Christmas dinner -what's in yours

[cherrypiepie]

Quite a few ideas of what should go on a Christmas dinner so here is mine - what goes on yours? (This lasts us all day often have pudding and cheese for tea later on- and champagne for breakfast

Starter: pate /toast or nothing
Dinner: Turkey (brined and roasted)
Ham home cooked mustard and honey
Pigs in blankets (from farm shop)
Stuffing two flavours (shop bought Aldi and m & s )
Sprouts with chesnuts and pancetta
Parsnips with honey and black pepper
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Cranberry sauce (jar)
Gravy
Pudding: Christmas pudding (Aldi) and brandy sauce (shop bought)
Port
Cheeseboard

Plenty of champagne and red wine

Roasted turkey (farm shop)
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Carrot/swede mash
Brussels sprouts with chestnuts and bacon
Red cabbage
Cranberry sauce (mum)
Bread sauce (mum)
Sausage and bacon
Stuffing
Gravy

Pudding will be trifle or Christmas pudding.

I need a to try a bread sauce!

Large turkey crown cooked with onions , garlic and oranges and covered in bacon.
Roast potatoes n duck fat
Mashed potatoes
Apple and cranberry Stuffing parcels
Homemade pigs in blankets
Honey and mustard glazed parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Roasted purple, yellow and orange carrots in a parsley oil dressing with a thyme and smoked salt butter.
Steamed ordinary carrots (dc won't eat the posh ones)
Mashed swede with butter & black pepper
Tenderstem brocoli

Caramelised onion beef gravy
Condiments: cranberry, apple & mint sauces & pickled onions.

Dessert: melting in the middle caramel gingerbread bomb thing we have ordered with pouring cream and nice icecream.

Christmas supper (if any room): crispy oven baguettes with ham/cheese/ various fillings with accompanying nibbles

Oh and forgot bucks fizz/wine too! Fizzy juice for dc!

And breakfast will be easy croissants and pastries with fresh orange juice/ Bucks fizz

Chicken (don't like turkey)
Stuffing
Sausage meat
Pigs in blankets
Carrot
swede
peas
Roast potatoes
Gravy

Pudding either Christmas pudding or some sort of gateu with cream

Loads of alcohol to go round and juice for the kids

No starters, as we have hot sandwiches pancakes with maple syrup and bacon, or cheese and ham croissant for breakfast and eat chocolate all through morning.

Around 1:30/2 we have
Roast chicken (organic)
Bread and sausage stuffing
Roast potatoes
Parsnips
Carrots
Cabbage
Sprouts
Bread sauce (homemade)
Cranberry sauce (jar)

Desert is usually something like a pavlova about an hour after lunch.

Around 7/7:30 people help themselves to leftover meat etc, and the cheese, crackers and pickles come out.

Breakfast - scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, bagels, Buck’s Fizz

Lunch - Beef Wellington, home made roast potatoes, glazed parsnips, red onion, tenderstem broccoli, sprouts, pigs in blankets, Champagne

Dessert - Christmas pudding with brandy butter (set on fire of course!)

Tea if anyone wants it - leftovers, Quality Street, mince pies, home made Christmas cake

Whatever for breakfast

No starter - where the hell do people put it

Turkey
pigs in blankets (vital)
Roast potatoes (boil, shake violently to create crispy bits, goose fat/hot oven)
Sprouts (cream, bacon, OH does it)
Carrots
Gravy
Stuffing
Bread sauce (vital)
Cranberry sauce (only vital because it looks nice)
Mustard (vital to me)

Christmas pudding*
Brandy sauce (SO much nicer than butter)
Cream
*drown in sauce and cream, then quite nice in a small dose.

Cheese board and crackers in the evening

Oh yes, parsnips...

@Glassofshloer

Breakfast - scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, bagels, Buck’s Fizz

Lunch - Beef Wellington, home made roast potatoes, glazed parsnips, red onion, tenderstem broccoli, sprouts, pigs in blankets, Champagne

Dessert - Christmas pudding with brandy butter (set on fire of course!)

Tea if anyone wants it - leftovers, Quality Street, mince pies, home made Christmas cake

Beef and pigs in b: WHAT MADNESS IS THIS

@Luredbyapomegranate

Cow’n’sow???

[quote Glassofshloer]@Luredbyapomegranate

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Arrrrrrgghhhhhhh

but, yes.. you filthy horror

Nobody in my family likes turkey so it'll be

Foie gras, brioche toast, fig chutney to start (sorry PETA)

Fillet of beef, spuds, creamed leeks, balsamic honey carrots, sprouts, lobster Mac n cheese, yorkies

Pudding is pavlova

Cheeseboard later if I can manage it

No starter
Roast Turkey
Roast quorn
Roast potatoes in garlic and Rosemary
Roast parsnips in honey
Roast carrots
Stuffing
Peas
Bread sauce
Pigs in blankets
Veggie pigs in blankets
Leeks in onion sauce
Brussels
Cranberry sauce
red Cabbage and apple
Yorkshire’s
Christmas pudding
Pavlova
Cheese board

Breakfast is Buck’s Fizz and pain au chocolat

No starters because everyone’s nibbling all morning.
Lunch: stuffed turkey crown larded with bacon, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, glazed carrots, red cabbage, gravy, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, served with champagne for us and Schloer for the kids.
Pudding is usually the most ridiculously over the top thing we can find in the shops. This year we’ve got our eyes on Asda’s chocolate bauble.
Cheese, biscuits, mints, coffee. More wine.
Doze and chill till people start to feel peckish and pick over leftovers for tea.

Not sure yet. DS wants beef this year, but I've never cooked roast beef successfully. It always comes out tough.

Hopefully he'll change his mind before the 25th.

Small cold salmon and salad starter.
Main meal is goose, roast potatoes, broccoli and cauliflower with hollandaise sauce.
No dessert.
He usually has beer, I have water for drinks with the meal.

Cold roast chicken
Cold roast pork
Cold ham off the bone
Coleslaw
Various Salads
Apple sauce
Potato bake
Steamed potatoes
Buttered bread stick
Plum pudding
Custard
Cream

All eaten by the pool because it’s stinking hot

Usually have nibbles out before lunch like pretzels, crisps, mince pies and cherries and ice cold beer too

Turkey
Roast potatoes
Boiled potatoes
Carrots
Sprouts
Broccoli
Cauliflower cheese
Pigs in blankets
Cranberry sauce
Stuffing

Then individual cheesecakes from a local company who will deliver Christmas Eve.

Toasted panettone for breakfast

No starter.
Just 4 of us, so we are having chicken instead of turkey
Sausagemeat stuffing
Breadcrumb stuffing
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Mashed swede
Sprouts
Leeks
Homemade bread sauce
Homemade cranberry and orange sauce.
Gravy made with sherry

Afterwards
Lemon Cheesecake

In the evening
Sandwiches with leftover chicken, stuffing and cranberry sauce
Satsumas
Dates
Mini mince pies
Chocolates

No starters.

Roast turkey crown
Roast parsnips
Roast potatoes
Yorkshires
Sprouts
Gravy
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Condiments

Only 3 of us here,

Turkey crown
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshires
Carrots
Swede mash
Red cabbage
Cauliflower cheese
Sprouts
Gravy
Roasties of course

Pudding is a choice of Christmas pudding or something chocolatey yet to be decided

Roast turkey crown
Home made pork stuffing
Cranberry sauce
My special homemade gravy 😃
Roast parsnips
Roast potatoes
New potatoes
Carrots
Swede
Sprouts
Green beans or broccoli.

None of us like pigs in blankets so we don't have them!

Dessert will be a choice of my mums homemade pudding and whatever else we have made. Our christmas dinner isn't much different to a sunday roast but we are all happy with that!

This year I will be cooking pork with crackling instead of turkey.

Breakfast - bacon sandwiches and chocolate (6-7am)

Starter- I'd like pate or fish but my family are fusspots so it'll be pea soup and red onion upside down tart (1-2pm)

Main- buttermilk brined turkey, sausage and sage stuffing spread under the skin and over the bosom

Plain carrots
Sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts
Roast potato
Roast parsnips
Cauli cheese
Pigs in blankets and out of blankets
Yorkshire's
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
(3-4pm)

Dessert- Christmas pudding and chocolate pudding (5-6pm)

Cheeses and cold cuts for supper with shortbread and quality street alongside.
(9-10pm)

It's a very long day for us, where we are usually all up by 6 and still awake at midnight - so the constant grazing is welcome and adds to the feel of grand celebration without feeling slightly crass /unnecessary in the way of masses of presents. Food is the best part of the season in my opinion