Christmas Eve What do you have for dinner?

[veryberry]

I am wondering what to have for dinner on christmas eve that is yummy but does not involve too much cooking or prep. What will you be eating?

We are having Fish Pie, peas and sweetcorn really nursery food, but OMG.

It does involve a bit of prep but it is worth it. IMO

Easy for me to say, DH does all the cooking in our house.

And last year it was, Italian baked Cod with basmati rice.

Sounds really nice Brie. I'm not actually a fish person but I like the idea of nursery food. Perhaps I will do sausages and mash.

i am making a lasagne on sunday night which i can shove in the oven when we can be bothered on monday. have it with garlic bread and salad

We have the ham hot that night, so we can then have it cold on Boxing Day (and thereafter ...)

We always have dinner at either MILs or my parents. This year it will be MILs as seeing my parents day before. DH has asked his mum if she will do some type of pie as it is qhat he fancies. We don't have anything specific on Christmas Eve.

We're the same Lilymaid - ham and jacket pots

stuffed MIL

We normally do salmon - either en croute or baked with a watercress sauce.

Ham here too with ratouille and baked potatoes.

in our house it is the one day of the year that we hand over food control to the kiddies (makes up for me forcing a brussel sprout on them for xams dinner).

last year they opted for macdonalds.......no idea yet where they will suggest tho this year.

I have however been dropping hints about a pub lunch tho, altho is that gonna endanger my health what with all the office workers piling in before heading home to madness????

any suggestions very welcome (bear in mind tho that I AM NOT COOKING)

psycho ponders sushi, but knows that kiddies will gag and scream and run

Erm we always have an Indian Takeaway! Well with all that cooking the next day who wants to spend Xmas Eve cooking and cleaning up

We normally have a chinese, but that is mainly because we cook the turkey that day!

takeaway pizas all round.
although last year i did a mexican selection
chargrilled beef
bean chilli
grated cheese
guacamole
green salad
tomato salsa
flour tortillas

it was as different as i could think from Xmas dinner and for anyone who was saving themselves for the big day- they could just nibble.

i work till 6 then run into chip shop for fish and chips for all then go home to start a mad night

We go out for lunch with MIL either to Pizza Hut or Weatherspoons.
Don't have much for tea!

We usually go to a friend's and have hot turkey baps and homebrewed wine dh is working this year so I'll probably have takeway pizza with the kids.

We're having fish pie mmmm cosy comfort food!

We are having similar to Brie. I have made a salmon, smoked haddock and king prawn fish pie which is in the freezer. We will have it with peas followed by pannacotta with raspberry compote.

Sunday - Chcken lasagne with garlic bread and some side salads (dd2 loves salad)
Monday - Chilli with a choice of jacket spuds or rice.
Tuesday - T U R K E Y
Wednesday - Left overs of course! The new potoates and more salad and cold some salmon

We have the same every xmas eve,...Tartiflette which is a like a french dauphinoise potatoes with lots of pancetta, reblochon (smelly) cheese, cream (Yum), and butter (double yum!)..with some watercress salad and french bread. It's really easy and very tasty

At a restaurant every Christmas Eve (term loosely used.... family pub chain, but OK enough) so off the menu.

When everyone gets to here on the gastro tour (yeah right) it's roast pork (maybe with vanilla) with abel and cole citrus potato cakes and cabbage with bacon and chestnuts. Cold meats and cheeses the first night they're here as we don't know what time we'll all get back.

Chinese takeaway!! Tis a tradition between me and my DP. Have cooked today as DD is 6 months today, am catering for 20 on Sunday night and 5 on xmas day. I shant cook for another 6 months after that!!

We are having sausage rolls, cheese straws, mince pies, banana bread (cooked by the DC's over this weekend) and toasted teacakes, scones with jam and cream and buckets of tea.
Maybe with lashings of ginger beer

steak, salad and jacket potatoes with sour cream.