Chook Me!

How did your Christmas Dinner turn out?

Everyone tells me I'm a good cook. I try really hard to please people with my cooking but sometimes I fall short. This Christmas, I took on the whole thing among my family. My faux pas this year, I cooked the ham without removing the plastic center thing. I mixed up some "creams of" soups and wound up with no cream of mushroom for the Green Bean Casserole (had to scrap that all together), and I could not find my favorite Chicken Spaghetti recipe, so I had to cook it from memory. Had it not been for cooking for fewer people this year and a couple of glasses of dinner wine, while cooking, I never would have come from under the table this Christmas. Overall, I think I did a good job. If my loved ones are happy, that's all that matters. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Public Comments

1. Terrible, I am feeling depressed and my family is not helping.
2. I think you made an amazing and heartfelt dinner. Kudos to you for thinking so fondly of them and providing them with a nice dinner. I had ham too. I didn't make it, but ham is ham. It's the thought that counts, and your thought of trying to please others was very kind. I hope they appreciated all your lovely intentions! Hoped you saved some of that chicken spaghetti for me? Merry Christmas hun!
3. merry Christmas 2 u 2 well we're opening open house , whole family , cousin, relative , neighbor , outsider and beggars are treated equally
4. Everyone should just be thankfull to have food :)
5. You know, you rocked this dinner. That's a part of being a great cook, substitute, deal with, improvise! Our dinner was great, because I was exhausted from work, tried to help out, but I fell asleep and took a nap or two. Thankfully my husband is a great cook and the turkey and sides were awesome. I managed to throw together polenta, but we'll be frying that tomorrow for brunch. So dinner was great, and I barely had to do anything.
6. I think ours turned out lovely. We picked recipes we could premake so there wan't too much last minute prep. The problem was we told guests two different times for dinner. The prime rib was a little more done than we like and the Yorkshire Puddings (dinner rolls as my son called them) fell, but everything else from butternut squash soup with fried leeks to gingerbread poached pear trifle was a hit.
7. The Hungarian Goulash was the best ever. Apfelstrudel with raisins for desert.