Christmas Dinners Past and Present

[calzephyr]

I am looking forward to tomorrow’s Christmas dinner, where it will just be hubs and I. Here's the menu:

Turkey breast, cooked in the slow cooker
"Homemade" cranberry sauce from Sunterra
Coleslaw also a la Sunterra
Garden salad
Carrots and/or frozen mixed vegetables
Mashed potatoes
Mango raspberry pie...also from Sunterra
D Dutchmen Dairy eggnog for hubs

Sunterra is a local boutique grocery chain and pork producer that supports local farmers along but also carries a wide selection of "regular" food and staples. I have been ordering groceries weekly since March and my $8 delivery fee feels like a small investment in the local economy, keeping bakers, butchers, delivery drivers and more in business.

Usually we go out with my family for a festive meal at Perkins or my FIL would round up some of the family and we’d have Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant. Years ago we used to do hubs’ family gift war and finger food celebration, which ended when his aunt and uncle moved away. I miss that...it was a good tradition while it lasted! Then invariably we would go out to the farm to see my MIL. I would cram in as many Christmas lunches and coffees with old co-workers and classmates when I worked downtown. Then, we were also invited for a Christmas eve fondue with our friends family.

I'll miss these one on one celebrations, but Christmas was always so biz biz that it’s kind of nice to take a step back and keep it cozy!

Comments

[nibblezz]

That mango raspberry pie sounds delish!

Sounds like Christmas dinners past were really good ones! But everything considering, it's always nice to have a stress-free low key Christmas :)

[calzephyr]

Indeed--there was often a lot of guilt in having to turn people down too!

Granny used to put on a big feast until she was almost 90 and then I think she had to really be convinced to stop :-D I'm never sure she enjoyed having a house full of people, but she sure could cook for an army :-)