What is Your Favorite Christmas Dish? (PARTY!)

[TheChiggens]

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[TheChiggens]

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[ChocolateMouse]

@ChocolateMouse? would you like to join the party as well?

Favorite holiday food? It would take so long to list it all..... XD

Let's start with my favorite go-to veggie holiday main.... I tried looking for a picture but couldn't find one.
Acorn squash stuffed with wild rice, mushroom and walnut stuffing.

You cut a TON of mixed wild mushrooms (I use crimini, bellas and oyster) somewhat chunky and a medium-big diced onion. Sautee in olive oil until they onions are soft and a little browned. Throw in a cup of chopped walnuts to give them a quick toast, then put in some rice (mixed wild rice or just white are both fine). Add white wine, low salt or thin vegetable stock, and your favorite herbs (I like thyme and parsley with a pinch of oregano), garlic, and salt and pepper. Simmer and keep adding liquid until the rice is cooked through and the liquid cooked out. Everything should be soft, a little salty and very herby.
Take your acorn squashes, cut them in half, clean the insides out, rub down with olive oil, cover with salt and pepper, then pop em cut side down in the oven for about 15 minutes. Then pull them out, flip them upright, stuff them with the rice mix mounded up and put them back in until the squash is tender and gives easily all the way to the rind when poked with a fork. Optionally top with Parmesan and breadcrumbs in the last few minutes for a nice umami crunchy top.

 

[TheChiggens]

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[TheChiggens]

Favorite holiday food? It would take so long to list it all..... XD

Let's start with my favorite go-to veggie holiday main.... I tried looking for a picture but couldn't find one.
Acorn squash stuffed with wild rice, mushroom and walnut stuffing.

You cut a TON of mixed wild mushrooms (I use crimini, bellas and oyster) somewhat chunky and a medium-big diced onion. Sautee in olive oil until they onions are soft and a little browned. Throw in a cup of chopped walnuts to give them a quick toast, then put in some rice (mixed wild rice or just white are both fine). Add white wine, low salt or thin vegetable stock, and your favorite herbs (I like thyme and parsley with a pinch of oregano), garlic, and salt and pepper. Simmer and keep adding liquid until the rice is cooked through and the liquid cooked out. Everything should be soft, a little salty and very herby.
Take your acorn squashes, cut them in half, clean the insides out, rub down with olive oil, cover with salt and pepper, then pop em cut side down in the oven for about 15 minutes. Then pull them out, flip them upright, stuff them with the rice mix mounded up and put them back in until the squash is tender and gives easily all the way to the rind when poked with a fork. Optionally top with Parmesan and breadcrumbs in the last few minutes for a nice umami crunchy top.

Wish I could go to your place!!!

 

[TheChiggens]

You cut a TON of mixed wild mushrooms

Picked yourself?

 

[Papa John59]

Thanks for the invite to this thread! Favorite Christmas dish! Well I can tell you what it is not...chicken!

Everything! I love the whole fest! I always make our Christmas meal while the wife sits with the kids! Germans normally have goose, which I don't care for, and ever since I made our Christmas fest my first year here (25 years ago) my mother-in-law request that I prepare the turkey, stuffing, and all the other traditional side dishes for Americans. But now, I cook for 17 people, the whole family!

But one thing that always stands out for me....green bean! I love my green beans!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Wish I could go to your place!!!

Picked yourself?

This year we chose a vegan wellington for our veggie main but we're doing rack of lamb ribs for our meat main this year.
We bought 27 lamb ribs yesterday for our Yule dinner celebration. (We don't celebrate Christmas tbh.) Gonna roast em with oil, salt, pepper and rosemary. Served with a red wine sauce. When the butcher was cutting them for me the guys at the counter kept asking when dinner was and joking that they were coming to my house for the holidays!

I don't pick my own mushrooms, I usually buy local or grow my own sometimes. I use mixed mushrooms that are easy to find at local stores or specialty shops because not everyone has the ability to go mushroom hunting. But any mixed mushrooms with a strong flavor would work, so wild mushrooms work great too.

 

[ValerieJ]

Another really nice Christmas movie is Love Actually, a British rom-com that is centered around Christmas and involves multiple story lines. Hugh Grant plays the Prime Minister.

Oh no...I knew someone would bring up Love Actually.

 

[ValerieJ]

It's a must. Watch the black and white original, not the colorized version.

I'm totally into the colorized version.