What starter are you having Christmas Day ?

[howthefuckshouldiknow]

DH and DCs have requested no prawn cocktail this year - what are you having this year? would love some inspiration, thanks

[confuugled1]

I come from a family that don't do starters and we're always stuffed half way through the main course as there's so many different bits and bobs that we tend not to eat the Christmas pudding until the next day (actually I still have last year's unopened as we couldn't face it!) so the thought of having a starter makes my stomach groan.

The first year dsis did Christmas lunch for us and her fiancée and soon to be in laws, she and her OH had been discussing the details but obviously not in enough detail. She did the shop, he was helping to put away, got to the end and asked where the rest of the shopping was...

She was asking what on earth he meant, that was it, there was enough food to feed an army for a month, there was no way she needed any more food or indeed planned on cooking anything else.

Turns out her now dh reckoned that a normal Christmas involved a starter, roast beef and a gammon to go with the turkey, two trifles (one boxy, one not) and something else, I forget what.

She was not impressed that he hadn't mentioned it earlier, he couldn't get his head around anyone that thought it was normal to just have turkey and trimmings as Christmas lunch - he also didn't like vegetables so hated the fact that sis loved them and we were all used to having about 10 different things. He went straight out to get the rest of the stuff he wanted for his Xmas lunch, completely ignoring the fact that dsis was expected to cook it but unlike his mum, she didn't have a large farmhouse aga that it was way to roast more than one thing at a time.

I think these days if she does it she compromises and does a big gammon on Christmas Eve - then there is plenty left over for her now dh to have some with Christmas lunch if he wants it.

[ChocoChou]

Ilikeyourhairyhands Ilikeyourmenu, got room for one more?

[howthefuckshouldiknow]

123mother - that's what I was thinking. I'd love scallops but no guarantee that fresh will be available. Wondering if PP has sourced excellent frozen ones or some such