Your Christmas meal plans

[Grits]

Everyone (11 total, so not that big a group) is coming to my house after we attend our church service on Sunday. Since I won't be home all morning to cook, I'm putting on a couple of crock pots of potato soup and a pot of chicken and rice soup that morning. It will be soup, sandwiches with a lot of good bread options, and people are bringing salad, homemade rolls, and several kinds of pie. They are used to the traditional big Christmas day meal with a roast or turkey and all the fixings, but hey, they could have had it at their house!

[Veronica]

I think I'm going to make a pot roast with root vegetables.

Veronica

[Chile Pepper]

Shootingstar--coincidentally, the first fennel of summer was in the farmers' market today. Fennel slaw with pork chops tonight!

[shootingstar]

Tell us how your fennel dish turns out --whatever you choose to do with it.

One of the local grocery chain stores, inexplicably has lovely fennel bulb with its feathery fronds at a great price year round. I've never seen it so cheap elsewhere.

We bought some anise seeds also to crush and enhance the slaw flavour.

Of course, limewave others are welcome...maybe for now, imagining by photo later.

[Crankin]

Awaiting my guests for our Chanukah party. It's a pot luck and I volunteered to host this year. Usually we do a simple dairy dinner, no main dish, except maybe tuna fish or salmon salad, but it's gotten out of hand.
DH made latkes all morning and is now reheating them. When I got home from seeing clients, my house smelled like oil! I asked one person to make a salmon salad and I just read on Facebook she made poached salmon and verte sauce... sigh, guess which friend this is?
Then my friend who is making a really good kugel (noodle pudding) volunteered to bring sliced roast chicken that she happened to have in the freezer. We are rounding out the meal with bagels, cream cheese, salad, and of course, the latkes with applesauce and sour cream.
I made sour cream chocolate chip cake and brownies, as well as buying an apple crumble pie at Idylwilde Farms, and ice cream.