what do you do for christmas lunch?

[firthy85]

as it says. for years we were traditionalists, turkey every christmas, until one christmas we had venison as our meat. then for years afterwards we had a different meat every year. anyone else ever done similar?

We've always done turkey, and my dad starts panicking at the thought of anything different, so I've never pushed it. What'd I'd love to do is to scrap that completely and go to the local Indian with DP but honestly, it's not worth the hassle I'd get off my dad.

My brothers and I take it in turns to bring the meat and cook it to a preferred recipe, so it varies. Last year my brother found a local goat farm so we had slow roasted kid goat. This year it’s mine and DP’s turn so we’re having turkey, but deep fried whole in an industrial turkey fryer in the garden, DP’s Detroit recipe 👍🏻

It took our parents some getting used to but now they’re on board it’s fine.

@ComtesseDeSpair deep fried turkey sounds delicious!

Growing up we always used to have turkey. But I normally now do a big bit of slow roasted beef. I’m hungry just thinking about it now

wonder what it tasted like with the goat?

Will you deep fry the whole turkey?

Most years we have goose. Sometimes turkey, sometimes a traditional danish pork roast or duck. A couple of years ago we had guinea fowl. One year soon we want to do a rib of beef.

We've had venison, turkey, beef Wellington, goose and poussin. The goose was a greasy bastard to manage - never again

pheasent

@SpudsandGravy the post literally says “but deep fried WHOLE” 😊

First time we had Christmas at our house we had goose. Since then it's been turkey all the way (I like turkey).

We have venison on boxing day - though the market stall's gone so we're returning to beef. Yorkshires instead of potato, and different vegetables from the day before.

In a normal year we have salmon en croute on the Sunday of the carol service.

Christmas eve is a buffet of posh stuff. Christmas morning will be coffee and maybe a small fried breakfast or croissants. Turkey and Gammon for lunch, the most beloved and awaited roast of the year. Has to be turkey. Only time we have it. And Christmas pudding with brandy sauce of course. The evening will be cold turkey and gammon, cheese, that kind of thing. Boxing day breakfast is traditional oak smoked salmon (local hundreds of years old smokehouse), homemade gravadlax, homemade smoked salmon pate, poached eggs, Asparagus and bearnaise/hollandaise sauce. And panettone as a sweet ending. Boxing day lunch will be a buffet if all of the above I guess.

We have prawn cocktails for lunch, then for dinner (tea) we are having steak & Thai food this year. It changes every year tbh.

We have a roast dinner, but since we had a conversation a few years ago and discovered that no one in the family actually likes turkey, it isn’t turkey. Sometimes it’s beef, sometimes it’s a ham, it was pork once but this year it’s just our household so it’s a chicken.

We don’t have turkey because Dh doesn’t like it and he does the cooking. In the past we’ve had duck, a whole salmon and last year a seafood platter. This year we are leaning towards pork belly. Crackling, mmm.

I love turkey and traditional Christmas Dinner. I have had, when at other peoples houses, goose and quail. But when I'm cooking, it's turkey.

We've had goose, guinea fowl, pork, beef wellington, a beef fillet, never turkey because dh doesn't like it (and I'm not really fussed). Rib of beef this year (which I've ordered but never cooked before, should probably look that up actually!)

We’ve never ever done turkey. It’s so boring

This year I’m doing Thai crab cakes, dim sum and crispy duck pancakes, and a prawn and noodle salad.

@Mumblechum0

We’ve never ever done turkey. It’s so boring

This year I’m doing Thai crab cakes, dim sum and crispy duck pancakes, and a prawn and noodle salad.

My God, can I come too?!

We don’t have Christmas lunch, it’s Christmas dinner, around 5. And it’s got to be turkey. I did beef one year because my mother preferred it, but never again. I really like beef, but it just wasn’t the same Christmas Day without the smell of the turkey cooking.
A SiL always does a whole salmon, which to me would be a very good reason for avoiding their house at Christmas.

Yes we have one rule - Never turkey!

We’re having game roulade and chicken (well, cockerel DH says) for DS.

We often have beef en croute at DF’s.

We did turkey our first Christmas together and have switched it up since.

We’ve had roast rib of beef, partridge, duck, porchetta, pheasant, chateaubriand, guinea fowl, pork loin roast, saddle of roe venison IIRC. Lamb rack this year.

we went to a pub once that was serving different more exotic meats. i had crocodile which was much more delish than i expected. we even were told where the chef got it from but never followed it up which was a shame because it wuld have made a nice difference to christmas dinner with it only being us and we weren't having any extended family round

When we have the family over everyone has a different favourite so we do Turkey Crown, Gammon and either Leg of Lamb or Rib of beef. I cook the Turkey on Christmas Eve, the Gammon goes into the slow cooker on Christmas day and the beef/lamb in the oven on Christmas day. This year its only the two of us so we are just having rib of beef.

@my cat tibby. wow that sounds like a dinner fit for a king