Wrong Planet Holiday Dinner

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After working 16 hours in a row I can't think of what I want for a holiday dinner. I had some food that was brought in for the workers, but I was thinking about making something else. So here I am fantasizing again.
We planned a superb party. Can we plan a dinner?
Here begins the official WP potluck. Bring your specialty. And don't cheat by bringing beer and chips (unless its part of fish and chips that you are making, not buying). If you aren't a cook, make something up. Virtual food always is good....

And of course, always the hope that it may someday come to pass...

I am bringing something I call Baby Grand: Melt in your mouth babyback ribs made with my secret barbecue sauce. Main ingredient? Grand Marnier...
I'll also bring succotash, which is a native dish adopted by runaway slaves who stayed with indians on their way to freedom.

I'll bring the braciola. In my mother's Siciliain-American family, this dish of brised beef (or pork) wrapped around egg, cheese, pine nuts and spices was always one of my favorite holiday dishes. It is a gravy meat, which means you cook it with tomato gravy like meatballs or sausage and serve it with macaroni (we never called it "pasta" unless we were speaking Italian).

This is a fantasy in that I've never cooked it before in my life, but when someone does it right...Yum.

PS For my non-Italian fellow residents of the Wrong Planet, if it is cooked with meat, it is "gravy." If it is cooked without meat (ie. marinara), it is "sauce."

I wouldn't want to punish anyone on here with my cooking.
So I'd just ask my grandmother to make here dressing made out of slightly browned toast that melts in your mouth.

i'll bring Schwarzwalde Kirsche torte......mmmm mmmm mmmm........nothings better than a huge piece of chocolate cake with cherries and whipped cream.

I can bring the baked beans, its my favorite.

I'll make some jacket potatoes

I'd bring the Toutierre, which is a French Canadian pork and potato pie which is served on holidays. --Originally, it was made with Passenger Pigeons

OK, I want recipes.

I will also bring my homemade cranberry sauce in two varieties: with whole berries and without. I make it with fructose and orange juice. Yum!

I'll bring my sweet potato casserole. (I hate yams and marshmellows.)

*drools at all the forbidden carbs*

Anyone up for some good ol' Asian fried rice? Or would you people like something spicier than that?

I love fried rice! I have made it in many forms, including what I call "house special" which has chicken, shrimp and scallops as well as vegetables and soy sauce.
I had to learn to make all my own Cantonese and Mandarin (some Japanese) dishes as many of them use soy sauce which has my forbidden substance - wheat.

By all means bring fried rice! I am thinking we ought to combine the dinner with a WP con. That way I don't have to eat all this great food in one day. Or, you can all take turns coming to my house!

I'll bring a brined turkey roasted to perfection and supremely moist.

Yum. I'll bring the gluten free gravy.

This all sounds like a much better dinner than a traditional one!

Neuroman, you better make a lot of those ribs.

I'll bring, let's see, one of my favorite salmon dishes:

1 Salmon fillet
1 tomato
honey + mustard - mix them to taste, I like a ground mustard for this.
capers

broth- I usually use veggie with a little chicken stock too.
white wine- for the broth


Put the fillet in a roasting pan, add broth to cover 1/2 of salmon (if that makes sense, you're doing a combo of poaching and roasting)

spread a little honey mustard on the fish

cover w/ one layer of sliced tomato, add capers.

Stick in 350 oven until done, depends on thickness of fillet, etc.

Good stuff.


another:

get an orange, grate the rind off of it. mix a little rind with a lot of sugar and a little salt, spread over the salmon, broil. This orange glaze is awesome and very simple. Hardest part is not burning the sugar while still caramelizing it and cooking the fish. Generally I go with the bottom rack for the broiler.


ahh, Mongo hungry now!

It's my birthday this week!
For breakfast I will be having my thanksgiving favorite: scramlet. Sausage peppers and onion made as if for turkey stuffing, with an egg scrambled in at the last minute.
For lunch I will be having various forms of junk food.
For my birthday dinner I am having shrimp Pad Thai. I'm also having chocolate merengue cookies, ice cream and six varieties of olives. I have some roasted peppers which I may use for a portabello mushroom and cheese dish. I will also try to find my current favorite cheese (the name escapes me) from Ireland, I think.
To drink I will buy soda instead of making it - some form made with fruit juice.
You're all invited!
For the beer and wine lovers - alcohol is a waste of money for me. Most forms don't taste good, and I have inherited my indian ancestors' inability to process it so one glass and I'm toasted and that screws with my senses to make it a bad experience. So you'll have to bring your own. If you're lucky, I may open a bottle from my collection of desset wines (or better yet, my rum collection) and make stuffed poached pears - yum.
And for the smokers - really sorry, you'll have to smoke in the Vivi Smoking Room located on the front porch. I'll light the portable firepit so you don't suffer too much.