What should I bring?

[darkemeralds]

Gah! It sneaks up on me every year. I need ideas.

As a single person with no kids living in a very small house, I ignore the damn thing as much as possible. I've never hosted a holiday meal, I have mutual-no-present pacts with all of my friends and family.

So when people around me start mentioning "Christmas" and "next week" in the same sentence, I'm invariably surprised.

But still, I do have friends and family, and they do like to sit down and eat together on festive occasions, and this year (next week...gah!) we're going to my mom's. I was going to volunteer a big pot of my fabulous-if-I-do-say-so-myself boeuf bourguingon, but my older sis was before me and trumped me with an offer of prime rib.

Younger sis then whumped me in the dessert category.

This leaves me holding the bag on some kind of potatoey, starchy side dish offering. Any ideas?

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Laurie Colwin suggested making scalloped potatoes by lightly cooking the thin-sliced potatoes on the stove in milk and then tipping the whole thing "including the sludgy milk" into a baking dish. I think a big dish of luscious scallopped potatoes, perhaps layered with some cheese, would go over really well, and it is easy to reheat.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

Oooh! That sounds wonderful! Great suggestion, and nobody doesn't like spuds, right?