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Show me your Christmas dinners!

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fuckmemytoehurts · 25/12/2024 13:04

I'll start. Sorry for sticking it here, posting for traffic.

Didn't fancy turkey this year so did a beef wellington, with mushroom duxelle & Parma ham inside.
Goose fat roasties with garlic salt and rosemary.
Cinnamon red cabbage
Pan fried sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta
Normal carrots as my 4 year old won't eat them any other way
Pigs in blankets
Homemade yorkies
Waitrose bought stuffing as I don't really like it that much.

Topped with an orange gravy with a red wine stock pot shoved in.

It was delish. Ate early-ish as I have to eat with medication. Thought I'd get in early and ask you all to share your lovely Christmas lunches!

Also highly recommend the meat from Waitrose butcher counter. It's lovely.

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IngenTing · 25/12/2024 15:51

Mixture of English, Norwegian and Swedish julebord.
We have
Roast beef
Roast potatoes
Reindeer julepølse
Prinskorv
Elg kjøttboller (moose meatballs)
Gravlaks
Sennap sild
Rødkål
Sprouts
Broccoli
Bearnaise sauce
Blueberries and red berries jelly that we picked ourselves
Sausages wrapped in bacon
Honey glazed ribs
Homemade stuffing with apricots and reindeer meat

I made profiteroles and bûche be noel for dessert.

And we have lots of snow!
God Jul from the Norwegian mountains.

PrincessPeache · 25/12/2024 15:50

Mashroom · 25/12/2024 14:58

Love the ND meal .. Sen teacher here so totally get it. Dishes are great !

We are this buffet style and I did make an oopsie by adding the sprouts (all for me 😆) since DS heaved when I started putting them on my plate…next year I’ll save them til he’s in bed 😂

Longwaysouth · 25/12/2024 15:48

Looks lovely. I will start cooking soon as we have Christmas Dinner in the evening.
Merry Christmas everyone.

shellyleppard · 25/12/2024 15:47

Christmas dinner at the hospital restaurant. Not bad for hospital grub!! Merry Christmas ⛄ 🎁

PetronellaOsgood · 25/12/2024 15:46

Here’s mine, Roast Turkey, extra large pig in blanket, roast potatoes, mashed carrot and swede, pan fried sprouts with bacon and chestnuts and a Yorkshire pudding 😋
followed by an individual homemade trifle as I’m the only one that likes it 😂

UnctuousUnicorns · 25/12/2024 15:45

Can't show a photo as we've eaten it and packed the leftovers away into containers.We're not great cooks and I have mobility difficulties and can't stand for very long easily. DH and I (both vegetarian) had:

Quorn roast with Quorn cocktail sausages
Garden peas and tinned sweetcorn
Aunt Bessies' Yorkshire puds
Sprouts, carrots, parsnips, shallots and potatoes roasted in olive oil, with dried sage, rosemary and mixed herbs with seasoning
Stuffing made from supermarket packet
Vegetable gravy from granules.

We're staying with my parents, who cooked a small gammon joint for themselves and had meat based gravy, with pigs in blankets, accompanied by all the vegetables mentioned above.

So, nothing Cordon Bleu, but everything was thoroughly enjoyed. I've washed up and am now putting my feet up.😊

Skethylita · 25/12/2024 15:42

Just before serving.

BeeKind1 · 25/12/2024 15:37

We ate at 12:45

Husband did a cracking job this year. 10/10

Babaganoush2013 · 25/12/2024 15:34

OP,
Your beef wellington looks amazing - very impressed 😊

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 25/12/2024 15:29

Looks good op but is there nothing green?

Toomanylosthours · 25/12/2024 15:26

40plus years on this planet and today I've cooked my 1st Christmas dinner minus the turkey. Catering for my FIL at his house having lost MIL earlier this year. I generally dislike the cooking, sitting around waiting for life to pass by and much prefer to be on holiday or in our campervan. Beef, gammon, maple glazed veg and more. Now for the port 😁 all worth it to see my FIL half smile, hear his memories. 71 Christmas MIL & FIL spent together.

SparklyTurtle · 25/12/2024 15:23

@fuckmemytoehurts do you not have anything green at all when you do a roast!?

I read fried sprouts but can't see any green

Xiaoxiong · 25/12/2024 15:17

MIL and her husband did us an amazing Christmas dinner!

Duck stuffed with cherries
Rib of beef
Yorkshire puddings
Parsnips
Carrots
Sprouts with chestnuts
Roast potatoes
Red cabbage
Bread sauce
Gravy

IggyAce · 25/12/2024 15:15

Didn’t take a picture of my whole dinner but I did take one of the amazing roast potatoes. My DH cooked an amazing dinner, roast beef, Yorkshires, veg and toast potatoes.

TheChosenTwo · 25/12/2024 15:14

It’s cooking, we eat at 5 but this was our beef!
MN is asking me if this is a sensitive image, I suppose it might be to vegans/veggies…

TortillasAndSalsa · 25/12/2024 15:08

Having gammon with honey and mustard glaze, roasties, carrots, pigs in blankets (non negotiable) and stuffing balls. Really looking forward to it but more looking forward to my sticky toffee pudding trifle for pudding later 💔

obsessedwithfreshbread · 25/12/2024 15:07

Champagne sangria for lunch... will have grilled prawns this evening.

Mashroom · 25/12/2024 14:58

Love the ND meal .. Sen teacher here so totally get it. Dishes are great !

Pascha · 25/12/2024 14:55

I've only just put the beef in the oven. I'm aiming for 5pm so I'll come back after that with a hopefully lovely pic.

unicornsarereal72 · 25/12/2024 14:54

We had roast lamb. Potatoes. Parsnips and carrots. With baby sweetcorn, broccoli and sprouts. Stuffing and Yorkshire puddings. Followed with lemon cheesecake.

Goinggreymammy · 25/12/2024 14:52

PrincessPeache · 25/12/2024 14:47

ND household so that explains this…

Merry Christmas!

That looks great. I love how you have portioned it out. If DS wasn't puking I'd be doing similar. Xxx

PrincessPeache · 25/12/2024 14:47

ND household so that explains this…

Merry Christmas!

BCBird · 25/12/2024 14:33

They all look divine. Like the dea of pickled herrings and beetroot salad

Mashroom · 25/12/2024 14:27

Lovely to see different traditions 🎄

Natsku · 25/12/2024 14:26

This was eaten yesterday, as that's our Christmas. Traditional Finnish Christmas dinner - ham, potato casserole, swede casserole, blazed salmon, cognac salted salmon, pickled herrings, beetroot salad and just out of shot were the breads - a pale Christmas bread (sweetish bread, made with buttermilk) and some dark gluten free archipelago bread (dark and malty and lovely with pickled herring)

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