Show me your Christmas dinners!

Here’s my Boxing Day leftovers lunch 🙂

@HereForTheAnimals that makes me feel strangely better about my inability to make them rise 😂 Will check them out, thanks!

@HereForTheAnimals Thank you!

@RhubarbCrumbs @Nanny31 sorry, I wish I could share my recipe with you, but after many attempts to make a vegan Yorkshire pud I stumbled upon Plantside vegan Yorkshire puddings and I've never looked back. I bought these from an independent vegan shop.

You get 6 in a box and they also do gf ones - never had them though. They do a toad in the hole too.

They are very good.

I cook too much deliberately for xmas and boxing day. But it all gets eaten over the holidays. The carcase will go for stock, and any leftover veg (except red cabbage) gets piled into the soup.

Rarely is anything left on plates, because unlike most of the plates being shared in this thread we don't feel the need to pile it up on the plate. There's always plenty on the table to come back to.

I agree that taking scraps off people's plates is🤢and i doubted anyone actually did that but I was unsure about the leftovers. I think i see it now - it's not really leftovers per se, but people cooking extra for extra meals. I can cook enough chilli for 3 if etc but I get it.

@Bbq1 of course you don't take food back off people's plates! Leftovers are what's left in the pot, in the baking tray, etc. We have leftover turkey, ham, pigs in blankets and stuffing balls.

The turkey will go into a spicy tomato pasta sauce today. Ds will eat the ham by the handful whenever he passes the fridge. We also have homemade veg soup that we will have for lunch today with a leftovers sandwich or just bread and butter.

I didn't take a photograph of the whole dinner but I did take a photo of my roast potatoes as they were great 🤣.

Regarding leftovers, I purposefully cook double what is needed because leftovers are my favourite bit! Taking food back off people's plates is gross, our leftovers are the bit that doesn't get served up.

I'll be having Christmas Dinner sandwiches for a couple of days and then will make a giant pie with any leftover meat and cheese etc.

Just 3 of us this year & was happy how dinner all came together.
Beautiful Norfolk Bronze turkey crown wrapped in applewood smoked bacon with a stuffing of pork, roasted chestnut, apricot & cranberry. Eyewateringly expensive but such a treat!
DH made yummy breadsauce ( only I like it)
Pigs in Blankets
Homemade honeyroast carrots & parsnips
Sprouts for DH only
Petitpois
Turkey gravy made with Bisto granules

Mil was due to host but is in hospital so DH decided to cook for everyone (8 people). We had:

turkey
gammon slow cooked in coke
meaty stuffing balls
pigs in blankets
roasties
roast parsnip/carrot (two versions, one cooked in the meat juices and one veggie as SIL and niece are vegetarian)
swede and carrot mash
red cabbage
sprouts
broccoli
yorkshire puds
veggy stuffing
nut roast
truffle cauliflower cheese

It was fantastic although we have leftovers to last until about March 😂

As a PP said, the leftovers are what doesn't get served.

I made duck this year (and every year at Christmas, though now I've seen goose in shops I may try my hands at that). We're 3 people, including one still relatively small child. The duck feeds 5 grown adults (1 leg each, 2 wings, 1 breast each) and even then there's meat on the carcass. So I served the legs and wings yesterday.

The roast duck breasts and other bits of meat are chopped into pieces today and made into a sweet and sour, together with the few chestnuts I didn't use for the stuffing, and some other veg. The carcass is then boiled for stock for yet another meal. I also didn't use all the bacon for the sprouts, so it's in the freezer now, waiting to be cooked with cauliflower at some point to make another meal.

The leftover Christmas veg and sausages go into sandwiches (or tortilla boats seeing as I'm out of bread).

What do you do with bits of food you don't use? Surely there must be some?

@HereForTheAnimals Yes! recipe please from a fellow Vegan 😊

PLEASE give me your Yorkshire pudding recipe! Mine always come out flat as a pancake 😂

From a very impressed fellow vegan

Forgot the cauliflower cheese I was keeping warm in the grill 😩

Eh?

If you cook a turkey that has enough meat for 8 hungry people or enough chilli for 6 then the leftovers are the bit that doesn't get served.

Taking the food back off people's plates, unless they're just setting it aside for themselves, is revolting.

I cook too much but it’s partly experience that people’s appetites vary – I wouldn’t count out three roast potatoes per person, say, as some days DS might eat one and another four. I wouldn’t save scraps from people’s plates

And some recipes don’t scale down easily, especially Christmas ones – one red cabbage always creates a food mountain; my mum’s stuffing calls for one onion and OK, could use half or a quarter so there’s no leftovers but then I’ve got half an onion knocking around the fridge for no reason. And the leftovers are wonderful: had a piece last night with the traditional cheese, crackers, cold meat and pickles meal; it goes well in sandwiches; with everything! And a chicken, even if not the proverbial Mumsnet chicken, always has leftovers. I don’t see how you DON’T have leftovers!

There’s no cooking on the agenda for the next few days except a bread and butter pudding from all the bits leftover from making stuffing and bread sauce: today we’re having leftovers like potatoes and other roast vegetables made into a spicy hash for our main meal, topped with eggs and salsa; tomorrow we’ll have the stuffing, red cabbage and cold meats (chicken, chipolatas, bacon) with salads, pickles and baked potatoes for our main meal. We’ll make stuffing and chicken sandwiches the day after for a Big Walk.

Veggie Christmas dinner. Gravy was added after I took the photo.

Most years we have a homemade dessert, but I couldn't be bothered this year, so DH had Christmas pudding from M&S, and I had another classic: Viennetta.

I always cook so there's lots leftover at Christmas, so I don't have to cook for the next few days at least, if not longer. Everyone just helps themselves (once big enough, me or OH do a plate for the youngest) to leftovers whenever they're hungry and there's no proper meals at all in the post-Christmas days.
Though actually we've run out of swede casserole already so I might buy one from the shop today on our way home from 3rd Christmas because there's still so much ham but needs something to go with it and the potato casserole.

That is a fine dinner - you must be counting your blessings he’s such a good cook

Congrats - on the dinner and your baby!

I had that as leftovers this evening with roast spuds, roast parsnips and roast sweet potatoes.

Glass of Cabernet Sauvignon.

Divine!

I'm in a hot country, so everything was served cold, but we had:

Turkey
Ham
Potato salad
Green salad
Coleslaw
Prawns
Garlic bread and a variety of buttered buns
Christmas cake
Pavlova w/fruit

I hosted 20 this year, and I have so much leftovers!

Only leftovers now but had this

We didn't have peas, we had sprouts, carrots, parsnips, mashed swede and carrot and broccoli and potatoes.

Do I win? 😉 People can eat what they want on Xmas day FFS!