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.

In Canada. Had a turkey. Meh.

Australia
Prawn and lobster cocktail
Ham, turkey, pork with roast veggies, cheesy cauliflower and gravy
Ginger sponge with cream and strawberries (mum couldn't be assed doing a pudding this year)

Canada (but English). Turkey, pigs in blankets, roast spuds, parsnips, carrots, sprouts and stuffing.

Evening of 24th, salted cod.
25th, usually a bird. This year free range chicken, as turkey would have been too much for two.

Japan here

But I'm British so I make a roast Xmas dinner - big free range chicken, roasties, mash, sprouts with chestnuts, mushroom and bacon
Xmas Day is not a public holiday but Japanese people celebrate in some way with a special meal - traditionally it's KFC!!
Although recently roast chicken or even paella has become popular.

Christmas cake is a strawberry shortcake with white whipped cream.

USA went to Asia town. Eldest and I ended up having a crawfish/crab boil, and oysters
One had hamburger and one had shrimp Poboy

@UntilYourNextHairBrainedScheme

wtf us stuffing mix? Stuffing is just breadcrumbs, butter, salt, pepper, herbs - maybe onion, depending on what kind of stuffing you like...

Stuff in mix, all in a box, just add water and butter.

I do mine with chicken stock, add onion, celery, spicy sausage and chestnuts. We had it at thanksgiving, so I guess by the time Xmas comes around I can’t be bothered doing a full roast dinner again. This box was for Xmas, but as our friends pulled out of coming and our kids don’t eat it I couldn’t be bothered. Hence having Chinese instead, which going forward, will be our tradition.

We had roast chicken, potatoes, pumpkin, carrots, peas and corn with gravy, followed by plum pudding, custard and ice cream. Strawberries and ice cream later in the day. I'm in NZ and it is definitely not warm!

Freshly caught snapper salad starter
Slow cooked ribs with homemade marinade and homemade potato salad
Mini pavlova with berries from the garden ( the leftover ones rescued from the fat bastard thrush who spent a lot of time circumnavigating the netting and deterrents) ahem not that I feel strongly about the thrush and his thieving beaky mates....

NZ

[quote saffire]@elp30 is a cookout a bbq? [/quote]

A cookout is when you put food on the grill to quick cook.
I would have a cookout on a barbecue grill if I am making hamburgers or chicken skewers. That is called, grilling.

BBQ for Texans is an art form.
It is smoking meat that is put on for hours.
You barbecue brisket over coals/wood indirectly for many hours.
Texas barbecue is generally brisket.

@SenecaFallsRedux

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).

Exactly!

Australia

Full turkey roast
Home made apple & sage stuffing
All the trimmings
Trifle and Xmas pud

Absolutely delicious

I'm in Australia. We went to the beach, had a swim. Back home, we had cold chicken and a mango salad, and some smoked salmon with cream cheese and capers . For dessert, deconstructed pavlova with cream and berries. Yum !

Turkey, mash potato, annual broccoli casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy. We has grasshopper pie for dessert.

I should add - I'm in Canada

In Aus
Normally things like a BBQ with chicken, steak, sausages
Seafood
Cold meat plates, chips n dipd
Potato salad, a basic tomatoe, cheese, cucumber, lettuce and carrot salad
Pavlova, choc cake, icecream, lollies

Since i have to work all weekend and on xmas day we doing a big chinease takeaway on monday this year lol

Elouera I'm in Oz...as a Brit I have been and still am, befuddled and annoyed at the "Sausages for the kids" thing.

My kids hate sausages. I don't buy them...they're full of additives in general and are mainly made up of cereal and low quality meat.

Why on earth would anyone give those to the kids and eat bloody steak and seafood themselves??

And yet it's prevalent here... you go to someone's house for a BBQ and they say "We've got ham, chicken, lamb, pulled pork and sausages for the kids"

Wtf?

I saw one woman say "Save the prawns for the adults!" to a little boy who was eating ONE prawn!

I think it's gross.

And yet it's prevalent here... you go to someone's house for a BBQ and they say "We've got ham, chicken, lamb, pulled pork and sausages for the kids"

Cos generally thats something most kids will eat without fuss or complaint
Most people also have no issue if the kid wants the chicken, steak or seafood. But every kid i know turns their nose up at prawns

In NZ, roast lamb with roast vegetables including kumara. Not all the usual British things - not a sprout or Christmas pudding in sight. My husband's family has been here for 150 years and we don't think of ourselves as British in any way shape or form.

We are kiwis in the UK. We would have barbecue, salad and pavlova back home.

This is some of the yummy things for us.

In the Cape, South Africa, and We usually had crayfish, mussels, oysters, maybe a fish braai with braaied potatoes and onions, plus cold chicken and ham and lots of salads.

Trifle, fruit, and ice cream for pudding.

It's usually about 30C here so Xmas dinner is normally outside around the pool.

Australia. We had a grazing platter for starters. For main we had crayfish, prawns, oysters kilpatric, raspberry salad, roast sweet potato salad and veggie with fetta cheese, smoked salmon and various seafood sauces. Dessert was chocolate caramel tart, pavlova and fresh fruit.

These are all fascinating

NZ here but worked a 14 hour day in hospo 🥳
Food consisted of whatever was remaining from what we served the guests. Mainly oysters and glazed ham! Some pavlova for dessert and buckets full of prosecco at the end of a very long day!