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Three Alternate Holiday Meal Ideas

 Hello. C J here. I know Christmas is fast approaching and it’s probably stressing everyone out. Me, here, with my absurdly large Scottish family, we have Christmas down to a science. It’s a pattern we know how to do. But what if you don’t like turkey? Or cranberries? Or nutmeg? Well, here’s three non-traditional holiday meal ideas. Also, if you need a quick meal sometimes throughout the holiday season, consider baking a few chicken breasts and a pack of bacon in advance. Keep them in the fridge fully cooked and make sandwiches, breakfast potatoes, or soup as needed by you and your guests.

Summer in Winter Christmas

Celebrate the Christmas season with Caribbean and Jamaican style food. Jerk chicken replaces other poultry, festive tropical rice replaces stuffing and maybe a pina colada or two replaces the eggnog. For a virgin, zero-alcohol rum mix one half cup of strong black tea with a pinch of nutmeg as use as you would rum.

Breakfast for Santa

Skip the complex dishes and rely on good old breakfast staples. Endless pancakes, homemade eggnog (see my previous holiday post for the recipe), waffles, crepes and french toast. Throw in some turkey sausages as the meat, some bacon, fried potatoes and maybe some eggs or toast. All day and all night.

Endless Chinese Buffet

Make an Oriental themed Christmas spread with shrimp salad, tangy mango coleslaw, fried rice, bao and lemon chicken. Keep making them all day and the guests will keep coming to your place for a taste. Look to the downloads page here for my cookbook Cooking With a Wolf for some good Chinese chicken and side dish recipes. The digital draft is completely free and always will be.

Happy holidays everyone!

C J Mcpherson



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