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Cooking & Baking

Morbius

(181 posts) Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:38 AM Dec 22

What to make for Christmas [View all]

I am working overnight on Christmas Eve, so I'll be getting home about 7:45ish in the morning. I need to sleep most of the day.

I made turkey for Thanksgiving and ham a couple weeks later. My wife has bad teeth, so steak and most roasts are out. She doesn't eat rice. On Saturday night I made a baked pasta dish (Cellentani Florentine with Italian Sausage and lots of mozzarella) which rules out lasagna. I will have three hours at the outside, more realistically two hours. If I do prep work ahead of time, I suppose I could roast a chicken, but in fifty plus years of cooking, I've never roasted a chicken.

I can't decide what to make this year! Any suggestions?

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What to make for Christmas [View all] Morbius Dec 22 OP

Some ideas from the Italian feast of 7 fishes usonian Dec 22 #1

I was going to suggest something like that Sanity Claws Dec 22 #12

Just ran into this, elleng Dec 22 #2

How about baked salmon or scallops with scampi linguini SheltieLover Dec 22 #3

Sounds GOOD! elleng Dec 22 #5

I looooove scallops & virtually 0 cholesterol SheltieLover Dec 22 #6

I could ask the wife about scallops. Morbius Dec 22 #9

And solmon is so quick & easy. 20 min frozen in oven SheltieLover Dec 22 #11

beef tenderloin Kali Dec 22 #4

Beef tenderloin is, um, beyond the budget. Morbius Dec 22 #8

tenderloin not my favorite anyway, notwithstanding price, it was just a thought Kali Dec 22 #14

My daughter and I love salmon. Morbius Dec 22 #7

Maybe get one of those delicious, already cooked spiral hams? happybird Dec 22 #10

A small beef tenderloin: quick roasting and melts in your mouth. However; it's expensive (on sale here this sinkingfeeling Dec 22 #13

while I am all about the beef Kali Dec 22 #16

Big fan of pork tenderloin as well. Morbius Dec 22 #17

another thought is to prep your slow cooker and have it ready to go when you get home Kali Dec 22 #15

My parents had Swedish meatballs and noodles Marthe48 Dec 23 #18

If you decide to roast a chicken Marthe48 Dec 23 #19

I'm planning on leftovers Retrograde Dec 23 #20

Just made a large pot of cream of mushroom soup. La Coliniere Dec 24 #21

Ham chowmama Dec 25 #22