Christmas Dinner Ideas
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All the best Christmas recipes needed to help you have the best holiday ever. From dinner ideas to cookies and desserts to breakfast and brunch recipes for company in town, we have you covered!
We love Christmas!
And we have a feeling you do too if you’re here. We know the holidays center so much around food, so we want to make looking for those Christmas recipes as quick and simple for you as possible.
We’ve broken it down into several sections:
We’ve broken things down even further for you when it comes to Dinner Ideas, so be sure to check out our:
Here are some collections you might want to see: Traditional Christmas Dinner Menu, Mexican Christmas Dinner Menu and Italian Christmas Dinner Menu.
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We want to share all of our best tips and tricks to help you with all your holiday meal planning.
PLAN YOUR MENU IN ADVANCE. Think about the following…
DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN AHEAD OF TIME + GO SHOPPING EARLY!
Answering these questions and putting together a game plan will help you come cooking time.
Plan a cooking schedule: Work backwards from your intended serving time. Decide on the following:
Prep as many of the ingredients as possible ahead of time.
Doing these things will help your holidays be more enjoyable and less stressful!
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Every Christmas Eve, we ALWAYS have Mexican food. It’s tradition!
Although the menu changes up slightly each year, we typically always have the following:
And of course we have all the appetizers and sides like chips and salsa (red and green), Mexican Rice and more!
To prep for this we always cook the meat up a few days ahead of time and then we will make salsas the day before or the morning of. Enchiladas can also be made ahead of time, and then we do all the frying right before family comes. It’s easier than you think and always SO delicious!
Check out all of our Favorite Christmas Mexican Food!
Here are some of our top tips for packaging and gifting cookies this holiday season:
For even more tips, be sure to check out our Christmas Cookies post.
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