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Cooking & Baking

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Morbius

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Sun Dec 22, 2024, 03:38 AM Dec 2024

What to make for Christmas [View all]

I am working overnight on Christmas Eve, so I'll be getting home about 7:45ish in the morning. I need to sleep most of the day.

I made turkey for Thanksgiving and ham a couple weeks later. My wife has bad teeth, so steak and most roasts are out. She doesn't eat rice. On Saturday night I made a baked pasta dish (Cellentani Florentine with Italian Sausage and lots of mozzarella) which rules out lasagna. I will have three hours at the outside, more realistically two hours. If I do prep work ahead of time, I suppose I could roast a chicken, but in fifty plus years of cooking, I've never roasted a chicken.

I can't decide what to make this year! Any suggestions?

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What to make for Christmas [View all] Morbius Dec 2024 OP
Some ideas from the Italian feast of 7 fishes usonian Dec 2024 #1
I was going to suggest something like that Sanity Claws Dec 2024 #12
Just ran into this, elleng Dec 2024 #2
How about baked salmon or scallops with scampi linguini SheltieLover Dec 2024 #3
Sounds GOOD! elleng Dec 2024 #5
I looooove scallops & virtually 0 cholesterol SheltieLover Dec 2024 #6
I could ask the wife about scallops. Morbius Dec 2024 #9
And solmon is so quick & easy. 20 min frozen in oven SheltieLover Dec 2024 #11
beef tenderloin Kali Dec 2024 #4
Beef tenderloin is, um, beyond the budget. Morbius Dec 2024 #8
tenderloin not my favorite anyway, notwithstanding price, it was just a thought Kali Dec 2024 #14
My daughter and I love salmon. Morbius Dec 2024 #7
Maybe get one of those delicious, already cooked spiral hams? happybird Dec 2024 #10
A small beef tenderloin: quick roasting and melts in your mouth. However; it's expensive (on sale here this sinkingfeeling Dec 2024 #13
while I am all about the beef Kali Dec 2024 #16
Big fan of pork tenderloin as well. Morbius Dec 2024 #17
another thought is to prep your slow cooker and have it ready to go when you get home Kali Dec 2024 #15
My parents had Swedish meatballs and noodles Marthe48 Dec 2024 #18
If you decide to roast a chicken Marthe48 Dec 2024 #19
I'm planning on leftovers Retrograde Dec 2024 #20
Just made a large pot of cream of mushroom soup. La Coliniere Dec 2024 #21
Ham chowmama Dec 2024 #22
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