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?

Gorgeous food descriptions here! Especially the starters!

weve swapped Xmas day and Boxing Day around due to landing back late after a long haul flight.

so Xmas day lunch - bacon sarnie
Xmas day dinner - loads of sainsburys 3 for 2 party food

Boxing Day - full schebang Xmas dinner

Christmas day

DCs- slow cooker ham cooked in apple juice. Roast potatoes, honey sesame carrots, red cabbage, peas, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, cranberry sauce and apple sauce. Followed by homemade Christmas pudding ice cream.

DH and I- the above vegetables and a Waitrose nut roast.

Breakfast... anything from cereal to omlettes to a bacon sandwich (DD1!)

Slow cooked beef for the meat eaters this year with roasted parsnips, carrots and sprouts with chestnuts. Roasties and Yorkshire puds. Gravy, bread sauce, horseradish...and probably ketchup for the kids.

Generally no one wants pudding as too stuffed, but later on a cheese board with every cheese everyone likes

Quorn roast for me and Mum!

Eating out so I’ve got…

prawn cocktail
carvery roast
sticky toffee pudding & custard

Toast and jam/marmalade for breakfast

Lunch at 2pm: Turkey, chestnut stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts, bread sauce, gravy
Christmas pudding with brandy cream
Coffee and maybe a Baileys

Christmas cake and tea at about 5 probably

in the evening, snack on cheese, crackers and grapes, or maybe a cold turkey or cold gammon sandwich or sausage rolls. Fruit. Chocs.

Seeing it all written down it looks a bit monstrous!! Haha

Breakfast:

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, sourdough toast, Bucks Fizz.

Mid-afternoon lunch:

• No starter
• Roast chicken, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast parsnips and carrots, sautéed sprouts with chestnuts, roast potatoes, gravy.
• Christmas pudding and clotted cream

Evening:

• Homemade Christmas cake
• Chocolate Yule log

Breakfast after presents: airfryer croissants, tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

Appetiser: smoked salmon on my soft malty brown bread
First course: Giovanni Rana tortellini in chicken broth (made/frozen on Monday, must transfer to fridge when I finish this post!)
Main: smoked gammon in bread dough crust (local speciality) with horseradish sauce.
Veg: mash, roasties, sprouts with bacon, garlic butter cabbage, carrots, green beans, mixed salad.
Dessert: Panettone, all sorts of nuts and dried fruit, posh vanilla ice cream with crushed cantuccini and vin santo.

On Boxing Day we’ll have leftover ham, leftover vegetable hash and English nursery trifle.