What are you having for Christmas lunch/dinner?

Pooky

I'm going to have a trial run this week at making my own pate - if it's a hit then we'll have that as a starter on some HM crusty rolls....

Main course will be - turkey, pot roast beef, gammon (like to have a selection of meats) sausages in bacon, roast parsnips, potatoes and sweet potatoes, sprouts (par boiled and then pan fried with garlic and bacon), stuffing and then this year I'm going to make a vegetable toad in the hole.....basically carrots, leeks and celery in a yorkshire pudding batter, it's lovely cold with a slice of meat and pickle too.

Pudding will be either Xmas pud or a toffee ice creamy slice (not great pudding eaters here)

Turkey will be cooked Xmas eve, the gammon will go in the slow cooker and then on Christmas morning the beef will go in the slow cooker so that it's ready for lunch at about 2pm. Sausages will get wrapped in bacon and frozen in the dish I'll cook them in (just pop into the oven from frozen) Veg will all be chopped and in the fridge over night so there's hardly any work to do on the day.

astonsmummy

I'm going to my sisters, we'll have
prawn cocktail
turkey
beef
roast potatoes
carrots
sweetcorn
parsnips
i bring my own brussles
pasta with peppers
macaroni pie

sianb84

We will be having:

roast chicken (I am not much of a meat eater) possibly a quorn roast if I don't feel like chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mash potato, carrot, sprouts, yorkshire pudding and gravy

pudding will be christmas pud for my OH and my dad and mince pie and cream for me.

Hels_Bells_3

starters: prawn cocktail, pate and crusty bread or melon (DD will demolish this)

main: Turkey crown as nobody eats the dark meat so it'd be wasted, gammon, and goose because my dad has decided that's what he's having (a family row almost followed when he suggested the goose replaced the turkey!) parsnips, roast potatoes, carrots, green beans, brussel sprouts, brocolli, cauliflower, babycorn, stuffing, pigs in blankets.

desserts: Christmas Pudding, Triffle, Profiteroles


cheese, chocolates and lots of alcohol at regular intervals during the evening.

:j i can't wait :j

shimmigirl

we go to MiLs

there is usually a huge variety as one sil is vege (but doesn;t have anything but pots, veg and trimmings), one Bil and sil (married) don't eat any veg, dh only likes certain veg, and all the kids (5 in total) eat various bits of the meal

So the list is:
Roast Turkey Crown
Roast Beef
Roast Gammon (if anyone wants it or otherwise saved for buffet)
Sausages in Bacon
Plain cocktail sausages
Cocktail Sausage rolls (for the picky eaters and the kids)
stuffing balls
yorkshire pudding
brussels sprouts,
cauli cheese (for one Bil)
broccolli
Roast Parsnips
Boiled Parsnips
Swede
Peas (for Sil who eats no veg - she will stomach 1 tsp of peas on her plate, DH has some too)
Carrots (for DH)
Roast Potatoes
And Gravy for those that want it

Pudding:
Sherry Trifle
Blackforest Gateau
Xmas Pud and cream / ice cream / custard

and eaten about 4 hours later for tea a huge buffet where we all get told off for not eating (even with our bellies still rounded from lunch!!)

And would you believe we have it all again on boxing day - a tradition I had to get used to when I met DH as boxing day in our house was gammon, pot salad and pickles!

forgot to say all the food is for usually 9 adults and 5 children between 18 months and 6

newleaf

There will just be 3 of us and we are having a small rack of Venison, with roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, and sprouts with chestnuts. Traditional Christmas pudding will follow, with rum sauce. I may do a suitably 'colourful' soup to start, haven't decided yet.

southwestmaid

This year there will be just the three of us so going to try a goose for a change. Will probably serve with some sort of sauce, must check out recipes for goose.

Crispy roast potatoes
Creamed swede
Honey roast parsnips
Leak and white cabbage in a white sauce with breadcrumbs on top (or leaks in cream sauce)
peas
broad beans
home made stuffing
bread sauce & pigs in blankets (not sure that that's traditional with goose but who cares it's Xmas)

I'm the only one who eats Xmas pudd so may not bother, thinking of treating ourselves to something special from M & S.

morganb

Last year Tesco's finest profiteroles were absolutely gorgeous and hubby and I enjoyed them between us on Xmas Day Evening and Boxing Day evening ... hmmm, must get some of them again this year!!!

cheekymole

A beach picnic for me this year

irchy_mum

We're having Boxing Day dinner on Xmas Day -if that makes sense!,DD will be abroad with her Dad so we are postponing Xmas Day until the 30th (everything will be very MSE and cheap:D )

So OH,DS and I shall be munching gammon ham in honey (from Aldi's-yummy)
Mash potatoes
carrots
cauliflower,broccoli in a cheese sauce
pigs in blankets

and probably consuming wayyyyyyyyyyy too much Bucks Fizz
Don't think we'll have dessert as probably no room in belly:rolleyes: