Christmas Day meal

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Do people still cook a roast on the day? yang

Or do more and more people cook something else? tabu

Id like to have a curry or a red wine casserole but my dd2 loves a roast dinner so I cook one each year and do the other dishes around xmas day. It is just the two of us and I do love cooking, so its not a chore and I prepare everything before hand.

Thinking this year I may get some ready prepared stuff from M&S. Oh and we never have turkey, but lamb or chicken - with all the trimmings though

I cook a roast in Xmas eve and we have the leftovers on Xmas day. They’re the best bit! Love bubble and squeak.
we don’t have turkey though, usually pork belly or slow cooker beef

We always have the trad dinner, I would be very upset if we didn’t! I had goose once at someone else’s house.. and my mum once went on strike and cooked ratatouille (?!)

I know quite a few people who buy in, they seem to like Cook better than M and S

Yes we have toast turkey but I cook it on Xmas eve.

I think things are what you make them and I think Xmas roast is special because we serve it on different plates and dress the table etc.

However we have a fabulous levanter near us which is amazing quality and obviously extremely pricey.
I would considered this one year.. However we don't really do many roasts anyway so it is special for us to have one. But we buy red cabbage, pigs in blankets and gravy.

Yang

I usually do a turkey at some point over the festive period, but not always on the 25th. Last year I cooked it the weekend before and we had the roast when everyone could be there. It was great eating the leftovers and watching all the Christmas movies in the run up! Then Christmas Eve we had lamb chops (I hosted my friend and they’re her favourite) then it was just me and ds on Christmas Day itself and we made Korean fried chicken.

This is fabulous

I’m a traditionalist, Christmas just isn’t right without a roast. All my family are going for a curry, I’ve declined to join as curry just isn’t right on Christmas Day and we normally order one on Christmas Eve.

We have roast turkey with all the trimmings. It's the only time of year we have it - we have a roast fairly often, but always beef, chicken, lamb or gammon, never turkey. Each to their own of course, but to me a traditional meal is a huge part of Christmas Day!

Traditional here. We don’t do many roasts through the year though so it’s still got that novel Christmas feel.

We used to love going to our local curry house on Christmas Day - they would do their usual menu but with extras and home-made desserts. Fantastic. My Dad came one year after my Mum died, for what turned out to be his last Christmas, and loved it.

These days we seem to be obliged to host my in-laws every year, who had a bad experience with a korma in 1974 (this is absolutely true, I wish I was making it up) and so will not entertain curry under any circumstances. My MIL, being rather prone to hyperbole, has proclaimed that she would rather starve than eat it.

So these days it's a turkey crown and all the usual things to go with. Oh well.

I've always thought of myself as a liberal before this thread - Christmas means a roast and I'd die on this sword.

I made my oh make me Christmas roast when we were isolating for COVID and I don't even eat meat it was Quorn - what a lucky guy he is!

We have just finished our dinner (Sunday roast cooked by me) and I asked everyone how they would feel about getting a takeaway this year for Christmas dinner.
It was a unanimous yes!!!
Is your cooking that bad!?!?!?😁

We do a Christmas dinner between Christmas and New Year when all the children are here. DH and I have had a seafood platter the last few years, brown crab, lobster, clams, mussels, scallops and langoustine normally followed by a cheeseboard for the rest of the night. We have a roast every Sunday.

Traditional roast turkey. Wouldn't feel like Christmas without it. We all love it including the kids. Don't have roasts that often so it does feel special, especially with extra trimmings like pigs in blankets and chestnut stuffing.

We have what we want. Traditional xmas meal isn't any good for us as me and DS are coeliac and vegetarian and DiL is vegetarian and allergic to milk and eggs so finding something festive we can all eat is a nightmare.

Xmas is about what brings you joy and happiness so eat what you love!

We don't have a roast at all in December and wait until Xmas day with all the extra trimmings
We do go m&s for starters and desserts

I love a good trad Xmas dinner. We cook one on Xmas day and have the in laws round for it, then go for another on Boxing Day at my mother's. We lived away for a good few years and even when it was just me and DH we still went the whole hog. I'm head chef and deal with timings, trimmings, table, gravy etc, DH is in charge of turkey and roasties. Much as I love a takeaway, I just could not do one on Xmas day.

We love the traditional Christmas Dinner. Just not on Christmas day. When our DDs were baby/toddler, we realised we wanted to spend the day together not cooking. We often BBQ as its sociable.

We do the roast another day.

Do people still cook a roast on the day? yang
Or do more and more people cook something else? tabu

Wut?

Last year we had steak.
This year I’m ordering a Beef Wellington from our local Butcher. 40 mins in the oven and some nice veg and potato dolphinose and that’s it.

We all like the traditional turkey roast with some gammon and all the trimmings. But I also don't want to spend all day in the kitchen on Xmas day.

So we cook the turkey and gammon on Xmas Eve, and we have a take away for dinner on Xmas Eve. It's quite nice because the lovely smell of roast turkey makes us all feel quite festive. We usually carve a bit too and munch some for a bit of supper.

Then on Xmas day I am just doing "the trimmings".

how can you bin a roast 😮a lot of it will keep for a few days or freeze it

We got the Cook’s Christmas bundle a couple of years ago. Never again. Completely tasteless. Portions were tiny, considering the cost

We were so disappointed that we went straight to M&S when it reopened, bought as much Christmas dinner stuff as they had left and done it all again to make up for it

We have roast turkey on Christmas day and left over turkey curry on boxing day