it in family. 4 relatives, me, 2 cats, and probably 1-3 uninvited (but still welcome) guests. It'll be:

• Snacks - 2 types of chips, mozzarella with olive oil and oregano, salsicho (local sausage, nice to eat with some sprinkled lime), olives.
• Booze - beer. Sis is bringing something else too but I don't know what.
• Soda - for the kids. Or rather the 16yo "kid". And likely for the adults to mix with the booze.
• Main meat - one of those big chicken breeds with fancy names, locally called "chester" or "fiesta". If I were to choose it would be mutton, but I'm the only one who eats it so... I'm still glad that it isn't turkey. At least Kika (cat #1) gets some chicken breast as a treat.
• Siding #1 - white rice otherwise there's a bloody revolution here.
• Siding #2 - a yucca meal farofa. I wasn't in charge of it, so I don't know what's in.
• Salad - a salad with everything and a bit more: ricotta, arugula, bacon, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, croutons, and a yoghurt-based dressing. Siegfrieda (cat #2) gets some yoghurt as a treat.
• Dessert #1 - a fake tiramisù with pasty cream instead of zabaglione + mascarpone because it's how my family likes it. 22:00 yesterday and I was still preparing it.
• Dessert #2 - sweet french toasts with syrup. I'm expecting the sweet teeth in the family to drizzle its syrup over the tiramisù.

It's theoretically for five people but we're expecting 1~3 more to come in, and leftovers always become part of the Christmas breakfast and lunch, so we give ourselves the luxury to go a bit overboard. Plus three pairs of hands to cook, fuck yeah.

(Happy Christmas for everyone here!)

chinese takeout, so original !

Something(I'm Jewish)

I'm on my own this year, since my wife is out of town. Friends invited me to have Christmas eve dinner with them last night. I brought vegan Swedish meatballs and rye bread (I made them both). They had a lot of good vegan and non-vegan food there. We also drank tequila and blackberry moonshine :). Tonight, I'm having leftovers, and I'm also making some cardamom buns.

Family tradition is pizza and wings after church on Christmas Eve!

Maybe pizza, if I don't get lazy first and actually make one.

I've been working on smoking a brisket all day. Been fighting with the fire half the day so we're running a little behind but it finally came up to the target temp and is resting now while the baked potatoes are cooking. I've only tried a brisket once before and wasn't too happy with how it turned out. Today's method involved a simple seasoning and wrapping it in foil half way through to really cook in those juices, so we'll see how it turns out.