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boxing day food

25 replies

dietstartsmonday · 11/11/2015 16:23

What does everyone eat on boxing day. I an hosting DH'S family this year so would love some new ideas.
Thanks

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GastonsChestHair · 11/11/2015 16:28

Errm, everything we didnt manage on Christmas day!

Cold meat and chips.
Bubble and squeak.
Buffet food.

The simpler the better in our house I'm afraid as we're all stuffed after the run up to the big day!

momb · 11/11/2015 16:29

Cold meat, pickles, hot red cabbage, bubble and squeak made with leftover veg if there is any, or new veg if not. Probably soup made with turkey bones.
mince pies and all the leftover sauces, butters and creams we can use up!

It's tradition!

pilates · 11/11/2015 16:30

I'm thinking of doing a leg of lamb with dauphinoise potatoes and veg, cheese and biscuits and may be a trifle but that could all change.

eckythumpenallthat · 11/11/2015 16:33

We always go my mums for Boxing Day. We have roast beef dinner for lunch. Then picky tea late evening

lavazzzalover · 11/11/2015 16:57

we dont host boxing day. never have. no family apart from my dad and he comes on Christmas Day.

its always turkey and chips and bread and butter for lunch. then turkey/rolls/quiche etc for late tea.

IHaveBrilloHair · 11/11/2015 16:59

I'm making a cassoulet this year, but we are having a buffet on Christmas day.

eternalopt · 11/11/2015 17:17

Cold meat and chips. Love it. Lots of pickles and some bubble and squeak. I almost love it more than the Christmas dinner!

Boredofthinkingofnewnames · 11/11/2015 17:18

Ham and chips, eggs for those who like them.

FurryDogMother · 11/11/2015 17:23

Cold sliced turkey and ham, mashed potato, salad and always, always pickled walnuts! Also cheese.

Moondancer146 · 11/11/2015 18:24

We always have leftover turkey with a huge bowl of salad and chips and then trifle. Nice and easy and everyone can help themselves to as much or as little as they want

TheWoollybacksWife · 11/11/2015 18:42

Christmas dinner pie - turkey, ham and chunks of stuffing in gravy with a puff pastry lid. Served with mashed potatoes, green vegetables and more gravy and a huge plate of pigs in blankets

I'm getting very nostalgic for cold meat and homemade chips though. My mum used to serve this on Boxing Day and I can almost taste her lovely chips now. With vienetta to follow.

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 11/11/2015 20:42

Cold meat. Fresh pigs in blankets and stuffing. Roast potatoes. Frozen peas and pickles. Mashed potatoes. Mix the peas in the mash and cover with salad cream. Traditional.

Day after is bubble and squeak day.

SymphonyofShadows · 12/11/2015 15:03

I always cook rum spiced pork that has been marinating in half a bottle of Captain Morgan's since Christmas Eve. FIL comes on Boxing Day, it's a Bajan recipe and he comes from there. I do it with all the usual roast accompaniments.

IHaveBrilloHair · 12/11/2015 15:06

Could I have that recipe please Symphony

OreosOreosOreos · 12/11/2015 15:25

This year we'll have about 20 on Boxing Day, so it will be buffet style, as I am not cooking a sit down meal for that many people!

I'll probably do:
Large cooked ham
Green Salad
Sour cream Potato salad
Mozerella and tomato salad
Smoked salmon
Continental meat platter
Cheese board and crackers
Niace bread
Crisps
Olives
Dips
Selection of whatever sainsburys has in their frozen party food like mini quiches, sausage rolls, mini pies, mini pizzas.

There's a variety of gluten-free / fussy eater / will eat anything type people, so hopefully that will mean people can just pick and choose and have whatever they like!

missmargot · 12/11/2015 15:57

I prefer Boxing Day lunch to Christmas Day. It's mostly leftovers but I love it:

  • Cold turkey
  • Ham (usually in Coke or similar but served cold)
  • Jacket potatoes
  • Bubble and squeak
  • Baked beans

Symphony the pork recipe sounds amazing.

OurBlanche · 12/11/2015 15:58

It's the day for all the picky bits, the leftovers, loads of pickles and mustards, bread, cheese and biccies.

I will finish off the ham, it will be available, but I doubt we will eat it until the day after.

This year we are having a big, bone in beef joint. So there will be all sorts of goodies. We'll probably start at the top and work our way down a list similar to this. When we run out of meal sized portions I'll shred whatever is left and make empanadas. I tend to make them out of everything we have little bits of:
Cold platter with picalili, pickled quince, mustards, horserasdish, beetroot, mini jacket potatoes with sour ream and chives (or not), bread and butter, cheese and biccies
Blue cheese, walnuts and beef butty
Spicy Thai beef salad
Mexican, shredded beef fajitas or quesadillas
Bubble and squeak burger
Empanadas

HippyChickMama · 12/11/2015 16:05

We gao tao dp's on Boxing day and it's always cold meat, chips and pickles. Dm usually puts out buffet food on the evening too.

HippyChickMama · 12/11/2015 16:07

Don't know where all those extra 'a's came from!

SymphonyofShadows · 12/11/2015 16:16

missmargot it's really easy, it's just curry powder, malt vinegar, garlic, soy sauce, any other spices you fancy and lots of brown sugar and rum. Mix it all together, slather it all over and tightly wrap in cling film. The longer it marinates the better.

IHaveBrilloHair · 12/11/2015 16:25

I'm definitely giving it a go then, I need rum for a creme brulee I want to make anyway.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/11/2015 16:28

Symphony - the rum-spiced pork sounds amazing - is there any chance you could post the recipe, please?

I boil and glaze a big piece of gammon on Christmas Eve, and we have that on Boxing Day with baked potatoes and home made coleslaw - it's nice and simple for me to make, and not too rich either.

Iwasbornin1993 · 12/11/2015 16:55

Buffet food with the leftover Turkey from Christmas day.

SymphonyofShadows · 12/11/2015 18:50

Here goes, the recipe has a sauce with it but FIL brings his own which is similar. Beware though as its a bit 'windy' Grin. It works with gravy too though, so you don't have to make the sauce. I don't usually bother with the celery and I don't always add thyme and sage but use black pepper, but it tastes very similar. I use more rum and sugar than the recipe states too, as it turns into a sort of paste when you unwrap it to cook, which helps with basting. I marinate mine on Christmas Eve and leave in the fridge till Boxing Day morning. This works on all sorts of pork joints, not just the ones specified:

Caribbean spiced pork
2 cloves garlic
3tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp malt vinegar
1tbsp finely chopped celery
2 tbsp chopped spring onions
1.5 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp sage
2 tsp curry powder
cup of rum
2 tbsp demerera sugar
1.5 kg leg or boned loin of pork
salt & pepper

Sauce

2 tbsp butter or marg diced
1 tbsp tomato puree
half pint chicken or veg stock
1 tbsp chopped parsley
1 tbsp demerera sugar
hot pepper sauce to taste

Mix garlic, soy, vinegar, celery, sping onions, thyme, sage, curry powder, rum, sugar together and
add salt & pepper to taste.

Open out the pork and slash down the middle from the back, so that you have a large flat piece.
Add half of the marinade, including the bits of onion and celery and roll up (tie with string if you have it)
put the pork into a dish and pour the remainder of the marinade over the pork. cover tightly with cling
film and leave in the fridge overnight.

Spread a large piece of foil in a roasting tin, put in the pork and baste with the marinade that is in the
dish, roast in the oven for about 2 hours 190 c/375 f/gas 5. Then take out the foil, baste again and
cook for a further hour or so (until it is cooked how you like it)

To make the sauce pour the juices from the roasting tin into a saucepan and add the other ingredients,
simmer until reduced (you may have to skim it quite a bit to get the worst of the fat off!)

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/11/2015 20:06

That sounds utterly delicious - thank you!

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