Christmas munching

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Please tell me your Christmas meals-xmas eve and xmas day-need ideas!

What do you have for your Christmas lunch, which veg, do you include Yorkshires etc, how do you do your carrots?

So far I know i’m doing turkey, pigs in blankets, sprouts with bacon, carrots with….? What else?

Breakfast i’m thinking smoked salmon, maybe poached eggs, cream cheese, crumpets/english muffins

Xmas eve-usually do a floor picnic in our pjs for Dd…

xmas eve

North Pole breakfast with things like decorated porridge, xmas tree crumpets etc

Dinner is a selection of pre made party food eg sliders, prawn toast, etc

Xmas day

Breakfast - frozen pastries that you put it in the oven, salmon & cream cheese bagels, buck’s fizz.

Lunch - turkey, mash, roasts, honey carrot/parsnips, brussels with chestnuts, pigs n blankets, graveney, stuffing x 2, cauli cheese, cranberry sauce. No Yorkshire’s

Later - chocolate desert, trifle & cheese board

snack through the day on crisps, nuts, sweets, chocolate

Boxing Day - host the wider family for a big buffet.

Christmas day breakfast will be croissants and fruit juice.
Christmas dinner is roast beef, roast potatoes/parsnips. Carrot and swede mash. Braised red cabbage and Yorkshire pudding 😋😋
Pudding is a Jaffa dome cake from Iceland.
Bowl's of crisps, nuts and chocolate to nibble on.
Supper if anyone is still hungry will be cold meats, sausage rolls, and the last of the Christmas dessert.
Three adults and a teenage son Lol

Christmas Eve - cooked ham with chips and egg made in chip pan.

Christmas day breakfast - cold ham, chocolate.

Christmas dinner - Turkey covered with bacon, stuffed with sage and onion stuffing and sausage meat, pigs in blankets, Yorkshires, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese, braised red cabbage, carrots, sprouts , bread sauce, cranberry sauce, gravy.

Boxing Day - turkey and ham pie.

Im on my own and really CBA this year!
So christmas eve will be a takeaway.
Christmas day will start with pastries and bucks fizz then as I can't be arsed cooking a huge dinner and washing up so plan on grazing on nibbles for the next two days.

Christmas Eve we have cheeseboard; a few nice cheeses, gammon, crackers, homemade sausage rolls, glazed cocktail sausages, grapes and crudités.

Christmas Day we do two meats and all the trimmings. This year we’re having friends over and doing a sort of pot luck dinner.

I’m making gammon and duck with roast potatoes, honey glazed parsnips and carrots, stuffing, yorkies. One friend’s bringing other sides; definitely pigs in blankets and a sprout gratin plus maybe another dish. Another friend’s bringing a tiramisu for pudding and everyone normally brings a drink as well. It might sound chaotic but we’ve been friends for ages so it just works out!

At home I would bake my gammon on Christmas Eve: boil a ham in cider or coke, then bake with your favourite glaze. Serve with braised red cabbage (Delia’s recipe with apple and onion) and cauliflower cheese if you cba. Bring it out for round 2 on Boxing Day with the cold meat from Christmas Day and the cheeses.

Christmas day breakfast- for me depends on what time you’re serving the main meal. If that’s at lunchtime you want a lighter breakfast like croissants, juice, coffee, Prosecco. If it’s later on, or if you’re a 3-hour-surf-before-presents-and-lunch family, you could offer something more substantial but still special, like bagels with salmon or really nice bacon baps. Whatever your favourite breakfast is, but make it the best version you can!

Christmas dinner, I like a chicken rather than Turkey- a slow reared free range one. I’d serve that with pigs in blankets and a sausagemeat stuffing. Or slow roasted lamb. With both I only do one kind of potatoes (roast), but green veg like broccoli or cabbage, and roasted carrots. No yorkshires unless other diners really rate them- I’m not fussed but happy to offer on request.

Chicken would return on Boxing Day as part of a cold meats and pickles selection, lamb would get its second serving as either shepherd pie or Moroccan style wraps served with different yoghurts, pomegranate seeds, salads etc.

Breakfast - sausage muffins
lunch - rib of beef, Yorkshires, roast potatotes, tenderstem with lemon and garlic, roasted carrots
desert - something from m and s

tea - cheese , ham, pickled onions,

We eat the main meal at 3 ish.

Boxing Day -
bubble and squeak

chicken ( or beef if any leftover) biryani.

more cheese.