so, what is on your christmas menu?

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I haven't sat down yet and gone through what we are having for christmas eve food, christmas day and boxing day, I'm usually alot more organised

Last year I did Nigella's coca-cola ham on boxing day which was delicious.

Christmas eve: Chilli and rice. Ice cream christmas tree.

Christmas day: Prawn cocktail, Roast duck, all trimmings, lemon roulade, coffee, mints. Tea: Party food - Pringles, dips, crackers, cheese, sausage rolls, yule log.

Boxing Day: Gammon joint which I will cook on christmas eve with pineapple rings, egg and chips.

Christmas Eve: Sausage & Mash, rhubarb crumble & custard

Christmas Day: Roast Turkey with all trimmings; Christmas Pud; cheese & biscuits with Port etc. Tea will be party food.

Boxing Day: Nigella's bubble & squeak; Festive Ham, salads etc (we just pick at stuff on the table the whole day)

Christmas eve will be smoked haddock, salmon, cod and king prawn pie.

Christmas morning will be poached eggs with smoked salmon, chives and cream.

Lunch is potted spiced crab with rocket salad and melba toast, followed by Goose with roast potatoes, brussels with pancetta, lemon and pine nuts, braised red cabbage, stuffing, nigella's coca cola ham, madiera wine gravy and cranberry sauce.
Champagne and pink grapefruit granita.
Cheese and crackers.
Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cream.
Coffee with florentines and truffles and mince pies.

Evening will be cold meats, cheese, chutneys and Gordon Ramsay's pork and boiled egg pie.

Boxing day will be a wholepoached salmon salads and leftovers.

Christmas Eve - my Mum is making a Thai prawn curry followed by the traditional Xmas pudding (!).

Christmas morning will be bacon butties. Mid afternoon - sirloin of beef, roasties, yorkshires, squash and parnsip bake, broccoli, carrots. Yule log.

Boxing Day - Barbecue (DH AUstralian), roasted veggies and warm potato salad. Cranachan to finish.

christmas eve- have bought a lovely honey roast ham, so will have ham, egg, chips, beans and mushrooms with bread and butter.

christmas day- scrambled eggs on toast, croissants and pain au chocolat, orange juice, posh coffee and bucks fizz for breakfast.
roast turkey and beef, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, broccoli, mashed sweet potatoes, carrots and swede, peas, posh gravy, yorkshire puddings. blackforest gateau, christmas pudding all for dinner washed down with copious amounts of wine and chanpagne.
wont have much for tea- probably just leftover meat in sandwiches with more cake and alcohol

boxing day- leftover meat with chips and salad and all the trimmings- pickled onions, pickle, posh bread and butter.

eek I had better get a move on and get organised then

cherryontopofthexmastree.......... what is posh gravy? and posh bread and butter? sounds very nice.

comeoveneer....... wow wow wow at your christmas menu!!!!!
any room at your house for 5 more??????
sounds absolutely delicious. except for the prawns (i have a slight problem/phobia about them!!!! but that is your christams eve dish anyway, i was only planning on coming for christams day

should read christmas!! for some reason i always type it wrong.

my menu
christmas eve. ham and salad and proper chips.(yum)
mandarin cheesecake.
alcohol. after dcs in bed!!!

christmas day.

breakfast
porridge with fresh fruit and cream. toasted muffins with smoked cheese and bacon.

lunch
melon balls and palma ham or tom soup and home made sage crutons (sp)
roast turkey crown
lemon and sage stuffing balls.
'winter' mash
roasties in goose fat
sprouts!!
peas, parsnips and carrots
bread sauce
homemade gravy, add cranberry sauce and wine. to stock and juice from bird. very very high in fat but very scrummy!!

christmas pudding and white sauce/raspberry trifle
lemonade for dcs and baileys or champers for adults.

no tea for me and dp,.. will hopefully be full and drunk!!
(cheese baked potatoes or sandwiches for kids)

boxing day, hoping kfc will be open!!!!

Christmas Eve - carp in plum, beer and gingerbread sauce (we live in Prague so had better do carp - most people have it fried, but I don't really fancy frying a load of fish at the last moment, so I'm making the 'black sauce' above, which is trad. Czech. You can buy special gingerbread for grating here, they use it to thicken sauces.)

Potato salad - OPINIONS NEEDED - is this going to go with the carp & sauce? A mayonaisy potato salad with ham and peas in is traditionally what people eat with the fried carp, but I don't know whether it might not be weird with the plum sauce.

& pea soup to start with
& Christmas biscuits (like Austrian Vanillekipferl, with ground hazelnuts - I'm more used to making these) etc. to finish with.

Christmas Day lunch - no idea yet...

Christmas dinner - tiny weeny bit of smoked salmon to start with, turkey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, mixed sauteed root veg, sausages in bacon etc. Christmas pudding. Cheese etc.

Boxing day - eat up, plus ham (maybe cooked in cider - also from Nigella & very good.)

Christmas eve lunch
Gammon joint in Guinness
mashed potato
broccoli
gravy from the cooking liquid
poached pears in marsala

tea; oatcakes, cheeses, pates, mince pies (homemade pastry and mincemeat) fruit, nuts etc.

Christmas lunch
free range chicken, gravy
bacon and chipolatas
homemade stuffing
apple wedges fried in butter
roasties
carrot and parsnip puree with creme fraiche and nutmeg
mange tout
warm mince pies, brandy cream

tea; as yesterday minus mince pies and with fruit trifle

Boxing day

Brunch egg, bacon, tomato, mushrooms, etc as DH going to football match.

Dinner; cold gammon, chicken, sausages, mash and baked beans
trifle

This is just for two people!

crikey - you all sound amazing such organisation !! am impressed esp by vesela's menu

Well I decided last night that I would bite the bullet and order an M&S turkey, so went in today to do that and also ordered the Lochmuir salmon & Prawn en croute Yum!

so that is the main part of christmas day and boxing day sorted just got to decide on veggies etc. Will probably do braised red cabbage, did that last year and it was delicious.
I normally do a tiramisu but Gordon Ramsays Mandarin cheesecake on his cook along the other week looked gorgeous so may do that.

christmas eve
lunch lamb chops, baked potatoes, peas + salad
supper bread cheese olives and the like

christmas day
lunch belly pork, braised red cabbage with apple, borlotti beans with roasted red peppers, crisp salad (with whatevers nice in the veg shop next w/e)
christmas pudding

supper pears + cheese, mince pies

boxing day
lunch ham + salad
stir fry with left over belly pork OR chicken curry

christmas Eve - chinese picky bits

christmas day

toast or cereal
roast pork, pots with brussels, yorkshire pudding
may do a fruit salad for pudding

tea will be cheeses and crackers if anyone wants anything.

Boxing Day

Whatever MIL ruined cooked

we are having an M&S turkey,duck and chicken ballotine and the garnish selection, our own roast pots and mash and bread sauce and mum's brandy butter with the pudding.
I'm going to make Nigel Slater's stem ginger and clementine cake...and I think mum will make a gammon thing with brown sugar and cloves...yum

We looked at the ballotine also, but decided on:

Christmas Eve- meal out with 12 others (and there's six of us- fab) from my family / very old friends

Christmas day-
breakfast:
Croissants, bellini for Dh and I, innocent smoothies for the boys
Lunch: Duck rillette with homemade chutney and fresh walnut bread

Salmon wellington (a la M&S, as was the rillete)

Pud: mango and passion fruit thing- also M&S

Mince pies / coffee

Boxing Day:

Fry Up

Chilli soup for lunch

Cold meat platter with all the usual home made pickles (note I like cooking, just not n the actual day) and home made bread

Mum and dad cming up the day after B / Day fro four days; know that on the first day I am making the cranberry topped pie from Hairy bakers, which I think will be yum.

Every year for as long as I can remember:
Christmas Eve
Fish - On a good year, Koulibiac (sp?) puff pastry fish-shaped parcel full of salmon, rice, boiled eggs, parsley, and fruit after.

Christmas Day

Smoke Salmon/Blinis/Creme fraiche/Lump roe bits to eat with Champagne / Juice

Roast Turkey with Pork/Apple/Walnut stuffing, Chestnut stuffing too
Forcemeat Balls (like another kind of stuffing)
Chipolates in Bacon
Roast potatoes (more recently in goose fat)
Delia's parmesan roast parsnips (ditto)
Carrots
Brussel Sprouts with bacon and chestnuts
Home made bread sauce
Ditto Cranberry sauce
Ditto gravy made with giblet stock if the turkey had the bits with it!

umm, sure I've forgotten something it's usually 13 things plus turkey...

Homemade christmas pudding and
ditto brandy butter
ditto mincepies

coffee, fruit, more pudding

Boxing Day
Old favourite recipe Turkey au gratin
(white sauce flavoured with parmesan, sherry garlic) breadcrumbs/cheese top, green salad,
I'm getting bored... leftovers ++++

This year, first year away from home, other side of teh world, MIL and her sister in charge and there will 13 adults + children, so we'll see!

Christmas Eve -
Borscht
mushroom Pierogi.
I'm going to make both in advance. The pierogi work really well frozen before they are cooked.

Christmas day
After much negotiation we are having smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

Goose, roast potatoes, the usual veg (though i'd like to make them a bit more interesting), chipolatas.
Can't work out what sort of stuffing if any to have. Not sure if the whole thing will be too greasy?

Then because we will be full we'll have the Christmas pudding a bit later.

Boxing day
Breakfast - who cares!

left over goose, ham, nice chips, pickles.
trifle

evening will be leftovers if anyone is hungry

Vesela - I'm not sure about the potato salad with plum? Are there any non mayonnaisy potato salad recipes?

Xmas Eve - haven't decoded yet. Might do a nice big spag bol for everyone - ????

Xmas Day - maybe smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or maybe nothing for us and scrambled egg for the girls

nibbles of pigs in blankets etc with kir royales

Frois Gras to start on home made melba toasts

Turkey with sausages, bacon, stuffing, sprouts, carrots, cabbage, pease, bowl of mash, roast potates, parsnips, cranberry sauce

All served with special wines from the basement, hurrah

xmas pud with brandy butter or cointreau butter and or cream

coffee, mince pies, nuts, chocolates and the port comes out.

Turkey salad sandwiches in the evening with more sticky drinks

Boxing Day - scrambled eggs, smoked salmon

then bubble & squeak later

Maybe a buffet type tea of cold cuts, cheese, bread, pickles etc etc

Eeek forgot the bread sauce from my Xmas Day list. HAVE to have bread sauce, YUM

thomcat..... why have you not decoded your christmas eve dinner??? is it top secret??!!! lol lol lol

We are having a buffet at my dad's xmas eve then a take away for dinner (tradition)

Christmas Lunch

Free range Turkey
Winterberry Stuffing
Saffron Roast tatties
Marmalade Carrotts
Sprouts with Chestnuts and Bacon
Suasages in Bacon
Broccoli (just plain)
Honey Glazed Pasnips
Pan Juice Grvy (my special secret recipe)

Triffle for pudding (again my special recipe)

Boxing Day

I have a wonderfull selection of Hams/cheese'/ picleks/ chutneys and salads - all home done.

I can't wait.