What do you eat Christmas Day?

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I know this thread has been done (probably a million times) but I can't find it and I bloody love reading through everyone's day (12 weeks post baby so trying to lose the baby weight so I can indulge next week )

We usually have a small cooked breakfast with coffee/tea and Buck's Fizz, (a breakfast pudding of stocking chocolate, obviously) a full Christmas dinner with allll the trimmings around 2pm and a buffet/cheese board in the evenings with drinks. Obviously throughout the day we eat mince pies and god knows what else we can shove in there!!

What do you all eat?!

The Christmas feasting starts on Christmas Eve here.
We have some sort of easily prepared in advance dish like lasagna. This is followed by a pie made earlier - usually lemon meringue or a baked chocolate pie. We open gifts from each other after dinner, sipping coffee or tea.

Christmas morning, about 10am -
Cinnamon rolls prepped the night before and baked in the morning, then glazed
Rashers
Sausages
Scrambled eggs
Toast/bagels
Fruit salad or Texas grapefruit, clementines
Tea/coffee/OJ

Usually no lunch or if people are hungry they can pick at leftovers from previous night or breakfast leftovers
Baked Brie, smoked salmon, pate or some such item with crackers

Wine
Choc

Dinner - about 7 pm
Roast beef because one DD hates turkey
Yorkshire pud
Sage and onion and chestnut stuffing left over from Thanksgiving turkey a few weeks ago and frozen
Cranberry sauce made with orange juice and sugar, leftover from Thanksgiving
Gravy
Roast potatoes - about 10 lbs; we like our spuds here
Roast parsnips
Roast Brussels sprouts
Green beans, steamed and then buttered, peppered
Carrots, steamed, buttered, peppered
Sweet potatoes boiled and mashed, with molasses and S&P added
Palmer House rolls
Wine

Dessert -
Pumpkin pie
Tiramisu
Buche de Noel
Pavlova with mascarpone/cream topping and fruit on top
Tea/coffee

@Natsku

What is potato casserole? Sounds lovely.

This all sounds delicious and is giving me lots or great ideas.

For us it'll probably be scrambled eggs for breakfast. In laws arrive and we'll eat lunch at about 2pm.

Small Turkey, beef joint, Gannon joint glazed with cranberry sauce
Roast potatoes, pigs in blanket, stuffing, roast carrots and parsnips, cauliflower cheese, gravy, Brussels with chestnuts. Yorkshire puddings

I'd like to try making my own cranberry sauce maybe

Dessert from MIL will be Lidl chocolate cheesecake and Apple crumble. I've already got Christmas pudding and dd is obsessed with arctic roll

Evening time my Nigerian family will arrive. I'll make a big pot of jollof rice with plantain for them. The question is whether to cook more meat because if they find the leftovers and finish them dh will never forgive them

Math, you win! Phew, what a feast you produce there! I can't imagine getting that lot prepared myself. How the dickens do you do it?

Breakfast - pain au chocolate, brioche and bagels
Coffee and chocolate throughout morning
Lunch - roast chicken, roast potatoes, sausages and bacon on cocktail sticks, carrots, peas, sprouts, parsnips, gravy. Pudding is brownies and ice cream/pavlova or Xmas Pud.
Booze and chocolates throughout afternoon
Tea - crackers, cheese, crisps, leftovers.
More booze more chocolates.

What is potato casserole? Sounds lovely.

It's this www.dlc.fi/~marian1/gourmet/xmas6.htm
although makes it sound more complicated than it is, I just boil the potatoes, mash them, then mix in some flour and leave it in the oven overnight with the oven set at 50C to sweeten naturally (usually add a bit of syrup when cooking it the next day anyway)

@mathanxiety I just read that out to my DH and now we're sat fantasising about your Christmas dinners. Amazing!

@JourneyToThePlacentaOfTheEarth
I'm vegetarian but my MIL always does a few different meats and it always goes down really well!

And Lidl cheesecake 🤤 it's 8.30am here and I'm bloody starving now.

Pre-DCs, a late breakfast of champagne, smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, then christmas dinner after the queen's speech.

Now, we do champagne and croissants for breakfast, and eat dinner about 1, pudding after the queen's speech.

A few warm nibbly bits late morning.

No one likes turkey so the last few years we've done beef Wellington, individual pouissans, salmon and a goose.

Always potato dauphinoise, shredded sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, braised red cabbage, pigs in blankets and steamed carrots - all able to be prepped ahead of time and either left in the oven with the meat or finished very quickly on the stove top.

No one likes Christmas pudding either; there is usually a pudding of a different kind (sticky toffee, steamed marmalade) and also a pavlova.

And cheese. Always cheese.

This year I will be having scrambled egg with a tiny portion of smoked salmon, soup turkey with a roast potato,veg and gravy,no pigs in blankets etc. Maybe a small piece of Christmas pudding and brandy butter. Evening will probably be crackers and cottage cheese,. It's not fair being unable to eat fat at Christmas

I cheat and use my bread machine for the cinnamon roll and Palmer House roll doughs. George Foreman grill for rashers and sausages. Scrambled eggs are DS's 'thing' so he does that.

The DCs are responsible for table setting and clearing, and I load the dishwasher my way and unload it, so I will know where everything is. I usually end up with three loads on Christmas Day, and one Christmas Eve.

I find roast dinners very easy on the cook - timing is important so I count back from expected end time for the roast beef and all is usually well. I enjoy peeling spuds and swigging sipping a little wine.

Desserts - made the day before or even two days before.
Pumpkin pie is very easy - can of this, can of that, spices, molasses, eggs and bob's your uncle - so is pavlova, and tiramisu too. Extra pumpkin pie pastry is wrapped around the Brie next day to bake, if we go with the Brie. The buche is a bit fiddly to engineer but is really an easy sponge. I use the same mascarpone/cream filling as the pavlova with mini choc chips or grated orange peel thrown in, and the icing is a choc buttercream one of the DCs can make. One particular DD likes icing projects. Sometimes I make little decorative mushrooms with meringue from the pavlova mix.

I like our late meal as opposed to a Christmas lunch. I don't feel rushed.

Fruit salad and yoghurt for breakfast.

Smoked salmon/canapes with champagne after Mass at friends house.

Full Christmas lunch but no starter.

A sandwich, sausage roll, cheese and biscuits or crumpets if people want some supper.