Get ready to make an easy, delicious Christmas dinner from start to finish! In this festive step-by-step guide, Nicole shows you how to pull together a full holiday menu—from comforting sides and show-stopping desserts to elegant appetizers and a perfectly cooked beef tenderloin.
With simple instructions and helpful tips, Nicole walks you through creamy Delmonico potatoes, a decadent peppermint bark cheesecake, bacon-wrapped green bean bundles, and more. Plus, you’ll learn a few fun, crowd-pleasing extras, like chips and dip with caviar and a freezer door dirty martini that keeps holiday entertaining stress-free.
Timestamps:
0:14 – Delmonico Potatoes
3:22 – Peppermint Bark Cheesecake
5:51 – Bacon-Wrapped Green Bean Bundles
8:22 – Beef Tenderloin with Cowboy Butter
13:07 – Shrimp Remoulade
15:36 – Chips and Dip with Caviar
17:38 – Quick Christmas Salad
18:18 – Freezer Door Dirty Martini
Get the recipes here:
Delmonico Potatoes:
Peppermint Bark Cheesecake:
Bacon-Wrapped Green Bean Bundles:
Beef Tenderloinr:
Cowboy Butter:
Shrimp Remoulade:
Quick Christmas Salad:
Freezer Door Dirty Martini:
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I had green bean bundles at Thanksgiving pot luck Thry were great
Most versions have a chef who is cooking with her hair put back…my God please think about how it looks to others who you are not serving, your hair hanging in your face….they may choose to tell you otherwise but it is still unappetizing even in they don't say so
I LOVE your videos. 😋❤️
落ち着いた進行で、最後まで安心して見られました。
It's looks easy individually, but it still took a couple days to make lol . Great spread though!
written potatoes aren't the same as you did them
Evil
😊👋👍 🎄🎄
I enjoyed watching you make this video soooo much Nicole! Merry Christmas to you and yours.
I love her!!!
StephenMackSD
Well done, you make it look so easy. Merry Christmas 🎄
All I can say is WOW..that's awesome…thankyou
My cholesterol is rising as I’m watching her cook! 🤣
Not very Christmas, was more a weekend feast. Try Turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, several vegetables, fresh bread, cranberry, plum pudding, pie, short bread cookies.
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Nicole, you are the best! Love your style of tutorial and especially your personality ❤
Commenting with love Nicole!! Did the potatoes to a T, a little bland. Rich, but bland. I suggest a bit of ancho chili powder, like a teaspoon, and a bit more salt. Otherwise wonderful.
Your pronunciation of Worcestershire makes my ears scream but otherwise a solid video
Yes!! I love making my salad the Same way!! 😁❤
I've been trying to figure out what to make this Christmas for dinner. Have done Lasagna, Roast Beef. Ham was done for years so I wanted a change and it's awesome!
No Canned Green Beans Nicole! I Agree 100%!
I Love Browned crusty cheese!! Lol
I made my mashed potatoes with buttermilk one day and OMG So Good! Never do wit plain milk again! 😊
Can you substitute the green beans with asparagus?
You’re the best! Love you 😊
I love watching you and how you put everything together.
Great Christmas dinner! Nicole is my fave of every cooking person on you tube. Looking forward to seeing your Christmas day lasagna meal.
I may try the dessert with chocolate graham crackers, less sweet.
It tickles me when you add a "K" at the end of your ing words …fillingK
Oh I want to be at your table 💕
Italian here too and yes lasagna for Christmas every year of my life.
I hope you’re going to do a Christmas Day Lasagna recipe. My Grandmother made lasagna on Christmas Day but it was different than the lasagna we typically see.
I made the string bean bundles tonight for a dinner at my daughter's house. They're so simple but absolutely delicious!
What kind of food processor do you have?
Christmas Day I make homeade Lasagna
Delmonico Potatoes is called HASH Brown Casserole here in SC.
That cheesecake alone would cost 50 bucks
What caviar do you recommend
Thank you! Bingo, you just planned my menu. ❤️
There’s a rare sort of comfort in watching Nicole McLaughlin cook.
She doesn’t swagger into the kitchen looking for applause — she just gets to work, like someone who understands that feeding people is equal parts service and love.
Her recipes aren’t pretentious, and neither is she.
She cooks like folks used to — with confidence earned from repetition, mistakes made, and lessons learned.
And that confidence shows up not in volume, but in ease.
At a time when everyone online wants to be dazzling, Nicole chooses to be useful.
She teaches without preaching, encourages without pandering, and turns everyday food into something that feels like home.
So hats off to Nicole — a steady hand in a noisy world, reminding us that good cooking isn’t about spectacle.
It’s about care, craft, and feeding people well.
More of that, please. My family and I just love her!
Your joy as you taste everything is totally me. 😂 I really love to cook, but when you create something that tastes so good you jump around, you know you've nailed it. ❤
The only thing I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole is that shrimp with all that "stuff" blended together!
Oh my word!!! LOL (Capers, olives…. caviar is like licking the outside of a fish… ick!) LMBO!! Not a seafood person…. but you all can "knock yourself out" with the appetizers!
Really love those green bean bundles… how cute and fancy are those!?! And I am with you on the turkey….. I serve prime rib for Christmas and soups/ and dips for New Years.
I make beef tenderloin too. You should try a horseradish sauce. It takes 5 minutes to make and tastes like a oniony-sour cream- mayo
THANK YOU Nicole!
Your recipes are awesome!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
YES MA'AM NICOLE!!!🎉🎉🎉❤
Thank you,have a good holiday 😇
I don’t like peppermint, any substitute?
Congratulations to this lady on so many views
Where can I get the recipes and ingredient list??
Nicole, I love your cooking content so, so much. You are simply the best!