My brother hosts Christmas Eve dinner for our family. There is hot crab dip for appetizer, then for dinner he does seafood gumbo for a first course, followed by a huge roast, usually a type German fried dumpling (no, we aren't German but our family welcomes food of any nationality ), and a vegetable - in the past it's been green beans, asparagus, even mushy peas. Dessert is usually a pound cake with fresh berries, and some chocolate truffles. It doesn't sound like much, but we are all stuffed by the end of the night. We have 2 semi-vegetarians in the family, they just eat everything except the roast. DD17 is happy with bowl after bowl of the gumbo.
All of that could be adapted to be cheaper - replace crab dip with another warm dip (artichoke comes to mind), change the gumbo to a chicken gumbo or any other filling soup, pick an in-season vegetable and then replace the roast with a cheaper hunk of meat such as a ham.
All of that could be adapted to be cheaper - replace crab dip with another warm dip (artichoke comes to mind), change the gumbo to a chicken gumbo or any other filling soup, pick an in-season vegetable and then replace the roast with a cheaper hunk of meat such as a ham.
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