What is your Christmas menu?

[Thingiebob]

Sorry if done before.

I noticed a lot of people mentioning Yorkshire puds for Christmas. Unless I'm serving beef I've not done Yorkshires with turkey. Also, do people make their own stuffing or is it a packet of Paxo?

I'm interested in all the different variations on the Christmas dinner theme! Does anyone have anything traditional they always do

We are having this year

Turkey
Possibly pork with crackling or a festive ham (either way one of them will be served for Boxing day)
Roast potatoes cooked in goosefat
Roast parsnips and carrots roasted in olive oil and fresh thyme
Brussels cooked then fried with pancetta and chestnuts
Fresh stuffing bought from supermarket
Pigs in blankets - bought as I want to make some shortcuts
Cranberry sauce from out of a jar
Homemade gravy

For pudding and snacks

Choice of
homemade christmas cake made by my mum
mince pies with brandy butter or chantilly cream
christmas pudding with brandy/cream
Cheeseboard and crackers
massive sticky Yule log purchased from supermarket

fruit/nuts/chocs

To drink
choice of
Wine
Champagne
Beer
or soft drinks

It sounds a lot but then we are all quite greedy

Breakfast will be bucks fizz with bacon sarnies

Lunch:
Turkey
Homemade chestnut stuffing
homemade pigs in blankets
roasted carrots
roasted parsnips (do I just drizzle honey over them to get honey parsnips?)
Leek bake
Cauliflower cheese
red cabbage with apple
sprouts

Pudding:
Homemade christmas pud
homemade christmas cake
homemade mince pies
Homemade baileys choc. cheesecake

Pringles, quality street and left over turkey if anyones still hungry later on.

Boxing day tea will be;

Ham in Coke
Christmas pie
pickles
red cabbage
salad
coleslaw

Pudding:

Yule log
cake/pud/mincepies leftovers

I am not a foodie
I don't get citrus breadcrumbs and orange with carrots
what is the point?
Obv it tastes yum

riven - my aunt and unlce always have a take away curry on Christmas Day. Their local restaurant is open. My uncle knows them prety well, and they always order their meal from them.

I am also cooking on the 23rd for friends:

No starter

Main:
Ham in cherry coke
Red cabbage cooked int he ham liquer
Creamy spinach
Jacket potatoes

Dessert:
Christmas Cake
Cheese board wth crusty bread

Boxing Day

Have my parents, inlaws, my sister and bf and my brother round for the afternoon/evening.

Am doing a selection on pies, served with oven wedges and peas.

Will have mince pies and cream for dessert, and another cheese board.

Roast Chicken (for MIL)
Roast Beef (for everyone else)

Roast Potatoes

Honey or maple parsnips
Brussels with parmesan cheese
peas/carrots

Yorkshires (frozen variety as I can't ever make from scratch )

Horseradish sauce
Gravy

And for pudding I shall be attempting a Chestnut & Chocolate truffle cake. This may go horribly wrong due to lack of experience so there'll be a trifle stashed in the fridge just in case.

There will also be some brandy/champagne cocktails

Oh God, I forgot the trifle! There will be a humungous trifle made with jam swiss roll instead of those horrible trifle sponges, a massive glug of sherry, raspberry jelly, raspberries, bananas, pink custard (has to be pink - we colour it with ribena) and tons of whipped cream and jelly diamonds. It will sit there til about 7pm when we all decide we want turkey sarnies and something sweet...

Ooh these all sound so yummy!

I'm not doing a starter simply because there is so much for main course, and pudding tends to be eaten in stages throughout the day.

Ham in coke sounds lovely, so does chestnut and chocolate truffle cake.

Don't do starters,but have a glass of champaign when everyone arrives.

Main:-
turkey and beef
roast potatos
piggy in blankets
home made apricot and hazle nut stuffing
broc,carrots and sprouts
Drinks:-champaign,wine and whatever shorts people want
pud:-
homemade choc brownie with choc rum sauce

About 1/2 hour later we have homemade xmas cake and a glass of port

Can't wait

No Starter

Roast 'something' Haven't decided yet.
and veg Roast pots.

No pudding (won't get eaten)

Going out for dinner this year, but I usually make a pretty traditional meal.

Always have a seafood or fish starter. Usually just smoked salmon on dark rye bread with a soured cream & dill sauce that a friend taught me to make. Or good old prawn cocktail.

Turkey - I stuff it with onion and lemon and herbs and cook the stuffing separately. Usually make my own sage and onion stuffing (in little balls) and my own chestnut & pork stuffing (in a loaf tin). Have experimented with others, but these are the ones that go down best. I don't mind Paxo, but wouldn't do it at Christmas. If you do use packet stuffing, cook some diced onion in butter and add it to the stuffing mix. It makes it much more moist and yummy. Dried fruit (dates, prunes, apricot all good) also livens it up a bit.

Also do a ham. Have been converted to Nigella's ham in coke since last year.

Also do sausages to add to the meat fest. I love roasted saussies!

Standard veg, really - Roast potatoes, sometimes do mash as well, parsnips (I actually prefer them without maply syrup etc), sprouts with chestnuts, carrots, peas, brocolli & buttered leeks

Christmas pud & cream for dessert, ice cream for kids.