Christmas breakfast - what do you have?

[Ivykaty44]

I was being told today that it is an old custom to have cheese and pickles in the midlands

so what traditions do you have in your parts of he country

we have bubbly and coissants

I have mince pies and cream!

Selection boxes and booze normally

Eh really? I'm from the Midlands and I never had cheese and pickles. Darn it I love cheese and pickles!

Usually cereal and bubbly, or croissants and bubbly, or toast and bubby. Sometimes just bubbly.

Oh and never heard of the cheese and pickles thing and I'm a Midlander.

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and bubbly.

well I am a Midlander and I had never heard of it either also Melton mowbry porkl pies.

I think I might try the pork pie just to see...

Cheese and pickles for breakfast? Sounds great!

I always make a batch of light, fluffy orange breakfast muffins (a bastardised Nigella recipe) which we have hot straight out of the oven, with a little spread of butter (and jam if you're DH). We make a vat of mulled cider to wash them down with. Yum.

Ham (not my thing it's DH's family - there isn't enough pig around on Xmas day obviously) croissants, toast etc. I have also made and frozen some of Nigellas Xmas morning muffins which are blardy lovely. They are for me and maybe DS if he's lucky.

Christmas-morning muffins for kids, freshly baked bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon for grown ups. Will have to think up an alternative for picky mother this year

Pain au chocolat or croissant and chocs from Xmas stocking

dd is buying me chocs - so i shall be eating them.

Ooh what are the Xmas morning muffins? They're not the orange ones are they? Am always on the lookout for muffin recipes

My mum always does sausage rolls and champagne for Xmas brekkie, which was always brilliant for soaking up a Xmas Eve hangover.

Of course, breakfast is always preceeded by a good handful of Xmas Stocking chocolate, and the obligatory satsuma.

Usually chocolate.

Baileys

Erm..Shreddies and toast?

Ok the people wh start drinking at breakfast how do u las t the day? How do u cook dinner?

I ambori g I have nrmal brekkie special k probably
coffee time is mince pie and the mahoosive dinner natch

Before we had kids: Bacon & Cheese Croissants or Eggs Benedict.

Last 2 years: Mostly chocolate.

Ah cybil finally someone with some sense
surely it is only the kids who eat chocolate for breakfSt
and alkies who drink at ten am

I cook the dinner pished. Somehow. I think. Lots of wine with lunch. Then a snooze in front of whatever DVD I am told to watch.

Crazycatlady the recipe is in her Xmas book. It's dried cranberries, clems/satsuma juice, cinnamon, nutmeg etc. Christmas in a cute case.

lush, is a lady who drinks before midday

what zucchini bread, do you make it or buy it?

merrycompo, we have a glass of mulled cider with breakfast, but the alcohol content is pretty minimal. I'm not sure how people who start with champagne at breakfast remain functional enough to cook (fine when a guest though!).

Then no more booze really until lunch, which might be a nice glass of white wine to go with a light lunch of roasted ham, red cabbage coleslaw, perhaps a bit of pate or soup etc.

Perhaps a glass of Prosecco in the afternoon while cooking, and to toast the Queen if we're feeling really traditional.

Then dinner we serve at 6ish, a glass or two of wine with dinner, a small glass of pudding wine with pud, a small glass of port with cheese, perhaps followed by another small glass to fall asleep on the sofa with, bliss...

So over the course of a whole day, not an obscene amount of booze, certainly not enough to feel drunk, well, perhaps until late evening!

Moules and mulled.