Foods that DO NOT belong on a Christmas Dinner...

[MaidenMotherCrone]

Obviously it’s all down to personal taste but some things are just wrong...

Mushy peas fgs, noooooooo

What foods would never have a place on your plate?

spaghetti hoops don't go well with a roast.

I don't understand adding to roast potatoes, why also offer boiled and mashed potatoes?

Why do people spoil cauliflower by putting cheese sauce on it?😱

Because half my family prefer mashed and half prefer roast potatoes! We don't do sprouts because nobody likes them. Tradition has it's place but I'd rather prepare and cook a Christmas meal that everyone enjoys!

mashed potatoes.
When I moved north, I was horrified to find out that mash is served with a roast. It's wrong on so many levels. I love the north with all my heart, but on this matter they are very wrong.

I will confess that even though we have rib of beef for Christmas dinner, I still serve it with home made stuffing balls, as IMO good stuffing is the best bit.

Sweetcorn

Mashed potatos better that roast potatoes imo. And I’m southern!

Stuffing doesn't go with beef! And Yorkshire puddings only belong with beef.

My MIL’s “leek and courgette gratin” does not belong with a roast because it is vile. Simultaneously greasy and soggy, with the courgettes so over cooked that the whole thing is bitter. With a split curdled cheesy liquid that is apparently meant to be a béchamel sauce. She serves it up every single time. Both DH and I have tried so hard over the years to politely decline it (she is a good person, just not a good cook). We usually end up forcing a small amount down to be polite.

DD, however, is 3. Despite our encouragement to be polite she has gone for the brutally honest approach of “NO THANK YOU Grandma, is VERY NASTY, I don’t like it, take it away PLEASE”.

I agree that you’ve got to stick to the rules - Yorkshire’s are not for Christmas, mint sauce is only for lamb (and pie and peas)
And roast potatoes are the only spuds you need.

Cauliflower cheese, beetroot, parsnips, sprouts. The farting in places where this is on the menu must be incredible.

Brown sauce 🤢 my step dad puts it on everything he eats even his Christmas lunch.

We don’t have the traditional turkey so this year we’ve got a leg of lamb and a ham joint between 5 of us. So mint sauce can go ahead, I wouldn’t put mint sauce on anything except lamb.

However Yorkshire’s go with any meat in my eyes, maybe I’m weird

I don't understand adding to roast potatoes, why also offer boiled and mashed potatoes?

Then you'd have hated ours.

Big plate of potatoes, boiled in their skins, for anyone to choose from (leftovers cut up and fried for breakfast the following morning), roast potatoes, mashed potatoes (with or without other veg, including cabbage) and chips.

Until oven chips arrived, mum would deep fry chips in lard.

In the afternoon, if anyone felt peckish (!), mum would offer to bake a potato for you.

Just a small one.

We would have huge sacks of spuds delivered to the house and the state of the current crops of different potatoes and what they were good for was a standard conversation with family and friends.

Most roasts I cook have roast tates, cauliflower, parsnips, Brussels sprouts, carrots and broccoli. Sometimes sage and onion stuffing.

We darent have lit candles on the table...

Yorkshire puddings......
Unless your Xmas dinner is roast beef. That's the only roast dinner where Yorkshire's should appear!

So we have Yorkshires first before the rest of the meal. I think it's a local thing...

I never do turkey.
I hate stuffing but buy stuffing balls for Ds.

One of my mindees asked for tomato sauce on a chicken dinner the other day 🤢

Agree no Yorkshire with Turkey ( or chicken) wrong, wrong,wrong. Mint sauce =wtf

Last year my mother put haggis in the stuffing. Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff, but not on a Christmas Dinner, that's just not right.

Yorkshire pudding was traditionally served with gravy before the main dinner to fill people up so the roast meat went further. So there was more left for meals in the week.

Gravy. I hate gravy. A tiny trickle of jus is ok if necessary but never gravy. Even the smell makes me feel ill.

No Yorkshire Pudding with turkey. Only with beef
No cauliflower cheese
No sweetcorn

On the topic of Yorkshire Puddings DH is a Yorkshire Man and if he says they go with all meats then who am I to argue.
I was of the ‘only with beef’ brigade but have accepted he knows best.
I’m Welsh and the authority on all things Welsh in our family.

We went out for Christmas Dinner once and (almost) everything was what constitutes a traditional turkey dinner but they had roasted peppers as one of the veg! So very wrong

I've always done both roasters and steamed potatoes. I'm not supposed to do that?

But I'm WTF about cauliflower cheese with a roast?

Also I'm not going to say they don't belong, but pigs in blankets are a recent innovation aren't they? I'm sure I never had them with Christmas dinner in my childhood.

Ketchup, brown sauce and bread sauce should come nowhere near. Or soy sauce but MrNC puts it on everything anyway. Bread sauce invariably looks like someone's eaten it already.

Roasted peppers are good but only if I have time and oven space after sorting the roast spuds, roast parsnips, and carrots, red cabbage, frozen peas, stuffings and sausages. And the turkey, gravy, and Yorkshires.