19.12.10

Menu Plan: December 20 - December 26

This will be a busy week in the Gaelic household.  Finola returns from college late Tuesday night.  There is a party at a neighbor's house on Christmas Eve afternoon from 3:00 to 5:00 for kids and adults.  Deirdre and Maeve are acolyting at the 11:00 p.m. Christmas Eve service.  That means that Saturday is Christmas.

For as long as I can remember Christmas Eve supper was always spaghetti.  Probably because my mama didn't want to have to spend a whole lot of time in the kitchen if she was going to be cooking a big meal the next day.  That tradition is being instilled in my children.  There were exceptions to the spaghetti rule.  For a while we would alternate hosting Christmas Eve supper with friends.  Our years to host, I would give a nod to the wife's Italian heritage and make a pasta with seven types of seafood.  Still the pasta from my childhood, but the more traditional Italian Christmas Eve flavor.  On our off years, my donation would be a homemade panettone.

Here are this week's menus:
  • Monday
    • Breakfast: grapefruit, toast
    • Supper: butternut squash soup (leftover from last week), fresh baked bread
  • Tuesday
    • Breakfast: cereal
    • Supper: chili with assorted toppings, rice
  • Wednesday
    • Breakfast: bagels, creme cheese
    • Supper: potluck (to clean out the fridge)
  • Thursday
    • Breakfast: oatmeal
    • Supper: potluck (to finish cleaning out fridge) or delivered pizza
  • Friday
    • Breakfast: cinnamon toast
    • Supper: spaghetti
  • Saturday
    • Breakfast: waffles, sausage links
    • Dinner: standing rib roast, red wine sauce, horseradish sauce, Yorkshire pudding, mashed root vegetables, Brussels sprouts, congealed salad, steamed pudding with hard sauce
  • Sunday
    • Breakfast: cream of wheat
    • Supper: shepherd's pie (use leftover root vegetables as topping)
 Christmas dinner may sound like a lot of work.  It's the same menu from year to year.  After 20 years of cooking holiday meals by myself, by this time I can do it in my sleep.  Sort of like every other holiday with their own constant but individual menus.

6 comments:

  1. Where is the all important lunch component of our menu?

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  2. Sounds delish to me. I'll be there from Friday through Sunday :D
    XOXOXO

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  3. @Laoch, I don't include it because the kids and Mr. G eat at school/work. It might be too boring to list my lunches.

    @Jenny, Your bedroom is made and ready.

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  4. OMG. Rice with chili? Sacrilege!!! But that's better than macaroni, I guess.

    I'm makin' chili today. I got in the mood for it when the temps dropped. However, we're in another dadgum warming trend starting today. Fart! It's gonna be 75 frickin' degrees by Tuesday. *sigh* I'll be havin' cheese and tortilla chips with my chili. I'm healthying it up by using lean meat, lowfat cheese, and baked chips.

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  5. Would love the recipe for the panettone...

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  6. @Angie, It makes the chili go further. But then, your recipe for chili is probably light years ahead of mine and a little bit of yours would satisfy even my growing boy of a husband.

    @Gail, I'm not making it this year. Let me dig it out and I'll email it to you. If you don't get it in a few days, remind me.

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