What is on your Christmas and New years Menu

lindyrig79 wrote:

We go big

Prime Rib and King Crab

I’ll bring my own plate and fork.

Wash that down with a few Busch LIghts and thats some fine eats.

Christmas Eve dinner has always been a wild game feed for our family. We don’t hunt deer, but we’ve got ducks, geese and pheasants.
Duck (Wood Ducks and Mallards) is in marinade now, and will be wrapped in bacon and grilled tomorrow. Goose breasts are in two different batches of marinade, one is the same as the duck, using sweet soy sauce base, and the other is more like a Worcestershire based steak marinade. The geese will also be wrapped in bacon and grilled.
The pheasant is prepared two ways. One batch is slow cooked with a cream sauce, and the other is baked with a peach glaze.
My dad will also be baking a ham, since we have some guests who won’t eat the wild birds (more for me).
For sides, we will have Wild Rice Casserole, consisting of long grain & wild rice, Jimmy Dean Sage sausage and some cream of mushroom soup mix. Then there will probably be some other stuff that’s only there to keep us all from looking like a bunch of bloodthirsty carnivores – I’ve long since, given up denying the truth, so I’m not 100% sure what those other items may be.

lindyrig79 wrote:

We go big

Prime Rib and King Crab

I live crab legs. A number of years ago stopped at a casino in turtle lake and they had a buffet with king crab in it. We put a real hurt on them.

Walleye and Busch Light. Heading to Leech Lake for 9 days tomorrow morning.

We always do snow crab on Christmas Eve. Expensive meal this year.

lindyrig79 wrote:

We go big

Prime Rib and King Crab

This is the winner.

Prime rib Christmas eve and ham Christmas day. Venison summer sausage among other appetizers, but would be fun to mix in more wild game or fresh walleye.

Have you tried the pickled fish yet? How did they turn out? did you follow the standard recipe or put a personal spin on it?

Just opened my last jar. will have to spend a day or two tip up fishing soon to get enough for another batch
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Fishthumper haven’t opened them yet. Going to have them for appetizers Christmas Day. We used your original recipe and added garlic gloves and red and yellow peppers. I’ll let you know how they turned out. Grandson has been eyeballing them in the fridge the last couple of days. But we both decided to wait till Christmas Day. Our own little present to open.

Looks like there’s gonna be some good eating the next few days!!!

This Christmas Eve dinner will be cheese stuffed flank steak with sauté onions, peas and chocolate cherry cake for dessert.

Slow cook a top round beef roast with a smaller venison roast, taters, onions, carrots, and mushrooms. A 3 day meal for this guy.

buck-slayer wrote:

Porketa Christmas Eve and prime rib on Christmas day

I hate to correct spelling, but to stop my wife’s Italian Grandmother from spinning in her grave over her signature dish, it’s porchetta.

Sparklesonthewater wrote:

This Christmas Eve dinner will be cheese stuffed flank steak with sauté onions, peas and chocolate cherry cake for dessert.

There is one I have never thought of (cheese stuffed flank steak).

fishthumper wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Denny O wrote:</div>
Smoked Prime Rib w/ mac n cheese as always for Christmas.
New Years eve is a seafood feast and New Years day will be a F&O’s cheese topper pizza supplied from a neighbor as a gift during the bowl games.
Go Hawkeyes!

Denny – You care to share how you make your Smoked Prime Rib w/ mac n cheese. That sounds Yummy.

Let me get back to you.

ND walleye.

Pat K wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>buck-slayer wrote:</div>
Porketa Christmas Eve and prime rib on Christmas day

I hate to correct spelling, but to stop my wife’s Italian Grandmother from spinning in her grave over her signature dish, it’s porchetta.

I will forward this to Morelli’s that’s the way they spelled it in there add.

My wife’s lasagna and cheezy garlic bread. Smoking country style burnt end ribs for an appetizer. Windsor dCokes and fade off into the sunset. Perfect.

Christmas eve Pork Pie gravy, perogies, cabbage rolls, ceaser salad and éclair cake for dessert.

If going with the pork chops always get the ones with bone on.

We do meatballs on Christmas Eve and Prime rib on Christmas day. Wife and I will be alone on New Years so it will be lobster for us. Other family members have an allergy to seafood.

Merry Christmas everyone.

I hate to correct spelling, but to stop my wife’s Italian Grandmother from spinning in her grave over her signature dish, it’s porchetta.

I will forward this to Morelli’s that’s the way they spelled it in there add.
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From Wikipedia: Porchetta, also sometimes spelled porketta in English, is a savoury, fatty, and moist boneless pork roast of Italian culinary tradition.

Please accept my apology.
My wife’s family revers their Grandmothers porchetta recipe on par with the bible.

Merry Christmas everyone. I bought more wild caught shrimp than we can eat. Side dishes yet unknown.

ND perch, Iowa venison, and MN turkey. And Woodford Rye