The Happy Holidays thread

[DJ Ms. White]

Simpler than saying Christmas/Ramadan/Channukah/Kwanza thread...ah fuck I just said it goddamnit. Oh well.

What are all of you doing to celebrate your respective December holidays?

I just started off a two day holiday celebration for people at my station.
Started off by cooking minced bacon. Then, fried eggs in the bacon grease. Then, cooked shrimp in the grease (marinated in soy sauce with ginger and garlic first). Then, made grits. Added lots of cheddar cheese, the bacon, the shrimp, and various spices including optional ghost pepper flakes. Topped bowls of that with the fried eggs. Drank homemade eggnog with Kraken Rum and Hennesy Privelege in it. On that note, it tastes the same as store bought eggnog, which is much easier to uh...cook...as in you don't have to do anything but add some spiced liquor of your choice.

Took filo doy. Layered layers of that with roasted pistachio butter, raisins, and minichocolate chips. Oh, and there was butter involved. Lots of butter. Oh, and Kraken and Dr. Pepper and more eggnog.

Made minisandwiches out of oven-warmed brie, spinach leaves, rolls (I may or may not have made a joke about collecting tolls so we could eat our rolls), dijon mustard, apple slices (honey crisps), red onion marmelade, and black forest ham. Drank some Shiner Hefferweisen.

Roasted pork. Gravy made from drippings and bacon candied in maple syrup. Various cookies. Bacon/sweet potato caserole. Corn caserole. Fancy baked mac and cheese. Kraken and Dr. Pepper. Milk.

Old fashioned bread pudding topped with a butter, brown sugar, and pecan crust. Topped with a rum (Old New Orleans of course), apple, and cranberry sauce, which may or may not have had a stick and a half of butter and half a bag of brown sugar in it.

Tomorrow: Roast turkey with stuffing. More bread pudding and eggnog. More Shiner.

[DJ Ms. White]

Here's a picture of the cranberries and apples macerating in rum and brown sugar.

[Guyver]

Screw the politically correct crap, I'm saying it....MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

We're cooking at home.

The menu:

Turkey
Ham
Cornbread Stuffing
Mashed Potates
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Green Bean Casarole
Macaroni Salad
Squash
Turkey Gravy
Fruit Salad
Cranberry Sauce
Dinner Rolls

[Red_Lizard2]

I need a damn Eggnog latte, I haven't gotten a single one yet (just realized it)

Otherwise don't really have any plans, other then the usual consumerism that is associated with Christmas (in my defense, I celebrate the secular version )

[roadhog0]

Merry Christmas. Fuck being politically correct! Drives me up the wall!

Gonna be a fun one this year!

[Vexon]

What guyver said...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!

[chray00]

Here's a picture of the cranberries and apples macerating in rum and brown sugar.

god damnit diluting perfectly fine alcool with fruits ans sugar what the heck is wrong with you DJ.

[~BigTymer~]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!! Damn the Happy Holidays BS

[DJ Ms. White]

So, I had the bad luck of picking up chicken stock for my stuffing that had gone bad...needless to say the stuffing ended up being...quite nasty. Putting off the turkey roasting until Tuesday.