Can we talk about food?

[Hetyanni]

What meals or snacks do you love over the Christmas period, apart from the actual Christmas Dinner?

For me it is:

Ham, egg and chips on Xmas eve
Homemade sausage roll wreath on boxing day or between Xmas and New year at some point
Boxing day sandwich with leftovers
Posh cheese with chutney and port
Home made sugar biscuits (make with ds and hang on the tree)
Mulled wine
M&S Irish cream truffles - buy myself a box every year!

Mince pies
Quality Street
Cheese
Buffet food on Xmas Eve
A massive ham

@Hetyanni

God I love pigs in blankets. They should really be a thing all year round.

They are. Sainsbury's sell them all year (frozen food section).

How do you make a sausage roll wreath?! Sounds amazing!

@ToooOldForThis

How do you make a sausage roll wreath?! Sounds amazing!

So easy! Mix sausage meat with sage and onion stuffing (cooked). Put inside a big long sheet of ready roll puff pastry with fresh sage leaves. Make a big sausage roll then make slits in it and fashion into a circle. Brush with egg and bake! I put a pot of port and cranberry sauce in the middle- delicious

@MrsPnut

Leftover pigs in blankets dipped in leftover bread sauce, eaten whilst standing with the fridge door open.

Chinese on Christmas Eve always as my kitchen closes mid afternoon until Christmas Day.

I have already ordered my cheese from The Cheese Society and am thinking about the leftover beef sandwiches I am going to make with fried cheese and onions.

Omg 🤤

I bought a bottle of the creamy amaretto last year and tbh would rather have the non creamy one or Bailey's.

Cheese and chocolates/treats we don't normally have including Christmas cake are things I really enjoy. Also left over roast goose and stuffing in a sandwich. Granary bread preferably.

Leftover Turkey sandwich with thick ish bread and butter with pickled red cabbage on Christmas Day night

DP's version -

Homemade chilli cheese straws branches
Lasagne
Black Pudding, fried egg and fried bread
Christmas dinner with minimal vegetables
Christmas pudding, brandy butter and clotted cream
Mince pies with brandy butter and clotted cream
Ice cream
Biscuits
Pigs in blankets
Crackers and cheese
Pickles everywhere
Gammon for about three weeks

My all new, shiny, celiac friendly and inconveniently cows' milk/lactose free version -

GF charcuterie
Melon
Olives
Grilled artichokes
Grapes
Cherries
Goat/Ewes' cheese
Cherry tomatoes
Cucumber

Asparagus and boiled eggs

Smoked salmon/trout, lemon and dill potato salad
Smoked Mackerel salad
Chilli prawn salad

Christmas dinner with steamed carrots, swede, petits pois, parsnips, potatoes with fresh Rosemary, unfucked with sprouts, caraway red cabbage, GF sage and onion, redcurrant/mint/apple sauce, mustard, GF gravy

Mega fruit salad with guaranteed passionfruit
Little Moons

A small amount of gammon with HM Pease pudding & red cabbage with caraway.

As many wanky and overpriced juices as possible.

It all sounds so very bloody worthy. But it's better than the common thing these days of 'I fucking give up', having another GF/DF protein shake and sulking because there's bugger all in the house or local supermarkets that's edible beyond a bag of potatoes.

Cold turkey, chips coleslaw and pickled onions
Turkey and pickled onion sandwiches on white bread with lots of butter
Cheese and biscuits and pickled onions
(Bit of a theme here)
Elizabeth Shaw mints
Lindt reindeer many!
Turkey and mushroom curry