What additions to Christmas Dinner do you have that others consider strange?

[MyGazeboisLeaking]

Off the back of the Thanksgiving thread (I'm drooling!), I thought about our Christmas dinner.

Over the years, we've added the following that have now become standard:

Cauliflower cheese
Steamed red cabbage & raisins
Sweetcorn (for me!)


What additions do you have?

[RumJerrySailorRum]

Beef (or Goose, which i don't actually eat)

A lot of folk are amazed in all my 45 years I've never had Turkey on Xmas day.

[TattiesGone]

Growing up, marrowfat peas. Now, sweetcorn as standard. Sometimes macaroni cheese pie.

[RumJerrySailorRum]

[quote M0rT]@CrumbsThatsQuick thank you, I will get a cauliflower in my next shop and try that. I love cheese [/quote]
Go to Aldi and get their frozen stuff......no need for all the faff, cheaper and you can just grab a handful when ever you fancy some.

Absolutely delicious!

[Twobrews]

I thought ours was standard but we have mashed potatoes and cauliflower cheese so maybe not. I have to have mustard and redcurrant jelly with mine too.

PIL serve potato croquettes and they have mint sauce with theirs and think I'm odd for wanting 'jam' with mine.

[Bluetrews25]

Egg sauce, in place of bread sauce.
It's a moderately thick white sauce with mashed hard boiled egg in it.
Also great served cold with leftovers.

[trappedsincesundaymorn]

Christmas pudding flavoured birthday cake that my mum made for me every year. I loved it.

[LlamaPjama]

@quickkimchi "prunecentric" 😄 love it

[timeforanewstart]

Always have cauli cheese and often mash , my mum does pork too as well as turkey as meat all used for boxing day as well, so have cranberry and apple sauce on table.
Have had yorkshires some years as one of few things of a roast my ds1 eats .

[HeyMicky]

In a nod to my Australian upbringing we always have a bowl of prawns on the table with our starter (usually salmon so not too odd a combination)

[CthulhuInDisguise]

We have what we call 'jacksey meat' which is the sausage meat which is stuffed into the turkey - my mum refuses to eat it because she thinks it is bogging, but most of us love it. It's even nicer cold the next day on a sarnie!

[Fenellapitstop]

Mashed potato with diced onion through it.

[earthyfire]

Onion sauce instead of bread sauce

[PhylisPrice]

Prunecentric 😂

[CremeEggThief]

NO sprouts or Christmas pudding here!

[greyhills]

We've added sweetcorn now too. It goes really well with turkey.

[TurquoiseDragon]

We used to have mashed potatoes for mum, but I haven't done them since she passed away a couple of years ago.

As for red cabbage, I thought that was a standard side. I've been buying the Easy Cook magazine since it started, and pretty much every year one of the sides is a form of braised red cabbage.

[easterbuns1]

My mum always made three types of potatoes on Christmas Day; roast, mashed and croquette. Tbh she usually did two types on a normal Sunday roast. We like a carb or ten in our family.

[Scarby9]

We have never had roast potatoes - always mash.
Always brussel sprouts and sweetcorn (my brother hated brussels as a small child).
We always make grandma's bread sauce recipe, which is thick enough to serve in slices and has a crunchy topping.
Then also grandma's forcemeat stufging recipe - a slice from the moister, softer stuffing at the end of the bird, and the rest as crunchy stuffing balls cooked with the (naked) chipolatas.
No cauliflower, Yorkshire puddings, cabbage or sny other infiltrators to the traditions!

[PlantPotPat]

@M0rT

We always have three starters, smoked salmon and brown bread, garlic and chilli prawns, soup.
It's probably more lunch and then Christmas dinner is a few hours later.
But three starters sounds more decadent
Can I ask how people make cauliflower cheese? I don't think I've ever had it.

You haven't lived!!!!! Cauliflower cheese is almost a main course in its own right but elevates a roast to king status

I would definitely advise making your own though as pre-made is never quite as good. Jamie oliver does a nice cauli cheese recipe.

[Strokethefurrywall]

Roast haggis in Yorkshire puddings.

[Cookerhood]

When I was growing up we used to have tiny onions (like silverskins) in white sauce. I think they were frozen. I absolutely loved them but I don't think you can get them now.
We have gammon with our turkey but I don't think that's unusual. And mash, cauli cheese, red cabbage, yorkies.

[RaptorInaPorkPieHat]

Yorkshire puddings (always contentious)
Cauliflower cheese (that's for me, no one else eats it)

and omissions, while we're at it:

No bread sauce
No starter
No christmas pudding, we have trifle instead

[lazylinguist]

I don't think we have anything unusual tbh. But I'm now feeling kind of sad that my Christmas dinner is not more prunecentric. I think that's the best word I've seen in ages!

[winterinmadeira]

Mushy peas. We all just loved them so much

[mumsiedarlingrevolta]

We have something called shrug.

Because my Nanna used to make it.
Think it was meant to be posh in the 1970's...
It is cranberry juice with a scoop of orange sorbet. It is meant to be a refreshing palate cleanser.
It is so pretty served in a cut glass and is so delicious.
As a child I used to eat the sorbet with a spoon.
Never knew anyone else who served it but wouldn't be Christmas without it!