The purpose of What’s For Dinner? is to provide you a recipe with items on sale this week, with no more than 10 ingredients (not including pantry items), and coming in at under $10 per meal.
I’m hosting Christmas at my house.
My parents and my family will do our usual Christmas traditions together – go to church on Christmas Eve, watch “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” after the kiddos are in bed, open presents on Christmas morning, and eat a BIG meal on Christmas Day.
I’ve received a couple of emails about my Christmas Dinner Plans – so I thought I would share our “menu” this week in “What’s For Dinner?”
I didn’t put any extra money toward this dinner – everything we will be eating is accounted for in my $300 per month budget. (And don’t judge on the healthy factor, it’s only Christmas once time per year.)
The Menu
Beef Tenderloin
Twice Bakes Potato Casserole
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Green Beans in Lemon Juice
Homemade Bread
Homemade Peach Pie
Beef Tenderloin
(from Paula Deen Celebrates)
Ingredients
One 4 to 5-pound beef tenderloin
1/2 cup soy sauce
Fresh ground black pepper
Directions
1. Allow the beef to stand at room temperature for one hour. Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
2. Place tenderloin in a 9×13 glass baking pan and rub with soy sauce. Then rub with black pepper.
3. Roast tenderloin for 45 to 50 minutes, depending on your degree of doneness. Remove from oven allow meat to sit for 15 minutes before eating.
Twice-Baked Potato Casserole
(from Paula Deen Celebrates)
Ingredients
8 medium baking potatoes
8 oz of cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup of butter, softened
2 cups of shredded cheese
1 pint of sour cream
2 cloves of garlic
1.5 teaspoons of salt
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
1/4 cup chives, for garnish
6 slices of bacon
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stab potatoes and place on baking pan. Bake potatoes for an hour and a half, or until VERY soft.
2. While potatoes are cooking – cook bacon until crispy and crumble. Set aside.
3. Peel and mash potatoes. Add cream cheese, butter, 1 cup of cheddar cheese, and sour cream and mix well. The add garlic, salt, and pepper and mix again.
4. Spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray. Place potatoes in the dish.
5. Cook at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Sprinkle remaining cheddar cheese and bake for an additional 5 minutes. Garnish with chives and bacon.
(Item of note: You can make this the day ahead. Just stop after step #4 and then pick up at step #5 45 minutes before your dinner.)
Strawberry Pretzel Salad
Here is my Strawberry Pretzel Salad reciepe.
Green Beans with Lemon
Here are the green beans I “put-up with” this summer. They were from the Hen House CSA.
Homemade Bread
Thanks Mom. Her contribution to dinner.
Homemade Peach Pie
Here are the canned and frozen peaches from our Hen House CSA. You can also read about my no-fail pie crust.
What about you? What is on your Christmas Dinner Menu? Are you making or just consuming? Share it via the comments or on the Kansas City Mamas Facebook Page.
I LOVE Strawberry Pretzel Salad! It’s so bad for you but soooooooo good. We always have ham, sour cream potatoes, corn casserole, rolls, and salad. I just realized we are having the same menu at my mom’s house as we are having at our house and only two days apart. Oh well.
Ali – I love the strawberry pretzel salad too. Seriously, any “salad” that has butter as an ingredient has to be awesome, right? Merry Christmas to you and your family. Have a great day.
That looks wonderful. We have a Swedish Christmas for our big meal on Christmas Eve. Unfortunately there’s no way to do it on a budget considering there is one store in town that carries the ingredients. They don’t put it on sale and there are no coupons. But we all pitch in (Mom, Dad, sister and me) so it alleviates some of the strain. And talk about unhealthy, but it tastes soooo good!
But on Christmas Day, I just cook one of my husband & kids favorites. This year they asked for beef stroganoff. I started to plan this yesterday and found out I had all of the ingredients already save for mushrooms, onions & sour cream. I was floored!! So you didn’t realize this, but that was your present to me. You taught me how get it while the price was great and I didn’t break the bank now.
So thank you thank you!! I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas!!
Erica – Thanks for comment. I’m so glad that you were able to plan a meal from your stockpile. And Merry Christmas to you too!
Kelly- Great menu- I wish I was eating at your house.
Have a great holiday!