My fiancé made sweet and sour chicken from scratch  on Christmas Eve and we had venison backstraps for breakfast this morning. Thanks to a wonderful gal and my hunting friends! 

WOW!

 

We had what we’ve had for years: Maryland crab cakes, green beans and macaroni salad with steamed shrimp. This is the first Christmas we’ve been apart from our daughters who are still back in Maryland. They had the same dinner and we dined together over a video call on the Amazon Echo they got us for Christmas. 

It's a small world...My daughter gave us an Echo and we had a Zoom Christmas, too!

 

It was different for sure.  But better than a simple phone call. And no need for masks lol. 

On 12/24/2020 at 10:26 PM, DitchPanda said:

Beer tenderloin? Not sure what that is but it sounds like the best thing ever?

And the beef was pretty good too!  Now I get the benefit of a hunk of USDA Prime tenderloin sitting in the fridge to make some sliders with

2 minutes ago, Chris at Tech said:

And the beef was pretty good too!  Now I get the benefit of a hunk of USDA Prime tenderloin sitting in the fridge to make some sliders with

I'm still having left-over Prime Rib for lunches. Dinners - mother-in-law sent us a Omaha Steak box with nothing but meat - no taters, no deserts...that's just fine.

We have too much old fashion southern country upbringing so we still do the traditional feast for thanksgiving and Christmas for the kids, grandkids and great grandkids.  Baked ham, and turkey on thanksgiving and pot roast, turkey, and fried chicken for Christmas,  Wife makes a killer mac and cheese casserole , biscuit and cornbread dressings with giblet gravy.  several different vegetables, peas, butter beans, fresh creamed corn,  Cornbread, and homemade rolls for bread.  Fresh coconut cake, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, and her special chocolate pie for desert.   

There is always enough each family will have plenty to take home.  

4 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I'm still having left-over Prime Rib for lunches. Dinners - mother-in-law sent us a Omaha Steak box with nothing but meat - no taters, no deserts...that's just fine.

My kind of box 

My family didnt get to have Christmas til the 27th but we had some good eating when we did. My favorite selections from the table was random for our meal which is usually the same as thanksgiving turkey and ham, but my favs was shuck beans that I grew and dried summer of 2012 and sweet taters topped with melted marshmallows. There was also a ham and chicken n dumplings which is different for our meal. Dessert was a banana pudding. 
Is anybody else a shuck bean fan? That’s the last year I grew a big garden and still have nightmares of the 35 bushels of green beans I helped grow pick break up dry and can. 

12 minutes ago, Smells like fish said:

My family didnt get to have Christmas til the 27th but we had some good eating when we did. My favorite selections from the table was random for our meal which is usually the same as thanksgiving turkey and ham, but my favs was shuck beans that I grew and dried summer of 2012 and sweet taters topped with melted marshmallows. There was also a ham and chicken n dumplings which is different for our meal. Dessert was a banana pudding. 
Is anybody else a shuck bean fan? That’s the last year I grew a big garden and still have nightmares of the 35 bushels of green beans I helped grow pick break up dry and can. 

I’m a fan of any bean, but I’m not sure which one  is a shuck bean. I’m betting it’s what we always called “shellies” or maybe “purple hulls” that we shelled instead of breaking . Even as a youngster I had a dynamite system for shelling. I formed a newspaper into a water slide and would shell the beans and let them slide down into the kettle, never having to leave the comfiest chair on the breezeway 

I’ll take you pic of my shuckers lol

We hillbilly ppl refer to any green bean strung and snapped and dried in the sun to a dark brown as shuck beans and they sell around here up to $50 a gallon