What are you making for starter and dessert on Christmas Day?

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Having beef for Christmas lunch. Not sure about starter and dessert yet.

What is everyone making?

Life has ended unless teenage daughter has made prawn cocktail for starters.

Tis the law and has been for the last 11 years since I taught her how to make prawn cocktail.

We always have a combination of salmons - smoked, hot smoked, gravlax (I cure that myself - really easy and very tasty!) with huge prawns and a choice of Marie rose and American cocktail sauce as a starter. It’s a huge starter but there would be mutiny if we stopped it. Followed by turkey and all the trimmings. Then a very long wait until pudding which is homemade Christmas pud (a recipe my late father got from a newspaper. Not too heavy or boozy and cooked in a spherical mould) with brandy butter or brandy sauce. And either a bought M&S dessert or if I’m feeling keen something homemade like pavlova. We eat quite late though - around 5 - and won’t have had lunch.

@Globules oh yes - ds (now 23) makes the Marie Rose sauce. Has done for past 5 years or so to to the “recipe” I showed him and has to be given so much praise for it!

Starter - Smoked salmon, prawns, salad and horseradish creme

Pudding (much after meal) - chocolate puds for kids, mince pies & baileys cream, Christmas pud & brandy sauce and a strawberry pavlova

Huge cheese board and chocolates in the evening