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Weekend before Christmas and the cooking has begun. What's cooking at your place?

Just made some gingerbread dough, and made some killer meatballs.

I'm having crispy pork roast with a fatty pork cake, pork sausage, prunes, apple, sourkraut, potatoes and brown sauce with my fam on the 24th, which is the eastern Norwegian tradition:



I'm secretly making the western classic salty lamb rib dish on the 25th because my father in law gave me a big of piece of salted and dried lamb. That is served with a turnip and carrot mash, potatoes and a stock based sauce :




I'll probably have lye fish at some point too, but probably on the 28th or so. It's basically cod soaked in poison that you wash off later and it makes the fish all gelatinous and funky. It's really weird, but the texture is fun.

That is usually served with mashed peas, bacon, bacon fat (as sauce), potatoes and a Dijon mustard:

Lutefisk fascinates and terrifies me. Does it actually taste good or is it more of a tradition?

I don't know if I could handle fish Jell-O drizzled with bacon fat, bro.

Somehow we’ve made Christmas Eve nachos a thing, so that will be happening. Our families have pretty much moved to gift baskets, so working through whatever comes in usually lightens the cooking. But we have had and will have mulled cider, cocoa from scratch, and eggnog. Dark spiced rum in all three of those.

We may get Chinese takeout Christmas Day, as we sometimes do, because we’re ecumenical in our atheism.

New Years Eve we often do fondue, and usually Hopping John and cabbage for the day, maybe with ham for missus and hound.

in my place, the eating will commence on the 23rd - it's going to be a weirdo potluck, including Shiro, Rarebit, Dolmades, Ceviche, Sweet Potatos w/Tahini Butter and "some kind've stew"

it's going to be much more lit then fanxgiving

Achtane wrote:Lutefisk fascinates and terrifies me. Does it actually taste good or is it more of a tradition?

I don't know if I could handle fish Jell-O drizzled with bacon fat, bro.

It actually doesn't have that much flavor. It's very subtle and not fishy at all. It's more about the texture and how it soaks up the flavor of the sides. I'd say it leans more towards tradition than delicacy, but the texture is fun and the combination of flavors is great. The fish on its own is pretty lackluster.

UglyCasanova wrote: It actually doesn't have that much flavor. It's very subtle and not fishy at all. It's more about the texture and how it soaks up the flavor of the sides. I'd say it leans more towards tradition than delicacy, but the texture is fun and the combination of flavors is great. The fish on its own is pretty lackluster.

If you take out the fish references is sounds like you're talking about some hyped ambient reverb.
Your menu for the 25th makes me drool.

Dandolin wrote:in my place, the eating will commence on the 23rd - it's going to be a weirdo potluck, including Shiro, Rarebit, Dolmades, Ceviche, Sweet Potatos w/Tahini Butter and "some kind've stew"

I found that Rarebit is one of the most stupid and best things to eat at late night when you are drunk.


Our menus for the upcoming days are quite typical: gonna make some homemade lasagne, wine-soaked braising, ravioli, rabbit roast with spiced potatoes, vitello tonnato (don't know how to translate it.. Veal with tuna+eggs sauce?) and a lot of different doughs, both sweet and salty. Maybe some chili for new years eve.
If everything goes on like now it seems we're gonna spend most of the holidays in isolation , so I'm sure there will be time to cook a lot more stuff.

Holy shit UC, your menu got me droolin'
We're only eating cold food at christmas, so all the preparing and cooking is already done beforehand. We always have homemade pork products like sausages, ham, bacon, etc. that we serve with homemade bread and sidedishes like cheese-filled paprika, sour onions, different kinds of cheese, etc.
The day after christmas has been veggie day the last 4 years because the gal is vegetarian, so cheese fondue, raclette cheese or the like.

If not for the kids, I'd probably make all kinds of absurd nonsense but these lunatics won't eat anything good except pickles.
We don't have any Christmas cooking traditions. I picked up a stollen from a local bakery and we'll probably make some sugar cookies.

UglyCasanova wrote:

Achtane wrote:Lutefisk fascinates and terrifies me. Does it actually taste good or is it more of a tradition?

I don't know if I could handle fish Jell-O drizzled with bacon fat, bro.

It actually doesn't have that much flavor. It's very subtle and not fishy at all. It's more about the texture and how it soaks up the flavor of the sides. I'd say it leans more towards tradition than delicacy, but the texture is fun and the combination of flavors is great. The fish on its own is pretty lackluster.

Can't wait until your family finds out about cornbread



There's a big lutefisk crowd around here since a fish fry popped up that offers it during the holidays, so I might play a game of chess w/ Death for the opportunity

My family is apart this year, so the big Xmas breakfast we are planning for is pork chorizo, flour/non-flour tortillas & double roasted salsa (along with mimosas, probably), since we are all tired of eating salads at this point, and we will be making it all from scratch because we'll have some time on our hands (and we all were raised in Texas, so nothing in the midwest even comes close at this point). Also we all have restrictive diets, apart from champange? But that dry salted lamb sounds killer!

oldangelmidnight wrote:If not for the kids, I'd probably make all kinds of absurd nonsense but these lunatics won't eat anything good except pickles.
We don't have any Christmas cooking traditions. I picked up a stollen from a local bakery and we'll probably make some sugar cookies.

Wait until they realise you can pickle anything and it's all delicious


Here we're going to make sarmale on the day. Otherwise it's just the typical veggie fare. Had some (veggie) huevos rancheros today, probably curries and the like for the rest of the week.

D.o.S. wrote:

oldangelmidnight wrote:cookies.

Wait until they realise you can pickle anything and it's all delicious

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oldangelmidnight wrote:I picked up a stollen from a local bakery

I used to pick these up in season. I guess I stopped when we left Texas—haven’t stumbled across them in the DC region. May need to learn to make my own to bring them back into the fold.

Whatever other people are cooking. I am a leftovers dumpster.