I'm doing an unrepentant shout out to food and drink snobs.What will you be having this festive season?

[moondog]

All the details please.

I'm having a goose whic will actually have been slaughtered prepared and plucked by a work colleague.
My last jar of caviar from Russian sojourn will be cracked open.Utility room heaving under weight of some v nice white Burgundies and a lot of Champagne.

I want to tackle the tins of chestnut puree and do osmething sweet.Not sure what.

On less festive but equally delicious note, dh shortly to return from Bangladesh loaded down with mango pickles, chutneys and fresh chilli sambal.

Am awaiting a foie gras and some fig and vanilla jam from French branch of family, and Korean delicacies from t'other.

Smashing.

My mum will be doing it so I don't know exactly, but it will be a Kelly Bronze turkey and pretty much everything (except the pudding) home made. All traditional with no trendy twists but decent quality, and the wine will be excellent.

No goose this year - haven't managed to catch one yet!

Sis has made pud and cake.

DD1 has almond-pasted cake last night, to be iced next week.

MIL has sent a case of wine and half case champagne!!!

Homemade fruit/Christmas cake
Champagne - decent stuff
Posh panettone
Pricey honey glazed ham and various other joints of meat
Nice wine

The rest will all be a bit budget I reckon.

Excelelent so far.
C'mon the rest of you,let's be havin' yer!

I will be having whatever they serve up on my (Cheapish) all inclusive warm holiday

Bliss

Normally I do a roast from scratch with homemade everything but don't really like turkey so it is more often beef or a nice expensive chicken.

I do a rather famous (among friends/family) green n blacks maya gold cheesecake. Mmmmmm

Duck and lamb on Christmas Day.
Marks and Spencer's bestest cake and pud.
Ditto salmon
Ditto everything else really.

I want to make the Nigella chocolate and fruit cake that she does in a saucepan.

Mum will do the ham herself as usual.

Dp will bring 15 kilo of wine (and no clean pants due to Lyingair baggage restrictions) when he arrives on the 24th.

Local beef on the day, from our wonderful butchers who is far cheaper than many yet ahs proper traceability and excellent quality

Homemasde cake and pud

yum

Kelly turkey here. And its free after the debacle last year when the delivery driver made me cry and threw it in my hedge!

The usual accompaniments and home made quince paste to go with delicious cheeses from the Fine Cheese Company.

And alcohol - hurrah! Last 2 christmases have been dry as pregnant so looking forward to a glass or 2 of champagne.

Am just debating what to do with regards to a pudding as I detest dried fruit.

We are in the ME and will be indulging in the all you can eat and all the moet you can drink buffet lunch on Christmas day - can't wait! Wont be much pancetta or ham but that aside it'll be lobster, sushi, curries, full turkey and all the trimmings and no preparations or washing up

Boxing day will be lots of veuve, a bit of bollinger, a side of ham and fresh salads and a bit more lobster on the BBQ and a cheese platter to die for.

Still hanker after my kellybronze turkey and a goose though....

Went to Le Touquet at the weekend to stock up on wine, and bought a couple of cases of white Prosecco and one of pink. Have some vintage Champagne stashed away from my birthday for Christmas Day.

For Christmas dinner we're having beef wellington - I have a whole fillet ordered from Donald Russell. Not sure what veg to go with that, but probably new potatoes and something green. Pudding will be lemon posset.

And I had a trip to Leicester recently, so went into Melton Mowbray and bought a big pork pie from Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe (honestly!).

Have also just made roasted smoked garlic tomato jam, from the smoked garlic we bought in Le Touquet, to go with cold meats/cheese (not cooked/bought those yet!)

Christmas eve, smoked chicken salad and nice cheeses with bottle of port and crackers whilst we sort out pressies and stockings.

croissants and nice ham & cheese for breakfast with buck fizz

hot smoked salmon starter (smokery down the road)
local turkey traditional dinner with trimmings
home made pud.

home made Christmas cake (just a small one as I am the only one who eats it!)

evening cheese and port

turkey and apricot pie will be made on boxing day.

always home made mince pies and some gorgeous wines.

Oh I am getting excited now

Not cooking this year so can't comment but I can highly recommend Nigella's chestnut cheesecake if you are looking for something to do with chestnut puree. It's very easy, tastes divine, and keeps very well in the fridge for a few days (a good thing as Nigella puddings always appear to feed small armies).

I'm doing a goose and a free range chicken on the day. Pan roasted carrots with rosemary. Honey roasted parsnips. Potatoes roasted in the goose fat. sprouts with nutmeg.

Boxing day will be leftover chicken in a pie with leeks and chesnut pastry.

Will make a hot salad with pomegranate and asian style dressing with the leftover goose.

Also got some venison haunch, a nice ham, hopefully getting some ostrich steaks. Have lots of party food from M&S in the freezer.

Unless I pass the flu onto dh then we won't be eating any of it!

Oh, and I'm going to make some mince pies too.

For breakfast:

Homemade bagels, chopped liver, chopped herring and smoked salmon. Cinnamon buns for the kids.

No starter for us - we have a cheese course and a jelly course instead...

Kelly bronze turkey from a local farm which I'm going to bone, roll and stuff myself.
All the trimmings (homemade)
Christmas pud (homemade)
Homemade icecreams (chestnut, malty milk chocolate, and honeycomb)
Gin and tonic jellies (naff but delish)
Selection of cheeses from cheese merchant, with my own damson cheese.

Gin and tonic jellies? Tell me more

We're going to be at my Mum's, menu is whole poached salmon on Christmas Eve, full works on Christmas Day with all stuffing, sauces, accompaniments homemade.
I have some excellent red Burgundy which we're taking down to have with the turkey, and Dad has got a case of blanc de blanc to have for breakfast and pre-dinner drinks on Christmas Day.

Homemade Christmas cake and mincepies (mum makes her own mincemeant - yum yum!), cheese and port for supper. I am organising the cheese, need to get on with that!

There will also be honey roast ham, homemade pork pie, venison sausages and various other delicious delights!

not enough of us this year to justify a turkey, DH has just called to say we will be having a rooster! I can't wait aside from that the menu above stands... although we may now add gin and tonic jellies

The first proper Christmas meal of the household was eaten by DD (5) in her school canteen this lunchtime: the main course was quail breast in foie gras sauce, and they had canapés (including smoked salmon and foie gras) to start with, and a bûche for pudding .

I ordered a plateau de fruits de mer at the fishmonger's today, which we will eat on Christmas Eve - oysters, sea urchins, langoustines, clams, crab and some other things I forget. And we will have a chestnut bûche afterwards.

Christmas lunch will be English, though with capon rather than turkey, Nigella's chestnut stuffing and also her gingerbread stuffing, potatoes roast in goose fat, bread sauce etc etc. We will follow with mince pies and brandy butter and a bûche glacée (flavour not yet chosen).

On the 26th we will digest and on the 27th we shall eat truffle-stuffed ravioli that DP will buy in Milan this coming Monday, followed by fresh-from-Italy marrons glacés^.

I have loaded the house up with champagne (Ruinart) and Sauternes to keep us all jolly!

Sounds wonderful all of it.

I need to investigate the chestnut cheesecake. I'm not convinced by them generally I don't think. Have some expensive marrons glaces but I think they are foul.

Oh, I shall make a trifle.
When i got married, someone gave me a trifle bowl.At the time I thought wtf but now I adore it.

Bonsoir, your plateau for Christmas Eve sounds like a good idea, we're going to have a takeaway (curry or Vietnamese). Might go for fruit de mer next christmas eve though.
Laying off the alcohol this year, so no sauterne for us, just bourgogne and pouilly fume

Apart from that, we're having:
Muffins, brioche and eggs scrambled with smoked salmon and green olives
Then, at about 11am:
Oysters, lobster, mussels and a salad with home made mayonnaise
Then, at 1pm pan fried foie gras with brioche and balsamic reduction (very difficult to get a uncooked fois gras in the UK - was having second thoughts about this when I went to Selfridges Food Hall and asked if I was a member of PETA before being told they only sold it under the counter

Anyway, then at 3pm, we're having brill roasted on either a bed of cherry tomatoes or fennel, plus cabbage cooked Trois Gros style with bacon/lardons
Then, chocolate buche
Then, once DD is in bed, cheese (not decided what we'll get yet, but I want some quince with it)
Then, some of the champagne truffles I've made

Bit of a banquet for two adults and a 2.6 year old

We'll take leftovers to my sisters for a family boxing day leftover eating fest!

Smoked salmon and scrambled egg on bagels with champagne for breakfast.

Hors d'ouvres and more champagne with friends at about 12 - smoked salmon and dill creme fraiche on blinis and chicken liver pate with red onion marmalade on mini oatcakes.

Main meal with 20 family - something with prawns to start - maybe a mousse. Maybe soup - maybe not. Not decided.

Goose and sticky roast ham with all the trimmings, then loads of delicious cheese (my favourite course!) from extortionately expensive nice cheesemongers.

I'm not sure what to make for the sweet course - something light. Any suggestions?

I'm hungry just thinking of it!