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

220 replies

WhenSheWasBadSheWasHorrid · 23/12/2016 10:05

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.

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Giddyaunt18 · 23/12/2016 18:22

Oh and I agree that yorkshire puds are for roast beef and not any other roast!

BigChocFrenzy · 23/12/2016 18:25

I'm having mushy peas tomorrow - Christmas Eve - with chilli.

Yorkshires absolutely belong with any roast (but not with the fillet steak I'll have for Christmas Day)

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MrsMattBomer · 23/12/2016 18:28

Get it up ye!

We definitely have them available at the table. We always had them on our dinners growing up, as did most of my friends.

Kintan · 23/12/2016 18:28

Aww if he wants them, let him have them!

CherryPie400 · 23/12/2016 18:29

Omg thats all kinds of wrong....Xmas Confused

MrsMattBomer · 23/12/2016 18:30

AmserGwin

We have them in Merseyside too! Although North Wales basically is just South Merseyside, isn't it? (I've been to places in Wales and ran into people I haven't seen in 20 years even though we live two streets away from each other!)

zukiecat · 23/12/2016 18:37

Mashed tatties are also the work of the devil

My Christmas dinner is usually chicken (though I prefer beef, but can't afford it)

Roast Tatties
Carrots
Peas (Not Mushy)
Yorkshire Puddings
Gravy
Skirling

Small Christmas Pud for me
Ice Cream for DD1
Trifle for DD2

HolidaySpiritsReinbeerAndWhine · 23/12/2016 18:37

Although North Wales basically is just South Merseyside, isn't it?

Shock

No! How rude Confused. It's like saying 'Isn't Mereseyside like Manchester with a dock?'.

Janey50 · 23/12/2016 18:38

Definitely no mushy peas with Christmas dinner or any dinner. What I don't get is the fashion for mashed potato with a roast dinner. Not instead of roast potatoes,but as well as. I am probably biased as I am not keen on mashed potato,but even if I was,I would still find it a bit odd. I always find going to someone's house for a roast dinner a bit of a 'revelation',in that I never know what they will serve! Apart from mashed potato,I have encountered red cabbage,cauliflower cheese, and roast dinners with NO STUFFING. Xmas Shock

Notso · 23/12/2016 18:44

No mushy peas although I can see the appeal of the marrowfat pea with a roast.
No Yorkshire puddings, I love them but they need beef gravy or at the very least a good onion gravy.
No onion rings wtactualf?!
No croquettes, PIL do these and they are weird as fuck with gravy.
Yes cauliflower cheese, I thought it sounded rancid until I tried it now it's a must.
Yes mashed potato. A roast without mashed potato is naked.

CharlieSierra · 23/12/2016 18:52

My Mum used to do mash and just a couple of pieces of roast potato when we were young, and the roasts were always done round the meat. Later on she started doing it like I do, just roasties cooked separately so they get a proper crispy outside. Stuffing would only be done with poultry or pork in my house. Red cabbage with belly pork, duck or goose as the acidity from the red wine vinegar goes with the rich fattier meat.

JustWoman · 23/12/2016 19:23

You would all hate Xmas dinner at my house. :)

I love mushy peas, not tinned ones, proper "soaky" peas. My lovely FIL makes them for me and tubs them up into individual little portions which I bang in freezer. Dh is cooking and will be putting them on my Xmas dinner dinner Xmas dinner. Dh prefers garden peas but as they are not the "treat" part for him he just has mushy. The pigs in blankets are his treat thing, which nobody else likes but when I'm cooking I'll make them for him.

As for mash, it's the staple of every roast dinner in this house, dh loves it and we have roasties too. Dd likes Turkey whereas dh and I wouldn't bother if it were just us, but we always get a small crown.

Dh is great at making gravy like my nana used to make and it has mushroom in. Yorkshire puddings are an absolute must for all of us too. It might sound like a lot of fuss but it's not our typical Sunday lunch and the extra little bits are things we don't usually have, as there's just three of us it's not that much extra faff. All leftovers are bunged into the pan with left over mash and mixed together for fry up.

id feel differently cooking for large amounts though, on the one occasion I tried it was absolutely impossible to keep everyone happy and almost cost a fortune as I bought three types of peas, steamed and boiled veg, all types of meat, two types of gravy etc etc. Fucking nightmare and never again :)

TheNaze73 · 23/12/2016 19:29

What is skirling????

Mashed potato on a Christmas dinner is as odd as mushy peas

zukiecat · 23/12/2016 19:35

Sorry TheNaze73

Autocorrect changed "Skirlie" to "Skirling"!

Skirlie is a traditional Scottish side of onions fried with oatmeal and salt and served with just about anything you want, though I keep it for roasts

It's absolutely delicious, and for me, the best part of having roast chicken

Whisky2014 · 23/12/2016 19:40

Yorkshire puddings. Honestly, the way folk bang on about them..i dont understand it.

user1471545174 · 23/12/2016 19:40

We have become real purists over the years. It's now ONLY:

Roast potatoes
Roast turkey
Brussels (from the stick)
Bread sauce
Gravy
Loads of stuffing.

I am trying to imagine a Christmas dinner compiled from this thread: mushy peas, onion rings, Hawaiian salad, sweetcorn and cauliflower cheese on a Yorkshire pud bed Grin

Whisky2014 · 23/12/2016 19:42

Zukie - i had a "festive pie" today from the butchers and it was AMAZING! Pie filled with roast chicken and a chipolata sausage with some gravy and topped with skirlie and cranberry jelly. Ooft! Skirlie is probably my fav part of the Christmas dinner! Nom nom nom

TheSlaughterOfHerodificado · 23/12/2016 20:17

Mashed potato is the BEST POTATO FORM OF ALL!!!!!!!

Buttery,smooth and with a hit of mustard - delicious!

TheSlaughterOfHerodificado · 23/12/2016 20:33

Yorkshire puddings. Honestly, the way folk bang on about them..i dont understand it

You are a very sick puppy, Whiskey

A very sick puppy indeed.

mejon · 23/12/2016 20:44

Mushy peas from a tin - no (but yes with fish & chips) but dried peas, soaked overnight as per PP with the steeping tablet of bicarb and cooked in that little net thing then yes please. I haven't had them for years but spotted the familiar green and red Leo box in Morrisons today. We always had them for Christmas dinner when I was growing up and often with a Sunday roast. DF is Valleys Welsh and most of our 'traditions' were what his DM used to do (including part cooking the gigantic turkey the night before and allowing to cool overnight in the oven before finishing it off the following morning - how none of us died of food poisoning I don't know!).

BestisWest - our cauli used to be mashed too Wink due to DF/DGM and the carrots chopped up into tiny pieces after they'd been cooked. I serve my veg as they come nowadays!

TheSlaughterOfHerodificado · 23/12/2016 20:45

Have looked up a skirlie recipe (simples!) and am going to try it. (It will make our third type of stuffing).

I shall report back!

We are having:

turkey crown (I like pork, but DH loves dry, flavourless meat turkey, so this is his treat)
Pigs inna blanket
sausage meat stuffing
sage 'n' onion stuffing
SKIRLIE!
mashed potatoes
roast potatoes
roast parsnips (the only way in which this hideous vegetable is even halfway palatable - I wouldn't feed them to cattle! DD likes them)
roast cauliflower
sprouts
spiced red cabbage
carrots (for the colour - they are a waste of space)
YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS
Gravy. Lots and lots of GRAVY!

NO cranberry sauce - I don't care who likes it, I do NOT eat jam with meat.

Starter - prawn cocktail (very 60's)

Pudding - plum crumble and custard or Viennetta (if anyone has room)

Drinks:
wine
schloer
lager
water (????)

I will stagger away from the table four stones heavier than I sat down to it. AND I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!!!!

MWHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAAAAAA Grin

Justontherightsideofnormal · 23/12/2016 21:04

Christmas dinner in our house is:
Turkey
Stuffing
Pigs and blankets (but not in them so sausages go crispy brown)
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Lashings of gravey
Batter puds
Anyone deviating from this is clearly needing sectioned Confused

BintyMcGinty · 23/12/2016 21:10

My SIL serves baked beans and mash with her Christmas dinner but she is vair common Xmas GrinXmas GrinXmas Grin

TheSlaughterOfHerodificado · 23/12/2016 21:14

Binty Baked beans are the food of Satan . . .

BintyMcGinty · 23/12/2016 21:16

They certainly are along with bananas and kiwi fruit bleurgh