Your Christmas feasts…

Christmas eve feast at parents' with aunt and uncle:

Wassail
Baked artichoke pate
Spinach, pomegranate, and romano salad
Creamed onions
Swordfish
Creme de menthe pie

Mushroom soup
Hungarian pickle salad
Caramelized cabbage
Chicken paprikas
Fried hazelnut spaetzle
Tokaji szamorodni
Palacinta with peach jam
Amontillado

(amazing, Paul!)

Today was "Traditional English Christmas Dinner" wif. relatives from the Yorksire Dales:

Royal rib-eye roast
Yorkshire pudding
Sweet potato croquettes
Creamed onions

Bham's Christmas pudding
Rum balls
Brandy butter

Truly atrocious table wine.

old-style shrimp cocktail presented on iceberg lettuce
roast duck
potato dumplings
cranberry mostarza
glazed sugarsnaps & pearl onions
'93 montrachet OH YEAH!!

Christmas Eve:

2004 L'Ecole 41 Walla Voila (nice white blend also used to make the risotto)
roast goose
risotto w/ butternut squash
peas in butter sauce
2003 Amavi syrah (after opening and rejecting a 1998 Foile a Deux cab sauv - not corked but thin and lacking)
fruit cake/rum cake/far too many cookies

Christmas day:

party at the restaurant of friends with their extended families - turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls, waldorf salad, texas chili, creamed peas 'n onions, an entire room full of desserts. We brought the liquor, so a variety of vodka, bourbon, and dark rum (Myer's natch!) drinks, as well as wine from the restaurant's stock.

Afterwards, at home:

Nasty Hickory Farms beef stick.
Hot chocolate with dark rum

My father told me not to get "all upset and righteous" when I asked if we had wine other than the Ernst Gallo rose.

Well Remy, at least it wasn't Mogen David.

I'm not going to spend my time checking, but I think Gallo's cheaper oz. for oz than Mogen David.