When to have pigs in blankets?

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I didn’t grow up eating these at Christmas, Dh did and Dd now likes them..and the dog 😁Last year, I did them sort of before Christmas dinner as little snacks, I’ve since read that people have them *With Christmas dinner? Is it on the same plate as Turkey, potatoes etc?
Also, do you have a starter? Growing up we had prawn cocktail (very 80’s?) and then my mum would do garlic mushrooms..Dh has never heard of giving garlic mushrooms as a starter or anyone else I know 😂I realise this is not a reason *Not to give them…but would they be better with Christmas Eve food? Dd wants a carpet picnic with crisps, dips, mini pork pies, mini sausage rolls, onion rings etc

As soon as they start to look chilly.

Arf! 🐖🐷🎄🎅

They’re also the only justification for bread sauce.

We have them on the plate with Christmas Dinner but one year family popped by in the morning to exchange presents so I did a load as nibbles with some cava. Went down a treat.

Every Sunday with our roast chicken!

I make them throughout the year, pigs in blankets are for life, not just for Christmas 😁

They weren’t something we usually had at Christmas, but it is traditional for them to be served with the turkey, sprouts, roast potatoes etc.

Make my own with streaky bacon and chipolatas also. Eat them cold with cheeses, peanuts, crackers, leftover turkey and anything else hanging around.

You eat pigs in blankets with the meal but also before it, after it, and at any time over the Christmas period.

As well as with the turkey, we usually have them as the basis for a 'full English' (for dinner) and in a toad in the hole. If I've 'accidentally' overbought we might also have them with roast potatoes and whatever veg is left.

I've always just had them with Christmas dinner (Turkey or chicken, gravy, cranberry sauce, plain steamed veg (carrots, peas, brussels sprouts), cauliflower cheese and/or parmesan parsnips, pigs in blankets or chipolatas, mincemeat stuffing, roast potatoes).

No starter (way too much food) and no pudding for quite a while afterwards...no Christmas pudding now (I'm the only one who likes it but it now gives me acid reflux so...no)

Oh now I want breaded mushrooms with garlic sauce but they don't do that kind of thing in this bastard country (not UK) sob

We usually have pate but teen has requested prawn cocktail this year

I didn't grow up with them either but now we have them with the dinner.
Im probably not doing starters but my mum did prawn cocktail too! Soup might be too filling. My mil used to do a salmon mousse thingy with crisped up pita bread.
I think of garlic mushrooms as a breakfast food (on toast) or light supper.

We have chipolatas wrapped in bacon with the turkey, ham etc. It used to be chipolatas and some people would do bacon rashers rolled up, and the two got merged at some point. Having chipolatas with turkey dates back a very long way.

We also always have prawn cocktail as our starter!

I think the correct questions is "when not to have pigs and blankets". The answer to which is never.

We serve them with turkey (and on the Christmas days I've been alone I've only had them plus stuffing balls and skipped the turkey entirely) and cook loads extra for sandwiches and snacking.

I'm also not averse to buying them to snack on at other times in December. I was ill last week and ate a lot of pigs in blankets and brie & cranberry tarts from the M&S party food section.

My family call pigs in blankets Kilted Sausages or Kilties. My mother might have been strange though.

We have them with the turkey main meal . We have them in crusty bread or sourdough rolls for breakfast . We have them in batches to pick at when sitting on the sofa with the dogs sharing them , one for you, one for you , one for you , one for me . Dogs love them too . We wash ours down with some bubbles the dogs don't .
There is never a wrong time for pigs in blankets

They go with the turkey but I had some the other day made into toad in the hole. Delicious.

Before turkey, with turkey, after turkey 😋

Definitely with dinner, no starter and then we eat them for tea in the evening also. I accidently ordered them twice this year so we'll be having pigs for a few days after. Definitely not sharing them with the dogs lol.

Any time. All the times. All the pigs in blankets!!!

In reality yeah we stick them on the table same time as Christmas dinner. That said whoever cooks them or happens to wander by will happily munch a few in the kitchen while the last bits are sorted and plated up. One year I did some with other little bits as a snack a couple hours before Christmas Dinner (honey glazed I think), and then of course approximately 1,000 to go with the dinner. Forget the turkey, I'm happy with all the usual trimmings, and the ps in bs. We do cocktail sausages - never understood why people do big sausages, small seem easier to be part of a dinner rather than the actual dinner (like sausage and mash iyswim)

Never seen the point in a Christmas starter. Can fit less dinner in if you've already filled some space with faffy stuff!

This but yes with your turkey potatoes etc!

What do you mean instead?! Pigs in blankets aren’t tiny hams.

I enjoy a homemade pig in blanket - sausage meat wrapped in streaky bacon. Easy to make and much nicer.

Pigs in blankets all day every day

We make them into a tOmato stew with veg and dumplings. Fry the pigs in the blanket off first so the bacons crispy then add into the stew so the sausages are tender