What are you having for Christmas lunch/dinner?

Anastacia

Getting hungry just reading this thread.
Christmas lunch is my favourite meal of the year (and everyone else in the family too i beleive)- eaten around 3pm because you need to be properly hungry to appreciate it
No starter

Roast turkey, roast potatoes, roast parnips & carrots, red cabbage, little sausages & bacon rolls, sage & onion stuffing, cauliflower cheese, parlsey stuffing,sprouts, gravy. mushy peas ( not the glow in the dark ones) plus any other veg that mum thought looked yummy in the veg shop.

christmas pudding (which has been caught on fire ofcourse!)with clotted cream (just a little bit as no room left after all those veg).
Coming from Devon I didnt realise you could have anything else with christmas pudding until my first works dinner at about 18, they served it up with custard! heresy

Horasio

We are eating out - gets us out of the house and someone else is doing the work. It is more of a party atmosphere and stops any family bickering due to cabin fever!

Melon starter
I have ordered beef as I can't stand turkey but OK with chicken
Having a pudding with cream

piper5

MY MUMS XMAS DINNER!! and i cant wait, we havent spent a christmas together for about 5 years as they live in spain!!! i cant wait and am so excited!!! yay christmas 2006!!!

rinoa778

We have a roast meal once a year. This is for four people.
I roast a 4-6 person turkey. Stuff the cavity with seasoned lemon, onion, garlic and bay leaves. Then I season the butter and get it right under the skin!
Slather more seasoned butter on top of skin and good squirt of lemon. Make sure some onions are outside so they caramelise nicely and make the gravy brown.
I do the veggies after I've stuck my turkey in the oven so cooking takes about 3-4hrs from start to finish.
I do roast potatoes and parsnips. Boiled carrots and Brussels (might jazz them up with more butter and parsley.
Linda McCartney veggie sausages (buy them early cos they usually sell out 1 week before Christmas)
I tried wrapping them in turkey rashers but those rashers aren't so nice (salty and kinda dry) so prob have the sausages plain this year.
Those dry Paxo stuffing mixes are always on offer but might pass cos I make the whole packet and only 1 or 2 ball gets eaten My parent's don't like them so I make a fruity rice instead.
Boil some rice (if you have rice cooker, even better) stir fry some diced red onion, add some chopped semi dried apricots and chopped up sage. Season to taste and pour this mixture over rice. Mix it all up, yumyum. (Could add some sultanas if you wish) I think this is nice sage and onion substitute.
I make a homemade gravy from the roasting pan juices and the stock from the giblets and some veg.
My brother makes his own from Bisto.
Erm...bread sauce is nice. If I have time and in a good mood I will make my own or if I'm feeling stressed, I'll get a packet, only me that eats is really.
Oh, and a little jar of cranberry sauce ^_^
Might buy a slab of honey roast ham for those three, I don't eat red meat myself.
After this meal, usually too full but if we had dessert, it would be satsumas/clementines and mince pies.

Breakfast is usually a cup of tea or something and dinner is just microwaved or eaten cold Christmas meal.

earwig

i dont do a turkey dinner on christmas day to much fuss so we have ours on christmas eve instead and on christmas day we have

prawn cocktail /chicken and noddle soup

sirlon steak with pepper corn sauce with hm chips mushrooms onion rings and peas with ciabatta rolls

hm triffle /christmas pud
much easer to do most of it is made the night before so i can spend the day playing with the kids

sloppychops

Not sure what we will be having this year as we are off to Majorca for Xmas.

LizzieT84

Starters (Served with Nabilone):

Curried Carrot & Lentil Soup (With Hot Crusty Bread)
Melon with Raspberry Sauce
Pate with Hot Crusty Bread

Main (Served with Domperidone):
Roast stuffed Turkey (for flavour) with sage butter (for more flavour and moisture).
Kilted Sausages (You know, wee sausages wrapped in bacon)
Cocktail Sausages
Sage & Onion Stuffing Balls
Sausagemeat & Thyme Stuffing Balls
Crispy Baked Potatoes
Garlic & Rosemary Roast Baby New Potatoes
Potato Croquettes
Baby Boiled New Potatoes
Yorkshire Puddings
Carrot Batons
Brussel Sprouts with Bacon and Pine Nuts
Broccoli & Cauliflower Florets
Gallons of Chicken Gravy

Dessert (Served with Cyclizine):
Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake
Christmas Pudding

Afters:
Mince Pies, Selection Boxes and Metoclopramide!

luckylukey

Going away for Christmas for the first time ever this year but this is normally what me and my family have

soup and melba toast (normally a cold soup)

then smoked salmon with chives and lemon

then turkey, gammon ham, sausages wrapped in bacon, roast potatoes, red cabbage, carrots, brussel sprouts, stuffing peas, parsnips, bread sauce, gravy

then christmas pudding with brandy butter, cream and custard

southwestmaid

Anastacia wrote:

Getting hungry just reading this thread.
Christmas lunch is my favourite meal of the year (and everyone else in the family too i beleive)- eaten around 3pm because you need to be properly hungry to appreciate it
No starter

Roast turkey, roast potatoes, roast parnips & carrots, red cabbage, little sausages & bacon rolls, sage & onion stuffing, cauliflower cheese, parlsey stuffing,sprouts, gravy. mushy peas ( not the glow in the dark ones) plus any other veg that mum thought looked yummy in the veg shop.

christmas pudding (which has been caught on fire ofcourse!)with clotted cream (just a little bit as no room left after all those veg).
Coming from Devon I didnt realise you could have anything else with christmas pudding until my first works dinner at about 18, they served it up with custard! heresy

I'm also from Devon and I agree, Christmas Pudd wouldn't be the same without good old Clotted Cream!

Phatmouse

Amanda65 wrote:

Not too different We will be having:-

Roast turkey, gammon (cooked in ginger ale), sausages wrapped in bacon, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, brussels, greens, red cabbage, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, stuffing. All followed with my homemade Xmas puds (one is three years old this year and regularly 'watered' by my father with brandy so will be rather alcoholic), and / or mince pies, cream, Nigellas sloppy rum sauce (heaven!!!) and brandy butter.

And I wonder why I can't move by Christmas evening!!!!!

Any chance of a bit more infomation on the gammon in ginger ale.