Does anyone else not feel like cooking Christmas dinner this year?

“Honey Baked Hams are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some Honey Baked Ham.”

What constitutes a Christmas dinner?

Ham and what else?

^ Ass and cock

Nope. Not doing it.

I may make a small ham and scalloped potats for myself.

I wish everyone who will be alone this holiday well.

I love HBH

This is the menu I've decided to make:

[italic]Prime Rib Turkey Breast Ham Baked Potatoes or Au Gratin Green Beans Deviled Eggs Spinach Dip Crudite Cheese/Salami Tray Dinner Rolls Cranberry Dessert[/italic]

R6 No Jello mold!!?

Husband and I decided to just do Christmas with each other a few years ago, and we're traveling this year and will either eat at a restaurant or have a hotel room picnic while watching movies.

Your dinner sounds nice, R6. Are you having it catered or doing it yourself?

Myself, R9.

As for the Jello Mold, R7, the cranberry dessert will be a jello mold.

Raspberry jello, crushed pineapples, canned cranberry and port wine mixed together and chilled. Topped with a cream cheese and whipped cream frosting, and chopped walnuts.

It was my grandma's favorite dessert and she taught me how to make it.

We’re going out for Chinese food, and then catching a late screening of Nosferatu. Not traditional but we’re doing a Christmas Eve dinner with friends the night before.

Ham?

No, prime rib. I'll probably make two small ones between now and Christmas. We're having my best friend and his partner for dinner next week and then one on for us on Christmas Day.

I let delis cook my food when I want eating it to feel special. The older I get the less I enjoy all the work that goes into making food.

I love cooking dinner Christmas day, it's usually just the two of us and I do crab cakes, or beef tenderloin. We always go to a nice restaurant on Christmas eve,

I’m not cooking. I’m headed out of town and I get to keep my 10 pound ham.

R14 Nothing says “Christmas cheer” quite like spending your sacred holiday meal cracking open exoskeletons and dodging stray shell shards flying across the room. Seafood that smells like low tide and leaves your hands sticky and smelling like Poseidon’s leftovers, mmm.

And let’s call CRAB CAKES what they are: overpriced seafood pancakes masquerading as elegance. Stick to the beef tenderloin. At least cows don’t make you WORK for your dinner.

Isn’t seafood verboten on Christmas? Isn’t that a Jesus thing?

So preachy!

I know what you mean, OP.

r16, you should have stopped with your first glass of merlot.

Well, Darfur, you chose to spend your money on a data plan instead of a nice catered meal. Bad, choices dear.

Yeah, I mean in Hopefuland they probably spend 50 bucks a month for 2mb. Not a wise decision.

I'm going to do the least I can get away with doing. Mainly because we have some wealthy relatives who come and contribute the bare minimum while we host and provide almost all of the food (which they happily indulge themselves in). When they rang this week to say they'd bring a green salad and wanted to know the plans I decided I'd downsize what I'm going to do. I may even have a proper Christmas meal another day and have a basic one when they come.

R23 Serve them Raising Cane’s on paper plates.

Isn’t that shit bland as fuck? I don’t eat from drive throughs.

No. I'm thinking about ordering Chinese food and I'll make a few dips and desserts. I haven't even put up a tree yet. I feel horrible about it all, too.

Oh, stop it. Lower-effort years provide a more joyful contrast with the high-effort years. No need to increase your cortisol levels.

I made a big spread for Thanksgiving, and I'm doing the same for Christmas and New Year's.

This is going to be the last joyful holiday season we're going to have in (who knows) how long, so I'm just going to enjoy it.

Once Trump takes over, it'll be dark days ahead.

I don't think I had one enjoyable holiday season when he was President, and his last year with Covid was a fucking nightmare.

The guy is bad luck and bad energy.

So I'm going to make the most of this holiday season, before the dark cloud of Mordor takes over.

If we can find joy during the worst years of the AIDS crisis, we can find joy during Trump. They want us to roll over and be sad.

R16 has clearly never made anything with crab and seems unclear about what crab cakes are. It's hardly surprising they think beef tenderloin is the height of elegance.

R30 You stick to your disgusting sea bugs, savage. Some of us have working eyes (and a NOSE) and don’t buy into the LIE that shellfish is glamorous. Why don’t you fry up a cockroach while you’re at it.

r31, If you don't like shellfish, don't eat it...no on is forcing it on you or saying it's "glamorous" ...what a freak.

I might get some pigs in a blanket or order Chinese. In my family Thanksgiving is the big deal. In my family, on Christmas everyone goes to the "other relatives".

R32 Shut your fishy mouth, you beast. Wipe the clam juice off your lips.

No way to talk in front of a lady!

I’m hiring hookers to come and strip instead

No holiday is complete unless there's oiled up men pole dancing!

I'll roast a chicken.

Just one piece of 🦃 for me.

Oh r10, I was teasing about the jello mold. I used to make the green one with cream cheese and pineapple. Your dinner sounds fabulous. Enjoy your delicious feast 🎄

I'm still tired from Thanksgiving. I gotta start on the cookies. Maybe I'll make lasagna or go out for Chinese.

I let that asshole keep me from getting a tree in 16 and no more. I'm better than that, they're not dictating my mood. My tree is up, lit and decorated, santa baby!

I'm not doing cookies or truffles or anything this year. The only thing good about this year is my new pup, Apollo, who just turned a year old 4 days ago.

[quote] I might get some pigs in a blanket or order Chinese

Stay classy, R33!

I wish I had a place to buy golumpkis (pigs in a blanket). Too much effort for 1 person.

Golabki are cabbage rolls.

And you can always make a batch and freeze in portions for later. They freeze pretty well.

Same here, OP. I've been sick since Thanksgiving. I can delegate most of the work to my partner.

i'm having a clam bake

For those who don't wish to cook.

[quote] Well, Darfur, you chose to spend your money on a data plan instead of a nice catered meal. Bad, choices dear.

This is SO mean, but SO funny.

Helga can’t be trusted to reliably clean the kitchen after cooking,

^ and Mrs. Steele can’t be trusted to not stick used Pepsi Cola bottles up her pussy when no man is willing to fuck her….