What do you have for dinner on Xmas eve?

[vinoelle]

Just that really, can’t say I’ve ever thought about it as it’s just been me and my husband the last few years, and we always went to the pub. Now having my family over so wondered what to do Xmas eve that’s ‘festive ’ but easy? Don’t want to cook 2 big meals in a row!

We’ll have a takeaway this year as it will just be me and DP. Probably a Chinese or Dominos.
If I’m at my mum’s then it’s something different every year. I think last year was homemade steak pies, mash and veg and then a trifle for dessert

Were out to lunch on Christmas Eve so we’ll have nibbles. Crisps, turkey sandwich, pickles, cheese and beer.

Aromatic crispy duck. Normally we have the in-laws who don't like "foreign" food so delighted to be getting a change from yet more meat and two veg.

I always do a big ham on Christmas Eve, so we have ham, egg and chips 😁

Seafood platter.

This year from Waitrose.

Lemon sorbet and vodka to finish.

We’d usually skip dinner and be in the pub Christmas Eve but in Kent so no danger of that happening this year!

So plan is to get some good fillet steak, triple cooked chips and mushrooms for DH/salad for me. Washed down with beer and or Prosecco.

I roast a gammon joint so we can eat leftovers over Xmas. We have gammon, homemade chips, fried eggs with bread and butter.

Were having an M&S buffet this year but some years we have kept it simple and just had a nice curry or chilli/lasagne etc...something that I could make the day before so that Christmas Eve was hassle free!

Fillet steak and chips we love it.

Normally go to pizza express.

Another M&S buffet here! I cook a full xmas dinner xmas day, so like make xmas eve easy for myself.

Ham rolls....I cook the ham on Christmas Eve and spend all day threatening people with a fish slice if they dare to go out and pick bits off it, so we get some big soft white rolls, and have them filled, sometimes chips, sometimes salad to go with.

Christmas dinner here. We have a buffet on Xmas day.

We have our Christmas dinner
It's traditional to do this in Spain, and we are a Spanglish household.
Also, Christmas Day is for the kids. We have yummy party food and they can pick at what they want in between playing with their toys.

Bbq.

Parents (separated but friends) were both shielding and didn't get the chance to enjoy a bbq in the summer (too much work for one apparently) and we've been allowed to fly back to see them this Christmas. So that's what we're doing! Hoping it'll become a tradition

Fish pie and sticky toffee pudding.

Don't really bother with dinner usually, but might have something different for tea, I'll wait until next week to see what takes my fancy.

Cheese board, done it for years so its traditional now.

We always have boiled ham with cabbage, mash and parsley sauce. It's a very old family tradition from my Irish family.

The ham and Nigella’s OTT macaroni cheese.

Usually go to a local Pizza Express, more for the venue than the pizza, it used to be a pancake place, with happy family memories, always same table. But may not be open this year.

So a bit torn between pizza and pancakes. Maybe pizza followed by pancakes!

Cheeseboard and charcuterie 😍 my fave tradition in our house!

Totally off topic.

I'm dyslexic and sometimes my brain forms words that aren't there, it sort of picks letters to connect.

Anyway at first glance this thread looked like someone was asking ""what do you do for Christmas sex"

If at my parents, we normally go out for SE Asian food, either Thai or Vietnamese.

If at PIL, it’s normally a whole salmon & prawns with salads (Australia).

This year it’s just us for the first time, so I’ve ordered a sushi platter to be delivered.

Something involving smoked salmon and cream cheese, home made mince pies warm from the oven, tangerines and walnuts