Tag Archives: holiday meals

Make Your Own Christmas Feast

What are you serving for Christmas dinner? With such an auspicious occasion to celebrate you might consider giving Chef Boyardee a break for the night and instead whip up the following festive dishes for your family. It’s a fancy meal fit for a king, but you won’t have to spend all day in the kitchen preparing it. SHRIMP WITH HOMEMADE COCKTAIL SAUCE Ingredients: 32 to 40 medium to large cooked shrimp, peeled and deveined with tails intact Cocktail sauce (recipe below) 1 fresh lemon, sliced Parsley sprigs for garnish Directions: Spoon cocktail sauce into martini glasses. Place 8 to 10 … Continue reading →

Holiday Meals with Your Mother-in-Law

Not everyone is lucky enough to have married into the perfect family. Some people are not even lucky enough to have married into a decent family. However, once married the family is yours too. For some couples, the holidays can be very stressful. Not due to last minute shopping or picking out the perfect gift but due to holiday meals with the in-laws. In my opinion, in-laws are much harder for women than for men. Women tend to take things more personally and strive to please their in laws more than men do. Most men are what they are take … Continue reading →

Holiday Salads

Thanksgiving is quickly approaching, but if your family is like mine, any recipes you serve for Thanksgiving will also work for Christmas. So I titled this blog “Holiday Salads.” I think we concentrate so much on the turkey, gravy, sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole that we may forget that salads are a nice change on the dinner table. Holiday Salad For this recipe, you will need three lemons, sea salt, black pepper, extra virgin olive oil, five medium heads of Belgian endive, a quarter pound of Gruyere cheese, one avocado, dried cranberries, one green apple, and frozen corn. To … Continue reading →

Seating Charts & Place Cards for Holiday Meals?

We usually keep things pretty casual around here even during the holidays. Our gatherings tend to be somewhat small since we have family all across the country, but not very many family members living nearby. I still like things to be nice of course, and every once in a while I get the urge to add a little more formality. This has worked out well, since people know I like to add a few flourishes here and there, so they weren’t surprised that I developed a seating chart and made place cards at the last get-together. To be quite honest, … Continue reading →