Would you still do a full Christmas Dinner if it was just you and DH?

[EarlofShrewsbury]

Starter, turkey plus all the trimmings, pudding?

Would you bother?

Yes, and we have in the past.

We have lots of uses for leftovers of a small turkey.

And we both enjoy the quietly pottery to make a special dinner aspect of it.

We did pheasant 1 year instead. Not so keen.

We don't tend to do formal starters here anyway - we have M&S party food nibbles while opening presents and drinking bubbles in the afternoon while dinner cooks.

We normally do 2-3 veg and loads of proper roasties. And proper gravy.

Afters courses may be cheeseboard, dessert, coffee and chocs. Or we might decide we're full after dinner, delay cheese a few hours and have the dessert tomorrow. (But I might still have French coffee in the later evening).

It's similar now when we're home as just 3. But we might try something different (but equally an elaborate meal and likely still a roast) within the next few years.

There is just us, and yes, I do a full Christmas dinner including turkey!

Yes, just the 2 of us this year - a turkey if I can get a smallish one, or a crown, but I like the carcass for stock and the giblets for gravy. The smell of turkey cooking is part of Christmas Day - to me, anyway.
We never have a starter, but some nice M&S nibbles an hour or so before.
Roast spuds and parsnips, carrots, sprouts, Ps in Bs and stuffing - both home made already - cranberry sauce. Proper gravy, made in the roasting tin.

Followed an hour or so later by trad flaming pud, made a month or so ago. Old GH recipe, to us much nicer - much less dense and heavy - than anything from a shop.
Family coming on 27th to help polish off leftovers, but even without that, nothing will be wasted. Some of the turkey always goes into meal sized packets in the freezer, labelled Turk Bits. As opposed to Chick Bits. 🙂🎄

Nope.

Do a duck - perfect size for two

Yes I absolutely would. This year roast turkey, gravy, Yorkshire pudding or rolls I haven’t decided, potato or parsnip gratin, cranberry relish, stuffing, roast carrots or Brussels sprouts with bacon and walnuts. Dh wants a cheese platter with blue cheese and other cheeses, grapes, crackers, olives, candied pecans. I may do a corn chowder for first course. Bobby Flay has a fantastic recipe. Rum cake in that forest shaped Bundt pan and a chocolate cream pie.

Probably not a turkey because I'm not fond of it, but yes to a super special roast lunch. Duck for two people, guinea fowl for three, a brace of partridge for four. All wonderful with pickings and left overs for Boxing day, then carcasses for stock and soup. We did partridges last week, DS who is a chef, butchered them to crowns and then confitted the legs and I am still drooling at the delicious-ness achieved. The soup (celeriac) was astounding.

There’s only me and DH and we’re having a turkey (because we like the leftovers cold!) plus the usual veg, and a very small bit of ham because it’s DH's family tradition (and also nice cold) - plus pigs in blankets as he loves them. We'll also have a Christmas pudding as he loves it (I don’t so won’t have any).

We're definitely not having a starter given all that lot, though!

Yes! Love a good Christmas dinner

I've never seen the point of starters for Christmas lunch; why blunt your appetite before the main event.

However, DH and I have always had the full shebang, even when it has just been the two of us

Yep! Still would absolutely do one

No - it's just us 2 so we're having pheasant casserole.