Thanks to all for suggestions and recipes. We are definitely making the crock pot tortilla soup on Christmas Eve. With a salad and some little empanadas, it will be easy and delicious. My husband is begging for flan, too. We always have hot chocolate with peppermint stick stirrers while opening one gift on the Eve.
Christmas dinner will be wild mushroom soup, roast pork stuffed with dried apricots and prunes, Swiss chard, that sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top (of course), the arugula salad with pecans and pears, and red velvet cake with strawberries. Translates into a lot of gym trips between now and then.