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Title: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: Smokin Don on December 28, 2015, 05:02:12 PM
Dec 27 2015

My wife and I was not much in the Holiday spirit this year; my daughter from a first marriage is lying in the hospital after a bad stroke. She was a member of our family too. Having our daughter home now and the son and family close by helped.

Our daughter in law received a 7 pound Honey Baked spiral cut ham for Christmas from the hospital where she works and said I could fix it for our Christmas dinner. I would rather have a ham from my butcher but this was free and turned out pretty good.

My wife had made almond cookies, chocolate chip cookies and lemon bars. She also baked a Marie Calendar’s berry pie for desserts.

I had some nice shrimp for cocktail along with 3 dipping sauces. The son and family came down about 2:00 PM and we had the shrimp cocktail and munched on goodies. I had the ham double wrapped in foil along with a 1/3 cup of hard cider beer heating up on my Traeger. I had baked a take & bake garlic loaf for bread and butter. I also ordered an 8 piece broasted chicken for Sandman’s carry out to have.

My sides were a green bean casserole and skillet corn from summer corn I had frozen. Our daughter in law brought a Crockpot with hash brown cheesy potatoes.

I didn’t think it was my best Christmas dinner but all tasted pretty good. We all got full and I think we will be eating leftover ham for a while!  Later we had desserts and s few Christmas drinks. My wife had Kahlua and cream. The son and I had a couple of white Russians; Tito’s vodka, Kahlua and cream. Three days in a row is enough partying for this ole man!

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Smokin Don
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: cookiecdcmk on December 28, 2015, 06:05:03 PM
Don:  Wow!!  Your meals and the pictures make me so jealous.  They not only look like good eats, but the variety is incredible.  When I ask my wife what we should cook each day, it is difficult to find one or two things.  Your meals always have numerous choices.  Keep up the good work; and maybe some day I can come close to you.
Title: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: Pappymn on December 28, 2015, 06:29:58 PM
Great looking plate of chow
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: HighOnSmoke on December 28, 2015, 06:38:19 PM
Everything looks delicious Don!
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: Pam Gould on December 28, 2015, 07:36:12 PM
Shrimps look most excellent..I got a 3 lb bag of the bigger than my thumb size at Sam's the other day for less than $20. Thank god for leftovers, gonna make some shrimp and grits.  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: smokeasaurus on December 28, 2015, 08:26:35 PM
Ya know...it must be Christmas every day over at Don's..............cause his grub looks Holiday perfect all year round  :)
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: drholly on December 28, 2015, 11:20:48 PM
Ya know...it must be Christmas every day over at Don's..............cause his grub looks Holiday perfect all year round  :)

Very true!
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: muebe on December 29, 2015, 08:41:28 AM
Impressive!!!!
Title: Re: Family Christmas Dinner 2015
Post by: Smokerjunky on December 29, 2015, 03:16:04 PM
Don it ALL looks outstanding - great looking meal.