Christmas Dinner - what's on your plate?!

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I'm cooking this year, we're having:
Turkey
Ham
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing
Sage and onion stuffing
Yorkshire pudding (a request from DD)
Roast potatoes,
Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Sprouts (none of us like them but I still do them)
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
(Apple sauce, mint sauce and horseradish have also been requested)

Ive got peas and broccoli but I might not bother with them.

How about you?

Turkey
Gammon
Possibly beef and yorkies
Roast pots
New pots
Peas
Brocolli
Carrots
Parsnips
Cabbage
Pigs in blanekts
Stuffing
Apple sauce (home made)
Cranberry sauce (home made)
Mustard, mint sauce (jarred)
Gravy (bisto)

DS, 6will have
Pigs in blankets
Corn on the cob
Peas
Cheese
Cheese sticks
Alphablocks

Forgot to add, starter is a very old fashioned prawn cocktail and pudding is trifle made by my DH using his late mother's recipe

We have a new oven and I am a bit worried about it all fitting in…

christmas eve
Apple pork
Mash
Red cabbage

christmas day
Starter - tiny prawn cocktail
Main - sirloin beef
Gravy
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roast potatoes in goose fat
Honey roast parsnips and carrots
Parsnips fried with lardons
Then off to mum and dads for a cheese board and dessert!

Normal Boxing Day but inlaws are pitching up for the 27th so I am doing it all again but with a three bird roast so…
Three bird roast
Gravy
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roast potatoes in goose fat
Honey roast parsnips and carrots
Parsnips fried with lardons
Then trifle for dessert.

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Parsnips
Carrots
Sprouts
Gravy

I wanted cauliflower cheese too but no one else eats it so I'm not bothering

Oooh and sausagemeat stuffing!

We're a mixed household of pescatarians, meat eaters and vegans.

Starter: prawn cocktail
'Prawn' cocktail with fake prawns for the vegans

Mains:
Turkey crown
Possibly roast beef
Vegan 'turkey' crown

Roasted sprouts
Sage and onion stuffing
Sausage meat stuffing
Vegan pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Roasted parsnips
Roasted carrots
Mushy peas
Cabbage
Broccoli
Braised red cabbage
Yorkshire puddings
Veggie gravy
Meat gravy made with previously made chicken stock for those who eat meat
Cranberry sauce
Mint sauce for those who like to put it on EVERYTHING

Desserts
Christmas pudding for those who like it (urgh)
Some sort of cheesecake or hot cooked tart for the rest of us.

A huge amount of cheese and crackers.

I’m starving and this thread is making my stomach rumble.

@Indoctro Love your veggie dinner with all the cheese and all the carbs😋

We don’t have a starter and go straight into the main…

Roast chicken
Stuffed, rolled Turkey
Nigella’s ham in coke
Roast potatoes, parsnips & carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Braised red cabbage
Mashed swede
Mashed potato
Yorkshire puddings
Four types of stuffing - sage & onion, pork & chestnut, pork, cranberry & orange, American cornbread
Pigs in blankets
Steamed greens - sprouts, peas, broccoli

I’ve got a small Christmas pud & extra thick double cream for me & DH

Kids can choose from various desserts I’ve made/ got in - Yule log, trifle, raspberry tart, lemon meringue pie, various ice creams.

Always aim for a night time cheeseboard, but usually too stuffed, so that will probably wait for Boxing Day.

doing a buffet - vaguely tapas inspired

garlic shrimp
french bread
mushrooms stuffed with sausage stuffing
Patatas bravas with spicy sauce
beef (doing a roast on xmas eve so leftovers) with a blue cheese sauce and a peppercorn sauce
asparagus
brussels sprouts with pancetta
rocket salad with lemon thyme dressing
I might do some buffalo chicken tenders too.

We will have pancetta wrapped sausages for breakfast.

Turkey
Garlic roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Broccoli
Sprouts (for me)
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Yorkshire pudding
Gravy
Cranberry sauce (for him)

Peach crumble for dessert late evening

Starters

Salmon mousse, pate or melon

Turkey
Chipolata sausages
Sausage and sage & onion stuffing
Sprouts
Parsnips
Carrots
Mashed and roast tatties
Cranberry sauce

Desert

Melting middle chocolate puddings or make your own ice cream sundaes

No starter

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Home made nut roast Quorn fake chicken roast Veggie pigs in blankets Roast potatoes Roast parsnips Roast carrots Sprouts Cauliflower Broccoli Peas Yorkshires Gravy Bread sauce Cranberry sauce Apple sauce

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Trifle Christmas pudding Passion fruit meringue thing Chocolate mousse - - Gaviscon

This is my first year doing it gluten free which has proved easier than expected, and I'm only feeding 2 of us.

Stuffed turkey breast from Cook
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Pigs in blankets
Sausagemeat stuffing balls
Yorkshire puds
Mashed carrot and swede
Steamed sprouts
Red cabbage
Gravy
Cranberry and port sauce

I will enjoy the leftovers fried up as bubble and squeak on Boxing Day almost as much as the main dinner.

Pudding might be a lemon roulade, or Christmas pudding, or chocolate fondant, or, more likely tbh, Yule Log Vienetta chased down with a Snowball.

Turkey
Ham
Chipolatas
Stuffing
Gravy
Cranberry sauce
Mash
Sweet potato mash
Roast potatoes
Roast carrots and parsnips

Prawn and Lobster cocktail with brown bread and butter to start

Shin of beef with roast potatoes, mash, carrots and broccoli.

Cheese board and port. We don’t eat puddings.

I've got an autistic child so I have to cook what he will eat so I have a little bit of
Mash potatoes
Roast potatoes
Sprouts
Pigs in blankets
Beef
Chicken
Sage and onion stuffing
Yorkshire puddings
Carrots
Parsnips
Mint sauce 🤷‍♀️

Same as yours but just without yorkies, bread sauce or ham. We always put cranberry sauce out every year and no one ever touches it but my DM insists on having it!

Prawn cocktail for starters. Retro and I love it
We have our favourite meal for main which for me and DP is slow cooked beef cheeks and dauphinois potatoes. DC are having 3 different things.
Ice creams, Christmas puddings brandy snaps etc for pud

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing balls
Yorkshire
Cauliflower cheese
Swede and Carrot
Parsnips
Roast potatoes
Mash
Red Cabbage
Broad Beans
Peas
Runners
Broccoli
Leeks in White Sauce
Brussels
Bread, Cranberry and Mint Sauce
Makes an amazing bubble and squeak with gammon the next day too!
Joys of a veggie and fussy people with vegetables

Roast chicken
Proper gravy
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Celeriac gratin
Pork sausage and chestnut stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage
Savoy cabbage (with butter, lemon, salt & pepper)
Peas
Carrots
Yorkshire puddings
Parsnips

Wait 3 hours and then
Christmas pudding and custard

Meat eaters:
Turkey
Pigs in blankets

Veggies:
Stilton & nut roast
Veggie cocktail sausages

The best bits:
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Sprouts
Roasted carrot & parsnips
Peas
Stuffing
Gravy

Pudding is a chocolate tart with ice cream or cream

Turkey
Confit potatoes
Sage and onion + sausage stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Broccoli, peas, carrots
Yorkshires
Gravy

Christmas pudding
Salted caramel cheesecake

For tea we're doing ham, honey mustard sausages, cheeses and bread

@TheCreamCaker that sounds amazing. Would you be willing to share the recipe for your curry?

I’m on my own this year and making a curry sounds like a good way to spend the day.

@The100thHoliday

I’m starving and this thread is making my stomach rumble.

@Indoctro Love your veggie dinner with all the cheese and all the carbs😋

We don’t have a starter and go straight into the main…

Roast chicken
Stuffed, rolled Turkey
Nigella’s ham in coke
Roast potatoes, parsnips & carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Braised red cabbage
Mashed swede
Mashed potato
Yorkshire puddings
Four types of stuffing - sage & onion, pork & chestnut, pork, cranberry & orange, American cornbread
Pigs in blankets
Steamed greens - sprouts, peas, broccoli

I’ve got a small Christmas pud & extra thick double cream for me & DH

Kids can choose from various desserts I’ve made/ got in - Yule log, trifle, raspberry tart, lemon meringue pie, various ice creams.

Always aim for a night time cheeseboard, but usually too stuffed, so that will probably wait for Boxing Day.

Ha ha thanks... diet is out the window that day

Prob about 3000 cals a portion in max n cheese but hey ho it's Xmas

Turkey with streaky bacon
Roasties
Yorkies
Parsnips
Carrots
Green beans

Christmas pudding with brandy cream
Or Vienetta

Stuffed turkey crown
Sprouts (we all love them)
Carrots
Beans
Red cabbage
Parsnips
Roast potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Dessert is Apple crumble and custard
Christmas cake