You can choose only one Christmas dinner item

[GloGirl]

You're going to someones house for a relatively standard Christmas roast dinner.

What one thing would you want to insist on having to make it a proper Christmas dinner?

Cranberry sauce? Brussel sprouts? Christmas pudding for dessert?

For me it is bacon wrapped cocktail sausages. I get a little bit itchy thinking "what if" they weren't there

You're very mean OP and most definitely you are being very U.

How can I choose 1 item?!
Home-made stuffing

Homemade bread sauce

I clicked specially to say Pigs in Blankets!

What time shall I be there?

sausage stuffing

No wait, gravy

no maybe roast potatoes

no ... proper ham

Homemade stuffing. The breadcrumb + onion + sage variety. Preferably my mum's!

Stuffing balls - made from suet, breadcrumbs, egg (to bind) and heaps of thyme and lemon...baked/roasted.

And then turkey sandwiches (with sausages, stuffing, bread sauce etc.) at the end of the day with a long cold drink when the faffing and organising are finally over.

Can't possibly restrict it to one item! I love every single item in our standard Christmas dinner and one of the things I like is how well they all go together. None of the main course items would be as good without gravy, for example.

Two months and six days to go!

I didn't know you could put suet into stuffing, I can understand why that would be nice.

MuttsNutts, I'm not cooking this year I'm doing the demanding!!

I've been going to MILs for years and it's just bland so I don't know what I'm missing. And yes I have offered to help/bring/host but she will have non of it. She deep fried parsnips one year

P.S. I have been known to cook an entire Christmas lunch at my house, even though I'm eating lunch at a relative's, just so I have a full complement of leftovers ready when i get home

I forgot the bacon/sausages one year. I left them in the kitchen rather than dishing them up. I'll never forget the relief on my dad's face when I jumped up and remembered them part way through eating

For me it's either those or roast potatoes. A friend of mine has mashed potatoes and that's just not the same for me!

I would say pigs in blankets too but actually I am not concerned what they serve, I would make sure I had my favourite items at home and have a meal of the bits I really like on boxing day or soon after.

sprouts or roasties.
Pigs in blankets are a must though as usually people only have them once a year.
Sorry, much more than one.

Stuffing. Pretty much everything else (apart from turkey ) we have regularly. I love homemade sage and onion stuffing. Breadcrumbs, onion, sage, parsley and butter. Yum!

Roast parsnips for me, but we always have Christmas dinner at home so I know there'll be plenty (my kids love them too).

Another vote for pigs in blankets.

Roast potatoes

Pigs in blankets. Very closely followed by roast parsnips. Closely followed by lemony / chestnut stuffing.

(First year dh did Christmas lunch he missed all of these out. Second year I made sure they were all out on the work surface / ready to go in!)

Tbh I don't eat the turkey. It's all the bits on the side I really enjoy.

Bread sauce! Only time of year we have it & I love it

Pigs in blankets of course.

Salmon en croute/salmon wellington! I find turkey incredibly dry and boring so mum and I always have salmon. Dreading Christmas dinner with the in-laws this year because I'll end up with turkey and MILs terrible roasties. My mum has promised to save me one of hers to have with tea in the evening!

I am more interested in it being cooked well, meat not too dry and crispy roast potatoes please.

I just asked my DH and he said mint sauce

I've asked for a divorce.

Bread sauce for me. I'm the only one who eats it and have been known to eat it straight from the bowl like porridge

Definitely pigs in blankets, dp's family don't have them and it makes me