Show me your Christmas dinners!

I was going to ask what it was as well, I bet it was delicious! I grew up with not having chicken with potatoes until I married. It was always chicken and rice at home (also delicious).

We're all different. I relish reading about different cultures and recipes. I've been known to copy whole threads for inspiration.

This was mine. I thoroughly enjoyed it!😀

My husband cooked chicken in a red wine and Port sauce, with roast potatoes, onions, parsnips and carrots, tender stem broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, peas, wild mushrooms, garnished with pea and mint purée and parsnip and garlic purée. (I think I mentioned it all!) He’s a great cook!

Afterwards he made ginger sponge puddings served with brandy sauce

This was ours. Roast sirloin with chestnut and bacon stuffing. Roasted rainbow carrots and parsnips, Yorkshire puds, pigs in blankets, pork sage and onion stuffing balls and gravy.
It was delicious and for the first time everyone ate up. I'd usually have more veg but forgot some that I'd brought. This is my DSs plate (only pic we have) who claims to be allegic to veg. If you look close there is a single carrot in the back which he did actually eat just for me as it was Christmas.

We had ours at 6pm today. I cooked a large organic chicken and a large gammon ham (with a brown sugar & honey 'burnt' top that Dd loves). Roasted potatoes, parsnips & carrots. Plain steamed sprouts. Homemade pigs in blankets. Stuffing. Red cabbage (unsuccessful). Yorkshire puddings, gravy, bread sauce & cranberry sauce (forgot, so jar on table). I Divorced this year so did it alone (with a broken foot) for my two teenagers. For the first time I put it on the top of stove & they helped themselves (good as both ASD). It was lovely. The silly amount of leftovers will be divided & frozen for base of our next 4 Sunday Dinners.

I pour mine so it misses the spuds. Loads left when I was done.

They go on ALL roasts! I only saw this thread today but surprised at the minuscule amounts of gravy. We're northern and ours were smothered in it!

It looks delicious @Rustyfeet and of course they meant to be rude 🤨

@Delphigirl you are lucky that all that bread sauce is on the side of my iffy eye so I can easily filter it out.

Second day turkey reheated in gravy for us, today. I enjoyed it more than yesterday as I've had a cold and haven't been sleeping well and wasn't very hungry. Today... Ravenous! The spuds are/were better than they look. King Edwards roasted in groundnut oil. They don't go dark but they're so crunchy!

Roast turkey and ham. Pigs in blankets (we only like them if they’re cremated 😂), maple roasted Brussels sprouts, carrot & swede mash, stuffing, roast potatoes & Yorkshire puds. My sister was visiting for Christmas & just took over the cooking of dinner. Entirely! It was amazing 😂

DH made a beef wellington, which I sadly had to eat in bed as I'm full of an awful viral infection and have barely moved from my bed this year. Thank goodness for DH saving Christmas! He's done all the food shopping, cooking and present wrapping! I just wish I'd been well enough to enjoy this gorgeous meal properly! 😞

We didn't get round to eating ours yesterday but enjoyed it today - from the local Indian restaurant

That looks amazing and not at all like it's been attacked by a dog. I'm not sure why that poster felt the need to be so rude. I love Turkish food. Hope you enjoyed it ❤️

It was smothered in butter and unde the skin. It was very moist and delicious! @TheGrinchsBallsack it wasn't even slightly dry! To be fair most roast dinners look like they have been attacked to a certain degree 🤣

Looks like it's been attacked by an xl bully.

I'm sure it was delicious none the less x

Turkey turkish style. Turkey stuffed with spiced rice and chick peas. Did you mean to be so rude? @TheGrinchsBallsack

wtf is that?

For Boxing Day we had a big game pie, cauliflower cheese, leftover ham, leftover red cabbage and sprouts, and a big salad. I must say the cauliflower cheese with ham was a historic combo

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Turkey (cooked on the barbecue), clementine and chestnut stuffing, nigellas ham, roast pots, pigs in blankets, red cabbage, bread sauce, carrots, roasted Brussels with chestnuts, lots of gravy. There were parsnips but I didn’t have any. It was fab.

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We didn’t take pics of our dinners but we enjoyed the usual combination of carbs, sugar, salt, veg, meat/meat alt, and alcohol.
cat supervised everything all day and enjoyed a parsnip.

Our alternative turkey!

Ah, but there's something good about having the hottest a d must variety food as first helping. It's is a feasting time after all.

A little bit of everything you like and go back for more if you fancy it 😋😋😋

You sound judgemental saying it like that.

On leftovers.
My DC are in their 20s and don't live here so I'm out of touch with how big their appetites are. We all like as many different veg and trimmings as possible so it's tricky to get exact quantities right. Some leftover turkey has gone in the cat , a rare treat as I don't often give it leftovers, the rest in the freezer to be used for curry etc.
Leftover pigs in blankets were eaten for supper last night and leftover veg went in soup I made today. There was leftover cheescake but that will be eaten tonight.

Had another Christmas dinner at MIL's, mostly same food as I cooked but the ham was slowly cooked in a wood heated brick oven so was rather special, and there was red caviar (salmon roe) and for greenery there was a bowl of capers, which I don't like so my Christmas is still green-free.