What do you have for your turkey dinner

[fairydust]

Xmas dinner.

Want to make it as little special rather than it beig a sunday dinner but with turkey so just wondered what everyone else cooked???

no the vaccum packed chestnuts in butter sauted
yum
chip = chipolatas

hunkermunker, the quality of turkey varies enormously doesn't it? For the last couple of years, I've bought an organic one from a butcher I discovered. Sooo delicious, moist, succulent..yum. I tend to overcook everything and these turkeys seem to withstand my heavy handed cooking technique and not dry out.

We have our turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day. For the past few years we (my husband's family) have all stayed in a big rented house on the beach in North Carolina for the week of Thanksgiving and eaten and drank loads. Bliss!

This year, however, we couldn't get a house in time and instead we're going on a cruise in the western Caribbean. We leave tomorrow.

Anyway, for our turkey dinner we have:

Roast turkey with gravy;
Usually 2 different types of stuffing, a more traditional one and then something a little different like cornbread and sausage stuffing;
Some kind of sweet potato dish;
Some kind of potato dish, like potatoes au gratin;
Several different veggies;
Cranberry relish;
Bread rolls;
Pies for dessert - pumpkin, apple, pecan...

K&theG - sound like a WONDERFUL trip - have a lovely time .

Buy the BBC Good Food magazine as it has recipes for everything in it - veggies turkey stuffing so you can do something different. It's really useful.

K&tG, have a great time!

So.. what wines do you guys serve? Am looking for ideas, but we've usually gone with :
American sparkling,
Alsacian Riesling (people drink the most of this)
and I've never gotten the red right. Was going to try LJ Beauj Villages?

JJ, Beaujolais (and even Beaujolais Nouveau at this time of year) is perfect for turkey!

xmas dinner in our house consists of:

Turkey, Beef and pork or Bacon
carrots, Broc, Cauli,peas, runners and of course Sprouts (and cab if theres room)
Mash, Roasts, Croquets
Stuffing - sage and onion only
pigs in blankets.
Yorkshire puds (homemade)
Gravey.

washed down with a bottle of Asti,
Followed by either black forest gateux or christmas pud (I also make my own xmas cake)

Crackers are also on the table.

this feeds two of us, the meats normally last thou for about 3-4 days after! and I cook my turkey over night on a gm3 from about 2am o it smells lovely in the morning when I turn it up to sbout a gm4-5 and baste etc.... it's normally done for around 12.30 ish. hummmmm hungry thinkin about it!

munnzieb - how big are your plates?!?!

lol, the standard 17" I think, but they're normally piled so high you have to sit on a few cusions to see the over teh top! he he DH doesn't believe me when I tell him i'm trying to fatten him up

1 we don't normally eat anything again thou until boxing day tea time! (maybe just toast)