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Ordered my new smoker yesterday that I’ve been wanting for a while now. Got me to thinking what will we do for our holiday meals this year. 
 

Thanksgiving:

Smoked Turkey

Ham (probably Honey Baked this year)

Mashed Potatoes 

Sweet Potato Casserole 

Homemade Cranberry Sauce 

Stuffing

Dressing (yes there is a difference)

Glazed Carrots

Rolls

Pumpkin Pie

Chess Pie

 

Christmas Party:

Not sure if we will have one since we moved. If we do. 
Smoked Beef Roast

Smoked Pork Butt

Mac’n’Cheese

Masher Potatoes

Gravy

Rolls/Buns

Glazed Carrots 

 

Christmas:

Sadly we won’t be here so no cooking for me. Normally we smoke some roasts though. 
 

New Years:

Smoked Prime Rib

Twice Baked Potatoes

AuJus

Green Beans

Rolls

Various Desserts 

 

What do others have planned?

 

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We are boring.  We do the same thing every year.

Mama does most of the cooking, and I do the baking.  I do make the cranberry sauce, though.  

 

Thanksgiving 

Roasted turkey

Dressing (no stuffing)

Mashed potatoes

Egg noodles

Sweet potato casserole

Green beans

Squash casserole (maybe)

Fried Squash

Corn

Rolls

Deviled eggs

Homemade cranberry sauce

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

Dessert will probably include pumpkin pie and dirt cake.  Not sure what else.

 

No Christmas parties for us, we have no friends.

 

Christmas Eve

I'm usually lazy and fix a Stouffer's lasagna.

 

Christmas Day

Honey baked ham

Turkey breast

Mashed potatoes 

Egg noodles 

Sweet potato casserole

Green beans

Corn

Rolls

Deviled eggs

Homemade cranberry sauce

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

Dessert will be buckeyes, mints, brownies, cool whip cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, candy cane cookies, chocolate covered peanut butter Ritz, homemade marshmallows...  and whatever else I come across and want to make!

 

New Years day

Smoked pork roast

Mashed potatoes 

Black eyed peas 

Collard greens

Turnip greens

Green beans

Deviled eggs

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, bluebear said:

We are boring.  We do the same thing every year.

Mama does most of the cooking, and I do the baking.  I do make the cranberry sauce, though.  

 

Thanksgiving 

Roasted turkey

Dressing (no stuffing)

Mashed potatoes

Egg noodles

Sweet potato casserole

Green beans

Squash casserole (maybe)

Fried Squash

Corn

Rolls

Deviled eggs

Homemade cranberry sauce

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

Dessert will probably include pumpkin pie and dirt cake.  Not sure what else.

 

No Christmas parties for us, we have no friends.

 

Christmas Eve

I'm usually lazy and fix a Stouffer's lasagna.

 

Christmas Day

Honey baked ham

Turkey breast

Mashed potatoes 

Egg noodles 

Sweet potato casserole

Green beans

Corn

Rolls

Deviled eggs

Homemade cranberry sauce

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

Dessert will be buckeyes, mints, brownies, cool whip cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, candy cane cookies, chocolate covered peanut butter Ritz, homemade marshmallows...  and whatever else I come across and want to make!

 

New Years day

Smoked pork roast

Mashed potatoes 

Black eyed peas 

Collard greens

Turnip greens

Green beans

Deviled eggs

Pickles, green olives, black olives, cheese 

 

 

 

 

Ya we moved out of state for my job so we have no friends here either. Back home we had a huge party usually like mid December every year. Family, friends. Lots of food and drinks and fun. We did the same thing for NYE as that’s also our anniversary. We added much more drinks and would usually end up with some of the people staying there because of said drinks and playing like Cards Against Humanity until 3am to 4am. 🙂

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We have pretty plain palates, so our Thanksgiving will just be:

 

turkey

dressing

mashed potatoes

turkey gravy

deviled eggs

rolls

and, of course, desserts. I'll make a banana pudding. I don't know what others will bring.

 

I'm trying to make gluten free dressing for my dil. Gator Pam told me how to make it come out the texture and consistency I want, so I'll be testing that this weekend. 

 

I don't know about Christmas this year. We've always had chicken and dumplins for our Christmas dinner at Mom's. We lost her in August and I don't guess we are planning to have an all family dinner anymore. I've been told that's the plan for years, but I don't like it.  On Christmas day, my sisters and I will be together, but that day we usually just do sandwiches. I might surprise them with chicken and dumplins :).  

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I haven't thought to Christmas, but its just my little family so nothing big.

 

We are going to be on vacation for Thanksgiving, so it will be a Publix meal in a hotel room. 2 years ago we did the same thing and my brother in law gave us all covid (he was already sick) so not really looking forward to it lol

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On 10/23/2024 at 4:12 PM, Kanyon71 said:

Ordered my new smoker yesterday that I’ve been wanting for a while now. Got me to thinking what will we do for our holiday meals this year.

New Years:

Smoked Prime Rib

 

 

Would LOVE your recipe for the Smoked Prime Rib - I have never cooked or tasted that - but would LOVE to! 🙂

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1 hour ago, magickallight said:

 

Would LOVE your recipe for the Smoked Prime Rib - I have never cooked or tasted that - but would LOVE to! 🙂

SO I normally dry age it for about a week, trimming and changing the cheese cloth during the week. Then on the day of the smoke I take it out to bring to room temperature, I start the smoker up and get it to about 225, while it's coming to temp I will usually rub the rib in some good olive oil and then I use one of a rubs (depending on how we feel). I either make one up with garlic powder, sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper, onion powder and possibly a little rosemary. If we want a little more flavor a friend owns a company that makes rubs for sale and I order some of his Pitfaced OG rub it's little bit of sweet a little bit of heat and just overall really good. I try to let it sit in the rub for a little while then on to the smoker. I don't go by time I go by temps internal and I tend to pull it about 5 degrees before it's at the temp I want. It then gets wrapped and set for about 30-60 minutes (this lets the juices draw back in and allows it to finish cooking). Once we are ready, I unwrap and slice to the thickness we want.

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1 hour ago, Kanyon71 said:

SO I normally dry age it for about a week, trimming and changing the cheese cloth during the week. Then on the day of the smoke I take it out to bring to room temperature, I start the smoker up and get it to about 225, while it's coming to temp I will usually rub the rib in some good olive oil and then I use one of a rubs (depending on how we feel). I either make one up with garlic powder, sea salt, fresh cracked black pepper, onion powder and possibly a little rosemary. If we want a little more flavor a friend owns a company that makes rubs for sale and I order some of his Pitfaced OG rub it's little bit of sweet a little bit of heat and just overall really good. I try to let it sit in the rub for a little while then on to the smoker. I don't go by time I go by temps internal and I tend to pull it about 5 degrees before it's at the temp I want. It then gets wrapped and set for about 30-60 minutes (this lets the juices draw back in and allows it to finish cooking). Once we are ready, I unwrap and slice to the thickness we want.

 

Hubby wants to know - bone in or boneless?

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On 10/24/2024 at 11:58 AM, Bopeep said:

I don't know about Christmas this year. We've always had chicken and dumplins for our Christmas dinner at Mom's. We lost her in August and I don't guess we are planning to have an all family dinner anymore. 

I'm so sorry to hear this Bopeep.   I've been so caught up in my own little world since my old mother took ill and passed.  My condolences.  

 

I don't know what your family situation is like.... If your siblings have their own family groups and grandkids and all I can easily see where they would not want to get together anymore.  That's what happened in my family with my cousins.  Everybody was saying it was just too much.   But if that's not the case, I would urge you all to reconsider gathering... If it's not on Christmas proper then close to Christmas or maybe even New Year's.   Bring the family foods in and just be family and celebrate your Mom's memory while you're together.  

 

So many holiday foods that I wish I could taste and enjoy... But it's just me now and I have nobody to cook for.   Even if I cut down the portion sizes,  that's a lot of food to make for just me.  

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