Official Dinner Thread Christmas Day!©

[Andy M.]

I went all out and treated myself.

Herb crusted rack of lamb, Lyonnaise potatoes, baby spinach sautéed with shallots and mushrooms and a glass of cabernet sauvignon.

 

[medtran49]

Us too for the lamb! Crusted rack of lamb, roasted tomatoes, potato/fennel/onion/gruyere gratin, and craig's Brussel sprouts.

 

[Just Cooking]

Our Christmas dinner was yesterday.

Today we grazed on chicken wings, dips, cheeses and salami and crackers and chips. Was a gentle, enjoyable Christmas day.

Ross

 

[msmofet]

I want some of that crusted lamb!! It looks so good. Would one or both of you please share your recipe.





DD's and hub started with Pan fried shrimp (cooked with garlic butter and lemon juice). I had a few clams casino. Dinner was eye round roast, baked potato (topped with butter, sour cream and chives), steamed baby spinach, yorksire pudding and burgundy gravy.

 

[pepperhead212]

Feliz Navidad!
I made Mexican for dinner - not traditional, but my friend likes it, and here is the only place he gets it. I made some guacamole, to snack on, while I was making all that mess - not too often do I run my DW twice in one day! lol The smell of these Mexican sauces is fantastic! It started when I toasted the 4 types of chiles in the oven, @200°, for 20 minutes, then the slices of onion and all the cloves of garlic @325°, for 25 minutes. This is easier than doing all this in a dry skillet, and I often use this method when using a lot of these toasted ingredients.
I also used one of my pints of grilled tomato purée, to replace the broiled fresh tomatoes in each recipe.
Mole coloradito, still in the Vitamix. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Starting to cook the mole. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Mole, after cooking down 7 minutes. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Black beans, with greens and mole. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The chipotle shrimp was faster to make, since the salsa negra was already made. And that was the hottest dish I've had since the last time I made Mahogany Fire Noodles - the hottest dish I make on a regular basis. And I only used 3 tb of that salsa negra, for 2 lbs of shrimp! Just put 4 shrimp, plus some sauce, on each corn tortilla, all of which were heated over a flame. I only ate one tortilla with the beans, to save room for several with the shrimp.
Chipotle Shrimp by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[taxlady]

Both of us are recovering from yesterday's migraines. I am so glad I bought some frozen smoked salmon in 70 gram packets. Two of those worked well for our bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon. There were also sliced red onion and capers on the bagels. Served with pickles and marinated artichoke hearts. It wasn't what was planned, but it was delicious and handy when neither one of us is capable of cooking.

 

[Kathleen]

It all looks SO good! The lamb, the shrimp, the mole, the eye of round, the SIDES! Wow!

We had chicken and dumplings with dressing and citrus salad. French silk pie for dessert. The salad and pie were pre-packaged. Scaled down, but hit the spot!

 

[medtran49]

I used the Cook's Country recipe. Panko, garlic , fresh thyme, S and P sauteed in EVOO, until light golden brown, placed into bowl, cooled some, then chopped parsley and lemon zest added. Lamb brought to room temp, fat trimmed to about 1/8 inch, S and P'd, seared all sides with a bit of EVOO, cooled for a few minutes, lightly brushed with Dijon mustard, crusted, baked in 300 oven on a rack, fat side up, until temp was 135 internal, about 40-45 minutes for a 2.25 pound rack. Tented and rested for 10-15 minutes.

 

[salt and pepper]

Spiral Ham with field peas and spaghetti squash.

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[Cooking Goddess]

We had standing rib roast... except that I thought it had two bones but it had only one. About ten minutes into cooking, it became a laying down rib roast. [emoji38] It still cooked perfectly, but I'm now running the self-clean cycle of the oven.

Sides were roasted baby potatoes, roasted broccolini, and our ubiquitous Brussels sprouts-bacon-mushroom casserole.