Christmas day dinners- starters?

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What are your favorite starters? Or do you skip them?

I like broccoli and stilton soup but husband and children arent keen.

Smoked salmon , some sort of terrine salmon asparagus and water cress.

We do a platter in the middle of smoked salmon, slices of melon and prawns and people can help themselves with a slice of bread and some Marie Rose sauce to spoon over. If people don’t eat much, you can just put clingfilm over and eat it later!

Ah we're old school 80s and still have a prawn cocktail

Like StewkeyBlue we have Christmas Dinner in the evening, canapés and champagne in the sitting room beforehand, rather than a first course at the table.

I'm doing a choice of prawn cocktail with brown bread and butter, pate and toast or a soup, probably parsnip. I like to have a gap between starter and main (normally the point where I take the meat out to rest and put the Roasties in)

We dont bother, we do eat late though, usually around 4pm, so a small party food lunch is usual, smoked salmon, cream cheese and oatcakes too sometimes.

We used to have prawn cocktail or soup when I was growing up, but these days we skip the starter as we love the main course too much!
My MIL used to serve a salmon mousse served with thin toasted pita bread which was yummy.

We skip it. More room for roast potatoes and pigs in blankets.

I have tried to ring the changes but my lot insist on melon (with port) or soup both with warm bread. 70s time warp indeed.

Champagne! Then straight to full roast

We do smoked salmon blinis and some homemade sausage rolls with fizz at around 12ish. Skip a starter and have main around 2pm.

Half have prawn cocktail and the other half is pate and Melba toast 😂

Prawn cocktail or it's not Christmas dinner!

Its often just DH and myself, so we just have the main. If our 6ft 7 friend comes, we do entrees.
Generally prawn cocktail or this salmon terrine
https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/individual-smoked-salmon-terrines-for-christmas/

We do a salad e.g pear and Stilton with some green leaves or something else. We tried soups, smoked salmon, prawn cocktail, pate and all of them were a bit too much.

Loving the high volume of retro starters! 😁

Also chucking at all the "we don't have one" or "we just have canapés" posts...we do both 😂 #fatties

When I was a child it was always crab (tinned!) and prawn cocktail, a few dalliances with other things - smoked salmon and other seafood - but for the last several years homemade Beetroot & Clementine Gravadlax

Chuckling!!!

Skip the starter. We now have Canapés and champagne. Much nicer, and have them while preparing the main course.

Choice of soup, prawn cocktail or garlic mushrooms 😋

No starters required

Prawn cocktail for those people who like them, fruit for everyone else.

I do pate and 1 round of granary toast for DP, and I have melon and Italian ham. It’s really only a ‘taster’ as don’t want to spoil main meal!

We always go full-on retro prawn cocktail, with an equally retro melon option. I'd like to change it up, but the family won't let me!

We like to serve soup in mini coffee cups alongside canapés including smoked salmon blinis. Soup flavours vary year to year but no one will ever forget the time my aunt served Jerusalem artichoke soup. My farts on the way home were like nothing I have ever experienced before or since!

That’s exactly what we do -