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?

I LOVE baked beans. Like seriously love them. But I couldn't hack them on a roast dinner!

apart from turkey we do Roast potatoes, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast parsnips, brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce and braised red cabbage and either gravy or bread sauce

I don't do any other type of potatoes or yorkshires or cauliflower cheese, I might do carrots instead of red cabbage but my family prefer red cabbage, I am only cooking for 4 with enough for boxing day so don't do any other meat either

BAKED BEANS?!?

I need more wine for this!!!

All the trimmings for Christmas is -
Turkey, stuffed with sage and onion and sausagemeat.
Roast potatoes, parsnips, sweet potatoes and papers.
Sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, mange toutes, carrots and peas.
Pigs in blankets.
And lots of gravy.

If we have other people (that is no one in our house likes - bread sauce and cranberry sauce).

Have you never ate pigs in blankets?

I'm am shooketh. 😱😋

Can you buy then in Ireland? If so, treat yourself for NYE. You'll not regret it.

I would say definitely NOT cauli cheese (I love it, but too much gravy & other sauces going on).

If I did mash it'd be celeriac or swede or something by my choice, but my vegan dd2 adores mashed potato so I add it to the festivities - & tbh everyone ends up eating it.

I think people who are fussy about what all the trimmings are probably don't cook the dinner. Though I confess I would be sad if no roast parsnips.

We had a banquet,courtesy of my son’s amazing cooking catering for vegetarian diet as well
Turkey
Nut roast
Roast Potatoes
2types of stuffing
Sprouts with bacon
Parsnips
Carrots
Broccolli and Cauliflower cheese
Leeks
Bread sauce
2 types of gravy
Swede with black pepper/ butter
Cranberry sauce we forgot about it until after eating

Roast turkey, roast pork, roast spuds, parsnip and carrots. Sprouts with bacon. Spiced red cabbage, cauliflower cheese/cheesy leeks, peas and carrots . Chestnut stuffing plus another fancy stuffing, cranberry, apple and bread sauce. Posh gravy (not granules) Yorkshire puds.

Sometimes mash but I don't like it so only if the mash lovers are present.

I love bread sauce as do my parents and I make it every year but DH, the in-laws and DC never have any. It would be a bit weird if you weren’t used to it. I never have any of DH’s home made, cranberry sauce either so we are even I guess.

my trimmings:
bread sauce
cranberry sauce from a jar!
roast potatoes
gravy made from the turkey giblets
pigs in blankets
brussel sprouts (ideally friend with bacon and chestnuts)
Chestnut and apricot stuffing
roast parsnips
plain carrots
red cabbage

there is not really room on the plate nor in my stomach but lots of yummy leftovers to enjoy for days.

In our house:

Stuffing - two types
Pigs in blankets
Carrot and swede mash
Roast potatoes
Mashed Potatoes
Cauliflower cheese
Sprouts
Cranberry Sauce

I wouldn't say mash belonged in a Christmas dinner and I'm not a fan of bread sauce. But 2 x pots, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, pigs, yorkshires, roast parsnips, & 3 x veg.

I'd want a Christmas dinner to include
Turkey
Stuffing
Pigs in Blankets
Roast potatoes
Carrots
Parsnips
Sprouts
Bread sauce
Gravy
(And possibly another vegetable)

I couldn't contemplate 2 types of potatoes, Yorkshire puds or cauliflower cheese .....because then I'd be too full for the multiple deserts and chocolate later! 😃

And pigs in blankets of course

@EarringsandLipstick

I love it as I’ve only hear it used at Xmas and it is such an odd term.

I’m not British born, so sometimes fall foul at all the odd customs (despite having been here most of my life).

Off-topic: I hate the phrase 'all the trimmings'. It's an English expression that occasionally creeps in here

I hate it too (am English). Always seems like something you'd see on a shit restaurant menu (see also unnecessary adjectives on the menu, like "tasty").

Boiled pots

We have: turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrot and swede mash, sprouts, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, peas, bread sauce and turkey gravy!

To add to the potato options, dauphinoise is a lovely addition!

@DoesMaryNotDrive a bag of frozen cauliflower cheese is surprisingly good. You can cook as many / few florets as you want

Baked Beans. He even persuaded my mum to add them to her Christmas table. My dear mum who made pretty much everything from scratch, added beans for her SIL. Bless her.

I'm in Ireland where a glazed ham is also served as well as Turkey on Christmas Day.
So
Turkey
Ham
Stuffing (2 or 3 types including stuffing balls)
Gravy
Bread sauce or cranberry sauce or both (depending on attendees)
Roast potatoes
Croquettes
Red cabbage
Sprouts
Roast carrots and parsnips in honey
Cauliflower cheese
Minted peas (for colour!)
Pigs in blankets...not really necessary because of aforementioned ham but sure it's Christmas

Xmas dinner trimmings in this house are: pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, red cabbage, brussel sprouts in some form, carrots. Maybe some other veg (this year braised celery) but those are the core.

Edited because I forgot the gravy, bread sauce and cranberry jelly 😲

Turkey

Veg, which should probably be parsnips, brussel sprouts, carrot, mashed swede.
I do know a lot of people are fond of red cabbage, but it's usually a bit sweet for me by the time it's been messed about with, and almost no one ever serves plain red cabbage. Also not fond of cauliflower cheese, though plain cauliflower is fine. Peas, cabbage, broccoli, green beans also all acceptable. Vegetables are essentially a vehicle for soaking up gravy, and a variety should not all be root vegetables or all be brassica or all be legumes, though if seasonal, roots and legumes will predominate.

Roast spuds. (Essential for any roast. You can’t do too many roast spuds.)
My mother always served mashed potatoes as well, though that seems unnecessary to me (though I sm generally a fan.)

Gravy. (Essential for any roast.)

Bread sauce (we had none.)
Cranberry sauce (we had none.)
Pigs in blankets (we had none.)
At least one type of stuffing. We had one with dried apricot, parsley and breadcrumbs, which was okay, but a good sage & onion sausage meat stuffing is traditional. Mum always did a chestnut based one as well, that may have involved giblets in some way, but I'm unsure of the details. (The giblets ultimately ended up being fed to the cat, but I think they made stock first.)

I was a bit disappointed by our Christmas Dinner, because while it was excellent, it did not include all the trimmings. Obviously I have not said so out loud. But I may have to rectify it once I'm back home, because I really like a proper Christmas dinner.

EarringsandLipstick I don't like this phrase either - it always makes my heart sink