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What's on your Christmas Dinner plate?

90 replies

BerriesNutsConkers · 20/12/2023 17:05

Turkey, homemade stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, buttered carrots, mashed swede, sprouts, peas gravy and homemade cranberry sauce.

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Oakbeam · 20/12/2023 18:55

I won’t know until I’m sitting in front of it.

I’m not a fussy eater.

Bbq1 · 20/12/2023 18:59

Beef
Yorkshire puds
Roast potatoes
Boiled potatoes
Carrots
Peas
Sprouts
Gravy

Black Forest Gateaux with cream

fitflopqueen · 20/12/2023 19:00

No official starter, nibbles etc smoked salmon canapés

Turkey, Roast ham, stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy - brother is the butcher so will do meats
Roast potatoes & Parsnips
Sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta
Carrots & swede - mashed before my mum notices
Braised Red cabbage & cranberries- trialling this now and if good will freeze til Xmas eve otherwise just cranberry sauce.
Bread sauce.

Xmas pud with sweet white nutmeg sauce/cream
Trifle

Cheese, fruit & biscuits later if wanted

Drinks of choice, wine, beer, bubbles, port etc

8 of us, dinner is at our parents, going home we divide up the leftovers so mum & dad not left overwhelmed with food.

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TheMousePipes · 20/12/2023 19:01

Sirloin, Yorkshire puddings, roasties, chilli parsnips, sticky carrots, blue cauliflower cheese, sprouts and chestnuts with lots of gravy.
Followed by a winter bombe baked Alaska type thing as Christmas pudding isn’t very popular here.

ThreeRingCircus · 20/12/2023 19:30

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing balls
Roast potatoes
Honey roast carrots and parsnips
Brussel sprouts
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire pudding
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

kikisparks · 20/12/2023 19:35

Vegan turkey
Nut roast
Chestnut and cranberry stuffing
Roast potatoes
red cabbage
sprouts
Ginger carrots
Maple parsnips
gravy
cranberry sauce

Lilithlogic · 20/12/2023 19:36

Beef Wellington
Roast potatoes, carrots, and parsnips
Sprouts with bacon and chestnuts
Pigs in blankets
Devil's on horseback
Yorkshire
Bread sauce
Leek sauce
Red wine jus
Ham
Redcurrant sauce

Figgy pudding
Black forest gateau

Coffee and mints

StampOnTheGround · 20/12/2023 19:36

Turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, pigs in blankets, carrots, broccoli, sprouts and gravy

RedSnail · 20/12/2023 19:39

Steak pie, mash and mushy peas

Whatevershallidowithmylife · 20/12/2023 19:41

Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Carrots & Peas (from tins)!
Pastry
Slow Cooker Beef
We keep it simple and easy so no one in stuck in the kitchen

Mistymornin · 20/12/2023 19:44

Just DH and myself this Xmas

Slow cooked Lamb
Roast potatoes
Paxo Stuffing
Steamed Brussels and carrots
Bread sauce 😋

For dessert, I may make an apple crumble cake

Lilithlogic · 20/12/2023 19:47

RedSnail · 20/12/2023 19:39

Steak pie, mash and mushy peas

I'd be well happy with that. My mam made a huge steak and kidney suet pudding a few years ago. It went down so well.

Bertiesmum3 · 20/12/2023 19:47

On my plate
roast spuds, turkey, gammon m, beef, sprouts, peas,broccoli & savoy!
I only eat green veg, everyone else will have cauliflower carrots swede parsnips red cabbage stuffing bread sauce

TheFormidableMrsC · 20/12/2023 19:49

Beef rib, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, cauliflower cheese, honeyed carrots and baked broccoli. I shall also have a plate of pigs in blankets on the table, because it's the law. Also roast chestnuts wrapped in smoked streaky bacon. Xmas pud or cheesecake for dessert.

Smittenkitchen · 20/12/2023 19:49

So interesting how these differ. I think I always presumed there was one set combination of dishes! We would never have peas, cabbage, broccoli or Yorkshire puddings, for example.
In my family we've always had:

Turkey or chicken
Veggie sausages for me, have tried various recipes over the years including a rather complicated Ottelenghi aubergine thing and realised I'm perfectly happy with just some veggie sausages.
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Boiled carrots and sprouts
2x Stuffing (no sausage meat, one sage and onion, one lemon and thyme)
Pigs in blankets
Gravy, cranberry sauce and bread sauce (all homemade)
My mum's Christmas pudding made with a recipe that's probably getting on for 100 years old. Very light, as Christmas pudding goes! It's made with carrot and apple. Served with white sauce.

Non-British DH finds it all very puzzling but quite enjoys it.
I'm looking forward to it now!

DilemmaDelilah · 20/12/2023 19:51

Usually:
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
chestnut stuffing
roast potatoes
roast parsnips
roast sweet potato
Brussels sprouts
carrots
bread sauce
cranberry sauce
gravy

followed by:
Christmas pudding (which nobody ever eats)
Orange jelly with mandarins in
lemon cheesecake

Clevs · 20/12/2023 19:51

Slow cooker gammon in cola.
Roast beef.
Pigs in blankets.
Parsnips.
Broccoli.
Sprouts.
Peas.
Carrots.
Homemade stuffing (Jamie Oliver recipe).
Homemade cranberry sauce (BBC Good Food recipe).
Yorkshire puddings.

Clevs · 20/12/2023 19:52

Oh and roasties!

Sodie · 20/12/2023 19:59

We don't eat a dinner on christmas day so have our meal on boxing day. We are a vegan house also
Vegan roast (this isn't)
Make our own kilted sausages
Stuffing
Mash
Roasties
Mashed swede
Cauliflower cheese
Brocoli
Red cabbage
Sprouts
Creamed leeks

mummymayhem18 · 20/12/2023 20:01

Turkey,pigs in blankets,dauphinois potatoes,roast parsnips,carrots,peas,stuffing,bread sauce,cranberry sauce and gravy.

weegiemum · 20/12/2023 20:02

Turkey
Sausage stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Sage and onion stuffing
Roasties
Mash
Yorkshire puddings
Roast carrots and parsnips in mustard
Peas
Broccoli and cauliflower roasted with cumin
Sprouts in bacon and pine nuts

Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce

wonderingwhatlifemeans · 20/12/2023 20:04

Whole salmon poached in a fish brick with lemon, herbs and butter, vegetables and roast potatoes. Hollandaise sauce.

TomatoSandwiches · 20/12/2023 20:06

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 20/12/2023 18:42

I use Gordon Ramsay’s timings for it - here.

I get it ready on Christmas Eve - I pull out the loose pads of fat in the cavity, and prick it all over with a sharp fork, so the fat renders out when it roasts. The loose fat gets rendered down (heated in a pan until it melts), then I use that, and the fat from the roasting tin, for the roast potatoes and parsnips.

I drain the fat out of the pan part way through the cooking time too - that helps, I think.

I make gravy, because dh and the dses like gravy (my mum thought gravy was an invention of the devil, so I grew up without it, and only want a tiny bit now), and bread sauce because I can’t have Christmas dinner without it, and spiced apple sauce to cut the fattiness of the meat.

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Thank you for the tips, have filed that away! Spiced apple sauce sounds delightful as well.

Howyoualldoworkme · 20/12/2023 20:11

Porchetta (none of us like turkey)
Roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage
Sprouts shredded and sauteed with flaked almonds
Gravy

And Viennetta for dessert as my son loves it and he cooks the dinner 🙂

FatCatatPaddingtonStation · 20/12/2023 20:43

Turkey
homemade stuffing
Nut roast
Homemade cranberry sauce
home made bread pudding
boulangerie potatoes (too many people and not enough oven space to roast
Red cabbage
leeks
sprouts with pancetta and bacon
peas
swede mash
carrots in some form.
Vege gravy

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