If you don't live in the uk, what are you having for xmas dinner?

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Presuming you celebrate xmas that is.

This thread is inspired by wondering what people are eating in other countries today.

We have had tortellini and then turkey as we are an anglo-Italian family in Italy. Pudding was an Italian style trifle.

usually it would be a goose.
bis this year our farmer we get it from had a visit from a fox
so we are having a chicken.
marzipan ice cream as desert.

apart from breadsauce and cauli cheese and pigs in blankets it's not very different to a uk roast christmas dinner though.

@redcandlelight

usually it would be a goose. bis this year our farmer we get it from had a visit from a fox so we are having a chicken. marzipan ice cream as desert.

apart from breadsauce and cauli cheese and pigs in blankets it's not very different to a uk roast christmas dinner though.

Although technically you can eat fox. Just saying...

We had pate and baguette to start. Then spit roasted chicken (cooked on the fire out in the snow) with all the sides. Dessert is panettone and coffee.

US (Georgia): honey baked ham, mac and cheese, cucumber and tomato salad, yellow squash sauteed with bacon, angel biscuits (American biscuits made with yeast), scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, corn pudding, coconut cake, apple pie.

All sounds yummy

I am in the US.

We had Thanksgiving in late November which is essentially a Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, vegetables and pies.

Christmas is when people (at least the ones that I know) eat food that is respective of their heritage. My family is Mexican so we eat tamales and drink atole for our breakfast.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale

I am also in Texas (today will have a high of 75F/23C) so many of my neighbors are having cookouts. It's just before 9am right now and I know a few started their "low and slow" barbecues last night for Texas brisket to be enjoyed at 5pm. It's a very nice scent in the air. My neighbor from Louisiana deep fries his turkey in his backyard and you can always smell those Cajun spices too.

Personally, I am having a cookout and drinking lots of wine.

Merry Christmas and ¡Feliz Navidad!

In NZ or I would be but for this fucking virus we do things like roast turkey, ham (hot or cold), roast vegetables, sprouts, beans, peas etc, all the usual British fare, with lots of cold salads and meats and seafood as well. We also have the full hot Christmas pudding, custard (hot or cold) along with trifle, ice cream, fruit salads, mince pies, and something called brandy snaps which I can't find here. Sob. 😢

There's lots of NZ wine, beer, some French champagne and soft drinks (all cold!) through the day - which is warm, so either windows and doors are open and/or food eaten outdoors, or all is closed up for the aircon to do its job!

Some also have a BBQ and visit the beach.

Also can't forget Pavlova ... which was invented by us Kiwis, and certainly not by Australia flat whites too. 😂

@elp30 is a cookout a bbq?

If I can jump in on the cookout question. In the Southern US, a cookout is what most people in the UK and in other parts of the US call a barbeque. In the South and Southwest, it's not barbecue unless it's meat cooked low and slow with smoke over indirect heat. Throwing burgers and steaks on an outdoor grill is a cookout, not a bbq. But you can eat bbq at a cookout, but it will have been previously cooked low and slow (usually pork in my neck of the woods; more likely beef in Texas).

Anglo-Italian in Italy.
Christmas Day food isn't as important to Italians as Christmas Eve, so traditional Italian (seafood and fish) last night and turkey with all the trimmings today. Just had my second bowl of trifle.

Yesterday, because we celebrate on the 24th, we had caramelised potatoes, cooked red cabbage with spices, pork roast (so tender it ended up pulled pork) with crispy crackling, gravy made from the pork juices, boiled potatoes, pickled cucumber and onion, and salty crisps.

@PicsInRed Do you mean these?

www.amazon.co.uk/Foxs-Brandy-Snaps-100g/dp/B00OU1Y75Y?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Roast beef with all the usual trimmings

We had lamb with Spätzle yesterday and turkey with roast potatoes etc. today. We do Nikolaus boots on 6th December and stockings to open on 25th. Main presents after lunch on 24th though. Extended family on 25th (just Fil this year). We eat Plätzchen, no Christmas cake or Stollen - nobody in our nuclear family especially likes either.

Being a mixed German- English family is an excellent excuse to just pick the best bits/ bits you like.

@MamaDane we had the same as you last night for our Danish Christmas, and had turkey with all the trimmings today for English Christmas. I love having both.

Northern Spain here. As near a UK dinner as possible. In normal times we visit the UK late October and stock up with UK style goodies including aTurkey crown, pigs in blankets, leg of pork, ham etc all in an eletric cold box. Somewhat subdued this year in more ways than one.i managed to cobble a turkey roast together with fillets and ham.
Christmas is not quite as big a deal here. Its 12th night when the 3 kings arrive thats the real big one. Either way various foods play a big part. Fish, especially shell fish, and traditional lentil stews are big. Huge whole ham legs are sold to slice off all the holiday. Some are mire than 100 euros.Turnon and powderons are big.....biscuit things and 12grapes at midnight on the 31st. Cards are virtually unknown. Lots of cava though!

NZ here, we 3 had roast beef, roast potatoes and kumera, asparagus, lots of gravy. Brandy snaps, meringues cos I don't like pavlova (am I even a real NZdr?!) plus cream and raspberries

Turkey takeaway.

Full on roast Turkey, mash, veg,
Gravy, fully cooked and delivered at 2pm.

I love living in the land of the lazy...

Oysters and foie gras. Zero cooking lunch 👍 and duck confit, green beans, dauphinoise potatoes and garlic ceps for dinner. Fifteen minutes all in.

@ImRealHonest we do that too. 4.5 kg turkey and a double portion of gravy cooked and picked up hot. I do the sides myself but not having to deal with the turkey (besides carving) is such a luxury. After we found it (at a local hotel two years ago) I vowed never to cook a turkey myself again!

If I was in Australia we'd usually have and outdoor BBQ with family:

• King prawns/seafood
• Steaks
• BBQ'd halloumi
• Sausages for the kids
• cold ham
• potato salad
• coldslaw
• Pavlova

Plus any other meats/salads to go with the above

Central Europe:

Just us 3 (ds is still toddler-aged).

Yesterday we had rice, spicy vegetables with seafood. Today a more UK inspired supper for (and by) DH.

It honestly was not what I would have wanted. But it was still nice.

Back in NZ, we'd be having a bbq too:

Crayfish salad
Steak
Saussies
Whitebait
Potato salad
Lettuce Salad
New potatoes
Asparagus
Fresh peas and beans
Baby Carrots
Corn on the cob
Pav'

I will make arme Ritter tomorrow for brunch btw.

I'm genuinely looking forward to that! :)