What are ‘all the trimmings’?

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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?

No pigs in blankets is an actual crime and I'm not sure it qualifies as christmas dinner.

We had:
Roast turkey
Roast ham
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Broccoli
Sprouts
Cauliflower cheese
Steamed carrots (for the kids)
Roast carrots
Roast parsnips
PIGS IN BLANKETS
Yorkshire pudding
Bread sauce (which is gross but other people like it)
Cranberry sauce

Having an air fryer and one of those dinner lady-style catering food warmer things made it all relatively stress-free.

??

No.

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausagemeat stuffing
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Bread sauce
Sprouts with chestnuts, pancetta and white wine
Roast Potatoes
Mashed swede
Peas
Roast Carrots
Roast Parsnips
Cauliflower Cheese
Yorkshire puddings
Broccoli
(possibly red cabbage)

Is it just English people who have yorkies on Christmas table? Any fellow Scots do it?

Usual Sunday roast trimmings:
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
3-5 veg dishes.
Gravy
Range of condiments and sauces.
Would include Yorkshire puddings but I don't like them so only make them if someone coming for dinner is a big fan.

Christmas dinner:
All the above, plus pigs in blankets, a meat and a homemade bread stuffing, bread sauce, more veg dishes, and more elaborate ones, to include spiced red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, peas with leeks, sprouts with pancetta & chestnuts etc. Possibly another 1-2 types of potato depending how many people coming, usually Dauphinoise/Boulangere and mash. Home made cranberry sauce. Possibly 2-3 types of meat, rather than just one for a usual Sunday roast depending on how many people are there for Christmas.

But I over cater a lot....

For us the trimmings means:

Stuffing
Cranberry and orange sauce
Bread sauce
Gravy
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Braised red cabbage
Sprouts (done with bacon and chestnuts)
Cavilo Nero because my DM and DB don't like sprouts v much so want a different green vegetable

We had
roast potatoes
duchesse potatoes
roast parsnips
mashed parsnips
yorkshire puddings (we had seitan as the main)
horseradish sauce
cranberry sauce
stilton (vegan) and hazelnut stuffing
sprouts
maple carrots
cauliflower cheese
gravy
would have had pigs in blankets but sausages didn’t arrive.

We had turkey with:
roast potatoes (no other type of potato necessary as roasties nicest anyway)
roast parsnips (some sort of recipe with drizzle)
fancy roasted carrots
sprouts with bacon
pigs in blankets
lots of gravy
stuffing balls
homemade cranberry sauce.

not bread sauce because nobody likes it and not Yorkshires because they don't belong.

We had turkey and roast ham with roast potatoes, carrot and swede, cauliflower, parsnips, sprouts with pancetta, pigs in blankets, stuffing, Yorkshire pudding and gravy.

Vegan household, our trimmings were:
Roast potatoes
Mash
Yorkshire puddings
Vegan pigs in blankets
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Broccoli
Green beans
Gravy

He had cranberry sauce too

We just had roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, red cabbage, Brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce, parsnips and carrots and gravy

That sounds a lot although it didn't feel like it was

And stuffing and the bacon that was on top of the Turkey

Delicious! I make double quantities as it’s so popular.

I soak the milk for a few days with an onion studded with cloves, nutmeg, thyme + bay. Then add the breadcrumbs around the onion, add single cream and cook.

All the trimmings is when the host cuts your food up and feeds it to you.
MN rule 153b.
😁😁

We have:

Chicken or nut roast
Mashed potato
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Carrots
Parsnips
Brussel sprouts
Red cabbage
Stuffing
Gravy

All vegetarian except the chicken! The meat-eater in the house likes chicken better than turkey.

It might be controversial but boiled veg and mash should have no place on a Christmas Dinner. All just feels a bit school/hospital roast.

Christmas Dinner is surely the time of year you might push the boat out a bit - so trimmings would be roast parsnips/carrots, fried brussels & bacon, red cabbage etc and definitely pigs in blankets!

Or me. Always roasties. Sprouts, carrots, parsnips, gravy, bread sauce. Never, ever Yorkshire pudding.

They forgot pigs in blankets!?

That’s just wrong

Everyone knows you have to serve pigs in blankets in a pyramid on a platter like the Ferraro Rocher ad

Cauliflower cheese is nursery food, certainly not served at a Christmas dinner. MN is wrong!

Here it’d be roast potatoes, (lots), roast parsnips, sage, onion and sausagemeat stuffing, pigs in blankets, carrots, sprouts, cranberry sauce (not out of a jar) and proper gravy, made in the roasting tin.

Which is rather fewer ‘trimmings’ than a lot of MNers do, I know, but It’s more than enough for this cook, and everyone always seems happy.

We had Turkey, Beef and Lamb for the meats.

For all the trimmings we had (all homemade)

3 cheese mature cheddar cauliflower
pigs in blankets
Mash (potato, swede and celeriac)
Roast potatoes
Brussel sprouts with pancetta and chestnuts
Red cabbage with cranberry and apple
Roasted honey and mustard carrot and parsnips
Yorkshire puddings
Cranberry sauce, bread sauce and gravy

Turkey, pig in blankets roast potatoes, roast parsnips roast carrots Yorkshire puddings 3 types of stuffing, red cabbage, sprouts with bacon, cauliflower cheese, broccoli, peas and sweetcorn, bread sauce cranberry sauce, gravy. Fresh baked rolls.

Sprouts with chestnuts and pancetta; red cabbage and apple; stuffing (two varieties in our house); pigs in blankets; dates in bacon; swede and carrot mash; roast pots; roast parsnips; cranberry sauce; bread sauce; gravy; carrots; roast sweet potatoes; butternut squash. Yorkshire puds (if we have beef) then the sauces would be different. We don't usually have turkey though. Love the trimmings!

Definitely adding dates in bacon next year!! Might also chuck in a butternut squash..