What are ‘all the trimmings’?

[HurricaneZeldaAndToto]

After a slightly disappointing Christmas dinner at a relative’s house, I wondered if my idea of ‘all the trimmings’ was massively out of whack with the rest of the world?

If you did turkey dinner ‘with all the trimmings’ what did you serve?

AIBU to suspect this means very different things to different people?

It's a bloody ick that's what! Hate that phrase 🤢

We had:

2 types of sausage meat stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Spring greens
Sprouts with bacon
Mashed carrot and swede
Honey roast parsnips and carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshires (don't care, so don't bother)
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy

Turkey, glazed ham, roasties, mash, pigs in blankets, sausagemeat stuffing, carrots/sprouts/parsnips, cauliflower cheese, turkey gravy, cranberry sauce, peas.

The basics are turkey/other meat/veggie alternative, roast potatoes, veg inc sprouts, then all the trimmings are pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce, bread sauce, stuffing and gravy.

Pigs in blankets
Broccoli
Mash
Peas
Carrots
Roast potatoes
Cauliflower cheese
Parsnips
Green beans
Stuffing balls
Yorkshire puddings
Gravy
Cranberry sauce
Mint sauce
Bread sauce
Sprouts

Meat is:
Ham
Beef
Chicken
Turkey

I don’t host but this is what both MIL and my own mum did Christmas this year.

Nevermind your Yorkshire’s and mash! Those are delish but for other meals!

Yes I agree, although people can have whatever they want and they are lush, but they're not part of the traditional Christmas meal..

Trimmings are the pigs and the stuffing the cranberry and bread sauces (with yorkshire pudding having made an unexpected arrival of late in some households)
Roast potatoes, Parsnips, Carrots, red cabbage, Sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, peas and cauliflower cheese are all Vegetable Sides. Not Trimmings.

Roast potatoes
Stuffing (at least 2 types)
Pigs in blankets
Sprouts
Mashed carrot and sweede
Gravy
Roast parsnips

Turkey
Ham (pressure cooked on Christmas Eve in apple juice with lots of spices, there would be mutiny if this exact ham was missing from Christmas dinner)
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes (always duck fat with a sprinkle of semolina for crunchiness)
Stuffing x2 (one pork-based, one not)
Gravy
Honey roast carrots and parsnips
Braised red cabbage
Cauli & broccoli cheese
Cranberry sauce

When I was a child my mum always did marrowfat peas, the type that come dried in a box and you have to soak them overnight. No idea why she associated them with Christmas and she never made them any other time.

For us - with turkey...
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Roast sweet potato
Brussels sprouts
Carrots
Chestnut stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Gravy (pints and pints of it!)

DH likes packet sage and onion stuffing so sometimes I will do some of that as well, but it doesn't count as 'all the trimmings'. NEVER Yorkshire puddings.

I'm in total awe of the effort and skills on this thread!😮
It sort of explains the underwhelmed faces of my family this Christmas dinner.
I need to up my game (or let someone else cook) next year!

Croquettes was surreal! Unless the cook was five years old?

Plus parsnips in with roast potatoes

I find this pronouncement that yorkshires and mash are not traditional Christmas fayre really odd. I grew up always having both at Christmas from the 80s onwards and according to my gran pigs in blankets are a much more recent addition to the Christmas plate as she doesn't remember ever having them as a child, but mash potato was in the plate.

I REPEAT I WILL FIGHT TO THE DEATH ANYNE WHO DISAGREES WITH YORKIES ON A CHRISTMAS DINNER.

Ffs what's the matter with you all? Where's your Christmas Spirit? Bloody heathens, the lot of you!!

On the table we had the following, not everyone had some of everything as some things were to cater to taste/dietary requirements:

roast turkey
roast honeyed ham
roast potatoes
roast carrots and parsnips
mashed potato
sprouts
broccoli
two types of sausage meat stuffing
pigs in blankets
cauliflower cheese
yorkshire puddings
gravy obviously!

i think we do more than the norm if I’m honest 🙈

edited to add gravy and also I’ve read some more comments and realised we’re about normal so I feel better about that!

We had:

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing with sage and onion
Roast spuds
Carrots
Leeks
Broccoli
Roast parsnips
Sprouts with pancetta, shallots and sherry
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkies (I would prefer to give these a miss as for me they go with roast beef but OH and the kids really like them)
Cranberry sauce
Bread Sauce
Gravy

I’ve done a fair few Xmas dinners over the years and this is pretty much what I’ve done every time, though the veg selection can vary. I’ve previously done carrot and swede mash and red cabbage for example. Also I would normally do plain cauliflower but my SIL made the cauli cheese- it was absolutely banging.

I know it seems to be traditional in some regions but I’m really not on board with more than one type of potato. I LOVE potatoes but roasties + mash (and sometimes apparently croquettes too) would just leave me with less stomach space for everything else and I want to eat a bit of everything!

Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Sprouts, chestnuts, pancetta
Roast carrots and parsnips
Carrot mash with garlic and parsley butter
Braised red cabbage
Green beans
Yorkshire puddings
Gravy

potatoes, roasted carrots, Brussels, gravy, maybe another veg or 2.we don’t really eat stuffing so don’t bother with it

Roast Potatoes
Roast parsnips
Sprouts & chestnuts
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Roast carrots
Pigs in blankets
Gravy
Horseradish
Mustard
Yorkshire pudding

We had beef instead of turkey though

My mum’s Christmas dinner:

Roast bird (duck or guinea fowl)
Roast belly pork
Carrots
cauliflower
Peas/green beans/greens of some sort
Sprouts
Pork based stuffing
Applesauce
Gravy
Roasties (many!!)

My MIL’s Christmas dinner

Roast goose
Red cabbage
Carrots
Green beans
Roast parsnips
Sprouts with chestnuts
Two types of stuffing
Gravy
Roasties

No pigs in blankets but always sausage rolls in the morning before the big meal

Never any bread sauce, Yorkshire pud (that is for beef) mash or croquettes. Definitely no cauliflower cheese!

but mash potato was in the plate.

Everyone has their own traditions I suppose....

we had:
Chicken crown with bacon and stuffing
Extra pork stuffing
Glazed ham
pigs in blankets
quorn cocktail sausages
veggie haggis
pastry veggie thing from aldi (wish i hadn't bothered, it was rank)
veggie stuffing balls
roast pots
roast sweet pots
roast parsnips
roast leeks
roast peppers
steamed broccoli
steamed carrots
steamed sprouts
red cabbage
yorkies
chicken gravy
onion gravy
cranberry sauce
Pudding was a choice of christmas cake, christmas pudding, mince pies, christmas cupcakes or chocolate and orange trifle. With cream or baileys cream.

Made the most fantastic bubble and squeek on boxing day. Used up the last of the roast potatoes in a spanish omelette for tea tonight too.

OMG, I’m genuinely shocked at the amounts of food listed here.
I used to do similar many, many years ago but so much was left over I have completely streamlined and I’m a keen cook.

Stuffed turkey crown the size of a small dog.
Roast potatoes
Cabbage - either green or red
Sauteed, spiced brussels in maple syrup
Pigs in blankets
Gravy
Perhaps some homemade bread sauce

We don’t like Christmas pudding, so either homemade Yule log or our special layered jelly that the children make.
Homemade mince pies for later.

That’s it.
Two types of potato?! Wowzers 🙃

Beef and nut roast
Roast spuds
Roast parsnips
Sprouts
Carrots
Bread sauce
Gravy - beef and veggie
Stuffing balls
Braised red cabbage
Roast beetroot
Roast onions
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire puds (Aunt Bessie's)
Horse radish sauce

The troops voted against mash.