Christmas Veg

[LyannaStarktheWolfMaid]

I never get this right - either there’s loads left over that gets chucked away, or I feel like there’s something missing off the plate. What do you do? (besides roast potatoes, they don’t count!)

We definitely have mash plus roasts. Big Irish family of potato lovers!
We also do Brussels, carrots, peas, parsnips and broccoli.
So excited for Christmas Dinner! Best part of Christmas for me.

I feel rather inadequate reading some of these vegetable lists.
I do roast spuds and roast parsnips.
Carrots (batons) finished with chopped mint, salt and pepper, a little sugar and lots of butter.
Sprouts.
Bread sauce, lots and home made with butter and cream added.
Pigs in blankets.
Sausage meat stuffing.(cooked in the breast area of the turkey)
Giblet gravy.
Cranberry (from a jar)
So many people have red cabbage. Don't you find the flavour rather strong with the turkey? I must say it's not my favourite thing, but perhaps my recipe isn't very good. What's the secret?

I do the Nigella Cherry Coke ham on Christmas Eve and cook the red cabbage in the juices on Christmas Day

Oh and we have mushy peas too! Can’t have a roast dinner without mushy peas!!!

roasties
red cabbage
roasted parsnips
sprouts - shredded and stirfried with cream.

That's plenty for us when you add in turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets and yorkshires.

Red cabbage with apple
Sprouts with bacon
Roast carrots and parsnips

Obviously also stuffing, pigs in blankets, sauces and

This year I'm roasting beef, so there'll also be Yorkshire puddings for the first time ever on Christmas Day.

DM is apoplectic that I'm deviating from turkey, and so is bringing her own turkey crown and scorning the eighty quid beef joint I've splashed out on

Christmas day will be roast carrots and roast parsnips, sprouts and possibly peas or green beans. But it's only 4 of us.

Nyd will be roast parsnips and carrots, sprouts, braised red cabbage and either brocolli or cauliflower. I might do cauliflower cheese.

And roast and mash potatoes both days.

Sprouts, roasted carrot and parsnip, broccoli, cauliflower cheese. No mash. Roasties only. Also Yorkshire puddings and chestnut stuffing as well as pigs in blankets and pork stuffing balls.

I do
roast + boiled spuds
sprouts
peas
carrots
yorkie puds
leak +leak in cheese sauce
roast parsnips and parsnip mash
meaty and meat free stuffing
everything usually gets eaten somewhere along the line or frozen for later

This thread is making me so hungry! Thankfully dinner is almost ready.

We usually do cauliflower cheese, peas, carrots, Parmesan roast parsnips and Brussel sprouts.

We do red cabbage on Boxing Day.

I never think of making Bubble and Squeak. Will def do that this year. Also really like the sound of the creamed leeks.

Braised red cabbage - as you can make it two days before and therefore just heat up on the day

Green beans - again easy to blanch fir just over 5 minutes

Brussels, cauliflower and broccoli 🥦

Then roast parsnips and carrots 🥕

I love bubble and squeak, so we eat this for the next three to four days with cold meat and pickle

I just mash up all the vegetables in one saucepan then keep in Tupperware in fridge.

Easy cooking 😉

Apart from the roast potatoes, we will be having:
Roast parsnips
Sweet potato mash
Sprouts (unadulterated with bacon, chestnuts etc)
Carrots and peas (only veg my husband will eat)

Plus cranberry sauce, bread sauce, pigs in blankets, pigs without blankets, bacon, chestnutty stuffing, gravy and turkey.

Totally read that as "Christmas Vag" and was like

What?! Is this a thing now?! We have to Chrimbo the vag too

Roast parsnips with parmesan, so crazy good
Roast brussels with pancetta
Peas
Green beans with almonds and lemon butter with extra lemon zest for DS3 who loves lemon
Maybe some carrots if I’m not too sqwiffy by then
Gravy laced with brandy
Cranberry relish
I might do bread sauce as I live it, but no one else will eat it
Chipolatas
Streaky bacon roll ups

Christmas is not (veggie) Christmas without roast beetroot.

I cook loads.

Leftovers get turned into pasties.

Roasted carrots and parsnips
Creamy leeks
Roast potatoes
Brussels with pancetta and pomegranate
Green beans with herby butter

Bread sauce- Home made
Pigs in blankets
Sausage and cranberry terrine
Stuffing balls

Turkey

Champagne

Carrots, swede, parsnips and Brussels.

Red cabbage!!’

Roast and mashed potatoes
Sprouts
Roast parsnips and carrots
Pre prepared braised red cabbage
Possibly peas

Leftover veg gets blended for soup here 😁

Can I make mashed potato the day before and microwavevit or will it be minging?

We will be having mash and roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Parnips
Carrots
Peas
Maybe sweetcorn for ds2

Best way to reheat mashed potato is to reheat in the pan. Add a little extra milk/butter/cream and it tastes just as good as you first made it. I really don't like it microwaved. I always make more than we need for a Sunday dinner so we have some for Monday or Tuesday's tea.

I reheat mash in a slow cooker, it will keep it warm for hours. Just add a bit extra milk and butter

Carrots, sprouts, parsnips. Too much faff to do anything else. And only roast potatoes - lots of lovely crispy ones.

I don't know how people manage to do lots of different veg and three kinds of potatoes as well. Either they must have multiple ovens/hobs, or else they must cook in advance and reheat, which sounds a bit bleurgh to me. Our veg are all done last minute, straight from pan to table.

Lyana, I don't roast them together but it's an idea. Might try that this year. I cut a slice from the top of the pepper and remove the seeds. I paint the outside with olive oil and roast in the oven for about 40 minutes. I could distribute slices of pepper among the parsnips and roast them together...