Anyone have beef or venison for Christmas dinner.

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It's looking like it's going to be just our immediate family for Christmas Day.
So no point getting a turkey, and chicken doesn't seem that special.

Thinking about venison or beef instead.
But then all the accompanying veg and side dishes would be different too.

If you have roast beef or venison for Christmas, what cut do you get, and what do you serve alongside?

We usually have a nice rib of beef. Last year I bought a very expensive huge free range turkey and it was the driest mofo I’d ever eaten 🙈

If we can eat out this year we will - if not we will be back to rib of beef. Tesco usually do it half price in the week up to xmas.

We always have rib of beef for Xmas so it's christmassy for us (I could never justify spending that much on 1 meal at any other time of year and it's sooo much nicer than turkey).

We cook ours with the ribs in (adds to flavour massively and makes for a better gravy from juices). You can remove before you carve if you like or cut the joint in 2 along the "fat line" to get 2 different flavours of beef.

Normally have roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots, braised red cabbage and Yorkshire puddings. I cook from scratch and CBA with loads of bits. It's always too much anyway by the time you add in pudding.

If we want sausages/salmon etc we tend to do them on different days. We're mostly veggie (normally have meat once a week) and I feel ill if I eat meat too many days running so try to spread it out.