What foods and drinks make your Christmas?

[FlatteredFool]

For me it's Quality Street (even though they taste rubbish compared to when I was little) and fried potato sandwiches for breakfast. The smell of the quality street tin or tub is one of my favourite smells and they smell the same even if they don't taste the same. There's other things too but those two are the main ones for me.

Bubble and squeak, Terry's chocolate orange, cream crackers, KP salted nuts, sandwiches made with the Christmas dinner leftovers in white bloomer. Mmmmm.

Yes to homemade bread sauce, my DH loves it

Chateauneuf, Margaux, Glenmorangie, Cointreau, Tanqueray 10 for G and Ts, Sauternes to go with pate. Boom

Kind of boring really, but for me it's the turkey. I started brining our turkey several years ago and they just taste so much better. Lovely and juicy, not dried out like I used to make.

Along with homemade cranberries.

Lebkuchen.

Orange and lemon slice sweets (although they aren’t as good these days). My grandma always let me have the round one in the middle :)

Leftover sandwich - part baked baguette cooked, with turkey, stuffing and pigs in blankets. Mayo on one side, cranberry sauce on the other.

I bought some pretzel sticks yesterday and at first glance DH thought they were twiglets. He said, “is it Christmas?”

🤣

Martini Asti!

Christmas dinner

Having said that, the last couple of years we've decided to do something different.

One CHRISTMAS we did Indian food. Another year we did fish and chips. Took the pressure off tbh

No idea why Christmas is in capitals 🤷🏽‍♀️

Baileys
Toblerone
La Vigilia (christmas eve fish feast - when at my ILs in Italy, I've missed this so much!!!)

Another vote for PLEASE TELL US ABOUT THE FRIED POTATO SANDWICH 😍

Elvis used to eat fried potato sandwiches. Fry sliced potato and bung it between 2 slices of bread, you can add anything else you want to it.

Baileys and orange matchmakers

MilduraS if you didn’t mind I’d love to know how to make potato croquettes and not sure what they are! Do you make mash then fry it I wonder?

@LoveFall

Brined Turkeys are the way forward!!!

So many delicious things listed. I must say the Roses and Quality Street don’t appeal to me and I prefer the real food, I love the turkey and roast potatoes and Brussels. And I too can’t resist bread sauce. We always eat on special plates too that are really pretty and belonged to great grandparents if not family before that. Which makes it special too.
Marrons glacées also great and love champagne at 12 as only day drink that early!

Seriously come back OP! I'm place marking to find out more about the fried potato sandwich.

Baileys, Bucks Fizz and Trifle!

Mince pies and cream
Buck's Fizz
Eggnog (made it myself for the first time ever last year, and it was amazing. Been looking forward to Christmas all year so I can make some more)
Brie
Pigs in blankets
Spiced rum
Homemade Christmas cookies (I make shortbread and gingerbread)
Twiglets
Those Christmas tree shaped cheese crackers in the tall tub .... are they called cheezits? I can't remember, but I love them.
Just the Christmas snacks in general.

Warm Turkey sarnies with lots of butter and salt eaten on Christmas Eve.
Boursin and crackers.
Brandy and babycham (when I can find it) - a traditional toast to a late family member.
Coffee with whisky in with Twilight mints (my reward for cooking dinner, usually taken in a haze when watching Call The Midwife).

Weirdly, after always loving them for 50 years, I went off mince pies and Christmas cake two years ago and now can’t stand the stuff.

@fantastaballs

Roast pork and sausage meat stuffing sandwiches on Christmas Eve. Waffles and maple syrup for breakfast on Christmas day. The sausage meat stuffing , bacon wrapped meat loaf that I make is amazing and distinctly festive. Home made sausage rolls spiced with mine meat and clementines and cranberries.

I bloody love Christmas.

Oh, my God! Are you accepting applications for new friends atm?

Baileys.
Ridiculous amounts of fizz.
Mince pies.
Pigs.
Yule log.
After Eights.
Proper Turkish Delight.
Star shaped pretzels.
Nuts in shells.
Satsuma/clementine/tangerine whatever little oranges it is.

Egg nog
Mince pies
Mulled wine (outside of food - anything that smells of mulled wine)
After eights and mint crisps
Sprouts (love them but for some reason I never buy them except at Xmas)
Stollen (very excited to hear that someone on this thread has made Stollen. Not sure why I never considered that before but this evening is now going to focus on recipe searching).
1970's trifle eaten for boxing day Xmas
Toblerone
Nuts in shells

Bols Advocaat, with white lemonade. I remember being allowed have a sip as a child (probably not the best parenting) and loving it. I desperately want to buy it to see if it’s as good as I think I remember but at 20 quid a bottle I can’t help but think I’ll hate it

@2020inhindsight and @LoveFall completely agree about brining the turkey! It was a game changer for us.

What a delightful thread!

Since childhood: homemade chocolate chip cookies made by my mom and me, best Florida naval oranges, After Eights, hot cocoa with marshmallows, Christmas Eve steak dinner, Christmas morning apple pancakes, Christmas Day turkey dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy, sauerkraut, Brussels sprouts, and cranberry sauce, more chocolate chip cookies...

As an adult, all of the above plus Champagne.

Since moving to London, I've added Fortnum and Mason's little glacé plums they have only at Christmas time, Fabrique bakery's saffron buns, and these lovely little mince pies from the bakery near my office.

We have chocolate babka for Christmas breakfast now, we never have it other times so that is very Christmassy for me. Plus mince pies and cinnamon buns.