No. 1 item on your Christmas dinner plate

[AtleastitsnotMonday]

We were talking about Christmas dinner and the must haves and the bits you would sacrifice. It would seem I am an oddity. I was the only one to put bread sauce at number one. With sage and onion stuffing coming a close second, followed by cranberry sauce. I would sack off the pigs and blankets and parsnips any day. Anyone else?

must have

cranberry sauce
gravy
chestnut stuffing
roast parsnips
roast potatoes

we don't have:
yorkshires
any sauces on veg (eg cauliflower cheese)

I wouldn't miss:
bread sauce (when I cooked one year I tried to do without it. My Dad nearly had a heart attack
wine

1. Sprouts because it's the only time of year the family will eat them and I love them.

(When cooked properly)

1. Stuffing
2. Pigs in blankets (there may be a fight for these this year, as our 5yo has a tendency to inhale them in huge quantities)

Bread sauce is made with milk infused with onion, cloves, bay leaf. Add breadcrumbs, strangely addictive imo.

Paxo (made with sausage meat)

No 1?
Surely it's a plate of beautifully cooked luscious foods of the gods and only 1 thing would be 🤷🏼‍♀️

This is toooo difficult!

It very much depends on what bird/beast you’re having as the centrepiece. I also think gravy is essential and part of the base meal. As are roast potatoes, really. So hmmm...I might be cheating at this already...

But assuming it’s going to be turkey, and that the afore-mentioned items can be considered the base meal, my top must-have ‘extra’ would be a vegetable side of some kind which has a bitter/earthy element, and I’ll go for Brussels sprouts. Plain, buttered and salted, of course, or maybe dressed up a bit with additions like pancetta, cranberries and chestnuts. Next would be sage and onion stuffing. After that, carrots and parsnips, definitely jazzed up in some way. Then pigs in blankets. In conclusion I would like all of the above, please, plus a couple more!

I can do without the cranberry sauce.

I’m hungry now.

Sprouts

If we’re taking the turkey/goose and roast potatoes as read, then bread sauce would be my number 1, then stuffing, preferably chestnut, then roast parsnips and sprouts with pancetta. I don’t care about pigs but the family wouldn’t agree. I don’t hold with Yorkshire pudding on anything except roast beef, spiced red cabbage takes over the plate and cauliflower cheese is better saved for the next day with the leftovers.

I wish we could have goose more often. It’s been several years now and not gonna lie, I’m a little annoyed at having to have the vastly inferior turkey yet again this year although I do like turkey too.

Goose fat roasted potatoes! Just found this out.

Due to holiday timings I've already done my Christmas dinner. I put the huge platter on the table with roast potatoes, turkey schnitzels, lemon and thyme buttered roast chicken breasts, pigs in blankets and sausage stuffing balls(other dishes of veg on table)
'Help yourself' says I.
Everybody went for the crispy potatoes. I was so proud. I raised my family well.

Anything but boring bland turkey-potatoes-sprouts-gravy nonsense.

It's one of the worst festive cuisines ever

That’s another thing I miss about goose - the vatful of (free!) fat comes in so handy over winter/spring.

1 parsnips
2 gravy
3 cauliflower cheese
4 sausage meat stuffing
5 turkey

I'd sack off everything but I'll fight to the death for brandy snaps with cream and decent champagne.

1. Roast potatoes
2. Yorkshire puddings
3. Stuffing

I used to love pigs in blankets, but I've been vegetarian for many years and never found a decent substitute version.

Roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and carrots

Roasts
Yorkshires
Stuffing

I would be happy with a plate of
Yorkshire puddings
Pigs in blankets
Gravy
Stuffing
Veg