What's your Christmas day menu?

[FridgeJenga]

And more importantly, will it feature yorkshire puddings?
We are having a rib of beef, so YPs will definitely feature.
Work colleagues are currently having a debate whether YPs should be a part of a traditional turkey Christmas roast or not.
(My take is have what you want!)

Turkey
Ham
Pigs in Blankets
Stuffing
Roasties
Carrots and Parsnips roasted in orange and honey
Spiced red cabbage
Broccoli
Sprouts
Cranberry sauce
Homemade gravy.

Dessert will be traditional Christmas pudding and a meringue wreath loaded with cranachan for the high proportion of family that don’t like currants!

Roast duck is our go to with roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, stuffing, carrots, red cabbage, sprouts, extra cocktail sausages, bread sauce, roast parsnips and gravy

Christmas pudding with brandy butter, cream, custard for choice.

I usually do the roast duck with 5 spice and orange and gin based on a Jennifer Patterson recipe.

I have enjoyed doing a roast goose in the past but you have to be fully concentrating as there's a lot of fat to drain off and avoid putting down the sink!

Breakfast: pastries

Lunch: No starters but will probably have some nibbles with the champagne to keep the hunger at bay.

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing
Yorkshire puddings
Duck fat roast potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Sprouts with chestnuts and bacon
Peas
Carrots
Homemade bread sauce
Turkey gravy from a packet and augmented with the turkey juices

Christmas pudding with custard, brandy butter, clotted cream, pouring cream or ice cream

Supper: I will have a turkey, stuffing and bread sauce sandwich. The rest of the family can have whatever they can find and fancy in the inevitability full fridge.

I will make ahead and freeze the roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings, and possibly the bread sauce. I’ve already got red cabbage in the freezer but there’s a good chance I’ll want to eat that before Christmas so I’d better plan on making some more.

Im currently trying to use up food from the freezer to make space for the Christmas food.

Turkey crown
Ham slow cooked in coca cola
sausages in bacon
chipolatas
YP
Mac and cheese
Brocolli
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
carrots
peas
stuffing
gravy

Breakfast:
homemade waffles with yogurt and berries for the children
smoked salmon for the adults. Served with fresh orange juice, and Christmas coffee in the cafetière

lunch:
starter is prawn cocktail
roast pork
roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
pigs in blankets
stuffing
roast carrots and parsnips
peas
Brussels sprouts
cauliflower cheese
red cabbage

Pudding
Christmas pudding
lots and lots of homemade cake

dinner
sausage plait and coleslaw

Wow! All your menus sound amazing.
I'm taking notes and stealing ideas for starters and puddings.
We always have a ham on Christmas Eve, which usually lasts over the following few days.

It’s not a good roast if there aren’t yorkies

For the actual Christmas dinner:

Turkey crown
MiL’s homemade stuffing with sausage meat
Yorkies
Roast potatoes
Parsnips
Roasted carrots
Peas
Turkey gravy - a ‘proper’ one as well as granules

DS doesn’t like potatoes (😱) or gravy so will have turkey with rice and whatever vegetables he picks at. My DM doesn’t eat anything but the roasties and will have some mushroom soup first.

For dessert:
Christmas pudding for MIL and PIL with Baileys cream
The rest of us have Vienetta (obviously v posh 😂😂)

We have me, DH, DS(10), my DM, MiL and FIL. It will be the second Christmas without my lovely dad so will be bittersweet.

Stuffed duck
Filet of beef
Roast potatoes, parsnips and carrots
Dauphinoise potatoes
Creamed parsnips
Piggies
Other stuffing

Actually DS1 had asked for Yorkshire's, said he will bring some

We are having ‘whatever we win in Waitrose meat roulette’
(we are not bothered)
*this dates back to about 7 years ago my turkey was over £120 and I thought ‘fuck that’.
DP is always in the supermarket getting a ‘forgotten thing’ such as ice, baileys, butter or whatever was missed from the online shop. He swore there were massive posh turkeys in their millions for a tenner. So we go for ‘10p turkey’ which might end up being beef, turkey or lamb.
we don’t do starters- we have nice pastries for breakfast, bacon butties mid morning.
we eat about 3?
meat
roasted parsnips, roasted onion and roast potatoes
broccoli
swede mash
sprouts
carrots
pigs in blankets if it’s turkey / YP if it’s beef .
gravy
force meat stuffing
we do not like Xmas pudding so we have berries with either Vienetta or a chocolate roulade (HM)
then cheese. Loads of cheese

No starters

Quorn roast
Pigs in blankets ( meat eaters and veggie eaters)
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Brussels
Carrots
Peas
Broccoli
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Yorkies
Stuffing
Gravy

Dessert
Homemade Sticky toffee pudding
Homemade Cheesecake

Drinks prosecco, orange juice

Breakfast : croissants or pains au chocolates and fresh orange juice

Dinner : prawn cocktail

fresh asparagus soup

turkey crown
roasties, mash and probably another type of potato (we love our spuds)
Pork stuffing and sage & onion stuffing
roasted carrots and parsnips
sprouts with bacon and pine nuts
broccoli
cranberry sauce
yorkshires
bread sauce
turkey gravy

pudding (often not eaten for hours or indeed the next day!) : Yule log
MIL’s pavlova (yum!)

later on :
leftovers
turkey sandwiches (mainly me!)
cheeeeese!

We'll have bacon and croissants in the morning with Bucks Fizz
Roast turkey, pigs in blankets, sausagemeat stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, Brussels with bacon, carrots, red cabbage and cauliflower cheese, turkey gravy.

No dessert.

Cheese board and left over turkey etc later.

Wine, champagne and Baileys at various intervals.

I'm cooking for three so we will have

Smoked salmon on wholemeal bread & butter, with lemon mayonaisse

Roast chicken
Roast potatoes
Sausages in bacon
Stuffing
Sprouts,
Peas, carrots
Bread sauce
Gravy

Christmas pud, mince pies, ice cream

YPs - yes with beef, not with anything else. There have to be rules or society breaks down. The rule is bread sauce with Turkey.

We have trad turkey roast - turkey, roast ps, stuffing, pigs in blankets, carrots, sprouts, parsnips, bread sauce, gravy, cranbury sauce (which no one eats) mustard (which I eat). This not include cauli cheese because clearly cheese with a roast is madness. Or red cabbage because I don't like it and we never had it as kids. Nor mashed pots because it's not thanksgiving and nothing - nothing - should be allowed in the way of roasties.

No first course - because I want as many helpings of C'mas dinner as poss.

sometime later - Christmas pudding (which I don't think anyone much likes so we have a small one and drown tiny portions in cream and brandy sauce). I always mean to get C'mas pudding ice cream which I had once and was rather good

sometime later - cheeseboard with charcuterie, olive and wotnot

We have never had Yorkshire pudding with Christmas dinner but DS GF is from Yorkshire and they always do so we will.

We don’t do starters.

main is roast pork belly
roast potatoes
maple glazed carrots
brussels
cabbage
peas/sweetcorn for the fussy ones
stuffing balls
pigs in blankets
Yorkshire puddings - there would be a murder if there wasn’t any
gravy

desserts are Xmas pudding
cherry Bakewell cheesecake
tiramisu

This sounds lovely... But logistically, how do you cook all of it? Do you have multiple ovens?

roasted veg snowflake and cranberry cheese melt
Chicken for meat eaters
Truffle mash
Roasties
Veggie pigs in blankets
Fresh onion gravy
Honey roasted parsnips and chantenay carrots
Creamy cheese Brussels sprouts and almond gratin
Broccoli and cauliflower cheese
Potato dauphinoise

For dessert I got the Belgian chocolate Christmas trees from Tesco

Can you please send me your passion fruit and Mango trifle recipe please

Breakfast will be alcoholic whilst walking down the beach, lunch will be steak and chips with the trimmings, supper will be whatever we fancy at the time. All low key, less stress and no visitors. Perfect x

Breakfast: croissants; scrambled eggs (with smoked salmon for the meat eater); mini pastries.

Christmas dinner: no starter; chicken (meat eater doesn't like turkey) and Quorn roast basted with garlic butter; homemade stuffing balls; yorkies; roast potatoes; meat and veggie gravy; meat and veggie pigs in blankets; loads of vegetables (red cabbage, maple-parmesan parsnips, carrots, peas, sprouts, green beans, broccoli, sometimes mashed swede); meat and veggie gravy; cranberry sauce; apple sauce; bread sauce if I can be arsed as only I like it.

Dessert: mince pies; Christmas pudding; trifle; lebkuchen; cream and custard.

Supper: cheeseboard with crackers, baguettes and an insane array of accompaniments; stollen; panettone; fruit; chocolates (must include After Eights!).

Xmas Eve;
Rib of beef
Yorkshires
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Green beans
Broccoli
Gravy
Horseradish

Xmas Day (evening dinner)
Turkey
Bacon Rolls
Sausage meat stuffing
Chipolatas
Other home made stuffing
Spiced red cabbage
Mash
Sprouts
Peas
Carrots
Bread sauce (home made)
Cranberry sauce (home made)
Gravy
NO YP

I think I’m doing retro prawn cocktails for starters
Stilton pate for the non prawn eaters
both served with melba toast (this is non negotiable apparently and we only have it once a year)

Turkey
Slow cooked beef

Sausage meat stuffing

Gravy

Roast potatoes
Mash
Leeks in cheese sauce
Roasted carrots and parsnips

Mum’s homemade bread sauce
Mum’s homemade cranberry sauce

We haver starters about 90 min before mains and I have a nor al oven and a smaller grill size oven. Meat goes in planned to come out 1 hour before eating and is wrapped in layers of foil and towels to stay warm and then other bits get chucked in the ovens. Will have an airfryer this year to utilise too