Or is dp about Xmas dinner?

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Basically none of us are particularly fond of turkey.
Dp says we could have anything, we don't have to have a toast at all we could just have sausage mash and beans or pizza and chips or spag bowl with garlic bread.
Me I would prefer a roast I dont mind if it was just chicken. I wouldn't need every single trimmings though.
Idealy I would like
Meat
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Rice
Veg (not fussed if it was frozen mixed veg)
Yorkies and gravy
Which is a lot less from other years - we would have all above plus
Pigs in blankets
Roast carrots
Roast parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Broccoli

I understand (like every year) its just us 4. Me and dp, DC who are 1 and 3 and are obv keen eaters, plus ds who is 3 is really understanding Xmas - meals included!

I know everyone's different but chopped frozen veg for christmas dinner???? What about the delights of all the wonderful seasonal winter veg? Whoever, said that must hate vegetables!
As for a pasta bake ready meal for christmas lunch, I'm in shock! I can't even eat one of those on an ordinary day.

YABVU to refer to it as Spag Bowl...

A roast without Yorkshires would be devastating to me - they're my favourite part! Who cares if it's traditional to only serve them with beef 😂

The OP has now started another thread saying anyone who doesn’t know rice can go with a roast dinner is uneducated about culture.

To answer the question - your dp seems to be saying he doesn’t mind what you have for Christmas Dinner - I don’t think that is a particularly unreasonable thing for him to say. Presumably, if he is happy to have anything, he will be happy with the things you think make up a proper dinner - sounds pretty reasonable to me.

He/She who cooks, chooses.

Proviso is that if the cook chooses to go all out after the non-cook says 'Oh, don't bother with it if you don't want to do all that work', then the cook should not whinge nor complain about it.

My DH is carabeain also. Neither him or any of his fam put r

Urgh- Caribbean and poster to soon.
Him and none of his fam would ever do this, never heard that one

Tell me its cranberry rice?

“I usually have a Quorn Lasagna or Pasta Bake ready meal for Christmas Dinner. Or sometimes scampi with microwave Uncle Ben rice.“

I could weep.

I always have rice with spag bol as I prefer it to Pasta

spag bol thats what im having

But Jenasaurus that's rice bol

Don't forget the cheesy potatoes!

Yorkshire puddings should only be served with beef, at a push pork but never with Turkey or chicken!

Who made you the Head of the Yorkshire Pudding Police?

flobella I don't like turkey or roast chicken or pork or beef. I don't like roast potatoes. I don't like Yorkshire Pudding. Or gravy. Or stuffing. Or sprouts. Or cooked veg like carrots and what not. That's why I have the ready meal. It's to make it easier for the chef (my husband) because he is cooking and normal stuff for everyone else. I don't see the point of eating food you don't like. I would make a homemade lasagna if the rest of the family would eat it. But they wouldn't.

My Caribbean-rooted family would do:
Spiced beef (big piece of topside marinated in spices, then slow slow braised)
Rice'n'Peas
Plantain
'Dry food' - maybe roast bread fruit etc
Roast sweet potato, maybe yam
Maybe cho cho / callalloo

Gorgeous!

But the gravy would be from the beef and it would be spicy - more like a thin curry sauce, so goes on the rice. Not Bisto or posh home made 'roast beef' gravy.

@Ginkythefangedhellpigofdoom cheesy potatoes? Please tell me more!

Rice?!

It's basically potato gratin but instead of cream etc you use cheese sauce, which is sooo much nicer than traditional gratin!

The top goes lovely and crispy and underneath is all saucy and cheesy

It's also really lovely warmed up the next day for dinner (with all the Xmas day leftover roasties and veg etc)

My dad used to do it so for me it reminds me of childhood, and is a completely normal side to a roast but my stepkids and dp thought it was weird the first year we had Christmas together but now are very upset if it's not on the Christmas dinner menu.

I love rice with a roast...
I'm not from the Caribbean

The joint sounds great but what are you having with your peas and potatoes?

Fillet of beef here with Yorkshires.

You can eat whatever you want at Christmas! The best dinner I had was about four years ago. Heavily pregnant and we had a big breakfast and no way was there room for a dinner, so we thought fuck it and shared a pizza out of the freezer. I do think there is a view that it’s cgristnas so you should have a Christmas dinner (whatever that looks like for you), but to be honest just do what you want and eat what you want.

@VenusInSpurs your spiced beef sounds lovely, please do you have a recipe to share?

Thanks Ginky, sounds nice!