Christmas Dinner menu

red_devil

C_J wrote: »

I've been working on my menu over the past couple of weeks, and have more-or-less settled on this:


Pre-dinner nibbles and aperitifs
Peach Bellini champagne cocktails
Thai-style sweet chilli prawn shots
Smoked salmon with lemon cream cheese on cocktail-sized blinis
Scallop and black pudding bonbons with apple jam

Starter
Tian of white crab with diced tomato, smoked salmon, avocado & sevruga caviar


Main
Roast turkey (I roast it with oranges and lemons inside it, which I remove before serving)
Bacon-wrapped sausages
Chestnut, sage and apple stuffing balls
Roast potatoes, roasted in goose fat
Yorkshire pudding
Brussels sprouts with chestnut bacon butter
Baby carrots glazed with honey and balsamic vinegar
Parsnip and celeriac bake
Red onions stuffed with bacon, pine-nuts, lemon and parsley
Bread sauce
Cranberry and red onion relish
Gravy

Desserts
Chocolate and cointreau mousse pots
White chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberries
Steamed marmalade pudding with fresh custard
Mince pies
Dessert wine
Cheeseboard and port
Coffee and after-dinner chocolates

how will you manage to eat all that!

jinky67

C_J wrote: »

I've been working on my menu over the past couple of weeks, and have more-or-less settled on this:


Pre-dinner nibbles and aperitifs
Peach Bellini champagne cocktails
Thai-style sweet chilli prawn shots
Smoked salmon with lemon cream cheese on cocktail-sized blinis
Scallop and black pudding bonbons with apple jam

Starter
Tian of white crab with diced tomato, smoked salmon, avocado & sevruga caviar


Main
Roast turkey (I roast it with oranges and lemons inside it, which I remove before serving)
Bacon-wrapped sausages
Chestnut, sage and apple stuffing balls
Roast potatoes, roasted in goose fat
Yorkshire pudding
Brussels sprouts with chestnut bacon butter
Baby carrots glazed with honey and balsamic vinegar
Parsnip and celeriac bake
Red onions stuffed with bacon, pine-nuts, lemon and parsley
Bread sauce
Cranberry and red onion relish
Gravy

Desserts
Chocolate and cointreau mousse pots
White chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberries
Steamed marmalade pudding with fresh custard
Mince pies
Dessert wine
Cheeseboard and port
Coffee and after-dinner chocolates

red_devil wrote: »

how will you manage to eat all that!

why would you go to all that trouble?
its just another day really:D

SmlSave

OMG C J, can I come round for dinner? It's making my mouth water.

Since I cooked last year DH is making Xmas dinner this time.

As we tend to have a large breakfast we only have one course for dinner which will be a beef lattice and I'm insisting on all the trimmings

Then cheese and biscuits for the evening

C_J

Originally Posted by red devil
how will you manage to eat all that!

jinky67 wrote: »

why would you go to all that trouble?
its just another day really:D

I really, really, really love Christmas. And I enjoy cooking, so I don't think of it as being any 'trouble' To me, it's fun.

There'll be quite a crowd of us this year again (which is how we manage to get through that much food between us!).

jinky67

C_J wrote: »

Originally Posted by red devil
how will you manage to eat all that!


I really, really, really love Christmas. And I enjoy cooking, so I don't think of it as being any 'trouble' To me, it's fun.

There'll be quite a crowd of us this year again (which is how we manage to get through that much food between us!).

I wish i could be like that, to me its just stress:o:rotfl:

helping_hubby

I'm hosting my first Christmas for inlaws and my parents. There will be 6 of us and I'm sort of copying what my mum usually does.

We'll have Champagne and canapes - little case type things filled with quails eggs / smoked salmon. I thought they were called crustinis but googling images - they're not the ones.

Starter:
Some sort of posh prawn cocktail with crab meat and nice huge prawns.

Dinner:
Will be a typical roast with a few extras. Turkey, stuffing and pigs in blankets (love those), the roasties are being done in goose fat, and I will most likely make yorkshire puds as they are my favourites.

Dessert:
Mums making a Trifle. My family aren't big dessert eaters, but OH's family is and trifle is my OH favourite).

Plus I'll have cheese and crackers for nibbling on throughout the evening plus loads of chocolate, crisps and nuts.

It's crazy how we all go over the top I think But it's fun. I'll also be having a fry up before the parents arrive

C_J

Ha ha! I avoid stress by typing out great long to-do lists and finely detailed timetables to stick up all over the fridge, and the whole thing ends up a bit like a military campaign

But I do love it. I heart Christmas.

C_J

helping_hubby wrote: »

I'm hosting my first Christmas for inlaws and my parents. There will be 6 of us and I'm sort of copying what my mum usually does.

We'll have Champagne and canapes - little case type things filled with quails eggs / smoked salmon. I thought they were called crustinis but googling images - they're not the ones.

Do you mean 'croustades', which are little canape shells you fill yourself?

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teacherandmum

i'm expecting my mum and dad and 24 yo brother for dinner and there'll be me, my husband and dd (2)
starter - prawn cocktail affair (we are growing winter lettuce so wanted to use it somewhere in the dinner) it's retro but we all love it!!
main - frozen turkey crown (probably aldi), home reared pork, roast potatoes and home grown parsnips, home grown sprouts, home grown leeks in mustard cheese sauce, home grown spiced red cabbage (old good food recipe), carrots and peas - possibly change or adapt the veg, not sure! sausages wrapped in bacon, cranberry sauce, apple sauce
pudding- probably later in the afternoon- xmas pud for the traditionalists , plums in port with extra thick double cream

we'll be having schloer or sparlkling water as we don't like drinking during the day

that's about it, i'll probably cook either the turkey or pork the night before. and the leeks'll be cooked and the red cabbage cooked and frozen (possibly!!!)

victory

C_J wrote: »

I've been working on my menu over the past couple of weeks, and have more-or-less settled on this:


Pre-dinner nibbles and aperitifs
Peach Bellini champagne cocktails
Thai-style sweet chilli prawn shots
Smoked salmon with lemon cream cheese on cocktail-sized blinis
Scallop and black pudding bonbons with apple jam

Starter
Tian of white crab with diced tomato, smoked salmon, avocado & sevruga caviar


Main
Roast turkey (I roast it with oranges and lemons inside it, which I remove before serving)
Bacon-wrapped sausages
Chestnut, sage and apple stuffing balls
Roast potatoes, roasted in goose fat
Yorkshire pudding
Brussels sprouts with chestnut bacon butter
Baby carrots glazed with honey and balsamic vinegar
Parsnip and celeriac bake
Red onions stuffed with bacon, pine-nuts, lemon and parsley
Bread sauce
Cranberry and red onion relish
Gravy

Desserts
Chocolate and cointreau mousse pots
White chocolate cheesecake with fresh raspberries
Steamed marmalade pudding with fresh custard
Mince pies
Dessert wine
Cheeseboard and port
Coffee and after-dinner chocolates

OMG that is so fabulous:D so much work though, I have always wanted an M&S XMAS but never had the funds for it but this xmas have saved some vouchers and hoping to get their salmon for starters and some more fishy bits, the turkey crown always have that with all the roasties veg and profiteroles for dessert, we have learnt by many a xmas when we did Jamie olivers where you have flavoured butters, the veg is steamed with orange sliversthe gravy need to be infused, the stuffing is prepared with different expensive alcohols that it is all well and good but the kids all they want is to be over and getr back to their presents they would be happy with a pizza:rotfl: all the foods are too excessive, rich and masses of it so we have cut down to a turkey crown that we can fit in the oven:rotfl:a few nice bits and pieces like I love salmon roulades:D less fuss less expense less waste less stress more fun with the kids:D after all as the OP says it is just a sunday dinner with a bit more:D