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Hour · 2024-12-14T16:12:56+00:00

Just wanting some inspo really. Any constructive criticism would be appreciated. I will be doing: _appetisers (husband does these)_ brie and cranberry bites smoked salmon and fake caviar blinis pear and melon or a chicken caeser salad skewer _main_ Chicken ballotine (basically a roulade with stuffing) brussel sprouts with bacon bits honey roasted rainbow carrots roast potaoes roast parsnips cabbage pigs in blanket gravy _pudding_ homemade Yule log Christmas pudding (bought) Panne cotta (teen son will make) posh coffee and homemade minced pies in the evening I would do a cheeseboard but I’d rather serve it on Boxing Day with leftovers as in my experience my lot don’t eat it.

ProvincialLady24 · 15/12/2024 00:33

It sounds wonderful, but also like a lot of work.

How many are you catering for?

Can you condense the starter into one option?

CleverGreyDuck · 15/12/2024 00:28

Wow that’s a lot and sounds lovely - if you can manage it then why not

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Hour · 15/12/2024 00:28

Thanks all for input. Will probably add Yorkshire puddings to mop up gravy.

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Hour · 15/12/2024 00:26

Everlygreen · 14/12/2024 21:30

Sounds a bit boring and bland to me. The main is basically a stuffed chicken with vegetables even though it's written to sound like a lot and fancy. So just one main meal?
As long your family likes it who cares about anyone else!

We don’t bother with starters as then it’s just way too filling.

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CatStoleMyChocolate · 14/12/2024 22:36

LegoLivingRoom · 14/12/2024 16:53

I speak as a Yorkshire woman too and say only daft southerners think it’s only for beef. 😉Yorkshire puddings go with any kind of roast (which is what a Christmas lunch is). Were you not made to eat them with everything as a child, even stew?

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Exactly. None of this piddling little “Yorkies” piled onto a full plate. Yorkshire puddings are baked in a roasting tin and served as a starter. They are served in thick rectangular slices with onion gravy, to fill you up and to make the meat go further. Which can be any roast dinner. Definitely not just beef. Or other dinners such as sausages and mash, or ash (not hash. Ash.)

I can hear the southerners fainting from here 😂

At least one person on this thread will be able to work out what part of Yorkshire I come from.

Anyway, as you were. OP, your menu sounds amazing!

Iwishicouldflyhigh · 14/12/2024 22:30

peppeRomia · 14/12/2024 16:52

It sounds lovely as it is.

Cauliflower cheese doesn't belong with gravy so I wouldn't go along with that suggestion.

What???????!!

cauliflower cheese and gravy is delicious!

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 14/12/2024 22:17

I'd have everything on your list but swap cabbage for Delia's traditional braised red cabbage. I'd add another stuffing baked separately, bread sauce, cranberry and orange sauce.
I'd definitely have the cheeseboard on Christmas day, not as part of the main meal, but for later on, it's amazing how much people suddenly want to eat at 9pm when you bring out the cheese, chutneys, grapes, sausage rolls and Christmas cake.

Atavist · 14/12/2024 22:06

Sounds lovely, although I'm intrigued about how you mince a pie. 😄

HooMoo · 14/12/2024 22:01

I’d want some more veggies with it. So broccoli, carrots etc. but I think I’m a bigger veggie fan than others.

Gingerbee · 14/12/2024 21:51

Personally, I would ditch the Brussels sprouts!

woffley · 14/12/2024 21:34

Radamanth · 14/12/2024 16:46

I am shooketh by the number of people who have Yorkshire pudding with their Christmas dinner.

Yorkshire puddings with beef only.

(And I speak as a Yorkshire woman, so am obviously an expert on such things).

In 45 years of cooking Christmas dinner I have maintained resistance to Yorkshire puddings with turkey. I might cave in this year as DS says he will make them and he makes better ones than me.

Everlygreen · 14/12/2024 21:30

Sounds a bit boring and bland to me. The main is basically a stuffed chicken with vegetables even though it's written to sound like a lot and fancy. So just one main meal?
As long your family likes it who cares about anyone else!

Londoneye20 · 14/12/2024 21:25

Radamanth · 14/12/2024 17:48

Presume it's lumpfish or keta, rather than sturgeon roe, which is about 20 times the price.

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Oh I see.

Bubobubo · 14/12/2024 18:14

whiskeytangofox · 14/12/2024 16:55

Yorkies go with everything, even a vegetarian main. <gavel> 🧑🏻‍⚖️

I ALWAYS have yorkies with my Sunday dinner. (And add mint sauce to any type of gravy too)

WTF is entirely correct on all counts.

Bread sauce is a strong no 🖐

BreatheAndFocus · 14/12/2024 18:12

Andoutcomethewolves · 14/12/2024 17:28

I'm from South West England, have lived innthe SE and London and everyone I know has Yorkshires with a roast, especially as part of the 'all the trimmings' for a Christmas dinner! My Welsh friends do too - maybe it's a Scottish thing not to?!

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I was born in SW England and we never had Yorkshire puddings with anything other than beef, and certainly not with chicken.

So it’s not ‘just a Scottish thing’.

I think your menu looks lovely, OP, but as said, I’d remove the chicken from the starter.

BiggerBoat1 · 14/12/2024 18:08

Sounds delicious. My only change would be to have steamed sprouts. I don’t like pancetta or whatnot added to them but I know lots of people do.

catgirl1976 · 14/12/2024 18:03

I do not believe there is any meal that would not be improved with the addition of a Yorkshire pudding.

I would be very sad not to get one with my Christmas dinner.

id also miss cauliflower cheese, red cabbage, bread sauce and possibly a bit of zing with the veg but t still sounds very nice

Wendysfriend · 14/12/2024 17:50

It sounds lovely and the main thing that matters is that you and your family are having all the things you really enjoy.

Being from Ireland our menus are so different from what you posted and people recommending, we don't really do things like sausages in blankets, Yorkshire's, bread sauce. I did try the Brussels with bacon last year and nearly vomited them out, just ruined my dinner, prefer them plain boiled in the ham water.

Radamanth · 14/12/2024 17:48

Londoneye20 · 14/12/2024 17:21

Sounds delicious, why is the cavier fake?

Presume it's lumpfish or keta, rather than sturgeon roe, which is about 20 times the price.

StopGo · 14/12/2024 17:48

Yummy, what time shall I arrive and do I need to bring a chair? I will arrive with plenty of wine and some cheese for your Boxing Day buffet.

godmum56 · 14/12/2024 17:42

Fuzzyandwarm · 14/12/2024 17:38

Also Scottish and had never realised people had Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Dinner so you might be correct there...

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People have what they like....I wouldn't touch pigs in blankets with someone else's bargepole.

Fuzzyandwarm · 14/12/2024 17:38

Andoutcomethewolves · 14/12/2024 17:28

I'm from South West England, have lived innthe SE and London and everyone I know has Yorkshires with a roast, especially as part of the 'all the trimmings' for a Christmas dinner! My Welsh friends do too - maybe it's a Scottish thing not to?!

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Also Scottish and had never realised people had Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Dinner so you might be correct there...

oviraptor21 · 14/12/2024 17:30

Cauliflower cheese is fine, just make it a coating cheese sauce and not a pouring cheese sauce and then keep the gravy away from it.
The filler in a traditional Christmas dinner is the bread sauce, not yorkies. Besides which, who has enough space in the oven to do yorkies? I've got a 4-cavity range cooker and don't have room for yorkies.
But if you're not bothered about tradition then you can have anything you like!

Wingedharpy · 14/12/2024 17:29

Well, it's making my spaghetti bolognese and tiramisu look paltry in comparison.
On the plus side, mines already prepared and I'll have far less washing up.
Enjoy.

Andoutcomethewolves · 14/12/2024 17:28

Thisisnotmyid · 14/12/2024 17:09

I’m quite shocked too actually at people suggesting a Yorkshire pudding with Christmas dinner but I’m Scottish so maybe it’s a Yorkshire thing??

I'm from South West England, have lived innthe SE and London and everyone I know has Yorkshires with a roast, especially as part of the 'all the trimmings' for a Christmas dinner! My Welsh friends do too - maybe it's a Scottish thing not to?!