Can I ask what your menu is like on Christmas?

[justanothermanicmonday1]

I need some inspiration.

Can you tell me what you're having?

Breakfast

Starts

Mains

Desserts

Wine/beverages

Cheese boards etc.

Thank you! 🌺

Croissants, bagels, smoked salmon etc for breakfast.

No starters unless a selection box counts

Turkey and trimmings
Xmas pud and something creamy (shop bought) for the pudding haters

Cheeseboard, hummus, crudités etc for tea

Early morning stocking nibbles:
usually Terrys Chocolate orange washed down with a satsuma

Breakfast:
croissants, danish’s etc
scrambled eggs
smoked salmon
Buck’s Fizz

Dog walk at the beach (about 20 of us this year with around 9 dogs):
mulled wine
sausage rolls
mince pies

Late lunch:
smoked salmon, prawns, etc with Marie Rose sauce, etc
turkey
forcemeat
bacon wrapped chips
roast pots
roast parsnips
carrots
peas
cauli cheese
purple sprouting broccoli
sprouts
braised red cabbage (made yesterday & in freezer)
bread sauce
cranberry sauce
christmas pud with brandy cream & sauce

Evening:
cheese & biscuits

Wine and drinks throughout
gin bar (set up already)
blackberry vodka
local juices

I’m mainly place marking because still working on it and stealing ideas.

im actually thinking of going off-piste as my family (us 4, DPs, DBro and his tribe) are getting together at my parents on Christmas Eve so have suggested to mum we do “proper” Christmas dinner then because I think then it’s just us 4 and my parents on Christmas Day and I want to order in a whole salmon and do a kind of slightly lighter take on the traditional meal.

Breakfast: pastries, berries and coffee
Starter: mushroom pate
Main: whole salmon, roast potatoes, roast Brussels with pistachios, roast cumin carrots, green beans
Pudding: undecided, might make a death by chocolate cake to offset the healthier main (little Xmas pud for dad who is the only one who likes it)
Tea: defo want to do a cheese board with crackers and crudités and fancy bread

And chocolate all day. Champagne then red wine and I want to get the Oat Nog drink for the evening

EDIT: going off piste because I’m vegan, DS is pesci, DPs refuse to do Xmas without some sort of animal component and this way I can make one meal for everyone (I’m taking a vegan main to mum’s on Christmas even because my brother and his wife are also pesci and mum wants to do beef so I’ll make enough for leftovers for me the next day)

Breakfast:

Bagels with smoked salmon, cream cheese and/or scrambled eggs,
berries fruit salad,
freshly squeezed OJ bucks fizz,
fresh brewed coffee

Christmas Dinner:

Starter: Homemade artichoke soup with cream and chives

Mains: Turkey or vegan wellington
pigs in blankets/vegan pigs in blankets
garlic roasties
home made veggie stuffing balls with walnut and sage
roast parsnips and carrots
steamed sprouts
minted peas
braised purple cabbage
bread sauce
cranberry sauce
gravy

Pudding: flaming Christmas pudding or panettone pudding
cream or custard

Cheeseboard:
Blue Stilton
Quartz cheddar
herb boursin
compte
port salut
pie de l'angloys
hovis biscuits, water biscuits, selection of seedy crackers and charcoal/beetroot type crackers
fig chutney, red onion chutney, pickles, salad leaves like rocket and endive
Grapes, fresh figs, walnuts in shells, clementines

Highland chocolatier chocolates, lindor truffles for DC

Drinks on offer will be: Cremant sparkling wine, red and white wines, G&Ts, whisky and brandy
Soft drinks: sparkling water, infused still water (lime, cucumber and mint) coke & diet coke, fresh OJ and clementine juice, V8, Vimto.

Macaroni cheese? Interesting.

We have stollen instead of toast for breakfast. That is after cereal.
Dinner: Usually turkey, roast parsnips, squash, potatoes, green beans, stuffing, cranberry sauce
Either Christmas pudding or chocolate roulade for pudding.
Whatever you like for tea. It’s all a bit half hearted by then.

Breakfast will be croissants and some sort of alcohol.

My mum and my sister and her family are coming over at lunchtime and everyone likes different things so I'm doing beef for my husband and one of our sons, chicken for our other son, salmon for our cat, lamb for me and my sister, a cheese pie for my mum, gammon for my brother in law, something in a packet for my niece and festive dog biscuits for her service dog.
I'll be doing basic veg cooked the civilised way 😁, plus revolting tinned sprouts for my sister and boiled to fuck veg for my mother.

Plus roast potatoes. Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, assorted gravies, pigs in blankets, honey glazed parsnips (I love you aunt Bessie)

Tesco will be providing puddings from their festive made to order range because I can't be arsed.

In the unlikely event anyone can eat anything else that day, there will be sausage rolls, nuts, crisps and chocolates available.

Drinks will be coffee, cola and a large amount of vodka.

We don’t have breakfast or lunch on Christmas Day, same as Sundays.

Dinner begins between 4-5pm and lasts until 10-11pm.

Roast and all the trimmings, followed by a dessert trolley full of puddings and cheeseboard.

This year, rib of beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, mulled red cabbage, bacon, sprouts and chestnuts, honey carrots, broccoli,gravy, bread sauce, horseradish, cranberry.

Amaretti and apricot tart, baked new York cheesecake, set white chocolate mousse, pineapple with mint sugar, mince pies and a hefty chocolate Yule log this year. (Dessert trolley lasts a week!)

A day long cold buffet - no one really likes a roast dinner.

Lots of our favourite foods to eat as we chill out.

Breakfast: Frozen croissants/pain chocolat for breakfast, kids will probably have cereal as usual

Lunch: Roast rib of beef, roast potatoes, roast parsnips and carrots, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, savoy cabbage, possibly sautéed leeks and some rich gravy. Oh and homemade Yorkshire puddings.

Pudding: Will probably be eaten mid afternoon or Boxing Day but either chocolate torte or Tesco finest Xmas pudding with cream

Tea: Cheeseboard, sandwiches made with beef leftovers, crisps, pickled onions etc.

Drinks: Buck's Fizz or some other sparkling stuff in the morning, G&T's throughout the day, a good red with lunch, Bailey's in the evening and probably port with the cheese.

Breakfast is usually bacon sandwiches or baguettes… as it’s the easiest creates the least washing up.
starters is either prawn cocktail or pate and toast
main -
chicken
gammon
roasties
pigs in blankets
yorkies
cauliflower cheese and plain cauliflower
broccoli
carrots
swede
parsnips
mash
green beans
sweetcorn
peas
stuffing
sausage meat
Brussels with bacon

pudding is Christmas pudding or chocolate gateau

nuts, chocolates and snacks for the evening

I'm guessing @sparkedsparkle is of Caribbean background? Macaroni cheese seems to be a staple side dish for Caribbean roast dinners. And the rice too.

I'm intrigued by these! Will have to try them out.

My mum and my sister and her family are coming over at lunchtime and everyone likes different things so I'm doing beef for my husband and one of our sons, chicken for our other son, salmon for our cat, lamb for me and my sister, a cheese pie for my mum, gammon for my brother in law, something in a packet for my niece and festive dog biscuits for her service dog.

Thats mental! 😆

We are 2adults, with room for one or two additions in case local friends plans fall through.

Breakfast - skinny German sausages in brötchen, bucks fizz.

Glühwein on a dog walk

Starts - prawn ring with Marie Rose sauce

Mains - Roast goose
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Sprouts with chestnuts and shallots
Red cabbage
Celeriac mash - I think...
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce

Desserts - probably a trifle of some kind - last few years I have made traditional, choc orange and black forest...

Wine/beverages - cava throughout the day, red wine, cocktails (pre made from hunter and gray), whisky

Cheese boards etc. - will come out in the evening. DP will make himself a goose sandwich too.
Stilton
Port Salut
Something smoked
Brie
Maybe a few more, I get overexcited with cheese buying!
Cornichons
Sliced pickled red onion
Piccalilli
Silverstone
Jacobs crackers and butter

I felt tired just reading it!

Breakfast - bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese

Lunch - none

Dinner (around 3pm) turkey, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mashed swede and Carrots, sprouts, gravy, Stuffing, pigs in blankets, red cabbage

Dessert - Christmas pudding but not many will eat it as too full so we only get a small one.

Snacks - buy extra breadcakes so people can have turkey sandwiches if there's any left

We have a fry up for breakfast.
Then a turkey dinner - mash, roasties, carrots, sprouts, stuffing, gravy and cranberry sauce.
Strawberry gateau or shortbread and custard for after.
Supper is a cheese platter with crackers and biscuits.
Turkey sandwiches for the still hungry/greedy.
Selection boxes, tubs of sweets, and Ferrero Rocher get nibbled on throughout the day.

Breakfast - bacon rolls, oj and tea/coffee

Christmas Dinner - we don't do starters as we wouldn't manage the main. Dh does a great roast. We always have beef, roasties, boiled potatoes, yorkshire puds, 2 veg and nice thick gravy. We traditionally always have an apple pie/crumble after lunch with cream/ice cream.

Evening - pick at chocolate then later on we do sone cheese, crackers, crisps, nuts etc or somebody might make a sandwich.

Breakfast: eggs benny with crispy bacon and homemade hollandaise, fresh fruit salad, posh coffee and naice juices

Lunch:
Main: turkey, homemade sage and onion stuffing, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, roasties, honey glazed carrots and lovely fluffy Yorkshire puddings.

Dessert: Homemade gateaux (yes, 90s!), Christmas pudding and homemade baked Alaska

Drinks: Champagne, peach Bellini’s and Raspberry Tom Collins

Evening:
picky bits from marks and Spencer’s, chocolates and champagne

@Scruffington absolutely delicious without turning a roast potato into something it isn't!

Oh drinks we have a selection of really nice alcohol free wine, spirits and lagers (as we don't drink alcohol ) plus Dr Pepper and coke available. I swear I am not making this "oh i am full after a mouthful, teeny tiny me" but looking at some of the fab menus on here, how do you guys manage to eat all that at Christmas dinner?!

Croissants for breakfast and OJ

Roast pork and all the trimmings.

Done

Probably bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese for breakfast.

Lunch is basically Prosecco and whatever cheeses I feel like buying.

Dinner for 10 of us, around 7pm: turkey, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, sprouts, peas, carrots, parsnips, turnip, and lots of gravy.
We don’t drink wine with Christmas dinner because we’re odd.

Dessert: Christmas pudding and, obviously, custard.

Later: more cheese if we can handle it; Pinot noir or Chardonnay.

Later still: port and whatever remains of the cheese. Also mince pies, shortbread and Christmas cake.

Sometime around 4 a.m. the teenagers will start picking at the turkey.

Why?