You sound like my wife. She called me a name when I said all my Christmas stuff was wrapped last week. I pointed out to her it's the same day every year.
Well we are the opposite of you https://www.thenorthernview.com/new...shing out the summer of,to the end of August. Washing out the summer of 1969 when 751.9 mm of rain soaked the city, Prince Rupert received 799.2 mm of rain in the pandemic summer of 2020, from the beginning of June to the end of August.
All our baby presents are wrapped but we are expecting a few more things to be delivered. This baby is racking up the loot for somebody probably more interested in the wrapping paper. Our big present to each other for the year was that damned TV so no other presents to wrap. I've read Dec 26th is a good time to look for deals on TVs specifically so maybe we'll get lucky. Honestly, I'm not much of a gifty person so deciding on a thing to share together takes some of the stress off me. If I have a strong idea or know of something that is really wanted or needed, I enjoy giving it to the person, but there is so much needless junk that gets passed around during the holidays in the name of mandatory gift giving. It's such a waste of money and effort. We actually decorated a little and I'm baking cookies today. I feel kinda.... good....about Christmas day. Usually it just stresses me the eff out. Just can't believe it's around the corner now. I guess I stayed busy and time flies.
Oh and speaking of Christmas. What's your Christmas Eve/Christmas day meal? So far for the Christmas Eve menu I've got apple pie... I thought about trying to make some burnt ends or something. Traditional is not our style.
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Christmas eve we always do a rib roast. Christmas day used to be full on turkey dinner but my dad gets super grumpy about two turkey dinners in a year so we have pivoted in recent years to goose. Difficult to prepare because the meat itself is lean and the fat layer is really thick, but when done right it's delicious. And the rendered goose fat makes some KILLER pan fried potatoes. I'm going to make Martha Stewart's salted caramel chocolate layer cake for Christmas Eve. Last time I made it was like 7 years ago and it was so hard to assemble I swore and cried, but it was so fucking good I'm going to try again. Speaking of... any other 4-letter first name/4-letter last names here? Just me? I acquired this distinction through marriage, but still. Fuck Fuck
Last year I spent a ton of time making Beef Wellington. I had made it before, but that time it came out fantastic. My parents were the only ones that didn’t like it. They couldn’t understand why the beef had to be inside a puff pastry. Fags. This year we’re just getting a Honey-Baked Ham.
Christmas day is always a prime rib done in the sous vide all day. Sides are usually crispy roast potatoes, gravy, green beans, and corn.
Damn, I hadn't even thought of that. We usually go to my in-laws for festivities on Christmas Eve but they decided to do an outdoor "skating party without skating" thing. Our son works til 6:30 and we agreed to care for our neighbors horses so we'll go up after dinner. Maybe I'll make some spaghetti sauce, we'll see.
We’re going to try to honor tradition and keep Christmas Eve as an Italian meal, minus sticking to fishes. We’ll have shrimp cocktail, baked ziti, sausage and peppers, with Italian pastries and Ferrara Torrone nougat candy for dessert . For Christmas Day, we won’t be at my in-laws but we’re going to try to recreate the pork loin my sister-in-law usually makes. And of course the leftover baked ziti and sausage.
Fuck Fuckt. Christmas Eve we usually have lasagna. Historically because it’s easy to make a shit ton of it and have minimal mess to clean up, and goes well with drinking copious amounts of red wine. Christmas Eve is the time when we usually get together with everybody so it makes sense to keep it easy and fun. Christmas Day dinner is just for immediate family, and is usually turkey or prime rib. Turkey has shifted to a large turkey breast instead of the whole bird, unless I’m in the mood to make soup out of a carcass. Prime rib for the last few years has been done in the sous vide for a couple of days and then crisped up in high heat for a few hours, with a nice french onion or garlic soup, roasted potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, and a rich brown sauce from onions, shallots, garlic, mushrooms, and red wine. Usually with a spicy Caesar salad and home made bread.
Christmas Eve is usually a prime rib. Christmas Day is usually a turkey breast and lots of awesome sides. Christmas is just me, my wife and kids this year. My wife is constantly exposed to Covid at work. I don’t want my parents to get it. My family agrees they would rather see the next 20 christmases than chance this one. So it’s just us four. I have a two and four year old that aren’t really into big roasted hunks of meat. So we are trying to make things everyone loves in a more upscale way. Christmas Eve will probably be (shitty Americanized) Mexican food. Everyone loves it. For Christmas Day we will be doing as nice charcuterie (seriously I spent $200 on cheese and salted meats). Home made meat balls. Shrimp cocktail. Maybe mac and cheese.
Every year my brother would argue for ham and every year he'd be overruled by the rest of us who preferred my dad's exquisite crusted beef roast and homemade gravy.