What do you serve for Christmas lunch

[bumbiddybiddy]

Need some ideas, we are having a small lunch this year with only 6 of us, including 2 toddlers.

I'm going to be making
Turkey crown
Marmalade glaze gammon
Roast beef

Sides
Roast potatoes
Roast carrots and parsnips
Brussels sprouts
Pigs and blankets
Yorkshire puddings
Cranberry sauce
Beef gravy

It's same as I make every year and would like some inspiration.

Also what pudding you serve afterwards? I'm really unsure of what to serve afterwards

If it was my choice
Turkey, pigs in blankets and stuffing
Roast potato
carrots
sprouts
red cabbage
cranberry sauce (home made)

Followed by Christmas pudding with cream but I would provide an alternative dessert.

Topside Beef
Yorkshire puddings
Roast potatoes
Roasted carrots, parsnips, onion
Boiled carrots (for roast-veg-hater children)
Steamed broccoli and green beans
Peas (for green-bean-hater children)
Gravy

Sticky toffee pudding or yule log available for anyone with an appetite left.

I'm not a fan of multiple meats. It's just too much food and wasteful.

Forgot the pigs in blankets (as is also likely on the day)

That's too much meat for one sitting and I personally don't think gammon goes with gravy. I'd serve the beef and gammon on boxing day with bread and pickles etc.

We are having smoked salmon blinis, with dill and crème fraîche, and I'm making a beef Wellington, with savoy cabbage, a Jerusalem artichoke purée, and multicoloured carrots, plus a beef gravy. We won't need pudding, we have mince pies and cream for whenever we want something sweet, and a massive cheeseboard.

Not decided yet😅 catering for one

I often make a lemon posset for dessert on Xmas day- its basically just lemon, double cream and sugar boiled and is nice and zesty after a heavy lunch. We're just 4 on Xmas day, so a nice roast with trimmings (smoked salmon to start) and an insane cheese board.

Boxing day we're 6 adults, 4 kids and a baby and are having a gammon, spinach burek, cheese, salad, hummus, random stuff from the Turkish shop, pomegranate mint and bulgar salad, jacket potatoes, pickles etc etc. And wine. Lots of wine.

For 4 adults and 2 small kids 1 meat (turkey or 3 bird roast) plus chipolatas or pigs in blankets is fine.

Sides
Roasted veg (potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots, parsnips and beetroot)
Mashed swede
Brussels
Red cabbage

Stuffing with sausage meat
Cranberry and orange relish
Bread sauce
Gravy

@BCBird

For one or two it would be a beef wellington here, or perhaps duck

This year our puds will be homemade brownies and ice cream, apple strudel and cream, trifle and Xmas pudding.

DH and I often have to pass on puddings as too gorged on main course!

Just 4 of us here. Pretty traditional this year.

Turkey crown
stuffing
pigs in blankets
bread and cranberry sauce
Nut roast
roasties
roast parsnips
red cabbage
mashed carrots and swedes
peas
Brussel sprouts, chestnuts, pancetta
another plain green
Jamie’s make ahead gravy

panettone bread and butter pudding. This normally ends up being dinner , along with cheese, biscuits and chocolate.

we then don’t have to cook again for several days - I like the leftovers more than the main meal!

We don't have Yorkshire puddings but we have cauliflower cheese and stuffing balls (stuffing mixed with sausage meat and then baked). We steam the sprouts until almost cooked, then shred them and cook with bacon lardons, chestnuts, sage and butter.
Dessert this year we've got a Christmas Colin the Caterpillar and I'll make a Bailey's cream to go with it.
Definitely don't need three meats.

No starter although we might have a glass of champagne with some nuts and olives while I finish cooking.

Turkey
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire puddings
Paxo Sage & Onion stuffing
Homemade sausagemeat stuffing
Red cabbage (usually M&S)
Sauteed Brussels sprouts with chestnuts
Cauliflower cheese
Roast parsnips
Steamed broccoli and mini carrots
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Gravy from the juices

A Carved Angel Christmas pudding and brandy sauce. Sometimes the F&M Magnificent Christmas Pudding depending on what flavour it is that year.

Turkish delight, marron glace, fancy Italian nougat and marzipan fruits as petit fours with coffee.

Cheese and port waits until supper.

Just daughter and myself (Grandson ASD ..won't eat it).
Chicken.
Beef.
Colcanon.
Roast potatoes.
Cauliflower cheese
Carrots in glaze.
Sprouts.
Leeks.
Yorky puds .
Pigs in blankets.
Stuffing n Gravy .
I'll take some left overs home for bubble n Squeak fry up.
Desert is Choc fudge cake and single cream.

Just 3 of us and as we go away on boxing day we can't have too many leftovers we can't freeze

small Guinea fowl - leftovers is dinner
small leg of lamb (600g) - leftovers are frozen with gravy
pigs in blanket
roast potatoes
roast carrots and parsnips
sprouts for one person

No starter

Pannacotta as dessert

Starters

salmon mousse
prawn cocktail
melon and strawberries
pate and Melba toast

main

turkey
pigs in blankets
chipolata sausages
Sausage meat stuffing

roast and mashed potato
parsnips
carrots
sprouts
gravy

desert

key lime pie
chocolate Yule log

thats for 10 plus a vegetarian wellington for one

Why all the meat for 6 of you? We only ever have turkey for Christmas dinner, although there will be a ham cooked for cold cuts.

We have:
Turkey
Roast potatoes and parsnips
Mashed swede
Braised red cabbage
Carrots
At least 2 different stuffings including dh's family recipe and a sausage meat stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Cranberry sauce

Christmas pudding (or sticky toffee pudding for those who don't like it.)

I love it!

What does cockerel taste like and how did you first come across this idea?

Roast beef and all the trimmings
Pannacotta.

@StormingNorman like extremely good flavoursome moist chicken but size of a turkey!!butcher suggested it one year when I said I preferred chicken to turkey- I honestly didn't know you could get chickens that size- not cheap £46 - (fresh) but makes great pies and sandwiches or stir fry's too - everyone says they prefer it

We are having … one meat but more sides/veg
Starter - Prawn cocktail
Turkey wrapped in bacon
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Roast maple carrots
Honey roast parsnips
Brussels sprouts
Pigs and blankets
Cauliflower cheese
Green beans
Red cabbage
Greens in cream
Cranberry sauce
Beef gravy
Desserts - profiteroles, lemon cheesecake, trifle

Usually do gammon the night before for Christmas eve (family traditional dinner of ham, egg and chips) so if anyone doesn't want turkey there's gammon there.

On the day:
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Two kinds of stuffing
Roast potatoes
Maybe roast parsnips
Steamed carrots
Steamed Brussels
Gravy

Trifle
Christmas cake
Chocolates

In previous years if we haven't fancied turkey we've done rib of beef, goose, cockerel, and one year we got a triple stuffed bird from the butcher - chicken inside a duck inside a turkey. Fun but expensive and took bloody hours (even by Christmas dinner standards) to cook 😆

Turkey crown (first time I've ever just done a crown)
Gammon (probably done in coke as that's the preferred method here)
Nut roast
Roast potatoes
Roast carrots
Red cabbage and apple
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts with chestnuts
Butternut squash mash
Pigs in blankets
Turkey gravy
Veggie gravy
ETA sausagemeat, sage and onion stuffing

Puddings are problematic here- one ds doesn't really eat puddings, the other only really likes a chocolatey pudding but will go with the choice that the other ds makes...so we've got:
Birthday cake (the bought kind, with white fondant icing)
Strawberries (with or without cream)
And a lemon meringue roulade (which is probably just for me)

I also have mince pies and Christmas pudding on hand, should they be wanted.

Blueberry tart here for the post- dinner treat.

i dont normally do cauliflowr cheese
or yorkshire puddings
i have a turkey crown, never had one before
and mushroom wellington
cabbage
swede
potatoes
sprouts
brocolli
parsnips
chestnut stuffing
pigs in blankets, veggie and meat
i will make bread sauce

i think that is plenty
ham is for boxing day

we have a christmas pudding
and a yule log
must buy the brandy!