What would your alternative Christmas dinner be? Just for fun!

[Owlmoonstar]

Ours would be a seafood platter or paella. With lobster, loads of shells on prawns, calamari, mussels, and whatever other shellfish I haven't listed. Served with champagne and some bread and aioli.

Indian I think. Curry, pakora, Bombay potato, sag aloo, garlic naan, the whole works. And lots of poppadoms.

I love traditional christmas dinner but i think as an alternative id have a big Italian feast: lasagne and breads and good olive oil and beautiful red tomatoes followed by tiramisu

Were having curry, none of us are that fussed about a roast and we will prob be extra lazy and just get a couple of those takeaway bags from the supermarket as it saves on prep and washing up!

A full English and a big slice of cake for afters 🙃

We never have traditional Xmas dinner! This year moroccan lamb tagine

We don't have a typical Christmas dinner (we do go out and have them in cafes/restaurants in December though) as DS doesn't like most of the components. It doesn't seem worth the bother for DH and I, plus doing additional stuff for DS.

We make a hot buffet of the party food M&S and supermarkets do. Plus a couple of puddings like trifle and sticky toffee pudding and custard. Have similar on Boxing Day. It's a lot easier shoving a load of stuff in the oven for 30 minutes (I hate cooking anyway!)

I did cooked from scratch Indian food for Christmas Day a couple of years ago, and it was a huge hit with kids and adults! I prepared loads of it in advance so easier on the day, but better than that for the months before I taught myself how to cook Indian food and we had loads of test dishes!

We’ve previously cooked a curry many times on Christmas Day.

We love a curry on Christmas Day, but this year we are having fancy steak.

Toast

We're having christmas dinner on Christmas eve this year. On Christmas day will be pizzas and party food 🙂

Either a really good seafood linguine with salad, lovely garlic bread, olives etc or alternatively an all-you-can-eat Chinese banquet. Or possibly even a takeaway pizza. I like the veggie ones with added anchovies or pepperoni.

If it was on a beach obviously a BBQ.

I wouldn't want to change the traditional menu tbh, but if I did, it would be either a different roast (probably fore-rib of beef) or a big beef casserole with herb dumplings.

Butter chicken and a big fat garlic naan. Followed by as much ice cream as I could fit in.

I also love a Christmas dinner nothing compares to our Christmas dinner with home made pigs, slow cooked turkey, home made stuffing, home made apple and cranberry sauce, the best roasties cooked in butter, carrots and parsnips in honey, get ahead gravy, sprouts pan fried in butter with bacon and walnuts or chestnuts.

if push came to shove, I could manage an Italian Porchetta but traditional Christmas dinner would be on another day,

We had curry once, it was lush.

I would recommend Aktar@home for amazing curry (they do also do a Christmas box although I've not had it). I'm not on commission but i literally tell everyone about these guys 😂

I know you’ll all be revolted by this, but my mum always used to cook an ox tongue on Christmas Eve (which we would then press, and keep in her cold larder) but we would often discover it was too big for the press so we’d eat the offcuts hot with boiled potatoes and vegetables and mustard and a sharp pickle of cucumber and onions in vinegar.

Ox tongue is an utterly horrific thing to cook - it looks dreadful. Even my mum would blanche a little bit as she peeled the rubbery outer coating off.

To me that is the most Christmassy food, even more so than Christmas dinner!

I hope I haven’t put you all off your dinner…

That sounds barbaric 🤣

Lobster, triple cooked chips, salad.

Mexican

A Chinese takeaway with a mountain of my homemade sausage rolls on the side 😂😂

we have a roast most weeks in the cold, dh does what we call the Royal Roast at Christmas and it’s exceptional but I’d be just as happy with a Chinese and the sausage rolls - no washing up!

Fish Fingers and Chips followed by a Bird's Trifle.

I love turkey, sprouts, bread sauce and all the trimmings. But as an alternative I would either have an Italian feast involving lots of seafood or curry. Just as long as there's a groaning cheeseboard at some stage of the proceedings and an espresso martini or two.

M&S ready meal they do a lovely sliced pork plus veg one which i would add few extras to