What is the ultimate Christmas food?

[Wasajollyhappysoul]

The one thing at Christmas that you really look forward to eating?

Mine is a plate of mixed cheese, biscuits/crackers and pickled onions on Christmas Day night…it’s the best!

It's funny how much effort we go to for the main meal but it's no one's favourite. But I guess necessary so that you can make the amazing leftovers sandwich.

I love roast turkey gravy and bread sauce @Oysterbabe just that I’m normally hot cheeked by the time I’ve cooked it so it always tastes better when not preceded by the effort of cooking it! 😀

I was thinking this too! For me, i think it's down to nostalgia. My mum's traditional food of my childhood isn't something I've been successful at recreating. So the standard roast, it's really nice but it will never hit that spot. But the things like the cheeseboard and leftover boxing day pie are new additions for me unspoilt by nostalgia.

Appeteasers.

Leftovers in a sandwich in the following days. You can put whatever decadent things you want into them, and you don't have to cook.

This is what I always think! I make the effort precisely for the leftovers: the hash the next day of all the leftover potatoes and vegetables – we add onions and crack eggs on top before baking, then hot sauce; the Christmas evening plate of cold stuffing, the last chipolata, cheese and biscuits, the pickled egg and cornichons; and the last wonderful sandwich of the season with lemony stuffing and turkey and mayonnaise and fancy French butter OH GOD I’M SO HUNGRY.

It all fits with my theory that the best day of the three is Christmas Eve (magic, anticipation and lebkuchen), then Boxing Day (fresh air, big walk, hash), and Christmas Day is the worst but has to happen to facilitate the best bits.

Bizarrely, I quite like the Christmas morning snacks during present-opening. My late MIL started this tradition and we recently resurrected it. Guacamole, salsa, nacho chips, crisps. Maybe a Baileys. Keeps people going until the main meal.

Leftover Turkey, brie and cranberry sauce quesadillas. Oh, and Boxing Day brunch of a kind of bubble and squeak made from all the bits of leftovers, served with a fried egg.

Port Salut😍

Dates.

A date with a slither of brightly coloured marzipan inside (left over from making marzipan fruits) or better still a single almond.

Only at Xmas. Transports me back to childhood Christmases.

But this year I haven't found those long packets of dates (Eat Me?) in the supermarkets.

I saw this post and immediately went to cheese. A lovely selection of French cheeses that we get from Borough Market in London. Can't wait for Xmas eve as that's when we start eating it.

Home made Christmas pudding sautéed/ poached in Armagnac butter with v cold clotted cream Delicieuse 👍🏿☘️

Chestnut stuffing, Bread sauce and cranberry sauce.

The potatoes after they've been chucked in with the bird, so they've been stewing with the meat juices... drool.
And pigs in blankets!

Terry's chocolate orange (original version).

Turkey. I love turkey

Oooh Christmas Day night I always have leftover pigs in blankets, stuffing balls and meat slices in front of the tv watching call the midwife!

Mmmm!

Bendick's Mingles

RIP

Recently got into cooking panettone in a frying pan. Sliced it into kind of chunks, put a little butter on the outside and fried it. It's a chocolate and almond panettone

So that. Probably the best thing I've ever eaten

A huge toblerone. DH buys me one every Christmas. It's one of the many, many reasons that I love him. 😁

My husband bought me Dates today from Sainsbury's 😋

@OneTC oh my god. I'm going to have to try that

Toss up between the ham and the cheese usually but this year I managed to get tar pickled herrings so they might top both of those.

Marzipan stuffed dates were always a new years eve food for me, delicious. Along with chocolate dipped cape gooseberries.

Cold gammon and Worcestershire sauce with toasted soft white bread with lots of real butter. That's our Boxing Day breakfast and takes me back to many happy childhood Christmases spent with family. I've tried having at at another time of the year, but it doesn't taste the same.