Favorite Christmas recipes?

My mom always made a Cranberry Jello. She served this in place of traditional cranberry sauce. I'll see if I can dig up the recipe.

Waldorf salad with apples, bananas, walnuts and Cool Whip is one of my standard items. Depending on the number of quests, twice baked potatoes finished in the smoker is a great side to the prime rib.

Stim wrote:
My favorite (Mom made growing up) cold weather food is Hot dogs with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes, lot's a butter!
Also can of spinach drained, stir in 2 raw eggs and fry until eggs are cooked AND butter. YUM!

I'm coming to your house. Add some bacon bits to the spinach and eggs. Yum Yum!

My favorite (Mom made growing up) cold weather food is Hot dogs with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes, lot's a butter!
Also can of spinach drained, stir in 2 raw eggs and fry until eggs are cooked AND butter. YUM!

PINEAPPLE CASSEROLE is one of my favorite holiday eats.


2 cans pineapplee chunks in juice (drained, reserve juice)
1 cup sugar
4 TBL flour
1 cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
1 stick butter, melted
1 sleeve Ritz crackers, crushed

Combine pineapple chunks, flour, sugar together in a bowl with 6 TBL of reserved juice. Toss well and put into casserole dish and top with shredded cheese. Combine Ritz with butter and top the casserole. Bake in a 350 oven for about 30 minutes. Cool slightly before serving warm.

Usually we do ham and a pot roast in our cast iron dutch ovens over a fire. Plenty of extra stuffing made at Thanksgiving is thawed and heated. Sometimes a lasagne is part of the holiday meals. Just about any dish with bacon in it will be on the menu as well. Definitely an all meat chili too.

Now, Hogmanay (the Scottish New Year's Eve) is celebrated with traditional Scottish fare such as haggis, neeps and tatties, black bun, cockaleekie soup, bridies and steak pies, rumbledethumps and several very sweet desserts. Let's not forget the wee dram of good "whisky". We get haggis that's made in the US from these folks. They don't have all that awful offal in the American recipe for haggis. We'll do it all again for Burns Night on January 25th. You could say that we celebrate for a month.:W

We do a French Toast Custard similar to the one posted too.
PS: we're right there with you on the thick bacon.

Christmas morning we do brunch

Good thick Bacon
Scrambled Eggs
Fruit Salad (Strawberries,Raspberries, Boysenberries)served with Vanilla Yogurt
French Toast Custard
Mimosas


French Toast Custard
Ingredients
8 to 10 slices day-old French bread (1 inch thick)
5 tablespoons butter, melted
4 eggs
2 egg yolks
3 cups milk
1 cup heavy whipping cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Confectioners' sugar, optional
Directions
1. Brush both sides of bread with butter; place in a greased 13x9-in. baking dish. In a large bowl, beat eggs and yolks. Add milk, cream, sugar, vanilla and nutmeg; mix well. Pour over the bread slices. Cover and chill overnight. Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking.
2. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes before serving. Dust with confectioners' sugar if desired.

When it’s cold it’s gumbo time!