What are you eating on Christmas Eve?

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We have PIL, BIL and SIL coming over on Christmas Eve and staying for Christmas day. We need to serve dinner. Thinking about spaghetti bolognese with lots of salad or lasagne with lots of salad.

Or should I change my mind?

I want something easy.

What are you going to serve to your family/guests on Christmas Eve?

We are having a seafood platter: Lobster grilled with garlic butter, scallops, prawns, oysters etc with a bottle of champagne - nice and luxurious before the family descends on Christmas Day!

BBQ pulled pork in wraps, done in the slow cooker all day so no effort as I'll be prepping for Xmas day .

MIL spends Christmas Eve with us so we always go out for a lovely lunch with her. We only pick in the evening as have eaten to much at lunch time:)

We always have vegetable grills (DH and I) Fish Fingers for the DC
Chips (loads) with salt and vinegar
Salad
Dips and ketchup

We have a "Christmas Eve buffet." Basically party food
Stuff you help yourself to like:

• open sandwiches (ham, cheese etc)
• pizza slices (a vegetarian pizza as well as a ham or pepperoni one)
• crisps
• onion bhajis/spring rolls

• cocktail sausages/pork pie

- lots of fruit such as apples, bananas, satsumas

Kind of a tradition in our house now as we've done it for a good few years now and it would be strange if we suddenly did something else!

Always an Indian take away.

Beef BourGuignon with potato and celeriac gratin and mixed vegetables from m & s bar the vegetables.

As I'm cooking the turkey on Christmas Eve - we are having turkey enchiladas/fajitas/quesadilla - basically whatever Old El Paso kit is on offer tomorrow!

We get a whole crispy duck with pancakes from local Chinese takeaway- OH and I will have smoked salmon - although I hear DD talking about langoustines with garlic- she has been a huge seafood fan since she was a toddler.

Next door neighbour has a supper party every year

She cooks an oven full of baked potatoes & provides loads of booze

Guests all bring a filling, works really well & it's nice to try a bit of everything if you're greedy like me

This year I'm taking a Paneer curry

Chinese takeaway this year, usually have a buffet but fancy a takeaway for a change.

A joint of roast ham has become our traditional Christmas Eve supper. This year I'm going to do Duchesse potatoes, parsley sauce and green beans to go with.

What a nice idea herladyship. I think we are having chicken and bean burritos and Mexican rice as requested by dd. Although gammon, baked potatoes and salad sounds nice too. Maybe we will have a vote.

We are having a big cat of bean chilli with rice, tortilla chips and various dips. We've got my DPs and my DB and family over for cocktails so thought rice would soak up the booze a bit...

In actual fact we're having a vat of chilli, and it's going to be vegetarian... No cats in sight

We always have salmon and salad

We have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve
All the family together at my parents house, then Christmas Day is buffet when we go over late afternoon. Less hassle for my dad as he does most of the cooking and can have a more relaxing day on Christmas day before the grandies descend on them

we always have fish
this year I'm doing a thai green curry with prawns and squid

We also always have fish. Unfortunately the DCs hate all fish except tuna. So we will be having tuna steaks with garlic and herb butter. DH and I will have a few prawns with ours.

We will then spend Christmas Day reeking of garlic at the ILs .

Several different types of prawns with...dunno. Salad?

Lasagne & salad here, then sticky toffee pudding.

Buffet with friends.

Adults- baked ham, mushroom pate, duck pate, salmon blinis, crudités and dips, olives, crisps, chutneys, crackers, breads,prosecco with cherry liqueur.

Kids- all that and ds has asked for chicken, fajitas, which I will do mini style with salsa and guacamole. Ds makes a rocking guacamole.

Then off to church half cut!

We are doing a pierrade (hot stone). Prawns, tuna, beef and chicken strips. Crusty bread and a green salad. Lots of champagne. Delicious

This year I'm having my Christmas Eve dinner of ham, roast veg etc tomorrow as we're having pals over and we're eating pizza or fish fingers or pasta (or leftovers) on Tuesday.

I decided to do a buffet and it will be a lot of mixed food - just the way Dh's family like it.

So I remembered have in the freezer a paella (frozen from Lidl - never had it before) and will pump it up with some scallop.

Will also put on the table a potato salad, duck spring rolls, cocktail sausages, chicken satay skewers, prawn skewers, cherry tomatoes, camembert and cranberry parcels and gravdlax and cream cheese on sliced baguette.