Let's hear your Christmas Day Menu

Fried turkey
Dressing
Garlic mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Fresh Corn
Gravy
Red wine
Pecan Pie

Basic and delicious

Baked Ham and bourbon

Green bean casserole and bourbon

yams and bourbon

ginger bread house and bourbon

and I will be drinking bourbon, did I mention that?

Going to in-laws so it's; tasteless, bland, turkey, mashed potatoes and this nasty-watery broccoli concoction. Seriously, the worst food ever. My mother-in-law hates to cook but insists on having Christmas.

Smoked turkey, cornbread dressing, gravy, corn, a ton of casseroles, and too many desserts.

I feel your pain brother. My mother inaw would rather donate a kidney than cook but insists on having major holidays at her home. I always make sure I'm full before I get there.

Tomorrows menu:
Fried turkey
Glazed ham
Rice dressing
Mac n cheese
Sweet potato casserole
Potato salad
Some type of salad
Mississippi mud pie
Lemon icebox pie

Pretty standard fare but it's the food I love an associate with holidays.

Had three speckle belly geese given to me today.

Browned all three with oil and flour.
Put one in with my greens and the other two in a roasting pot to make traditional grilliades.

Bought some corn grits from Zea.


Grits and griliades
Collard greens cooked in the goose fat with turnips
Pecan pie a la mode

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I only took pics of the turkey and the zucchini casserole but it was all so awesome.

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Very nice.

For free?

Just messing with you, Otis.



In this one, I sliced up 6 zucchini, boiled the slices just for a little bit to get them soft, drained and rinsed with cool water.


In a skillet, I I browned about a whole medium sized onion, diced, in about 3 T of butter, just until they get translucent.


Then I added some diced tomatoes, I used roma tomatoes, just rinsed all the seeds out after I diced them. Add those once the onions are translucent.

Add a the sliced zucchini, a T of thyme, and 2 T of AP flour. Stir until the white flour disappears (so everything is coated with flour). Remove from heat.

In a separate bowl, whisk two eggs, 1/2 cup of half and half (I used 2% milk), salt and pepper to taste and a T of brown sugar.


Whisk that all together.


In a sprayed casserole dish, add the zucchini/tomato mix just to coat most of the bottom.

I then added fresh shredded parmesan cheese to top that. (Sort of like you'd do with spaghetti sauce and lasagna noodles).

Then added the rest of the zucchini, topped with more shredded cheese.

Pour the egg mixture over it all. Top with sliced green onions.

Put in the oven at 350° for ~25 min, until the cheese starts to brown and bubble.




Really easy.


Merry Christmas!