Ideal menu on Christmas Day

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Hit me with your perfect menu for Xmas day please ... in detail!

I am an early planner haha

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Ooh almond croissants. That's like a classy donut. I might do that instead especially as no-one else in my house eats nuts so I'd have them all to myself!

My house too, the almond croissants are all for me!

Love your username BTW

Thanks, Groot. Annoyingly the MN username field is one letter too short!

Breakfast Brunch - Croissants, scrambled eggs, bacon for kids. Bagels & smoked salmon for us with Bucks Fizz

Christmas Dinner -
Prawns or Pate
Roast Turkey, Ham, Roast potatoes, Pigs in Blankets, Stuffing, Carrots & Parsnips - honey glazed, Brussell sprouts, Sometimes Dauphinois potatoes or Cauliflower cheese - depends who is cooking. Bread sauce Gravy Cranberry sauce.
Some kind of cheesecake/festive dessert usually from M&S
Wine & Prosseco
Supper
Turkey sandwhiches
Cheese board
Nibbles
Chocolate

My ideal food plan for christmas day would be:

Breakfast

Eggs Royale (From the bottom up: half good quality english muffin, ripe mashed avocado, squeeze of lemon, smoked salmon, poached egg, holendiase, fresh dill) and champagne

Lunch

Starter - Soup (French onion with a cheese crouton) & nice white wineOR really good chunky pate, with toast and chutney.

Main - Lamb Roast (Shoulder of lamb with rosemary and garlic, mashed carrot and swede, braised red cabbage, roast parsnips, par-boiled then roasted broccoli, small crispy roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, sage and onion stuffing, lamb gravy and mint sauce) & nice red wine

Desert - Mini christmas puds with lots of brandy butter / cream+ dessert wine

Tea

Cold platter (cheese - including blue, goat, smoked, hard, and camembert - roast ham, fresh homemade bread, pickles, chutneys and savoury jam) and of course port!

Afters

Benedicts peppermint creams

Yes to Bendick's bittermints.

Breakfast - orange juice, good coffee, croissants, pastries
Noon(ish) - smoked salmon canapés and fizz round at mums
Lunch - turkey crown, roasties, red cabbage, roast parsnips, stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy, shredded sprouts. Usually too stuffed for pudding but ice cream or trifle or Christmas pudding available if anyone wants
Tea - leftovers, sandwiches, crisps, pickles etc

Breakfast: chocolates () and just toast.
Nibbles: crisps and roasted peanuts, Buck’s Fizz
Lunch: We have christmas lunch at around 2pm which is beef/pork/chicken meats, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puds, boiled potatoes, swede, roasties, brocoli, carrots, mushy peas, stuffing, sprouts, braised red cabbage, cauliflower cheese.
Dessert: Christmas pud, cream, Brandy sauce.

5pm strawberry gateau, trifle, Christmas cake, stollen.
9/10pm supper: cold meats, salad, fresh bread, boiled eggs, olives, cheese board, nibbles.

Tea, Champagne, lager, wine, coke, juices to drink...

Breakfast
We will have bacon sandwiches and crack open the champagne

Christmas lunch
Rare roast rib of beef
Roast ham
Goose fat roasties
Braised red cabbage
Honey roast parsnips
Glazed carrots
Sprouts with chestnuts and bacon
Yorkshire pudding
Bread sauce
Horseradish
A river of thick gravy

Dessert
I don't make dessert so a Marks and Sparks trifle and whatever else tickles my fancy

Supper
Christmas sandwiches on sourdough
Chocolate
Cheese plate

I CANT WAIT FOR CHRISTMAS

Ideally?

Breakfast: poached egg on toast

Lunch: starter of scallops and black pudding.
Main; turkey and ham. Roasties and sausage stuffing. Sprouts in pancetta. Mash and loads of gravy.
Dessert; trifle.

Evening: cheese board
Turkey and ham sandwich
Some chocolate and drinks.

Here's mine:

Not all of it I have but some I do some years

Breakfast = smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with warm croissants with salted butter.

Pigs in blankets hot dogs

Bucks fizz and Baileys coffee.

Lunch= rare roast beef, all the trimmings so yorkies, red wine gravy, broccoli, cabbage and pancetta, parsnips, Cauliflower cheese, spiced red cabbage, peas and leeks in cream, more pigs in blankets, maybe some carrots but I'm least fussed about those.

Pudding = dark chocolate torte, coffee, baileys.

Tea = cold meats and cheese board. Bit of everything but must have Celery, pickled walnuts, grapes and a baked camembert by law.

Red wine with this and then pass out watching shit TV.

Yes I have a big appetite

Some of Waitrose foods for Christmas is online.... I will add the chocolate candles to my pudding list!

Waitrose Christmas Food

Cinnamon buns for breakfast.

Starter - Pate, soup or prawn cocktail
Main - Turkey, ham, beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire's, mashed swede, stuffing, pigs in blankets, sprouts, cauliflower
Pudding - usually a chocolate bomb or similar and Christmas pudding (which no one wants)

Copious amounts of alcohol.

I also make my way through a bag of cashews throughout the day.

Attached is my meal from almost five years ago when I was pregnant and finally over HG!

Breakfast:
Champagne served with Smoked salmon and scrambled egg (made with 5 eggs, 150ml of double cream and a BIG dessert spoon of lurpack) served with a butter covered bagel

Lunch:
Roast duck served with a sticky plum sauce
Roast potatoes
Carrots boiled in honey and butter
Sprouts halved and fried with garlic and panchetta
Swede boiled, mashed and mixed with double cream and butter
Homemade Yorkshire puddings
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Gravy (made properly with stock, flour,, butter and some duck fat)

Pudding: usually a choice of homemade Christmas cake, a festive M&S cheesecake or ice cream (or a mixture)

Dinner: A buffet spread usually consisting of M&S festive salads/coleslaw; cold seafood; cheeseboard; Crisps and dips; cakes

We host every year. Just the 4 of us for breakfast, usually 10-12 of us for lunch, then extended family join us for tea.

B- pain au chocolat and orange juice
L- champagne. Smoked salmon, prawns, brown bread and butter, salad
Pause for presents
Roast pork, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts with chestnuts, parsnips, gravy, apple sauce
Pause again
Trifle/ ice cream Christmas pudding/ mince pie with brandy cream

Evening Cheese, biscuits, mince pie. If room!

Boxing Day
B- Bacon sandwiches
L- Cheese and biscuits, stand pie, salad.
D- Bubble and squeak

Bookmum08, you need to go to NZ, you'd love Christmas Day there! (I'm making a bold assumption you aren't there.)

In NZ, our day would be:
Breakfast: eggs benedict, with DH's kickarse homemade hollandaise and salmon, with mimosas
Lunch: On the barbie: Crayfish (like lobster), with garlic butter, marinaded steak, sausages, cos, barbie, greek marinade lamb skewers, teriyaki chicken skewers, and then with a lovely green salad, potato salad, new potatoes, minted peas, corn cobs, followed by pavlova and trifle. With much wine.
Tea: the fridge is over there, sort yourself out. I ain't moving.

Over here:
Breakfast: As above.
Lunch: we don't do turkey, there's only the four of us. We do our roast chicken with lovely home-made stuffing according to Mum's recipe, which, as ever, she's left out a crucial ingredient, so it never tastes as good as hers! And home-made gravy. There's creamy garlic mash, and roasted parsnips, kumara, and pumpkin. Still have to have the minted green peas, plus asparagus, baby carrots, and brussies.
Dessert is gluten free Christmas puddings, with custard and whipped cream. And far too much wine.
Tea: The fridge is over there. Sort yourselves out. I ain't moving. Be a dear, and fill Mum's glass on the way past, would you?!

Breakfast -
Coffee to get things rolling (mt DC are adults now so won't emerge till after 9am)

Breakfast - orange juice , pancakes and syrup for DC and me , toast and scrambled eggs for DH , more coffee

Dinner after Dark ( used to be after dark but before Dr Who but we don;t watch it now)

Chicken for DS and the cats
Vegetarian Quorn Roast and Lidl Nut Roast
Loads of roast potatoes (Maris Piper done in sunflower oil)
Yprkshire Puddings (I make the day before and freeze )
Carrot
Swede cooked and done in a puree
New potatoes
Sprouts of course -
Chestnuts
Paxo Sage&Onion
Vegetarian Gravy
Cauliflower Cheese
Peas

No-one eats pudding so I don;t kid myself .

Maybe ice-cream and a Sainsbury Bakery Mince Pie warmed up

We eat at the table , decorated , candles .

Later on, chocolate , coffee , roll off to bed

We don't have leftovers , Boxing Day is put on a pizza dough to knead in the mixer then prove all day . Divide out , everyone does their own toppings .

Breakfast
Magnum of Veuve
Homemade eggnog
Stocking chocolate
croissants

Lunch starter
More Veuve
Mulled wine
stuffed mushrooms

Lunch main
roast lamb/ prime rib + roast chicken
goose fat roast potatoes
parsnips
Swede
corn
Brussels roasted with bacon
Broccoli/cauliflower cheese
pigs in blankets
Stuffing

Dessert
Chocolate mousse with caramel Centre
Cheesecake probably with eggnog poured on top

Later on...
Cheese and crackers
Eggnog
Port
Whisky probably
Rum

That being said, we may go to Ritz for Christmas brunch this year (live overseas) so only the alcohol may apply.

I do love doing Christmas at home but equally love drinking without worrying if the potatoes are crispy enough. What usually happens is that I buy the food and then do a homemade Xmas lunch on boxing day. I don't care how fancy the hotel brunch is, it's never like homemade roasts.

Forgot - obviously Yorkshire puddings. Last year I bought 4 packets of the waitrose ones, they're like gold dust over here!

mbosnz no I am not in New Zealand. Although my parents thought about emigrating in circa 1969 so in an alternative world I could have been born a Kiwi
Unfortunately the rest of the family like the 'proper' xmas dinner stuff. I leave my husband to get on with it. I like pressies and decorations. He likes the food.

Breakfast- smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, bagels and champagne

Lunch- Turkey, ham and all the trimmings

Pudding

Evening buffet- left overs and M&S party treats

Followed by cheese board and port

Oh @NerosFiddle I’m a boring fucking vegan now but a starter of scallops and black pudding sounds AMAZING

@IJumpedAboardAPirateShip you have more willpower that me

Keep tweaking the menu each year and nearly got it perfect for me/us now - changed things to reduce kitchen prep time and clear up time afterwards as that was becoming a real hassle.

Breakfast (put out on table for self-service): mini cereal boxes, panettone, fresh OJ, corner fruit yoghurts

Xmas Dinner: smoked salmon canapes (ritz crackers, cream cheese and smoked salmon) served before lunch, then no starter but straight into full traditional roast turkey but with more pre-prepared items than we'd normally have (chilled pre-prepared trays of roast potatoes in goose fat, pre-cut bag of mixed fresh veg including sprouts, frozen 50p yorkshire puddings that take 5 mins in oven). Pudding - always have xmas pud and carton of brandy sauce ready but rarely any takers.

Supper/snacks for rest of day is help yourself from the fridge leftovers plus Whist pies from local shop.

We've just started hosting so still developing our own style. But the last few years:
Christmas Eve - some kind of fish dinner
Christmas day:
Breakfast - we open presents in the morning and have a glass of bucks fizz and a cup of tea whilst doing so.
9/10am - my dad makes a huge saucepan full of porrige. Even through we host my dad is the one and only porrige maker. We have this with honey/ginger preserve/stewed fruits. Baked croissants after and a cup of coffee.

1pm - lunch - a ham I baked the day before with crusty bread, coleslaw, salad etc.

6pm - dinner - Roast goose, goose gravy, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, green beans, purple cabbage (if I can be bothered/have made it in advance) homemade pigs in blankets (sitting and wrapping sausages in bacon is such a strong childhood memory), broccoli, parsnips and sprouts.
Pudding - served straight after usually and is either Xmas Pud with cream or brandy butter (or both) or mince pies depending on the person.
Later - cheese and crackers, a few leftovers and a slice of Christmas cake with creme and/or brandy butter.

I'd love to do a starter for dinner but given we have lunch and a big breakfast as well it would definitely be over kill.

Breakfast 10am

Cinnamon buns
Pain au chocolate
Fruit platter
Fresh Coffee
Orange juice

We don't eat Christmas Dinner until 5.

We don't have a starter.
Roast Turkey (brined)
Roast Potatoes with garlic and rosemary.
Roasted root veg - parsnips, carrots and swede.
Brussel Sprouts.
Cauliflower Cheese (in lieu of turkey for the vegetarians, but everyone likes this).
Sausages and rolls of bacon.
Stuffing - 1 vegetarian cooked in a dish and served with a spoon.

• 1 with sausagemeat served as balls.

Gravy

Later - Christmas Pudding with cream