Tell me your Christmas menus

[Kendodd]

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, all of it, I need ideas!

I'm thinking for brekkie:

Cinnamon buns

Lunch:

Prawn cocktail starter.
No meat pork and cranberry Wellington (from tesco) with a load of roast dinner kind of sides.

Dinner:

Probably some frozen and fresh party food nibbles just whack them in the oven when we fancy them ie spring rolls, cheese n crackers

Breakfast

Coffee. Mulled apple juice. Croissants

Lunch

Starter of goats cheese and beetroot salad with walnuts
Turkey, stuffing, roasties, sprouts with bacon lardons and balsamic reduction, carrots, gravy and Yorkshire puddings

Dessert is usually later in the afternoon after a walk, this year trifle has been requested and maybe profiteroles or fruit crumble.

Evening time is turkey sandwiches and picky bits like cheese, crackers, nuts and my own body weight in Terry's chocolate orange.

Breakfast
M&S triple chocolate panettone

Lunch

Starter
Watermelon and feta salad with mint dressing

Main
Full roast

Dessert
Sainsbury’s chocolate star

Evening meal
Salad items
Pickles
Cheese
Cured meats
Crackers
Bread

Breakfast: Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast and a coffee (me), chocolate croissants and tangerines (DS)

Lunch: pea & ham soup, roast lamb with roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, peas, redcurrant jelly, mint sauce, followed by mince pies and ginger ice cream.

Supper: home cooked ham, olive scones, assorted cheeses, biscuits, salad, pickles, dips. If anyone has any room: Christmas pud & cream.

Breakfast - Dd will probably have some fruit
Lunch - going out
Evening - a ham sandwich with some Pringles and a piece of light fruit cake.

Our Christmas food is pretty restrained

@MintJulia please would you say where you get the ginger ice cream from? I am always looking for it but it has disappeared from my local supermarkets!

Breakfast

Full Scottish - bacon, square sausage, eggs, potato scones, black pudding, tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, fruit juice.

Dinner

Melon, prawn cocktail, salmon mouse or pâté to start

Turkey with chipolata sausages, stuffing, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, mashed and roast potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy.
Or mushrooms stuffed with goats cheese and sage & onion stuffing.

Profiteroles with hot chocolate sauce or ice cream and jelly.

Supper

Leftovers

That's for 6 adults and 4 children.

Breakfast: bacon sandwiches and orange juice for the grown ups, cinnamon buns for the dc

Lunch: prawn and smoked salmon starter

Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, honey roast parsnips, glazed carrots, tender stem broccoli

Yule log and ice cream for pudding

Dinner:
Cheese board, crackers, chutneys, grapes and candied nuts for the grown ups. Christmas chocolate for the dc.

That's Xmas day. Can someone start a thread for Christmas Eve?! I need ideas! 😂

@Liverbird77 this one is a good recipe and you don't need a machine to make it

www.deliaonline.com/recipes/occasions/christmas/christmas-recipes-to-freeze-for-christmas/stem-ginger-ice-cream

@liverbird77 I make my own, a week or so beforehand.

I used to buy it from the local deli but they don't keep it any more .

breakfast- easy but nice so pastries & cream cheese/salmon/bagels with juice.

christmas dinnner which is huge & eat around 3/4pm

will eat cheese/crackers at 6ish

trifle 8pm ish

snack on crisps, nuts etc throughout day.

usually just do melon for starter as honestly the christmas dinner is a mountain

Breakfast: Bacon Bagels

Lunch: roast duck,roast turkey,roast lamb,mash,roasties,pigs in blankets,swede/carrot mash,sprouts,parsnips,stuffing,Yorkshire puddings.

Dinner: booze and snacks bits

Breakfast of croissants and Buck's Fizz

Lunch starter of hot nibbles, then a very traditional Xmas turkey dinner. No one likes Xmas pudding so chocolate mousse pots plus whatever my SIL brings

Cheese and biscuits later on. And port

Any old breakfast for those who eat breakfast. Might buy some croissants which we generally only have on birthdays.

From 11am loads of snacks of the unhealthy variety, nuts, booze, a few little heated up M&S treats.

4-5pm Christmas dinner - turkey and all the rest although I never bother with bread sauce. But we have posh stuffing, pigs in blankets, parsnips and sprouts in addition to the usual Sunday roast so that elevates it a bit and a jar of cranberry sauce for DH who is the only one who likes it.

Pudding, a mince pie, brandy butter and cream a bit later in front of TV.

Simple but kinda traditional.

Breakfast: Pannatone and Bucks Fizz

Lunch: Canapés

                    Roast Turkey, Roast potatoes, Honeyroast parsnips and 
                    carrots, Sprouts with Bacon, Stuffing, Red cabbage, Pigs in 
                    Blankets, Cranberry sauce, Gravy

                    Christmas ice cream 
                     Black Forest pavlova

Tea/Supper: Cheeseboard
Mince Pies

Breakfast
Bucks Fizz, bacon and egg baps

Lunch
Fish - prawn cocktail, smoked salmon, battered prawns calamari, sushi, etc., blinis, salad

Supper around 5 ish
Full roast
Stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, bread sauce, pigs in blankets, carrot swede mash, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, roast parsnips, sprouts cabbage and leek with pancetta and chestnuts, meat (haven't decided yet)

Pudding later - Christmas pudding, brandy butter, cream or custard, chocolate trifle,

Christmas eve breakfast -
Out for a fry up
Lunch - party food from the freezer, cheeses, antipasti- picky bits
Dinner - Jamie Oliver jerk ham which we will have with egg and chips

Day breakfast - posh marmalade on posh toast, selection pack cereals for the kids, nice fruit juice, posh Christmas coffee
Lunch - roast turkey, pibs, roast potatoes, bread sauce, honey roast carrots and parsnips, sprouts sauted with green beans, tenderstem brocoli, gravy, cranberry sauce
Dinner - see Christmas eve lunch, plus cold cuts

Boxing day breakfast - cooked breakfast with bubble and squeak
Lunch - turkey sandwiches
Dinner - same as yesterday with addition of a sausage roll wreath and port and cranberry sauce

Sometime between Christmas and New Year I will do roast duck. Probably take away on new years eve and I will use up any leftover veg in a soup that I will freeze for work lunches.

Forgot Christmas day dessert - a pear frangipan tart with cream for adults, vanilla ice cream with mini marshmallows and Christmas sprinkles for the kids.

Chocolate all day every day

Something like

Breakfast
Potato cakes with Greek yoghurt and trout caviar and smoked salmon
Bucks Fizz

Lunch
Roast lamb with lemon and thyme roast potatoes and carrots
White chocolate and black pepper cheesecake with strawberry coulis
La Pameita Sparkling Shiraz

Dinner
Cheeseboard
Rest of the wines
Nuts and chocolates

@Dontbeme

Breakfast

Coffee. Mulled apple juice. Croissants

Lunch

Starter of goats cheese and beetroot salad with walnuts
Turkey, stuffing, roasties, sprouts with bacon lardons and balsamic reduction, carrots, gravy and Yorkshire puddings

Dessert is usually later in the afternoon after a walk, this year trifle has been requested and maybe profiteroles or fruit crumble.

Evening time is turkey sandwiches and picky bits like cheese, crackers, nuts and my own body weight in Terry's chocolate orange.

Mulled apple juice - lovely idea

boxing day we always have a fry up & then christmas dinner leftovers/sandwich's plus more snacking

Breakfast - the bake at home croissants and bucks fizz (& a handful whatever quality street/ roses ets that get opened first!)

Main meal - starter pate and chutney with sour dough toast
Main course - sirloin steak with asparagus and potatoes
Dessert - cranachan

Cheese board to nibble at later on in the evening

Breakfast: homemade cranberry-orange buns, scrambled eggs, bacon, mimosas. The bun dough is made the day before and does an overnight fridge rise - I take it out when I wake up, warm it up a bit, and then in it goes. Easy as can be.

-start the slow cooker mulled wine for the day -

Cocktail Hour(s): low sugar roumaki (water chestnuts wrapped in bacon with a sticky dressing), smoked salmon on cucumber bites, spicy nuts, bit of cheese and crackers

Dinner: Indian-spiced ham, mango chutney, stuffing balls, garlic mashed potatoes, red cabbage, and roasted root vegetables.

Post: (we open family gifts in the evening with dessert to spread out the day): dessert board with fancy chocs, sugar cookie cut outs, and miniature slabs of loaf cake. Brandy and whiskey, etc.

For Xmas Eve I think we are doing a venison Wellington, otherwise its mocequa (Brazillian fish stew). Whichever we don't choose is slotted in for NY Eve.

Planning the holiday menu is almost as much fun as cooking it!

Breakfast (7am) - porridge, coffee, tea

Brunch (11am) - smoked salmon, bread rolls, cheese, maybe a baked camembert, fruit

Christmas lunch / dinner (4pm) - full roast, chocolate yule log