Food and recipes

For Christmas Eve I had a potato crusted salmon with cole slaw. For Christmas Day I had lamb chops with sauteed Brussels sprouts steamed in wine, and pan-roasted potatoes and leeks.

For New Year's Day I will have some sort of pork, some side that has black-eyed peas in it, and some sort of green, probably cabbage. Because some variation on that is what I always have.

Christmas Eve: Rosemary and garlic strip steak with scalloped potatoes, steamed broccoli

Christmas day: roast turkey, dressing, glazed carrots, baked macaroni and cheese, and a side salad with puff pastry pockets for dessert

New year's: I don't even know yet 😅 I usually plan meals the day before or day of

Christmas Eve: Chinese takeout, featuring crab rangoon, twice-cooked pork, orange chicken, and sesame tofu

Christmas Day: A big ham with hot German potato salad, my homemade cranberry-pear-ginger sauce, green beans with lemon juice and garlic, stollen, and an assortment of Christmas cookies for dessert.

New Year's Eve: Planning on homemade pizza

We don't usually do a big meal on New Year's Day.