First time hosting Christmas.. What to cook?!

[Bubbless]

This is the first year I'm hosting Christmas for h family at my house! There will be 4 adults and my 11mo!
My dads buying and cooking the turkey.. What else is featuring in your Christmas meal this year and what do you never bother with?!

Turkey, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts, broccoli, stuffing, chipolatas and rolled up streaky bacon, plus gravy. Cranberry sauce I buy and bread sauce is a packet mix. Followed by Christmas pudding and I also have a Yule log as DCs aren't likely to eat pudding.

In previous years I've done a starter but not bothering this year as the DCs get too bored having a three course meal. I'm doing canapés with a glass of fizz for the grown ups around 11am instead. DH always wants Yorkshire puddings but I try to talk him out of it as they're not necessary.

I'm 22 and used to work in catering and I've never roasted a parsnip.. How?! Sounds yummy, we might all come to you!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/1942955-Meat-and-roast-potatoes-what-else

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/Christmas/1939747-Christmas-Breakfast

Yoy roast parsnips like you would roast carrots, slice length ways, slightly steam & then roast in a hot oven with a honey or maple syrup glaze.

Keep it simple... No need to glaze the parsnips, they taste just lovely without extra sweetener... We don't have starters either, and lemon posset/mousse for dessert for the no-pudding eaters.
Our veg are carrots and parsnips roasted with the goose, roast potatoes and sprouts, broccoli and red cabbage with apples (my recipe is posted to the recipes on here)

If I do parsnips I part boil them with the potatoes and roast them all in the same tin after that.

For Christmas lunch I do a carrot and parsnip 'puree' (carrots and parsnips boiled and mashed together, then blended with a stick blender until smooth, then I add some creme fraiche and grated nutmeg. I have already made mine and frozen it, I will thaw it out in the fridge and microwave it to reheat. There are only two of us! I also microwave some mange tout, and fry some apple wedges in butter to go with the chicken, bacon, sausages, homemade stuffing, and roast potatoes and gravy.

I buy a jar of cranberry sauce from the butcher, they do a selection of their own sauces and pickles.

Pudding is a warm homemade mince pie with homemade vanilla ice-cream.

We never bother with starters, they aren't necessary.