Christmas Eve.

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What do you do and what do you eat/cook?

Especially after ideas for what to cook/eat?

We eat the Christmas ham with spiced red cabbage and dhal.

DC will put their stockings out etc and go to bed. I won't be able to drink as about 11 I'll be driving out to Midnight Mass, the best bit of Christmas for me. A very late drink and mince pie when I get home about 1am.

@DappledThings Do you make the ham yourself? Lots of people have mentioned having a ham

I spend a little time prepping food for Christmas day - making braised red cabbage, parboiling spuds etc. We always have fish for lunch, probably fish tacos this year as nice and light. We go to the crib service at tea time - we're committed atheists, but when in Rome and all that, plus I like a sing. Home for a very much not home made brown buffet and board games.

@TheTurn0fTheScrew Whats in the brown buffet?

DH does. He boils it in ginger beer and some other spices. Not sure what else. I don't get involved in cooking generally.

We always get a takeaway, drink, & play games. There's so much cooking on Christmas Day all we can be bothered with is a Chinese!

We do pork and stuffing rolls with apple sauce

I usually eat pizza! 😂

Christmas Eve has been prepping Christmas dinner day for me as my DM did the same. Peel and chop all veg, get the cranberry and bread sauce (that I’ll have made a few days before ) out of the freezer.
Wrap any pressies that aren’t done, lay the table for dinner the next day etc.
Christmas Eve night would be a non festive food so maybe a curry or some M&S Chinese bits and bobs and champagne.

We are having pulled pork baguettes and salad this year

We are spending the Xmas with my family abroad so 24th is the main day with presents etc in the evening. We are having a Xmas ham which one can buy either as a roll (precooked) or a bigger one cooked in the oven at home. We will be having rice porridge, cold smoked salmon and Xmas pastries and gingerbread.

That sounds nice @Wellhellooooodear . Why not turn them in to Vietnamese bahn mi? Delish!

Party food that you bung in the oven.

I always do a picky tea. I make a Christmas ham so we have that sliced cold, homemade sausage rolls, a Camembert, crusty bread and a couple m&s party food bits.

We go to Nandos

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bahn_mi_52432/amp
might do these @Wellhellooooodear

Brown buffet= lots of terrible things in pastry or breadcrumbs from the freezer/chiller section. I cook Christmas dinner from scratch including canapes, puddings etc, but if I'm totally honest I'm more into the frozen vol au vents the night before.

Curry!

Chinese food - the one time a year I try not to over-order so we don’t have too many leftovers! In terms of things to do, we’re prepping stuff for Christmas Day, maybe watching a film and/or going for a walk, and midnight mass.

Ditto.

We're usually at friends on Christmas Eve so I don't cook. They always do jacket potatoes with various toppings - nothing fancy, just cheese, beans, chilli etc.

Even if we don't go over, I keep Christmas Eve dinner as easy as possible.

We would always have fish, usually salmon. I think it's an Catholic thing, also a contrast to the meat that's always served on Xmas Day.

Fish of some kind. No idea why, mum sees it as a tradition. When my parents had a cat, it would go ape at being shut out of the kitchen.

Some sort of take away is our tradition and has been since I was little

We get a takeout (usually Nando’s as everyone likes it), I prep some veggies and salads to add. It’s an easy evening for us. On Xmas day we have lunch with extended family, this year we host. I’ve preordered some things and will cook some.