What goes with Prime Rib?

Scalloped potatoes or mashed potatoes work great.

Prime Rib itself is a choice cut & expensive. Lovely at Christmas - Turkey for me is Thanksgiving.

I always serve a green salad and

Yorkshire Pudding (you can buy them frozen now)

Mashed potatoes - whipped with cream & butter only

Lots of gravy

Roasted vegetables - e.g. More potatoes, carrots, onions, celery, turnips, garlic & mushrooms (lots lightly oiled & seasoned in a large pan in the oven while the roast is resting prior to cutting) as well as sweet potatoes, green & red peppers and brussel sprouts. Something for everyone.

Chocolate cake, mince pie, apple pie, pumpkin pie and Christmas cookies. My family loves dessert but often some of them will wait until about an hour after the main part of the meal before eating dessert. I try to have everyone's favourite.

There will be 8 for dinner. Have a very Merry Christmas. By the way I always set the table very early and do the food prep in the morning. I serve our special Christmas meal at 1:00 pm - they start arriving about noon and most are gone by 4:30 or 5:00 - One couple usually stays until about 9:30 and we have a light snack of leftovers & dessert with coffee about 7:00pm.

I would consider roasted asparagus (with olive oil and salt & pepper)

maybe mashed or smashed red potatoes with sour cream and chives. Or you could do mashed sweet potatoes also, keeping with the holiday spirit. You can make gravy from the drippings from the prime rib too. I would buy a bag of heat and serve rolls too. Then your dinner would be complete. Good luck!

I usually make twice baked potatoes for Christmas dinner to go with Prime Rib. They are more special than plain baked, and they can be made the day before, refrigerated and go in the oven the last half hour of roasting time for the meat. I leave them in for an additional 15 minutes after the roast comes out and is "resting".

My customers usually got their prime rib with au jus, baked potatoes with whipped butter and sour cream, and salads. Some got the creamy horseradish. It's just raw horseradish combined with sour cream. Personally, I'd want a rice pilaf dish, and grilled asparagus with hollandaise. And some slightly sweet dinner rolls to mop up the au jus. And I'd want garlic masheds instead of a baked, bacon gravy, and stuffing, even if it's Stove Top. That's all comfort food and simple.

Asparagus

Baked potato

salad

Au Jus

wrap 5-7 frozen green beans (the skinny french style) with pre-cooked bacon. pour a mixture of butter and worchestershire over the top and bake for 30 minutes yum!! That plus sauteed musrooms and onions in puff pastry would be wonderful!!

Potatoes, French cut green beans and a nice dry red wine.

Thyme and Rosemary roasted Asparagus with Roasted red pepper red skinned potatoes!!! NICE DISH and fabulous color

You can never go wrong with mashed potatoes and gravy. Its not expensive. You could also make rice. Or, mixed vegetables. Or, all three. Good luck!