What’s on your Christmas Day menu?

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We’ve got more of our family gathering together on Boxing Day for a ‘proper roast’ so I’ve decided to make things a bit simpler on Christmas Day itself. No point (to me, at least) in doing a Christmas dinner only to have another one the next day.

Starter: Smoked salmon and prawn cocktail with sourdough toast.
Mains: Chicken pie (homemade) with asparagus and roast potatoes and gravy
Pud: Baked cheesecake with raspberry coulis and ice cream or Christmas pud with brandy sauce

It’ll still be a bit of a feed but hopefully they’ll be ready for a Christmas dinner on Boxing Day (at another family member’s house).

Just wondering if anyone’s doing anything ‘non traditional’ on Christmas Day?

Warm olive ciabatta rolls with lashings of butter, mayo and Milano salami. Big bag of ready salted crisps, pot of hummus and a whole box of Waitrose brown butter mince pies which I shall be dipping into with double cream - no one to cater for but me and I can eat what I want!

Starter: sod that
Main: well its a buffet really, potato and onion bake, salads, so beetroot salad, pickled cabbage salad etc, stewed green beans, roast vegetable mash, stuffed cabbage rolls. We’ll have a few British bits, so shredded sprouts with nutmeg, some Pakistani bits too, mainly dips.

Pudding, none of us really have a sweet tooth so we’re having saffron pancakes.

That honestly sounds amazing.

Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on toast for brunch, with Bucks Fizz.

Dinner will be individual beef wellingtons, with roast potatoes, Yorkshire Puddings, roast parsnips and sprouts with bacon.

Pudding is sticky toffee pudding with home-made vanilla ice-cream. A non-negotiable in this house!

Steak and chips for our main. Cheese & crackers for nibbles during the day.

Nothing out of the ordinary. Porridge and banana at breakfast. Soup and sarnies at lunchtime. Tea and crumpets later then a pie with vegetables and Yorkshire pudding in the evening.

No starter

Main - turkey with yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, gravy, pigs in blankets, carrots & broccoli.

Pudding - triple chocolate gateau with squirty cream

Breakfast: smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, fresh bread buns
Xmas meal: stuffed pork loin (unusual for us ) etc. chocolate log & cream.

Enjoy what you eat, and Happy Christmas!

Starter - Smoked salmon on crackers with cream cheese and sweet chilly jam, prawn cocktail, halloumi sticks

Main - Turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, honey glazed parsnips, pigs in blankets, gravy, Brussel sprouts and bacon, yorkshire pudding

Dessert - Vintage victoria style sponge cake from Waitrose, home made christmas pudding, chocolate tart from M & S, waitrose chocolate yule log

Me, my two young adult DDs and my elderly mum for lunch.

No starters

Main...
Gammon and/or turkey
Roast Potatoes (mash for DD1)
Glazed carrots and parsnips (plain carrots for DD1)
Pan fried Brussels with pancetta
Stuffing with cranberry
Pigs in Blankets
Yorkshires
Gravy

For desserts a choice from...
Vienetta
Gateaux
Mini cheesecakes

Roast with beef gammon marks all done dusted!boxibg day cheeseboard and Parma ham and goodies

Breakfast is fresh baked pastries, pot of tea and champagne.

Buffet lunch with our favorite bits - farm shop pork pie, pickles, anti pasti, charcuterie board and cheeseboard served with champagne.

Tea is christmas cake with stilton and wensleydale. Crisps and nuts. Served with baileys and some gin and tonics.

We go for a nice pub lunch on boxing day and have some pizza and naice pickies for Christmas eve.

I’m working the twilight shift so I’ll have scrambled eggs on toast about 1pm then I’ve treated myself to a M&S lamb and mash ready meal for tea when I’m at work. No Christmas dinner for me this year :(

Probably a pizza. We are in italy skiing.

No starter, but we have having smoked salmon and cream cheese on rye bread for breakfast. Probably with tea / non alcoholic mimosas

Dinner is côte be boeuf(!!) with standard Christmas trimmings. Very excited for my huge sledgehammer of beef

For pudding, tiramisu - made the lady's fingers today, although didn't have a piping bag so they look like the knobbly fingers of a wicked witch!

We normally have turkey and I'm excited for a change

Cereal and toast for breakfast.
Roast chicken etc for lunch.
Eton mess for pudding.
Whatever we can be bothered with later on.

The local Indian restaurant has advertised they are open Christmas day. Honestly, if we didn't have kids I'd jump at that. They won't have it though so roast dinner it is for now.

popadoms and pickle tray
Chicken Tikka
Tandoori Prawns
Salad
Vegetable Rice
Naan bread

Might have a pint of shandy

Morning: Brunch of smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, bagels, croissants, fruit and yogurt.
Afternoon: cheese board, olives, salad, flatbread, crisps, hummus
Evening: Takeaway curry, panna cotta and fruit for dessert
Only two adults with a guest for brunch so we’re doing exactly what we fancy.

Starter - Homemade Vegetable Soup with Seeded Bread

Main - Roast Chicken, Roast Tatties, Carrots, Peas, Skirlie and Gravy

Dessert- Sticky Toffee Pudding (on its own for me, with custard for DD.

Crisps and things to nibble on.

Homemade tomato soup
Nut roast
homemade peanut butter cookies with homemade peanut butter & banana ice cream
Christmas pudding.

After years of doing a full traditional dinner fancied a change- there are just 3 of us- DH , me and young adult DS who still lives with us. We have had a few talks about it and all decided we fancy a steak so that's what we are going with- bought from the butchers a couple of weeks ago and vacuum packed so will get them out of the freezer before I go to bed on Christmas Eve.
We've all finished work today and are at various stages of lurgy got my big Ocado order due at 9.30 tonight no subs yay! loads of easy buffet stuff for the next few days on it.
Staying in staying warm and sleeping in for the next two weeks. Poor DS has actual proper flu for the first time so is skulking in his dressing gown of doom with the hood firmly up. He looks like Emperor Palpatine in his armchair.

I can't remember! It's being delivered tomorrow, just me, a fancy pre done meal from a caterer that I just need to heat up on Thursday.

It will probably end up being mostly eaten by the dog. Sigh.

Roast chicken, roast tatties, parsnip and carrot, yorkshires, peas, gravy.

Roulade for pudding.

Cheese and oatcakes for supper.

Christmas morning after pressies: croissants, streaky bacon and mimosa’s

Starter: smoked salmon soufflés

Main: Roast turkey, Gammon, stuffing, roast potatoes, red cabbage, Brussels and roast parsnips

Dessert: Gingerbread man trifle/Individual Xmas puddings

Starters: pears poached in wine with goats cheese and walnut salad.
Main: Beef, gammon & the normal trimmings
Dessert: christmas pudding of some kind for the family and I'll have chocolate log cake

Evening, cheese board