What are you having for christmas dinner - all the little special things you do?

[onceamai]

More of a what are you doing and being nosy but I think it's interesting to know what other people's family customs are:

We will have:

Xmas Eve: roast ham, broad beans and parsley sauce, carrots, roast potatoes. Mince pies and boozy cream (Ben and Jerry's for DS)

Xmas Day: smoked salmon and fizz after mass at about 11am.

Lunch at about 3.30pm - Turkey, chipolatas and bacon, bread sauce (home made because I like making it),my stuffing with some chopped onion, fresh sage, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and a lb of best sausages skinned, M&S Poultry gravy with some wine sloshed in, jar of cranberry sauce, sprouts, roasties, roast parsnips, runner beans (becasue grannie always froze the last picking for Christmas). Christmas Pudding and boozy cream, chocolate log for DS who hates Xmas pudding.

Boxing Day: Toast with Turkey dripping - only I have this but it evokes wonderful memories - everyone else thinks it's disgusting. Fried ham and eggs for everyone else.

For supper - (after racing) Cold Turkey and ham, lots of pickles in the pickle dish that only gets used at Christmas, roast potatoes and salad. Christmas Cake.

Am still hoping (the eternal optimist, me!) that we will make it out from Heathrow tomorrow, in which case we will be having our usual Christmas with my parents in Sweden:

Christmas Eve lunch (this is the Xmas meal as far as we are concerned): big buffet lunch with various types of pickled herring, herring gratins, ham, jellied calf, pickled beetroot, coleslaw, salad, home made rye bread, cheese, homemade soft cheese etc

Christmas Eve coffee: gingerbread and assortment of homemade biscuits and cake

Presents!!!

Christmas Eve supper- rice pudding with cinnamon and sugar

Christmas Day lunch: repeat of buffet

coffee: repeat

*Christmas Day dinner: nod to English connection here with turkey and stuffing and greens and a small pudding (eaten out of courtesy by my Swedish family and more enthusiastically by me)

Iceland platter for a fiver.

Sorry I stole that reply from this thread because it always makes me laugh. You might like it OP - lots of nice ideas there

I cannot believe people are discussing this!!!!

Seriously, are people really interested in what OTHER PEOPLE, strangers, even will be eating before , during , and after Christmas? I don't even care much (yet) what I will be eating.

If you are interested in my Christmas lunch, you are a much jollier , more good natured person than I am

Have I tipped fully over the edge into Grumpy Old Women Land??

Please will someone out there agree with me before the lynching begins?

Oh, and I will be having

No jasper, people aren't interested in what others are eating. They are, however, interested in telling everyone else what they are having That is why I people post on these threads, but rarely read all the other replies, IME.

Lol Jasper totally agree I am a grumpy personified. Christmas dinner is a glorified roast end of

Going to a restaurant Christmas Day for a 4course meal.....

Then coming home to drink socialise. Leaving all the washing up behind.

Michel McIntyres take on Christmas dinner is hilarious - WHY do people slap pureed bread on the side of their plates?

Busy, you are much cleverer than I am , and not so grumpy

myalias, thank you

I'll join in because (as usual) I am very excited about Christmas dinner

Don't do any special meal Christmas eve, especially as I am working. But we do all the reindeer food/ port for Santa/ carrot for Rudolph/ new pjs etc. Then, when the kids go to bed we sit up till midnight, assembling pressies and drinking wine. At midnight dad, DH and I will swap pressies (means on Christmas day it's all about the kids) and have a few drinks, do glittery footprints round the fireplace.

Christmas day will be mayhem! As far as dinner goes I am doing

starter: make my own pate every year, and if I didn't DH and Uncle would go in a huff, served with oatcakes and 2 chutneys

Fish course: doing a lobster, prawn and smoked salmon salad

Main: noone here likes turkey too much, and I baulk at the price and hate the leftovers, so will be doing Beef wellington again, with parmesan mash and baby roasties, red cabbage in cider, roast parsnips, sugar glazed carrots, green beans with bacon, hazelnuts and cream

Dessert: am making white chocolate cheesecake and have Christmas pudding

Usually eat the meal at a very leisurely pace, dc bugger off to play between courses, adults drink lots of wine

then cheeseboard and port

then (probably much later!) Christmas cake and coffee

this year I'm hoping my cousins will come over at night, and our neighbours sometimes do too, so crisps/ nibbles and yet more wine We might play triv and the cheese will probably make a reappearance at some point

It all sounds horribly indulgent written down like that!

I'm waiting to see if any men join in

I won't go through every course, but special things are:

• pasta broth for our starter;
• a Tower of Cheese;
• table decorated with chocolate coins all down the length of the tablecloth.

Could you fuck off to the Christmas topic please, OP?

The Christmas topic is ace, you get this sort of thing there

Being made out of cheap sausages makes the little baby Jesus cry.

YABU.

twila..NOOOOOOOOOO!

you are deffo being unreasonable eating special things on xmas day.

sorry but you did ask.

Christmas Eve- king prawn ceaser salad

Christmas Day Main Meal- hot peri peri prawns with lime chill dipping sauce and a smoked salmon salad with lots of horseradish

Turkey and Roast Ham, butchers sausages, roast veg

Christmas Pudding and Bread and Butter pudding with clotted cream, cointreau cream and reg double cream on the side.

Cheese Board

Home made crackers with personalised gifts inside.

Well, weather permitting and I can get to the butchers on Christmas Eve, we'll be having Lucas Hollweg's recipe of duck with clementines, cloves and cinnamon on Christmas day. Accompanied by sprouts, carrots, roast potatoes, yourkshire puddings and stuffing. Waitrose has sold out of pigs in blankets so I hope I can get some of those as well.

I don't usually like duck much, but tried it last year as I like turkey even less and it was amaaaazing!

For puds - Christmas pudding for the bloke and my dad, GU chocolate melt in the middle puds for my mum and me, and rasperry jelly terrine for the kids.

Don't really plan much menu wise for the days before and after, just Christmas Day and New Year's Eve. It's normally a buffet on Boxing Day,

Excited now!