Has anyone started cooking their holiday dinner?

Just put the ham in the oven and made the Christmas Pearberry Sangria. It has to have time to melge before guests arrive at 5.

I sent DH to pick it up at the grocery- it’s already fully cooked. Does that count? 🤣

I’d be pissed if I got that!

We are spending Christmas with my folks. I made the potatoe Carl’s and soda bread for an Ulster fry (breakfast tomorrow). Made a vegetarian stuffing with pine nuts (to heat up tomorrow) and a veggie lasagna for DD.... spending Christmas Day at my brothers so they are on the hook for the big stuff!!!!! (We will head over at lunch so I am sure we will have a few things to help out with)

I hope everyone finds time to relax and enjoy the next few days.
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays

We are doing a small dinner for me and DD and her godmother, who requested Lasagna Soup. I will be making that along with the Tortellini Poppers appetizer, tomorrow morning. Just now I prepped homemade croutons made with sourdough bread and fresh thyme and the homemade caesar dressing for caesar salad. Later I'll be making the Peppermint Ice Cream base, and will run it through the ice cream maker tomorrow so it doesn't get too hard.  DD's godmother is bringing some wine and sparkling cider and ingredients for garlic bread.

DH put the prime rib in the oven to be ready about 5:30. We are pairing it with garlic bread and baked potatoes.

This is what I was  trying to avoid when I made the butcher show me each piece he had. I don't think he was too thrilled worth my punchlines but I wanted to make sure it had even fat distribution and not too much  of it. I was happy with what I came home with. 

I got a big new york strip roast.. lots of left overs.... but cooking tomorrow.. pies in the morning, dutch babies and bacon for lunch and roast/stuffing/yorkshire puddings and brussel spouts for dinner.

Just finished baking the chocolate cake. I usually make it into a buche noel, but decided to make it into a 4-layer cake instead this year.

I bought an awesome-looking roast for tomorrow. My friend's family owns the butcher store, and her husband picked out a really nice one for me. He's the best. She dropped off a box of 12 homemade blueberry muffins a little while ago. I'm all set for breakfast now, too.

It is appetizers and holiday movies for us tonight.

DD and I just finished making 5 dozen spanakopita and tiropita. Everything else is prepped and ready to cook or be put out. Technically only the bacon wrapped dates will be cooked and a spinach artichoke dip heated up. The antipasto/charcuterie plate needs to be assembled.

I'm half thinking about picking the crab legs for tomorrow, but might just leave it.

When the kids were small, I made prime rib for Xmas day. I love prime rib and I cook what they want for the other holidays, so I got what I wanted for Xmas. that was a lot of work, so I eventually went to a filet roast, which was much easier and my Dd would eat more of it.

When DS became a teenager, we started binging on CSI dads that I would get for Xmas each year. Who wanted to stop long enough to cook a big meal? Not me! A Pea mentioned that they did appetizers that could be prepped ahead and cooked as wanted, so that's what we did. For years.

Now with DH's kidneys being so bad, that doesn't work either. He's pouting because I refuse to make a crockpot full of meatballs in grape jelly for him, nor will I make him pizza or traditional pasta because his phosphate and Potassium are so high right now. Instead, I will make a pot of Italian Wedding soup tomorrow and dole out a couple of meatballs with each helping he gets. He doesn't know it, but I use twice the amount of stuffing (I use crushed stuffing cubes instead of bread crumbs) so that there is less turkey in them. He's excited for that when he stops pouting.

I hit the antipasti bar in Kroger this afternoon and got Dd and I some nibbles. She's thrilled with the Wedding soup, so that's good.

Marcy

We ate way too much food tonight!

Wings, stuffed mushrooms, jalapeño poppers wrapped in bacon, cheese dip in a bread bowl, vegetables, and homemade donuts for dessert.