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.

I will actually do Yorkshire puddings for DC - DD loves them and will eat about 5!

@IndigoIsMyFavouriteColour

you’re going to be spending a LOT of time in the kitchen!

Love the typo (?) puss in blankets. Instead of in Boots?
Also I think you should change your username to GreenGodivaGoddess, I don’t mean that sarcastically - I’m in awe!

Breakfast is croissants, with choice of jam or nutella, washed down with Buck's Fizz and nice coffee.
Crisps and nibbles available through the morning.

Lunch around 2pm.
Starters, smoked salmon with lemon wedges and black pepper, multigrain sourdough bread and butter OR galia melon with parma ham.

Main, Free-range bronze turkey, chestnut stuffing, pigs in blankets, bacon rolls with lemon and herb stuffing (as I detest chestnuts). Roast potatoes, roast honeyed parsnips, plain sprouts, plain peas, (for the picky eaters!) red cabbage cooked with apple and cloves. Gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce.

Desserts, all home-made, rather alcoholic Christmas pudding with cream or sweet bechamel sauce and brandy butter, Jubilee trifle, hazelnut and chocolate roulade. Champagne (This year's is from Aldi, it's just won some very prestigious wine award and it's only about £15, fingers crossed!)

Afternoon - opening presents, relaxing, chocolates and savoury nibbles available.

Later on, several hours after everyone has declared themselves so stuffed they'll never eat again, we will all happily dig into a big mixed cheese board with biscuits and pickles, then a second helping of lunchtime desserts.

Lovely. I do miss the big family Christmases of my childhood when we would have anything up to 24 sitting down to eat, all the leaves in the long dining table, everyone squeezed up tight and kids on another table at the end of the room. Friends think I'm marvellous to do lunch for 6, I think it's a piece of piss, bring on the huge parties.

Breakfast - help yourself to whatever you can find - there will be 20 of us.

No one likes a roast so it’s an all day cold buffet of everyone’s favourites.