What is actually in a Christmas dinner?

[Judelawissohandsome]

I can’t remember and need to make this year, what are the basics please?

Nut roast
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes
cauliflower cheese (vegan version)
yorkshire puds (vegan)
sprouts with chestnuts
roast parsnips with maple syrup and balasamic glaze
peas
carrots
cranberry sauce
gravy

Not going to lie, what is the point of this thread?! How on earth can you forget what goes in a Christmas dinner - surely it’s whatever elements your family likes to eat?!

Here, it’s chicken (not enough people to warrant a turkey), roast potatoes, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding, parsnips, Brussels and carrots. And lots of thick gravy.

Cranberry sauce, bread sauce, cauliflower cheese and mashed potatoes would not even be entertained as no-one likes them.

The favourite is lunch the next day - lightly toasted bread, spread with a bit of mayo, with remnants of most of the above sandwiched in between. Heaven!

I can’t believe I forgot the pigs in blankets.

We are having a prime rib, potatoes, sprouts, carrots, peas, gravy and rolls. Prefer yorkshires to rolls but I'll decide on the day.

Basically a Sunday roast and then add some extra veg and pigs in blankets.

And fancy the veg up so don't put turnips on, mash them with cream and crispy bacon.

Roast carrots and parsnips in honey.

Have a trip to your local carvery and see what they are doing.

I'm doing
Maple cola gammon
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roast tatties
Mash tatties
Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Roast Brussels sprouts
Yorkshire puds
Gravy
I ussually do brocoli and cauliflower cheese but I cba. I boil the gammon in cola then put in a huge roasting tin with the maple syrum and put the carrots and sprouts in the bottom so they cook in the juices.

It's basically a Sunday roast with pigs in blankets 😅 (and optional sprouts).

I wouldn't have a yorkshire but some people do.

I'd have cauliflower cheese rather than cauliflower (would with a Sunday roast too!)

But really a Christmas dinner is whatever you/ your family fancy and like the most. Ask 100 people what they'd have and you'll get 100 slightly different answers.

Strange thread. What are you trawling for OP?

Ours is:
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts
one or two other veg
chestnut stuffing
cranberry sauce
bread sauce
lots and lots of gravy
extra bacon from the top of the turkey
AND - if my daughters family are coming, a duck because they're not keen on turkey

This year I am making:

Beef Wellington
Chicken
Roast Potatoes
Mash Potatoes
Carrots
Peas
Cauliflower Cheese
Carrot and Swede Crush
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshire Pudding
Gravy

Whatever the fuck you like.
This year I'm having quality street and tequila.

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Turkey (although an emergency back up pork joint will also be purchased!)
Pigs in blankets
Roast potato
Swede mash
Roast parsnip and sweet potato
Sprouts
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
3x types of stuffing
Gravy
Christmas pudding and custard / white sauce/ brandy butter

The for dinner a Christmas sandwich.

Turkey
Roast potatoes
Honey glazed carrots
Parsnips
Apricot and almond stuffing
Stuffing balls
Pigs in blankets
Prunes with bacon wrapped round them
Brussels sprouts

For me the essentials are
Turkey
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Cranberry sauce
Sprouts
Carrots parsnips

I will add- cauli cheese, greens

Have you got room for one more at your place?

It's stodgy, not a liquid, so it doesn't run together with the gravy.

@Neverknowinglysensible

Cauliflower Cheese is an abomination, and peas also have no place on a roast dinner…

You're wrong... steamed cauliflower is an abomination and doesn't have its place anyway, let alone in a Christmas dinner!

Because they're a bit shit compared to roast potatoes...

Prunes with bacon wrapped round them

Interesting!

Not going to lie, what is the point of this thread?! How on earth can you forget what goes in a Christmas dinner - surely it’s whatever elements your family likes to eat?!

Probably a lazy Daily Mail journo wanting a story on what makes a Christmas dinner these days....

What I do
generally no starters
I would do roast turkey with stuffing and pigs in blankets
roast potatoes and parsnips ( maybe carrots too)
brussels sprouts red cabbage
gravy cranberry sauce ( maybe bread sauce)
followed by Christmas pudding with custand and brandy butter

I don't like mash but DH 10 is a weirdo who doesn't like roast potatoes so I always buy a ready made one for him as I cba making it with all the other stuff on Christmas day!

*DS 10, not DH!

I agree! Just No.
I love a yorkshire but it is Not part of turkey christmas dinner.

Veg can vary but needs spouts, stuffing, pigs on blankets, bread sauce and cranberry sauce.