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?

How are you so shocked when you used to do it yourself?

It entirely depends on the number of people there, and what’s the issue with two or three types of potatoes? People enjoy different types, so if you’ve got lots of people eating then why should everyone be stuck with just roast potatoes?

The basic roast would be turkey, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, brussels, stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce and gravy.

"All the trimmings" would add bacon and sausages/sausagemeat or if you want to combine them you'd have (so-called) pigs in blankets.

Plus crackers obviously cos it's Xmas.

I love the 'extraness' of a Christmas dinner because I have effectively not had to cook/think about cooking for almost a week. There are enough leftovers for all of us to have a variety of dinners that everyone can help themselves to - which is exactly why I cook as much as I do - because Christmas leftovers are the dinners of queens!

Tourists in the UK will make their way to Yorkshire for a night or two stopover. One of their aims is to try Yorkshire Pudding, the traditional way. And they lap it up.

We met a Swiss couple one Summer photographing our local church. They said they had refused Yorkshire Pudding in local pubs because they wanted to have it for the first time in Yorkshire.

The problem with trying to place Yorkshire Puddings on a Christmas Dinner is you dilute it. Then it doesn't get taken seriously. Like Crispy Duck Pud in Shanghai.

.... and pigs in blankets

Car park. Now. I'm not joking!

That was to @Karrak

"Sometimes roasties"??? After mash and croquettes???

I am triggered.

I believe you were trying to quote me or maybe you deliberately removed part of my comment. The part where I stated I am told the one I make is good. That’s just snarky.

I don’t like it. Don’t like the texture or the taste.

That’s allowed no matter how snotty you are trying to be. 🙄

Hang on. FOUR different meats for Christmas dinner!

Why so many? Were you feeding 30 people? 😳

What’s weird is that they’re French and the French don’t eat them for Christmas dinner. Why have they crept into the menu?

Haha no. My mum did turkey and beef. MIL does ham and chicken. Mum’s meal fed 20 of us. MILs was for 12. I would just have turkey if it was me as I don’t like the others much. Love a bit of turkey! Mum also did a veggie option as SIL is vegetarian.

It doesn’t! Croquettes have no place on a Christmas dinner plate. I don’t think mash does either, but I know I’ll be outnumbered on that one.

Other things that definitely don’t belong include peas, broccoli, cheese sauces of any kind. The idea is to really elevate the meal above your bog standard Sunday roast. Need to dream big people!!!!!

Educate me, Mumsnet- when should croquettes be eaten?

I don’t think I’ve had any since I was a child. I agree that they don’t belong on a Christmas dinner, but what are they allowed on?

With pizza, fish fingers, chicken nuggies. Accompanied by beans, peas or spaghetti hoops
Or on their own, rolled in copious amounts of salt and pepper.

In my house, they're served instead of potato smiles on the very rare occasion we have them

@Meowandthen I don't think that poster was trying to be unkind - I think she was just humorously jumping on that statement to be funny.

I really don't think it was a personal dig.

They’re nice with sausages.

We served parsnips, carrots, sprouts, chestnuts, cauliflower cheese, stuffing, bread sauce, gravy, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, red cabbage, 2 meat roasts and a vegetarian Wellington, horseradish, cranberry sauce and a partridge in a pear tree.

There were three of us and we had turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, caramelised sprouts fried with chestnuts and Parmesan, spiced carrots, two different stuffings, homemade turkey gravy and cranberry sauce.

Bread sauce is a running joke in our house, as DP and I were once discussing the Christmas things that we associated with the terribly middle-class children at school when were kids, and the two things we both immediately thought of were a) bread sauce and b) opening presents after lunch instead of first thing in the morning. Both completely alien to DP and I!

This must be a joke - potato with pizza or tinned spaghetti hoops??

They’re French originally and typically served with meat fillet or a hearty casserole.

Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Peas
Carrots
Brusell sprouts
Roast parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Pigs with no blankets
Sage stuffing
Susagemeat stuffing
No Yorkshire I cook loads of everything so no need for that to fill up people.

Chips with pizza is common, so?

Definitely no kids’ food - mash, cauliflower cheese, and unseasonal veg like broccoli etc.

Good God.

@Mirabai

Why can’t the kids have the type of food they like and will eat without fuss? Why would I force my kit to eat roast potatoes when they love mash? And why no broccoli or peas? That’s what they like!