Christmas Day menu

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Sorry if it’s been done - I love a foodie thread!

Breakfast - sourdough toast and marmalade, mini cereal boxes for the kids. Nice coffee and juice.

Lunch - For us this year we are having as a starter blinis with caviar or antipasti meats, melon for DD

Roast turkey, roast potatoes, honey roast carrots and parsnips, sautéed sprouts with butter and leeks, stuffing balls (sage and onion and sausage meat), pigs in blankets, bread sauce, peas, cranberry sauce, turkey gravy, red cabbage.

dessert - choice of chocolate log, lemon cheesecake or almond and cherry tart with ice cream or cream.

In the evening cold cuts, cheese, crackers, usual grazing bits.

What are you all having?

Breakfast will likely be bacon and eggs with sourdough toasted, coffee and orange juice.

Lunch will be turkey, ham, veg, pigs n blankets, roast potatoes, gravy, stuffing etc. I also have a Yule log on order but not sure it will be eaten then.

From 3 ish we have family over and I will do crisps, dips, party food, cheese board and pizza, washed down with plenty of champagne, wine, beer and gin.

No Yorkshire puddings? 🫠

We’re doing:

Breakfast - mini pain au chocolats/pastries baked from frozen so they’re fresh, with fruit salad and lots of coffees

Lunch - Quorn roast, nut roast, pigs in blankets and Turkey slices for the sole carnivore 😂 roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, honey roasted parsnips and carrots, Brussels, peas, cranberry sauce, and lots of gravy 😋

Evening - cheeseboards and a Yule log

Breakfast
Bacon or smoked salmon bagels.

Lunch.
Beef,lamb roast potatoes,mash,sprouts,honey roasted carrots and parsnips,pigs in
blankets and Yorkshire puddings with gravy.

Pudding.
Gateaux or cheesecake.

Home made cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

prawn cocktail for starters for those that want it. Then roast lamb and/or roast pork. Roasties, carrot and swede with ton of butter and pepper. Sprouts, honey roast parsnips , spiced red cabbage. Home made puss in blankets, home made sausage meat stuffing balls. Yorkshires. Loads of gravy and sauces to go with the meat.

pudding. not even thought about it yet. probably a a fancy cheese cake and a gateaux? Cooking for 12 I think this year so not as busy as normal and should be really chilled out. I’ve done so many Christmas dinners and roasts that it doesn’t even really raise my heartbeat. I could do it in my sleep. I do enjoy cooking though.

Breakfast -

pan au chocolates, bacon rolls, smoked salmon blinis, fresh fruit. Tea, coffee and bucks fizz (not everyone will want the same thing!)

Lunch -

Selection of bruschetta with moon blush tomatoes, gambas pil pil and pate

Roast turkey with goose fat roast potatoes, Delia red cabbage, sprouts with pancetta, glazed carrots and parsnips, broccoli (for those who hate sprouts), stuffing and pigs in blankets, gravy

Chocolate orange cheesecake, or Christmas pudding, or ice cream with toppings

Dinner -

if anyone wants - cold roast ham, leftovers, cheeseboard, Christmas cake, biscuits for the kids

It sounds like a lot, but catering for varied tastes, and not everyone will want everything, so more about everyone having the options really

Lots of people on MN insist that yorkshire puddings are only for beef, apparently forgetting that veggies and vegans exist.

Breakfast- build your own bagels type situation- smoked salmon, cream cheese, avocado etc. Coffee and bucks fizz

Lunch- turkey for meat eaters (fake turkey and stuffing thing I got from Sainsburys weeks ago and shoved in the freezer for me), sprouts in butter and leeks, maple glazed carrots and parsnips, cauliflower cheese, spiced red cabbage, peas, yorkshires, roasties, stuffing, pigs in blankets (both meat and veggie types). Christmas pudding, mince pies and brandy butter, yule log.

Dinner- cheeseboard, picking at leftovers, Pringles and quality street

Breakfast will probably be a bacon sandwich. Christmas dinner is, well, turkey, roast potatoes, chestnut stuffing, PIBs and all the veg, and we have Christmas pudding, mince pies (adult dd is making those) or Yule log, then in the evening probably turkey sandwiches with some salad and whatever else is lying about. Maybe some nice cheese.

Breakfast: Homemade pain au chocolat, Buck’s Fizz.

Lunch: Sourdough bagels with bacon/sausage.

Dinner: Turkey, sage & onion stuffing balls, duck fat roast potatoes, honey roast carrots and parsnips, sprouts with bacon, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese.

Dessert: M&S chocolate pine cones with cream/ Christmas Colin for DS

Do the kids want mini cereal boxes rather than something more lovely like cinnamon rolls, or pancakes au chocolate. The sugar content prob less than rhe min cereal boxes and much more fun.

Im impressed with the meat breakfasts! I'm not sure I could face a sausage first thing knowing I was having a big meaty lunch.

breakfast: me and DP - coffee. Kids will have mini pastries.
canapés: smoked salmon blinis
lunch: turkey crown, stuffing, carrots, minted peas, yorkies, beef ribs, beef gravy, turkey gravy, vegan mini roast thing, pigs, veggie gravy, roasties,
(mad amount of gravy when I have written it down)
pudding: choc log, cheese cake, ice cream, Christmas pudding, cream.

evening: cheese board, crackers, chutney (this is my fave bit actually! when it's all calm again and you can pick at a good board...)

exhausting just thinking about it....

Breakfast: smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on English muffins, mini danish pastries, yoghurt and fruit. Mimosas.

Dinner: canapes at around 1pm. Main event around 3pm.
Turkey, sugar baked ham, pigs in blankets, nut roast, roast potatoes, sprouts, Clementine and apricot stuffing, parsnips and carrots roasted in maple syrup, spiced red cabbage, Yorkies.
Wally Ladd trifle / Xmas pudding.

Evening: Turkey, brie, cranberry toasties. Cold cuts, salad, pickles, cheese and chutneys etc.
Mince pies and brandy butter.

We are having Lamb, Roast potatoes, Roasted sweet potatoes, Mashed potatoes, Carrots, Brussel sprouts with chopped bacon, Cauliflower cheese, Broccoli, Carrot and swede mash, Parsnips, Sweetcorn, Stuffing, Pigs in blankets, Sausage meat,Yorkshire puddings and lots of thick gravy 😋

Breakfast; full English

lunch; roast turkey, ham and all the trimmings

dinner; cheeses and picky bits

Ooh I love a Christmas food thread!

Breakfast is always:
smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and toasted muffins. Possibly bacon on the side.

We’re hosting so it’s -

Smoked Salmon mouse with crackers as an appetiser when people arrive, along with some Bucks Fizz.
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Roast turkey, pigs in blankets, potatoes roasted in garlic and rosemary, red cabbage with apple and spices, roasted carrots and parsnips, sprouts with bacon. DSIL is bringing another side dish no idea what.
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Christmas pudding with custard or cream or Cheesecake or similar

Mine isn't really that fancy but I do love it.

Turkey crown with bacon
Chestnut pork stuffing from m&s or Waitrose
Pig in blankets
Yorkshires that may be from a packet.
Roast potatoes and parsnips.
Green beans, carrots, broccoli
Bread sauce from a packet
Gravy
Cranberry sauce from a jar

Don't usually have pudding or any other meals on Xmas day or boxing day. Just cram in a few chocolates!

Tongue, pie and chutneys for breakfast with fresh baked almond croissants for the people who married on and don't appreciate our Victorian traditions!

(Late) Lunch will be a lighter then usual as there's only 9 eating this year. Stuffed chicken, bread sauce, red cabbage, pigs in blankets, two types of stuffing, roasties, cranberry sauce, gravy, roast parsnips, sprouts.

Pudding is trifle, chocolate rulard and Christmas cake. All homemade.

Dinner is leftover sandwiches. Followed by port, homemade eggnog, hot chocolate or Bellini's.

For breakfast we are having:
Bacon on sourdough rolls and Buck’s Fizz, pancakes for the teen with fresh orange

Lunch: cooking for 9:

not really doing a starter but making honey and mustard mini chipolata’s for people to pick on with drinks

roast beef, ham, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, sausage meat and sage and onion stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, carrot and swede mash with lots of gravy and parsnips- trying to make it easier on myself so I’m not cooking all day
pudding- mix of hot brownies with a nice ice cream for children, M&S stick toffee trifle or sticky toffee pudding and custard

evening- cheeseboards, cold meats, ? Festive loaded potatoes and picky bits - Costco carrot cake to snack on with lots of M&S chocs

making festive cocktails, baileys and wine for everyone 😋

Breakfast: Bacon and poached eggs on bagels with fresh orange juice

Lunch: Turkey, honey parsnips, Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, sprouts, pigs in blankets, red cabbage and roasties
pudding - Yule log or mince pies

Tea: lunch leftovers, cheese, chutney, fruit and crackers. More Yule log and mince pies.

For breakfast I have sour dough bread, wilted spinach, sauté mushrooms, cream cheese (also vegan cream monstrosity) and thick cut smoked salmon - depending on dietary choices you have the bits you want, I like spinach, salmon and cream cheese piled onto toasted thick cut sourdough that’s been generously buttered.

lunch is full turkey roast with stuffing, potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, roasted carrots, mashed swede, red cabbage in red wine with juniper, Brussels, cauliflower cheese and peas for the fussy one. Oh and some sort of meat free think, mum has sourced it. Christmas pudding or some sort of creamy thing mum has sourced for pudding.

When I was a kid I YEARNED for those mini cereal packets like nothing else. I was only ever allowed them once a year. It's Christmas. Give them what they want.

No breakfast!

Lunch

Butternut squash and chestnut soup
Figs with prosciutto
Griddled prawns and scallops
Roast duck with roast potatoes, celeriac, carrots and savoy cabbage
Cheese
Christmas pudding and cream if room

Dinner

Indigestion tablet

Daughters strawberries dipped in chocolate made the night before
Bacon Sandwiches everyone else
Champagne and smoked salmon at around 11.
Lunch is around 2pm Turkey, Roast Potatoes, Yorkshires, Sprouts, Carrots, peas, cranberry sauce pigs in jackets and two different types of gravy
Home made sherry trifle/ Xmas Pudding
Cheese port etc
If anyone is remotely hungry after that they can make their own sandwiches !

Breakfast - tattie scone nachos (fried tattie scones, hollandaise sauce, cheese, bacon lardons, friend mushrooms, beans - everyone chooses their own toppings!)

Starter - Proper retro prawn cocktails
Dinner - Turkey, skirlie, kilted sausages, cherry gammon, maple glazed carrots & parsnips, goose fat potatoes, sprouts/chestnuts, stuffing, braised red cabbage bread sauce, gravy
Dessert - trifle

Tea - cheese board, crisps and nibbles

Repeating last year’s somewhat controversial decision of having the full Christmas dinner for Christmas Eve - beef, yorkies, roasties and veg. Then Christmas Day will be American pancakes with bacon, fruit and maple syrup, with cold meats and cheese and chocolate and cakes for the rest of the day.

I didn’t agree at first when OH suggested it last year but it worked so well - no one stuck in the kitchen cooking all day! - that I think we’re going to make it our new tradition