What's going on your Christmas Dinner?

[FoxyTheFox]

Doing my Christmas food shop online and it got me wondering what people have for Christmas Dinner because it varies so much from family to family.

We are having:

• turkey crown
• mashed potatoes (DS won't eat roasted)
• roast potatoes (other DS won't eat mashed)
• sprouts
• mashed turnip (actually swede but we say turnip)
• parsnips
• broccoli
• carrots
• Yorkshire puddings (because they're lush and they're one of DS safe foods)
• peas (another safe food for DS)
• gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, etc

Pudding will be a choice of ice cream or Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.

No starter but I will leave some pigs in blankets, crackers, and some other nibbles on the table for DC to pick at while waiting if they want.

I know for a fact someone will be along to say "that's loads of food!" but its the only meal I cook all day as breakfast is usually something from their stocking selection box and/or Pringles and tea is whatever leftovers there are from dinner (if anyone is still hungry, which they usually aren't), anything left after that gets made into Christmas Dinner bubble and squeak next day.

So what does everyone have?

Just me and DP this year and our lunch is coming from Cook. What we're getting: stuffed turkey crown, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes and parsnips, glazed carrots, sprouts, gravy. What will be on our plates: depends if my horrendous mouth ulcers have cleared up and whatever other side effects I have after my next chemo. It may have to stay in the freezer indefinitely! Oh I do so much want to be able to eat and enjoy it!

Vegan turkey
Creamy leek pastry wreath
Roast potatoes
Potato dauphinois
Cauliflower cheese
Honey roasted chantaney carrots, parsnips, broccoli and sprouts
Veggie pigs in blankets
Sage and onion stuffing
Homemade onion gravy and cranberry sauce

Making knickerbocker glory for dessert.

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
2 types of stuffing
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Carrot
Peas
Leeks
Stilton crumbed cauli and broccoli
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Smoked salmon blinis served with bubbles an hour or 2 before. Christmas pud with brandy cream or custard or tart au citron served at some point but has been known to have to wait until Boxing Day!

Looks a lot written down but it includes everyone’s favourites and most don’ t have everything. For example I don’t have the p’s, parsnips, peas or pigs in blankets. Or roast spuds (just not that fussed about them!)

Nut roast
Roasties
Roast parsnips and carrots
Sprouts
Red cabbage
Veggie sausages
Stuffing
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Christmas pudding
Chocolate gingerbread

Starters: smoked salmon, asparagus rolls and smoked salmon pate.

Game roulade
Chicken (mainly for DS)
Carrots
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Pigs in blankets
Pigs (DS again)
Stuffing
Bread sauce
Gravy

Christmas pudding with brandy butter or custard
Cherry and almond tart
Cheese

Breakfast will be pork pie and beer for DH and MIL, croissants for me, sausages and gherkins for DS.

We usually do lots of lovely canapés and I’m really going to miss it this year!😭😭

Turkey
Yorkshire puddings - a must!!
Roast potatoes
Roast carrots and parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Sprouts - roasted not boiled, a gamechanger!!
Gravy
Bread Sauce (mainly just for me)
Cranberry Sauce

For pudding we have a Christmas pudding and a chocolate sponge pudding

I just love christmas dinners so much!!

Probably nothing heavy for Christmas Day breakfast. Will be toast and tea.
At lunchtime we are having :
Turkey crown
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Beans
Roast Parsnip
2 x stuffing
Gravy and bread sauce
Honey and rosemary chipolatas
Pudding will be a choice of cheeseboard or cheesecake
Probably followed by coffee / tea with n optional mince pie

Turkey
Stuffing x two different kinds
Pigs in blankets
Brussel sprouts
Parsnips
Roast potatoes
Gravy

It's actually useful for me to write this down in case I've missed something...

Starter: tiger prawns, smoked salmon and coquilles saint Jacques with sourdough crackers and rocket (if anyone has any ideas of a sauce or dressing which works with both fresh prawns and smoked salmon, I'd love to hear it) - we do really tiny portions of starter (a couple of prawns, a single slice of salmon, one or two scallops each).

Then:

• Mushroom and cashew nut roast as the main part of the main (we're hosting vegetarians and it's their traditional main)

• Glazed ham to go along with it (we'll cook it on Christmas Eve)

• Pigs in blankets

• Roast potatoes

• Roast parsnips

• Stuffing (vegetarian, mainly for Boxing Day breakfast hash, really)

• Roast carrots

• Green beans

• Sprouts (steamed - for DH)

• Sprouts shredded and cooked in butter with chestnuts (for the rest of us)

• Spiced red cabbage with apple (which I cooked the other day and is frozen until Christmas morning)

• Onion gravy

• Cranberry sauce

For pudding (some hours later):

• Christmas pudding and cream for people who like that

• Affogato (made with coffee ice cream) for people who don't

Roast rib of beef
Roast potatoes
Honey roast parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Pigs in blankets
Sausage and sage & onion stuffing
Peas
Sprouts
Carrots
Gravy

Mmm can't wait!

Ooh forgot the Yorkshire pudding! We're having them too!

Making a list of all the houses I would like to wrangle an invite to for next year...

Add red cabbage cooked in cider, creamed leeks and stuffing

We usually have roast goose, pigs in blankets, stuffing, roast potatoes and parsnips, braised red cabbage, sprouts and chestnuts, apple sauce, bread sauce and gravy, with Christmas pudding - usually much later!

This year ds1 and his fiancée will be here (we hope) and, as she is pescatarian, we will be having salmon en croute, baby potatoes, samphire and asparagus, with either Christmas pudding or Mont Blanc pavlova for pudding.

We’re starting off the morning with scrambled eggs and hash browns. Dds choice.
Dinner won’t be ready until half 2ish.
Gammon with crackling
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes cooked in goose fat
Chestnut stuffing
Honey roast parsnips
Carrots
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Brussels sprouts
Yorkshire puddings
Gravy
Cranberry, mustard and apple sauce.
No starter, but Christmas pudding and mini chocolate eclairs.

Turkey
Ham
Stuffing
Roasties
Red cabbage
Carrots
Parsnips
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

@HollyandIvyandallthingsYule your Danish food sounds right up my street.

Ours
Turkey
Ham
Roast and mash ed spuds
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Sprouts with bacon
Gravy.

And then 40 winks to digest it all.

No starter

Main Course
Turkey crown
Pigs in blankets and pork, sage and onion stuffing
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Broccoli
Cauliflower cheese
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Dessert
Christmas pudding
Yule tide log
Profiteroles
Cream or ice cream

On my plate (specifically, rather than plates in our house in general)

No starter

Main:
Turkey breast meat
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Parsnip rostis
Yorkshire pudding
Pigs in blankets
Sausagemeat stuffing
Sage and onion stuffing
Gravy

Drink will be a glass of Veuve cliquot

Pudding will be the waitrose giant Jaffa cake dessert (a slice, not the whole things)

This year there will only be me and DH for Christmas lunch . So many years I've hosted for family and DH has wanted to go out or go away somewhere . First year it's down to the two of us and everywhere's shut!!

Turkey crown, pigs in blankets, stuffing and gravy (DH)
A festive nut roast with mushroom sauce I've bought from Sainsbury's (me)
Mashed potato
Roast potato
Roast parsnip
Sprouts
Carrots
Cranberry sauce
I normally do peas but given DH and I both love sprouts I may not bother

Christmas pudding , cream/ice cream/brandy butter

Some kind of buffet in the evening for DS and GF. I'll get in some party nibbles , cheese and biscuits , desert etc and how much we eat will depend on how full we all are from our lunch .

@Bunbunbunny

If London goes into Tier 3 before Christmas I've told my DH we might as well get a curry as it will just be us for dinner!

Turkey will stay in freezer till my Dad can join us as it won't be Christmas without him

You will still be able to see your dad. Rules for seeing relatives over Christmas are outside of the normal tiers rules

• Chicken
• Potatoes
• PArsnip

-Carrots

• Red Cabbage
• Pigs in blankets
• Stuffing, gravy

I'm having:

A bottle of Moet et Chandon (which will be opened prior to lunch)

A capon (which is a neutered cockerel, illegal to be farmed in this country but my London butcher import some for Christmas).
Home made pork and chestnut stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Red cabbage and apple
Peas
Yorkshire pudding (may or may not)
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

I don't understand cauliflower cheese with christmas lunch, doesn't the cheese sauce congeal in the gravy? Even if it doesn't I don't fancy it

Pudding:
Home made profiteroles filled with a raspberry and Amaretto cream. I got bored with choc sauce so I dip the tops in caramel.

Cheese (If I can eat any more) White Stilton and biscuits and Port)

Topped off with a glass of Blood Orange Cointreau.

Followed by collapse of stout party.

Roast turkey crown
My special homemade pork stuffing

cranberry sauce
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Boiled new potatoes
carrots
peas
mashed swede
sprouts
braised red cabbage
gravy

Desserts will be all homemade, my mum's traditional pudding, peach melba, mince pies and Christmas Cake.