Christmas menu ideas!

[Averyshinynose]

Not done the food shop yet, not a fan of Turkey and since it’s only the three of us, I might go with something different. Is it normal to have a ham for Christmas Day? Do you have the usual potatoes, veg & gravy with it? Either going for that or roast beef.
My loose plan is this:

Xmas Eve

Carpet picnic with lots of sharing bits and dips

Xmas Breakfast

Crumpets with roulade and smoked salmon
Cinnamon rolls
Mimosa & baileys coffee
Chocolates

Starter (sort of )

Garlic mushrooms
Pigs in blankets

Lunch

Ham lunch with potatoes, veg etc

Dessert

Chocolate log/nice dessert
Cheese & biscuits
Heroes/mixed chocolates

Please give me your ideas/menus

@Kseniya mimosa, as a drink, is just orange juice and champagne/sparkling. It's to make it sound posher not like vodka and OJ😁

Brekkie: pastries for me, cheese on toast for DH

Starter: prawn cocktails (without prawns for me) or tomato soup

Main: ham, pigs in blankets, roasties, mash, yorkshires, roast parsnips, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, gravy, mint sauce. (Without meat for me, cba with alternative option)

Pud: Christmas pudding or yule log

I have cut back massively this year as I always plan so much food that I forget to make some of it, or make it and then don't serve it There are only 3 of us as well.

Breakfast: bacon rolls

Starter: cancelled

Main: Goose, roast winter veg, green veg NOT sprouts as no-one likes them, apple and prune stuffing, red cabbage.
Cranberry sauce - cancelled
Pigs in blankets - cancelled as got forgotten too many years, either not cooked in the stress or walk back in the kitchen full up and we discover a plate of them going cold.

Dessert: Christmas pudding

Will leave dead easy Boxing Day of Ham + leftover veg. Sorted.

We don't like turkey so we never have it for Christmas lunch. Just DD and me now so we have,
Vegetable and Lentil Soup

Chicken Breast or Roast Beef
Roast Tatties
Skirlie
Yorkshire Puddings
Carrots
Petit Pois
Green Beans
Gravy

For pudding we usually have Sticky Toffee Pudding, with custard for DD, without for me.

@Kseniya Sorry, like a Buck’s Fizz 💓

Breakfast:
Pastries, scrambled eggs, bacon and fruit.

Christmas lunch : KFC

Evening: breads cheese and some buffet bits.

No one in our house particularly likes roast dinner so we’re having takeaway. It was Chinese last year the kids have picked KFC this year

The secret is... Chill. The food will be there. That's it. 😁 And if anyone has a problem and runs their mouth, we might eat them too

That is definitely good advice!

We don’t have turkey. Because it’s crap.

This year my mum is bringing a steak and ale casserole and I’m cooking cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes, vegetables and probably Yorkshire puddings as they’re delicious and I don’t care that they don’t ‘go’.

I’m vegetarian so will just skip the meat bit.

Dessert is Christmas pudding & brandy cream. I don’t like this so also making a pecan pie cheesecake.

And a cheeseboard.

In Denmark we have pork roast with crackling. So I definitely recommend that over the turkey 🐷😋

@GiBlues did you know KFC is almost the traditional Christmas lunch in Japan? When I saw your post I thought you must be Japanese before I read the reason properly!

I'm catering for three of us, over five days - my menu plan looks like this:

Weds 23rd:

Cocktails and canapes

Mini sausages
Sausage rolls
Camembert and cranberry filo parcels
Cheese straws
Cheese gougeres
Cheese and pineapple on sticks
Salami
Smoked mackerel paté

Christmas Eve:

Full Irish breakfast

Kedgeree

Christmas Day:

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, soda bread

Bird (duck x 2), ham, stuffing, pigs in blankets, parsnips, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce

Ice cream and boozy fruit

Port and Stilton

Cheeseboard, biscuits, grapes, apples, paté, pickles, Christmas cake

St Stephen's Day:

Bacon butties

Turkey, ham, salad, mashed potatoes, pickled walnuts, cranberry sauce

Mince pies and custard/brandy cream

Sun 27th:

Eggs benedict

Steak and chips

Chocolate fondue

Mon 28th

Pain au chocolat

Chicken curry

[quote SchrodingersImmigrant]@Kseniya mimosa, as a drink, is just orange juice and champagne/sparkling. It's to make it sound posher not like vodka and OJ😁[/quote]
Great, thanks! I'll know)

[quote Averyshinynose]@Kseniya Sorry, like a Buck’s Fizz 💓[/quote]
Thank you!

@Kseniya I didn't either and must say that I was greatly disappear when I fiund out what it is😂 I had images of some amazing cocktail in mind, not something I used to drink regularly😂

@Cavagirl I didn’t know that, they’re definitely on to something there, it’s a lot more relaxed in our house without having to cook a full on roast dinner

@InTheDrunkTank OMG! Sounds amazing, can I come to yours 😂

[quote SchrodingersImmigrant]@Kseniya I didn't either and must say that I was greatly disappear when I fiund out what it is😂 I had images of some amazing cocktail in mind, not something I used to drink regularly😂[/quote]
yees

Oh my god I've just realised that horrible typos. Greatly disappointed...found... Seriously, Shrodiners... Seriously 😂