Christmas Day Menu - Whats everyone thinking on?

mrs_marty

What's everyone having? I'm looking for inspiration and in true MSE style :j

I'm good at cooking so making from scratch isn't an issue, just where to begin and inspiration that's the issue lol

I usually do three courses and still want to do this but making it as frugal as possible. Especially as on Boxing Day I have SIL and family round and do a big buffet.

Thanks for help

SugarSpun

Christmas Eve dinner - pasta bake with jar sauce and reindeer pasta from Ikea

Christmas morning breakfast - Nigella muffins

Christmas lunch - no starter, roast duck with roast potatoes, glazed carrots, sprouts with stuff in, Yorkshire puddings, orange and cranberry stuffing and gravy, either eggnog cheesecake or Christmas pudding served late afternoon

Christmas evening - chicken in a bun (roast some chicken thighs while roasting the duck, put into bread dough bundles with some stuffing, bake in oven)

Boxing day breakfast - only a slice of toast for me/DH and cereal for the toddler, we're having people over for brunch

Boxing day brunch - Festival of Leftovers. Nigella muffins (will make a new batch and warm the leftovers from day before), bacon and egg muffins (English muffins split and grilled with a mix of hard boiled egg, bacon, cheese and mayo on the top), bubble and squeak cakes with leftover veg, hash browns, egg brunch bake (chopped veg and meat with egg and cheese baked in a casserole dish), US-style biscuits - with gravy if I can find the right sort of sausage meat, spiced vanilla cake, chocolate coins in a bowl, sui mai, whatever else is left over. Bucks fizz, wine and juice for the rather shocking number of kids who are coming.

Boxing day dinner - leftovers, again, hopefully biscuits and gravy (I might actually hold some of that back from the hordes) - or duck curry if we have enough left.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

I don't do Christmas, so hopefully much the same as last year.

I took off for 3 days and stayed in a Travelodge £9 a night (sale), got some stuff in Tesco on way there,



dinner for less than £1, doing same this year, bliss.

Rebel_Hedgehog

Is that a joke above or are you the original Scrooge?

[Deleted User]

Hi,

no genuine, did the same for New Year, and will be doing it again this year, 3 days away each weekend. Bliss, sheer bliss.

Edit: forgot to say, also got a case of beer In Tesco, so that helped.

ada1988

i do think what to buy for myself,then my birthday is christmas eve.
so i need to save money for my own holiday.

Dontknowanymore

Wine.........

evrardflat

Hi,

I am inviting my family for the first time this year, and have thought of a few stuff to prepare. And by the way I am French and hubby is Bangladeshi, so we don't do British food (we think it's vile, sorry )

Start with aperitif: we have some stuff to start feeling hungry, such as olives, nuts, radishes with a kind of raita, raw sticks of vegs, like carrots, celery, and pieces of cheese.

Starter (or Entree): smoked salmon with pears poached in a spicy syrup (cinamon, cloves, cardamoms etc...) and white grapes. It also makes a beautiful presentation, and you don't have much to cook.

Main course: Goose, duck, whatever you fancy, with roast vegs, and lots of fresh bread for dipping in the gravy. Or you can be completely original and do like my grandma who did a wonderful lamb couscous tagine (the true moroccan one, with harissa paste and spicy merguez). This was the best christmas dinner ever!

L'avant dessert: Big plate of different cheeses, crispy fresh bread, olives and garlic chutney.

Dessert: Ice cream and/or cake from patisserie shop.

Apres dessert: Herbal tea or coffee, chilling out with in the living room with a big bowl of clementines and litchis. A few songs...


hope this helps you.

Have a lovely Christmas! :j

tescobabe69

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

I don't do Christmas, so hopefully much the same as last year.

I took off for 3 days and stayed in a Travelodge £9 a night (sale), got some stuff in Tesco on way there,



dinner for less than £1, doing same this year, bliss.

Is it a double room ?

If I thought I could get away with it I'd make you an offer you could certainly refuse.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

yes it is a double.

Is it the dinner you really fancy?

tescobabe69

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

yes it is a double.

Is it the dinner you really fancy?

I would bring food, again, if I thought I could get away with it .
I'm surprised your PM box isnt overflowing.