A Christmas dinner should not include ......

[WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid]

Mushy peas.

I know I'm right on this and dh is a loon. He wants mushy peas with Christmas dinner!

That's just all kinds of wrong.

YABU!! We always have mushy peas with Xmas dinner - love them

Peas are just wrong full stop.

In fact any round vegetable needs to do one - beans, sweet corn, sprouts etc -> I'm looking at you!

Roasted parsnips and carrots with mashed suede a your roast dinner friends. Along with yorkshires. Why can't you have them with Xmas dinner?

Although according to my mum aunt Bessie is making Xmas dinner this year (she started chemo weds but insisting on making dinner still) so I'm guessing this year could be the year "anything goes"

I have a vivid memory of my very lovely aunt serving us shell shaped pasta, with chicken, in a sweet chilli sauce. It was SO WRONG.

Not for Xmas, mind - but still! Also, your DH is clearly wrong and a menace to Christmas tables everywhere.

Should add I'm also Welsh, looks like it's a Wales thing?

Mushy peas? Too right. Also Yorkshires, but not crispy ones, oh no. Big, thick, stodgy slabs of the stuff. Roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, stuffing and red cabbage.

No turkey because we're vegetarian and meat's yuk, so possibly Quorn roast. No alcohol either because I don't like the taste. So I'm guessing no one would want to come to mine for Christmas dinner .

No-one's brought up broccoli cheese! The superior cousin of cauli cheese.

Sprouts - bad memories from boarding school when I found a maggot in one, and when the dinner lady saw it left on my plate, she told me to eat around the maggot! (we had to eat everything on the plate, napkins were our friend) I quite like them now, as long as they're shredded, sauteed with bacon and chestnuts, then flambéed in a little sherry.

Bread sauce - never tried it, and I never will. Just sounds horrendous.

Turkey, as far as I'm concerned, it only belongs in a sarnie with loads of mayo and ham. Never cooked one, never will. Whenever I've made Christmas dinner it's always a sirloin beef joint, and you get all the delicious marmitey caramelised cooking juices to make a delicious red wine gravy.

Mushy peas- no. Nor yorkshire puds, which seem to appear on all roast dinners these days.

You could get a small tin and no one else need to eat them.

I think people should have what they want, host willing. It's a celebration meal 😊

Friends are hosting this year. The DH will cook (thankfully! 😬) with 'her indoors' ordering drinks, snacks, photos taken, kids toys assisted with, slippers brought etc etc and he will oblige. He really is a doormat he really is lovely. I do my best to help, but he prefers to be left alone in the kitchen.

Anyway, I am pretty sure we will be having

Turkey & pigs in blankets (nor for me though, I'm veggie)

Honey roasted parsnips
This year's experimental carrots
Exceptionally good roast potatoes
Cabbage
Yorkshire puddings
Stuffing (cooked separately to the turkey).
Gravy (Bisto - which is veggie)

But I'd happily have mushy peas, cauli cheese or anything else!

Then probably fancy ice cream or profiteroles

Then an evening full of snacks...

Yum.

Boxing Day morning they have a huge fry up while I'm still reeling from Christmas Day 😁

Seahorses. That depends...am I allowed to bring alcohol?

Other than that it sounds bloody good!

We don't even eat turkey on Christmas day! DH and DD have roast beef with yorkshire puddings and all the trimmings - I eat lobster thermidor with vegetables and new postatoes (and will probably have a yorkshire pudding and veggie gravy at some point)! Its Christmas - eat what you fancy.

No mushy peas (only with fish or faggots)
No cauliflower cheese (only with sausages or lardons)
No mash (only with sausages or pies)
No onion rings (WTF?)
No Yorkshire Pudding (only for Roast Beef)

Gavel

Mind, we are a bit boring:

turkey or goose, with PIB's, stuffing. bread sauce, cranberry, gravy
Roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots, red cabbage, sprouts.

Gammon for Xmas Eve with new potatoes and salad.
Leftover Ham and charcuterie and cheeses for Boxing Day.

Mmmm, lobster thermidor! Why do no restaurants offer this delicious food any more? It's the food equivalent to a Pina Colada - retro and delicious.

In fact, I would love that as a meal, the Pina Colada as dessert.

I thought you were going to say "Yorkshire Pudding", and I was prepared to fight you to the death.

But mushy peas - absolutely agree with you - not on a Christmas dinner.

I do like mushy peas, but they are only permissible with fish, chips , bread and butter and a pickled onion.

Otherwise, no.

Stand proud Randytortoise. Lift up your head!

Yorkshire puddings are the Food of Angels and permissible with every gravy meal (and IMHO should be mandatory)

I mostly agree with Silk

But Onion rings are for burgers

We're having roast goose
Spiced apple sauce
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Rainbow carrots
Sprouts with chestnuts
Red cabbage
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Bread sauce

Christmas pudding and brandy sauce or cream, sherry trifle, mince pies

Cheese, biscuits, celery and grapes

Boxing Day is glazed ham, jackets, cauli cheese + leftovers
Chocolate roulade

Hmm not understanding the anti yorkshires vibe. In my house if you make gravy then its only right to pour it on a yorkshire. We have turkey and beef, yorkshires, peas, cauli, broccoli, cabbage swede and carrot, sweetcorn. Roasties, mash, sausage in bacon and stuffing. Also something my Gran always made, sliced cucumber and onion in vinegar

And we are having indian takeaway boxing day 😊

CharlieSierra can I come to yours pls? that sounds wonderful!

Yes, proper homemade onion rings with burgers are very good.

And my children will eat Yorkshire Pudding with anything
(and especially love Toad in the Hole as a midweek supper)

but it is amazing the range of things we all eat for Christmas Lunch!

Well one Christmas my Uncle was buying Fish and Chips for us and went into the shop and sang:

On the fifth day of Christmas I ordered for me:
Five portions of chips
Four battered cods
Three sausages
Two steak pies
And a potion of mushy peas.

And what did the chap behind the counter say:
"Certainly sir, and would you like salt and vinegar on the chips!"
Didn't even miss a beat.

Well, that's a first! It is weird though, everyones idea of Christmass dinner is differrent. I wouldn't put peas on Christmas dinner let alone mushy ones! On mine the veg are sprouts, roasted parsnips and spiced red cabbage. Other may find that as abhorrent as i find peas!

Sticky keyboard! Spellings all over the shop!