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Might be a little early, but has anyone thought about what they're serving for Christmas dinner? Would love to hear what everyone else is planning, or just ideas for festive Atkins friendly holiday dishes in general. 
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I spend Christmas Dinner with my Extended Family. So, it's a potluck meal similar. Usually, someone brings a turkey, someone brings a ham, someone brings a roast beef. There are various side dishes and desserts. I typically bring a vegetable side dish, unless I'm asked to bring something else, which I do along with the vegetable side dish.
This year, I'm going to bring a cauliflower gratin that used toasted hazelnuts as the topping.
Christmas Eve dinner is spent with my mom, my sisters (and their families), and a couple of cousins. This is a smaller, lighter meal. We have Mom's seafood stew and a couple of veggie side dishes. Dessert is something light, like a fruit salad. By the way, my Mom's seafood stew is a shrimp jambalaya without the rice. When my Mom and Dad were first married, she planned to make jambalaya for him one night. She never made it before. Well, Mom didn't realize she didn't have any rice in the house until it was too late. She spent much of the day making it and couldn't afford to throw it out, so she served it to him without the rice. Dad liked it and it eventually became our Christmas Eve dinner.~Megs~
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Mmmmmm...cauliflower gratin...that sounds yummy. How do you make it??
We gotta go over to my mom's house for awhile on Christmas, and she's already said she's making a ham. Ham makes me nervous...if it's not full of sugar, it's full of salt. We were talking about bringing a turkey breast or something else to go with it, along with a side dish or two. That gratin looks like a good candidate!!Comment
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Yes I'd like to know too! And if you happen to have the riceless jambalaya recipe too, I've always wanted to try it! What a fun "pre-Christmas" dinner to have.Originally posted by softnred
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Mom's seafood stew is similar to this recipe for jambalaya:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/jam...r/bl10727m.htm
But Mom only uses chopped tomatoes (doesn't add the can of tomato sauce) and she puts in okra. She also adds firm fleshed fish fillets like cod, and shellfish like mussels or little neck clams.
Cauliflower gratin is a recipe I read in the newspaper this Wednesday morning and tried it that same night. I changed it around alittle bit because I was pressed for time. But it still turned out good.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/food/...4259-9502r.htm
What I did was use frozen cauliflower instead of fresh. I zapped it in the microwave to defrost it. I didn't use any bread crumbs. And in place of the creme fraische, I used about 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of sour cream thinned with enough heavy cream to make 1/2 cup. Editing to add....I brought the leftovers to work on Thursday and my co-workers thought it was good too.~Megs~
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