Christmas dinner veg: The Law

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It is The Law to have peas, carrots, parsnips and of course brussels

Cauliflower is acceptable. Cauli cheese isnt.

Broccoli is an offence.

Green beans are just weird.

The law in our house is
Choice of Meat Turkey or Beef
Roast Potatoes
Stuffing Balls
Wrapped Sausages in Bacon
Served on a Large Plate
With different veg all served on hot plates :
Sprouts & bacon/Parsnips/Chardenay Carrots (small)Roasted Beetroot
Laods of Cranberry Sauce and other complimentary sauces.
Love it !!

You are all wrong the law is: carrots, roast parsnips, mashed swede and carrot, broccoli, sprouts, roast potatoes and mash.

Also Turkey, beef, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings and gravy.

I prefer the veg to the stuffing, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puds.etc. I don't even like roast potatoes. So lots of veg makes me happy.

We usually have roast potatoes, roast parsnips (Delia's Parmesan parsnips are lovely), carrots, brussels sprouts and peas. The peas were added when my poor, deluded (adult) children, who don't like sprouts, were little so that they would have a green vegetable of sorts and now they've become an institution.

This year I think I may add roast cauliflower as we all love it and it's really easy. Cauliflower cheese seems a bit heavy for Christmas dinner and too much work on a busy day. I might add broccoli and romanesco too. As the oven is on anyway, I think I'll slip in a tray of assorted brassicas underneath the parsnips and potatoes.

Roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, carrots and petits pois (not peas!) This year I'm branching out and trying red cabbage for the first time, too. Just about enough room left on the plate for turkey, ham, pigs in blankets, sage, sausage & onion stuffing, bread sauce and cranberry sauce, with loads of gravy.

The law chez fuckery-
Roast potatoes,sweet potato or butternut squash, parsnips.
Carrots
a vat of petit pois
Red cabbage braised in butter with port.
Savoy cabbage.
Mash-a load of (to make bubble and squeak on Boxing Day)
Yorkshire pud (of course it's a vegetable)
Enough pigs in blankets to feed a small principality
Now there is just us and dc
NO FUCKING EVIL SPROUTS.

Ahh forgot stuffing!

No no nooooooo.

Peas? Whaaaat?

Carrots, sprouts, red cabbage (optional IMO), parsnips, roast potatoes.

If I didn't do sweet corn and broccoli I'd have Christmas scurvy from the junior honeydragons.

If I didn't do Yorkshire pudding then I'd have a heartbroken Mr Honeydragon.

For me the line was firmly drawn the year someone suggested baked beans.

The line had been tentatively sketched out the year before when SiL brought mince and onions in case her roast dinner loving dd didn't eat any Christmas dinner

Carrots parsnips brussels red cabbage Nothing else!

I keep seeing mashed potatoes mentioned on Christmas/ roast dinner threads and am perturbed.

On one hand I think Noooo never in a a million years. But on the other I'm a big believer in blimey it's Christmas and if you like it, have it for heavens sake! We have Yorkshire puddings cos we like 'em and probably that'll be a big Noo from someone.

I have just made my parsnip and celeriac side dish to freeze for Christmas dinner which has been a winner for the last few years.

No mash!

Veggie family here. We don't bother with a Christmas main, like nutroast or quorn roast, so we have lots of different vegetables, two varieties of stuffing (three including ds1's gluten free version) and yorkshire puddings.

This year we have, roasted: potatoes, parsnips, carrots, beetroot and red onion. Steamed: petit pois, sugar snaps, broccoli, carrots, baby sprouts. Mashed: potato, swede and parsnip and sweet potato.

This allows enough variety for all of the dcs to have a few vegetables they actually enjoy eating, so their's no complaints and everyone is happy.

We do double up on some veg in the way it's cooked, but that's mostly so that there's plenty left over for bubble and squeak the next day.

Baked beans Honey Dragon?!
You were so right to draw that line

Argh! there's not their's

Big fucking thick line with a big fuck off Sharpie if you ask me.

Sprouts - if you try to have Christmas dinner without them, the veg police will be on your doorstep before you have flamed the pudding - and rightfully so!

Roast parsnips are also a must, and we have braised red cabbage.

But peas and carrots? What sort of heathens are you people?

Good god at the very idea of Yorkshire pudding with anything other than beef . And what's with the mash? Yes yes yes to carrot and turnips (even though it's really swede). Having goose this year and I am angsting about whether that makes cranberry sauce a no no. And I have never ever eaten, or met anyone who has eaten, bread sauce.

We have beef and Turkey as DF is a turkey refuser.

I am completely opposed to the idea of mash at Christmas dinner. You might as well just have toad in the hole instead of turkey.

SDTG I'm with you there on the peas & carrots. DH has insisted on carrots this year. I go all catsbum when he mentions it but have provisionally agreed.
I may 'forget' though.
Trouble is, my dsd won't eat sprouts & he wants her to have at least one proper vegetable.

Cheesy leeks
Red cabbage
Peas
Roast parsnips
Sprouts.

Christmas veg in our house-

Mashed carrot and swede with garlic
Purple cabbage
Brussels sprouts with chestnuts
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips

Some of these veg we don't actually like (ditto Christmas pudding) but we have anyway because it's Christmas and it's traditional to eat loads of food you don't like at Christmas.

We have it right, everybody else does it wrong.

My children would be horrified at the thought of any roast dinner without yorkshires.

The veg we have:

Roast potatoes
Mash
Roast carrots
Raw carrots
Roast parsnips
Broccoli
Broccoli/cauli cheese (I don't like gravy so this meets any wetness needs)
Buttered leeks
Sprouts
Red cabbage