Christmas dinner

[McChristmasPants2012]

What are you having.

Mine is turkey, beef, pigs in blanket, stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, broccoli, cauliflower, sprouts, carrots, peas, cabbage and gravey. Followed by Christmas pudding and Brandy sauce.

Anyone having the choccy crackers from M&S be warned - when you take them out of the fridge they slide about on the baseboard - so if you tilt it - you could be having pud off the floor!!

I can't see where the "AIBU?" question is ?

Brady that sounds amazing. Can we come next year?

Pancakes for breakfast with banana or tinned pear, chopped nuts and Nutella :o

We are having the full works at our friends' house tomorrow, so for Xmas lunch we will be having some of the trimmings in a baguette - turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, mayo and cranberry jelly - it's more Christmassy to me than the actual roast! DH is insisting on doing a few roasties too, but then he can't eat the bread/stuffing/pigs (coeliac) so fair enough,

Dinner will be nice snacky bits - melon, cured meats and goats cheese with honey. Also have the ingredients for my mum's famous cheese dip but I may do that on another day.

Pudding at some point will be Eton mess. None of us eat mince pies and the like.

(It's just the four of us on the day BTW - so we are going for the relaxed-but-yummy approach!)

So basically turkey and the trimmings. How very unique

Meats are roasted turkey, glazed ham and mustard beef. Real grave for each.

Tatties, roast, and mashed with olive oil and grated parmasan,
Cauli cheese, spiced red cabbage, braised cabbage, carrot and butternut squash mash, sweet peas, broccoli, honey parsnips, and roasted carrots in orange juice. Cranberry stuffing, and roasted chestnut stuffing.

Yorkshire puddings.

Dessert is, cheese board, raspberry pavlova, crimbo cake,

Then on the night its a selection of homemade hit cheese, baked herb infused Camembert, breaded mozerrla, goats cheese ina cashew crisp case, and also pisatahio, and a selection if vintage cheeses, all served with a selection of homemade chutneys and cranberry and port chutney.

What the heck size of plates do some of you have?

'turkey is for plebs'

This amuses my mother no end. When she was growing up, without running water or electricity, poor people had goose as turkey was way too expensive

I'm feeding 21 people! I have a double over, and also a stove.

I'm laughing at the "disgusting comments, some people are just twats!!!

We will use small plates.

Our lunch will take 3-4 hours at least. That's what its meant to be. Laid back and relaxed.
the food comes out in bits. Everyone will take it in turns to serve. The kids can run around if they want.

We have 100 people booked in Christmas eve for the same sort of thing.

Mine is beef with a cranberry and balsamic vinegar glaze, with yorkshires, pigs in blankets, maple parsnips, broc, carrots and roast potatoes.

We don't like turkey

We have good old prawn cocktail for starters, followed by turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts (yuk), cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, broccoli, and cauliflower cheese.
Then Christmas pudding for those who still have room . Not me though, as I don't like Christmas pud!

Chiken Kiev, jacket potato, petit pois and sweetcorn .

We do a sort of silver service/help yourself round the table, not everyone is forced to eat all the foods, thy eat what they want/like.

Christmas for us is about the food and company, we are each other like this for 1 days a year.

Hoemmade chicken liver parfait on oatcakes with red onion chutney

Marmalade gammon, spiced chicken, kilted sausages, apricot & hazlenut stuffing, sage, onion & leek stuffing, roast tatties, maple parsnips, sprouts, carrots, peas, bread sauce, cranberry sauce & gravy. All the sauces/stuffing homemade by me.

Our lunch will take 3-4 hours at least

My DH would do his nut if he had to sit at the table that long!

Oh and red cabbage & cranberries.

Turkey, pigs in blankets, pancetta wrapped stuffing, roast pots, maple rosdt parsnips, red cabbage, sprouts with pancetta, gravy - that's it! Family recipe trifle for pud. Lots to pick at throughout the day.

Jesus, what's with all the veg? How on earth do you get it all on the same plate?

I don't know what I'm having beyond turkey and ham. It depends on how hungry I am which, going by current standards and the chest infection that refuses to go away, won't make for a record-breaking consumption.

My DH would do his nut if he had to sit at the table that long!

You don't sit at the table for that long. You play with the kids in between or Sit on a sofa and chill or something else.

not everyone eats every course and everyone will be involved with cooking.

I am from a Greek family and this is perfectly normal for us.

We have a wall of the restaurant painted black so kids that come in can draw on it with chalk. Its been cleared for the kids to keep the occupied and we have other activities.

I find it really weird to have more than one main meat. And greedy and ridiculous but there we are.

Brady - meze is different because you are meant to have small bits of many things.

I find more than one meat a bit strange too tbh.

But this year we're having roast ham which I don't like (exept in a sandwich) so we're having chicken with it.

Then just peas, carrots, stuffing, roasties and a yorky pud.

brady I'd quite like a meze because we could jog round the block between courses

Like that would ever happen