What are your favourite foods to eat at Christmas?

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I picked up one of my favourite things to put away for Christmas in my shopping today. It was a stollen - I absolutely love it!

What are your favourite Christmas foods?

@willmypuppystoppooing Cook do a great nut roast

We've most often had one from Sainsburys, but usually a few of the big supermarkets come out with one as part of their Christmas range. I look for the most luxury-sounding one and go for that.

But it has to be one you buy ready to roast - not one that you make up from a packet and add water too. I see the 'Artisan Grains' brand recommended on here sometimes, but they're a bit blah. Definitely not special enough for Christmas.

Pre keto it was roast potatoes.

Now it’s Brussels sprouts parboiled and then sautéed in butter, smoked bacon and garlic

Turnip mash

Home made viscount biscuits (keto version)

Myself and MIL always make the same keto raspberry tart to have for breakfast on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and St. Stephen’s Day. It’s my favourite breakfast!

that would be my perfect xmas cake, do you make your own or buy it? If you buy it where from? If you make it, can you share the recipe :) thanks

Stilton with red onion chutney

After eights, pigs in blankets, all the cheeses with chutneys, posh pate, real butter, jerk ham, turkey with bread sauce, homemade sausage roll with cranberry and port sauce, M&S Irish cream truffles, marzipan...

Bendicks bittermints
Cherry liqueurs
Christmas cake
Christmas pudding

@sipsqueak can you share your turkey casserole recipe. I always struggle for new ideas for the leftovers

@XiCi sure, happy to. Here you go:

1. In a large deep pan/pot, heat olive oil and sautée freshly chopped onions, carrots and celery on a lowish heat until soft.

1. Add a big handful of fresh sliced mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes.

1. Turn up the heat to medium and add a good splash of white wine (optional). Cook until the wine has reduced by half.

1. Add a few handfuls of cooked turkey meat that you have stripped from your leftover roast. A mix of white & dark meat works well.

1. Add any leftover roasted veg you have in the fridge, eg parsnips, potatoes, sprouts. Just chop them up and chuck them in.

1. Now here's the secret ingredient: Pour in one tin of Campbell's cream of mushroom soup (concentrated). Stir everything up, and then add a cup or two of chicken stock to loosen it to your desired consistency. It should be like a thick stew.

1. At this point, you can add any other flavourings you like, eg. salt, pepper, a splash of Worcestershire or a teaspoon of mustard powder all work well. You can also stir in leftover gravy 😋

1. Now dig out your biggest flat baking dish and pour the whole lot in.

1. Mix together panko breadcrumbs, melted butter, grated parmesan and chopped parsley. Sprinkle the breadcrumb mixture evenly on top of your casserole.

1. Then pop it in the oven and cook until it's all bubbling and the top is golden.

10. We like to serve it on a bed of buttery noodles or rice. And always with a bowl of cranberry sauce or medlar jelly on the table to have alongside.

Enjoy!!!

Mince pies, Christmas cake with thick icing and Christmas pudding with cream. Also I only seem to eat Ferrero Rocher at Christmas so they seem festive (the originals not the other disgusting ones)

Christmas pudding with clotted cream, mince pie warm, the lid lifted & a dollop of clotted cream. Roast dinner with all the trimming, pigs in blankets, red cabbage, parsnips, red wine gravy.

nuts in shells, it’s great cracking them

those jelly fruit sweets in a box, what are they called and why were they popular at Christmas?

bubble & squeek with cold meat, chutney and pickles

@MintJulia
the chestnuts and bacon, where how? Sound lovely ☺️ is it with the roast?

Oh all of it all the time. Love Christmas food.
Specifically tho;
Those mini stollen bites from lidl
My mother’s homemade tiramisu
Pigs in blankets
Leftover turkey and stuffing sandwiches on warm tiger bread
All the cheese
Warm mince pies with a good dollop of clotted cream (we get ours from a mate who has jersey dairy cows 🤤)

Christmas cake (homemade with cherry brandy)
Frangipane mince pies (homemade, some with cherry brandy)
Chocolate Yule log with thick vanilla flavoured cream (usually Sainsbury’s TTD cream)
Cheese and crackers
Pigs in blankets and sage and onion stuffing.
Cherry brandy and coke.

Morning coffee with a glug of Baileys
Stilton with a few glasses of Port
Bath Oliver biscuits for cheese
Baked Camembert with onion chutney
Trifle

Mine are part of our Christmas dinner- pigs in blankets and sausage meat.

Oh I forgot about adding baileys to every hot drink after the 1st December 😂

like it all really but especially stollen, christmas cake with marzipan ( not fussed about icing) lebkuchen biscuits, brussel sprouts, pigs in blankets

A good Christmas buffet
booze
chocolate & cake ( all kinds I’m not fussy)
pigs in blankets

Roast potatoes and pigs in blankets

@MikeRafone

Cut the skins and simmer sweet chestnuts in stock for 20 mins, then drain. Remove the skins. Fry some lardons in a pan, then add the chestnuts. Add a little chopped sage or thyme as preferred. Serve as a side dish with a roast, or makes a good topping to buttery jacket potatoes on Boxing day (or any time 😊).

@sipsqueak thank you. That sounds gorgeous!

Those little cream cheeses on cocktail sticks with various flavourings..only ever seem to see them at Christmas!

Love Christmas dinner but, as there will only be 2 adults and 4 year old twins who won’t eat most of what is put on their plates on Christmas Day, I might not bother this year and just get a decent free range chicken instead!!

Sad after remembering all the Christmas days of my childhood and then spending happy ones with other family members as an adult that, those near us now, don’t celebrate it in the same way so it seems to be a thing of the past.

We will be doing the same. It’s just me and 2 teens Christmas Day, everyone seems to want to stay at home on their own these days, I don’t really like my mums new partner/husband so I can’t invite them over. Christmas use to be quite a big family occasion when I was a child but it doesn’t seem to be anymore. We will probably just have a roast chicken.

Nuts in their shells. It feels like I’m doing a bit more work if I crack them myself!
Walnuts, Brazil nuts and monkey nuts especially. Pistachios don’t last long either.
I sit in the corner, listening to the chat around me and systematically demolish them. People occasionally put out their hand and get whatever I’ve just opened.