Can I have some meal suggestions!

[MelanieCheeks]

I still haven't decided what to cook for Christmas Day!

Now, it's just me and DH, but the list of foods we both like is very small.

He likes red meat-I'm not a fan.
I like fish-h will eat it if there's are no bones, and salmon is a no-no.
Doesn't like turkey, and goose or duck are too fatty.
Have done chicken before, but seems boring.
Veg are less of an issue, we both love sprouts, parsnips, mushrooms, chestnuts.

Hit me with your ideas!

We're having pheasant and pork, which is like turkey but not, and like red meat but not.

With sprouts, red cabbage and potato dauphinois, stuffing, bread sauce, gravy and pigs in blankets.

Who don't you cook steak for your dh and a salmon encroute or whatever else that you fancy with the same vegetable trimmings.

Lots of supermarkets have smaller portions or packs of two of Christmas mains. If there's just the two of you then I'd buy in the main but prepare the veg myself.

Go veggie, Waitrose do some lovely veg wellingtons (as do lidl).

Tournedos Rossini. OK, completely ignores your not red meat request. Someone suggested this to me and I did it two years running for Christmas, once budget-style and once money-is-no-object-style. Both were amazing and even better it only takes 30 min in the kitchen.

Piece of beef fillet on seared foie gras any nice pate will do on toasted brioche with truffle any nice mushrooms and a Madeira sauce made with stock you got in a packet at Waitrose. Serve with roast baby veg.

Was really easy, unbelievably luxurious, even in the budget version and no eating leftovers for days.

Do something completely different, like paella with chicken and prawns if you both like prawns, or sole Veronique with sole fillets, or scallops in a white wine sauce served with duchess potatoes (no bones in scallops!).

How about a slow cooked pork belly?

Guinea fowl, pheasant or quails are good as you get one each. Pork perhaps, Aldi has a nice porchetta joint in freezer

Mushroom and chestnut wellington

Or

Quail/partridge/similar

Or go completely outside the box. Baked Camembert with gorgeous bread. Curry. Tapas.

Another idea - where did you go on holiday this year?

Have a look at what they eat for Christmas there, and do that.

Have successfully done Scandi, Greek, Spanish and Italian Christmases. A lot of different food and no turkey or red meat.

However if you went anywhere that does carp as Christmas centrepiece, don't bother with that. Hungarian Christmas was nice with the exception of the carp which can only be described as minging.

if it's cooked right, duck doesn't have to be fatty at all, as all the fat drains off.
Really good pork with crackling?
Chunky hake steaks, boned and wrapped in parma ham or chorizo then roasted might be good.

Great ideas, thanks!

We had 2 holidays this year-a week in a Motorhome in Ireland, where I cried every day, but the scenery was fab! Food highlights were " one eyed jacks" eggs, and " soup and sandwiches"

And New York/ Las Vegas, where the food highlights were little Korea, and chilli dogs :-)

Chilli dogs would be novel

A mushroom wellington? MnS has an amazing looking one

Just watching nigella doing duck with ginger orange sauce, and spiced red cabbage. I think I'm going for that! He'll want to do a gammon which will provide alternatives, and leftovers.

Oh and the salted caramel ice cream!