Am I doing christmas dinner wrong?

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I'm hosting for the first time this year. (For 12 )

Mil asked what the menu was and was shocked that I wasn't having mash potatoe or Yorkshire puddings.

Do as you see fit!!

No mash or yorkshire in this (Yorkshire based) house

I wouldn't have mash, I have turkey at Christmas so no Yorkshire pudding. You can't serve beef without them though, it's illegal.

I sometimes do mash and roasties, they are totally different things. I don't do ayorkshires on Christmas Day though.

As the cook it is perfectly fine to make what suits you best. Last year I made red cabbage in advance and roasted carrot and parsnips. I also bought a tub of gravy, for once. That meant nothing to mess around with on the hob and made for a very easy Christmas lunch.

I've wouldn't serve Yorkshire puddings on Christmas Day unless I was serving beef.
I've never done mash either as I think roasties are enough with all the other vegetables, but if I was going to do an extra potato dish I'd do Dauphinois or if short of oven space, baked potatoes on the oven floor.

If MiL asks any more questions tell her you've not decided yet.

If you want mash and yorkies, have them. If not, don't. The Christmas dinner police won't come knocking!

No mash!

But would serve yorkshires

We will have:

Turkey and beef
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnip and Roast carrots glazed in honey
Red cabbage
Broccoli
Yorkshires
Cranberry sauce

Double potato is too much. I have never done mash and roast potatoes.

I don't like roast potatoes so would have mash too. Yorkshire puddings shouldn't be served with turkey.

The aunt Bessie's yorkshires in the box in metal tubs are so great, they taste like home made!

I don't ever have a roast without yorkshires regardless of meat.

My Husband always has Yorkshires- I wouldn't (agree they're beef only) but it's not a big deal- maybe do a few on a serving dish for those who want?
I could easily have mash but often don't.
If I were you id put dishes on the table and let people serve themselves

does she mean parsnip mash ?
I do yorkie puds , roast spuds and boiled little spuds plus everything else
some prepped day or more before so it just has to be heated up

Yorkshire puddings with every roast in our house but it would never occur to me to do mashed potato as well as roasties (although my dad always used to want new potatoes out of a tin as well as roasties with Christmas dinner for some reason). We usually have mashed swede and carrot though.

If it's you doing the dinner though it's not up to anyone else.

You are hosting and so you get to set the menu. It's stressful enough doing it for 12 without then having to accommodate individual requests as you will find everyone does it differently and thinks their way is the only way - and Christmas isn't Christmas without item that you've never eaten on Christmas day and loathe anyway

We are having:
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips and probably cabbage
Sprouts
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Red cabbage
Pigs in blankets
2 sorts stuffing - neither is Paxo or sage + onion because I never had it as a child and now hate it

And duck instead of turkey and no gravy because I don't like it either and I'm cooking

I may now steal celeriac in Marsala from HeyheyheyGoodbye as it sounds yummy.

My PILs would be appalled at my menu as 'not being traditional' - despite the fact they own up to hating turkey, sprouts etc but insist on having the same thing every year I change things to keep it interesting.

How rude of your MIL! You are cooking so make whatever you like.
Have a lovely Christmas (possibly unlikely with such an ungrateful guest)

We don't do mash or Yorkshires either. We're in Yorkshire but my grandma only did her amazing Yorkshires as a starter before beef. My DH makes good Yorkshires but never on Christmas Day.

Yorkshires are the best bit. We don't do mash though.

Never have mash but if you are catering for 12 then it might be a good idea as I find if you crowd roast spuds too much they don't crisp; you might find you don't have enough oven space for roast spuds and parsnips for 12. Then again, you can also run out of cooker top space....

Never have Yorkshire puds, nothing wrong if you want then apart from, again, lack of oven space.

Mash?! No! Not Yorkies either.

I'm confused, people have mash with Christmas dinner?

It is not traditional to cook yorkshires, as you will usually have a different starter on Christomas day, and they are a 'filler' for when there is not much meat, so would usually be bypassed on feast days when the idea is there is plenty.

But you cook whatever you like! I haven't decided what we are having yet.

The one plus of hosting Christmas dinner, is you get to decide what's on the menu. Make whatever suits you, and what you feel comfortable with.

In our house, Christmas dinner was always:

Turkey
Ham
Spiced Beef
Potato stuffing
Sprouts
Carrots
Broccoli
Peas & Sweetcorn

The most we've ever had for Christmas dinner though was 7, so that may have influenced the need for variety.

I'm also thinking I must try making Yorkshire puddings, as I've never actually tasted one, and am now intrigued.

I love Yorkshires but I don't think they fit with Christmas dinner really. Likewise mash - to my mind it doesn't go with a roast.

How funny! Have a look at Delia's Christmas. You won't find Yorkshire pudding in there. Yorkshire pud is for with beef!!

We have Yorkshires with every roast dinner!!!

No mash though!

Well this is what I was going to do (same list I gave to mil)

Turkey
Roast potatoes
Dauphinoise potatoes
Carrot and swede mash
Buttered carrots and sprouts
Cauliflower cheese
Braised red cabbage
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing.
Gravy

Sounds a lot but there are 12 people and hopefully there will be something for everyone.

I think I will so yorkshires now. But just frozen ones.

Thanks everyone.