Something not turkey. The nice thing about that on Thanksgiving is that it's such a rare thing. Having it all again a month later is never as good or as special as Thanksgiving was. Especially since there are so many other great foods to pick from! Standing rib is my personal favorite.
LOL!! Daniel, that was funny.
Actually I have a buddy who cooks a goose sometime throughout the year and I insist it's really a duck. And another thing, forget the turducken. I can't prepare anything the name of which begins with those 4 letters.
Who the hell cooks up a goose anymore?
My go-to for Christmas is a standing rib roast (or a nice dry-aged prime rib eye roast if we're doing a small group). But, our only Christmas tradition is to do something untraditional, at least every other year. We've often been found in the supermarket in the late afternoon on Christmas Day, searching for the ingredients for some random craving that's struck. One year it was hot pastrami and swiss sandwiches (took four markets before we found a little pathetic chunk of pastrami). Another year it was SOS aka chipped beef on toast (that chipped beef is hard to find in the first place, much less just before closing on Xmas). And growing up, some version of Mexican food was frequent (inescapable in So Calif). But the thing my Mommee made most often was her famous lasagne. MMMmmmmmmm.
Anyway. I might make a small turkey to accompany the roast for new D-i-L as she's not a huge meat fan.
I'm still tired of turkey, having had it in sandwiches and soup after two thanksgivings (I celebrate both Canadian and American Thanksgiving). Since we're doing a low-key Christmas, I can't do goose (too big). So I've decided on a duck roast, with a couple of veggie sides.
An Alsatian Christmas with a large platter of sauerkraut, sausages, dumplings, ham, etc., Riesling, apple & cranberry strudel, and a few more things that I can't remember (my mom is the self designated holiday chef). The table looks just as impressive and it is also something we don't eat any old day during the year. My mom did this about 15 years ago for the first time, at first we all grumbled heartily about the loss of our Christmas Turkey, but by the time we'd finished dinner we were ready to make a new tradition!
Turkey is for Thanksgiving, prime rib with Yorkshire pudding is Christmas and lamb is Easter.
We never have turkey for Xmas. We often have a standing rack of beef ribs with Yorkshire pudding, that's a pretty traditional one. This year we're doing goose.
I finally rebelled against the turkey again and started insisting on prime rib. Everyone loved it, and now it's the new thing, as long as I'm there to cook it.
I'll go with you, Lucy: either the roast or the goose would be nice. I think we usually do a Christmas ham at my parents' house because of the whole "just had turkey" issue.
"A goose! A goose! Let me touch it!" - our arcane Christmas Carol reference, this time of year - I usually make goose with my mother in law's apple dressing, and sauteed spinach on the side, but we'll have to choke down a standing rib roast at my uncles this year. It's a dirty business, but someone's gotta do it. Maybe goose for New Year's Eve?
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