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.

vesela - might be a bit too much of czech traditional food for you but traditional lunch on the 25th is roast goose with red saukraut and dumplings. are going to bake vanocka and/or strudel? chowhound.chow.com/topics/291219
archiv.radio.cz/christmas/vanocka.html

Breakfast (having opened stockings) - chocolate. Will try to make DCs eat cereal, which they will decline.

Lunch - gammon, chicken, lamb and beef (yes really). And there's only 6 of us! Roast potatoes, roast parsnips, sprouts, carrots, chipolatas wrapped in bacon. Thought it would make the leftovers more interesting.

Afternoon snack - more chocolate. And maybe some nuts.

Tea - chesse and biscuits, sausage rolls, mince pies. More chocolate.

Boxing Day - no one will want to eat anything. Will pick at leftovers and somehow find room for the rest of the tin of Roses.

(Can you tell I've been dieting for the last 2 months??)

I didn't know that (about the goose). We've got a turkey ordered, because essentially we're doing a Czech Christmas dinner and then an English one, and at my parents' we always have turkey (this is also what my husband's traditionally done - his father's Czech, and his mother's Australian).

I'm planning to make a vanocka - I was looking up recipes last night and (as you might expect) they vary hugely! From one with one yolk to one with 8 yolks for 800g of flour...

Re. the potato salad - I made a practise version of the sauce yesterday (loved it) and can imagine it going with potato salad if we don't use too much dressing, and maybe use more sour cream & only a tiny bit of mayonnaise? Dumplings would def. go better, but the reason we want to make potato salad is that it's what my husband's Czech father has always made...

Thanks for the offer of help!

Christmas Eve: Mexican Chilli Chicken with cannelini beans, with jacket potatoes. Followed by a steamed orange and rum pudding.

Christmas Day:
Breakfast - Croissants, Pain an Chocolat, Pain au Raisin, Fruit, Fresh juice etc.

Nibbles:
Smoked Salmon, Cheese straws, pringles etc, parma ham.

Lunch: Roast Goose, Roast potatoes & parsnips, stuffing, bacon & sausages, gravy, red cabbage in apple, swede casserole (v yummy made with golden syrup!), token brussels

Pudding: Xmas pudding with cream (and sugar!) and brandy butter.

Then we have sweetmeats, port & madeira - the table gets laden with sweets, fruit and nuts - orange and lemon slices, turkish delight, pffernuse, peppermints, satsumas, liqourice allsorts, pickled walnuts, choc coated ginger etc...

We sit at the table for about 3 hours for Christmas dinner

Evening snack: cold meat sarnies & mince pies

Boxing Day: Ham joint with various salads etc then out comes left over puddings etc and then the sweetmeats again!

Xmas Eve I am doing a whole oven baked salmon with new potatoes and broccoli (do I need some sort of sauce? Hollandaise?) Pudding will be Nigella's Brownies (Four large bars of posh choc in the recipe! Four!!) piled up with candles and icing sugar and Xmas sugar decorations.
Christmas Day - breakfast is scrambled eggs with muffins and slices of the Xmas ham. Followed by pain au chocolat.
Lunch is Turkey with all the trimmings followed by xmas pudding, cheese and port, coffee and mince pies.
Tea will be leftover cold meat with salady bits and crisps and dips etc. I might knock up some cold salmon sandwiches with leftovers from xmas eve.
Boxing Day I have even more family coming so for lunch am doing Jamie Oliver's Beef stew with mashed sweet potatoes and braised red cabbage. For tea I will just put out all the leftovers and party food.
Day after boxing day I will still have 12 for lunch so have made a huge vat of butternut squash and roasted red pepper soup to freeze.
Then will be collapsing and not cooking again until the New Year.

Rupert, I normally serve baked salmon with herb butter (basil butter is good imo but I think any combo is fine)

I haven't tried it but I've seen a recipe for shallot, butter and white wine sauce (or similar)which sounds nice.

Right I will read the thread for some ideas now!

vesela - the 'trouble' with the black sauce is that its sweet while the potato salad is salty and sour. plus the salad is quite sort of creamy texture and is likely to dissolve in the black sauce. its def weird in czech view but you might have different tastes, good luck.
ps. christmas biscuits are for nibbling /sp?/, strudel is for pudding after christmas supper.

we like to nibble them at the end of the meal too! And there'll be mince pies etc.

We quite often eat sweet sauces (with fruit in them etc.) at the same time as salty things (plus the sauce has a little bit of a sour taste from the beer in it) so it wasn't that that was bothering me - more the textures, I think.

Christmas Eve: Asda curry selection
Christmas Day:
Breakfast - bacon butties, salmon, club sandwich, grapes, strawberries
Lunch - M&S turkey crown and M&S trimmings, Sainsburys bread sauce if I can get it, sprouts, roast potatoes, frozen vegetables and gravy followed by bought Christmas pudding, cream and ice cream.
Evening - turkey sandwiches
Boxing Day: Nigella's Choc Chip Chilli (from Good Housekeeping January 2009)

Whatever we can grab to eat at Disneyland Paris!!!

So far DP has bought some truffle ravioli back from Milan (they are in the freezer) and I am planning to buy some truffle macarons from Pierre Hermé. Think I will make a truffle risotto as well.

Just 3 adults and dd (16mo) for Christmas period, I've planned:

Christmas Eve: Dinner - Whole herby baked trout with pots and salad

Christmas Day:
Breakfast: dd - porridge and toast, the rest of us, maybe scrambled eggs or even just chocolate I like to save my appetite to gorge later!

Lunch: Roast turkey crown (or maybe chicken, only 3 of us) with goosefat potatoes, honey glazed roast parsnips, buttered carrots, shredded sprouts, homemade stuffing and breadsauce. Followed by mincepies and sticky choccy pudding.

Dinner: Fresh homemade bread to make club sandwiches out of leftovers!

Boxing Day:
Breakfast: homemade croissants and danish pastries
Lunch: Pub lunch at the local
Dinner: Homemade sausage rolls, pasties and salads

Haven't planned it 100% yet, but for our main Christmas meal (which will be after the 25th when we can all get together) we'll do a raclette - there'll be 4 adults and 4 children and this will be the most fun way of everyone picking and choosing what they want to eat, with the added bonus (from the children's point of view) of burnt finger/tablecloth/kitchen potential!

We pretty much have the same every year...
Christmas Eve - Chinese takeout for some and Indian for others...
Christmas day -
honey roast gammon
chicken (only a few of us like turkey so we go for the boring choice)
roasties
yorkies
parsnips
carrots
Brussels with bacon
Peas
sweetcorn
swede
cauliflower and the cheese version
broccoli
stuffing
sausage meat
pigs in blankets

Christmas pudding or cake for desert

Boxing Day - buffet and leftovers

Christmas Eve tradition - homemade pizzas
Christmas Day - smoked salmon and prawns with salad and breads for starters, steak for mains, dessert is usually something from M&S but I have a lot of intolerances now so not sure what I'm having.
Boxing Day - going to ILs for traditional roast dinner (I think it's duck this year)

We'll go to my parents for NYE buffet.

Christmas Eve: Polish food: pierogi, betroot soup, fish.
Christmas Day: chicken, baked potatoes, steamed veggies. Some nibbling food later on as cheese&crackers, cockltail susages.
Boxing Day: leftovers😂

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I did think , Bloody Hell someone is organised , it's only August ...........
But it's a Zombie , rebooted

I was thinking about Christmas Cake yesterday , I haven't made one for a couple of years , last year I bought some of the bite sized cake slices (Sainsbury) , they were "ok" but not as nice as proper cake .
I need to up my game and spend a bit more , it isn't cost effective for me to bake one , no-one else eats it .

Christmas Eve - Chinese ( been the same for over 15 years)
Christmas Day - same every year also....
chicken, gammon, parsnips, Yorkshire’s, roasties, mash, cauliflower cheese, red cabbage, peas, sweet corn, carrots, stuffing, brussels with bacon, broccoli and swede. Pudding is usually some sort of chocolate cake for us that don’t like Christmas pudding, Christmas pudding.
Boxing Day is leftovers and buffet style foods 😊

Starter: leek and potato soup

Main: M&S turkey with stuffing inside, roast potatoes, carrots, brussels sprouts, broccoli, sweetcorn, yorkshire puddings, bread sauce, gravy and cranberry sauce

Pudding: my Mum's chocolate bread and butter pudding

Started reading and couldn't believe how lavish people's Christmas lunches were going to be in light of everything that's going on now!

Interesting to flip to the most recent posts and compare...much simpler menus, more veg, less meat. It's like a thread time machine back to 2008...