Christmas Dinner Must Haves!

[littleone7]

I'm going to be hosting my first Christmas this year for 8 people. I was just wondering what are everyone's Christmas dinner must haves!? I want to make sure I don't forget anything! Thanks!

Big pork joint with lots of crackling
Nut roast for vegan mum
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing (meat and veggie version)
Red cabbage with red onion and apples
Roast potatoes
Maple carrots and parsnips
Fried sprouts with chestnuts
Bread sauce
Apple sauce
Redcurrant/cranberry sauce
Gravy

This is the first year I've not done turkey but only fil really likes it so we have ditched it. I'm cooking for 8 in my tiny house but fingers crossed it will all be ok.

Smoked salmon or pate

Turkey
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Sprouts
Cauliflower and broccoli cheese
Mashed carrot and swede
Homemade cranberry sauce
Gravy

Christmas pudding and mince pies with cream
Something chocolatey for DH & DS
Stilton, crackers and grapes

The vegetables may change depending what the veg man has on Christmas Eve.

Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and pigs in blankets are my only essentials. But Christmas dinner in our house is always:

Turkey crown
Gammon or Beef
Pigs in Blankets
Yorkshire Puddings
Stuffing
Roast Potatoes
Mashed Potato
Honey-Roast Parsnips
Carrots
Cabbage
Cauliflower Cheese
Sprouts
Lashings of Proper Gravy

We have the same every year

Chicken (don't like turkey)
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Sage & onion stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage
Sprouts
Carrots
Roast parsnips with cream & bacon
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Lots and lots of gravy

Dessert changes every year but may do Apple pie & custard this year

Christmas dinner in our house is

Turkey crown
Yorkies
Pigs in blankets
Real gravy
Mashed pots
Roast pots
Sprouts
Roasted parsnips
Peas
Stuffing
Carrots

None of us like xmas pud so normally trifle or chocolate bombe or similar. With plenty of wine to drink

Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Stuffing
Cranberry sauce

Pigs in blankets for dd

Christmas pud for me with either brandy sauce or squirty cream. Dd has choc log.

Mushy peas

Bread sauce bleurgh! Texture of baby sick never mind baby food

Vanellope what do you have?

Must have:

Turkey
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Cranberry sauce
Apple sauce
Sprouts
Mint sauce

Never eaten bread sauce. Sounds grim.

Swede. Every year I add mashed swede to these lists. Are my family the only one on MN that like swede?

We have mashed swede and carrots!

Roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, peas and carrots, sprouts, mashed potato, Yorkshire puddings (yes I know it doesn't go but I'm cooking so I don't care ) and nice gravy.
And whatever meat/veggie option is going with it.

No I like swede (although I call it turnip, being Scottish)

Yay, I am not alone!

Always wanted to know SVJAA what do you call turnips though? If swedes are turnips.

SVJAA as a Scot surely you know masher swede is for with pie on hogmonay (before the drinking )

I was about to ask why no one has Swede! (The best bit!) but then I got to the end and found some like minded people

oldsilver white turnip and then swede is just turnip.
Graphista my grannie used to make steak pie and turnip on Hogmanay! We do steak pie for Christmas now, nothing for New Year, DP is usually working and the bairns are too wee to stay up for the Bells.

Thanks SVJAA

you're welcome.

OurChristmas dinner will be:
Turkey
Roast potatoes
pigs in blankets
Red cabbage with apple
Carrots
Parsnips
stuffing balls
Yorkshire puddings (my dc insist on these even though i don't think they are traditional)
cranberry sauce
Also peas for ds1 who refuses to eat red cabbage or parsnips....

Smoked salmon, blinis, soured cream, fake caviar.
Roast chicken (only 4 of us, and we prefer it to Turkey)
Pork and sage stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Stir-fried sprouts with bacon and white wine
Carrot and swede, probably mashed
Bread sauce (I love it)
Cranberry sauce (meh. It's jam for meat.)
All the cheeses.
Christmas cake/pudding/Yule log/mince pies.

Bread sauce is great! The flavour is not unlike bechamel sauce, but the texture is slightly different. Goes beautifully with roast turkey.

Our standard Christmas dinner:
Roast turkey (cooked Delia Smith's way, lots of butter and streaky bacon covering it and inside a foil tent for most of the time in the oven, always good)
Pork, sage and onion stuffing
Gravy made with giblet stock
Bread sauce
Cranberry and orange relish
Cocktail sausages (much prefer them not wrapped in bacon)
Roast potatoes
Parmesan roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts (just plainly boiled)
Chantenay carrots, probably baked in the oven in a foil packet with a little orange juice, tarragon and butter/olive oil
Peas (my daughter, poor deluded young woman, doesn't like sprouts and I feel there ought to be something green on her plate but actually we all like peas with a roast)

Christmas pudding with vanilla ice cream and/or thick double cream

I make all of it. I love cooking Christmas dinner.

I'm toying with adding mashed swede this year. We all like it. It's not needed but Christmas dinner isn't about that, is it!

Those of you saying that Yorkshire puds aren't tradiitonal, where does that idea come from? I am a Yorkshire girl (living in Cheshire) but always had YP with roasts as a child, esp at Xmas. We dont do them regularly with roasts now, but definitely at xmas, I think I would be sacked if I suggested otherwise!!

Those that have 2 meats, do you have a large gathering - or just like to have a choice of 2 meats?

We have generally had 6 people max, so only ever had one roast, a turkey, which is more than enough. We are only the 4 of us this year, although DC (19 & 16.5) can each eat for at least 2!

Roast pots
Roast parsnips
Stuffing
Yorks puds
Pigs in blankets (using variety of yummy sausages from local farm shop)
Carrots
Sprouts
Gravy
cranberry sauce.

Have done bread sauce sometimes in the past, but no one is that fussed so wont do it this year.

Will have an xmas pud but kids not keen so it may not get started till Boxing day!

Having read some of these posts, I do wonder if we should do more veg, but we usually have enough and also like to have a buffet for xmas tea so need to leave room for that.

Does anyone have starters and if so what? I used to do a prawn based starter, but dropped it as we never that hungry (having scoffed naice choc biscuits with coffee during present opening!!!). Wondered whether to resurrect the starter this year, but not sure what to do? DD loves smoked salmon but DS hates it, so that is out.

Gasp your carrots sound nice, do you have a 'recipe'?

My Dd is not a sprout lover, though will eat the odd one or 2. But she loves peas so may add those this year. I love sprouts, as does DH but his sister also dislikes them. Wonder if sprout hating is hereditary from SIL to Dd?!!!!

Kath, there'll be 7 of us and I mainly do 2 meats because I find Christmas dinner a bit boring. Given the choice I'd rather be eating fajitas or a big curry.

Hardly any of you are having mash? I hate a roast without mash. I thought majority would have mashed pots with a roast? Mebs it's a northern thing to have mash.

Smoked salmon
Prawn cocktail
Brown bread

Turkey
Gammon
Mashed potatoes
Mashed carrot and swede
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Gravy
Veg
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puds

Unsure of pud this year. I want jam roly poly, vote for apple crumble, and a vote for Christmas pud

Cheese and biscuits

Can't think of anything else

Here it will be

Turkey
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Roast parsnips
Roast potatoes
New potatoes
Yorkshire's
Carrots done with caraway seeds and butter
Sprouts and chestnuts
Cauliflower cheese
A shit ton of gravy. (I make it it with cider)