Christmas Day Menu - Whats everyone thinking on?

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Hi,

ah, got it tescobabe69, is it because I buy the Tesco yellow sticker stuff, main course for 42P.

There are still some Travelodge £19 rooms available for Christmas.

Bella79

Christmas eve - Not sure yet, prob nigellas ham in coca cola with fresh breadcakes, pork pie, fresh crab

Christmas day - rst turkey, mash, braised red cabbbage, spouts cooked in pancetta, honey glazed carrotts,bread sauce,cranberry sauce

Christmas night - out

Boxing day - hubby has to work so will prob go to my mums usually homemade chips n cold turkey with pickles!

rosalie-lavender

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

ah, got it tescobabe69, is it because I buy the Tesco yellow sticker stuff, main course for 42P.

There are still some Travelodge £19 rooms available for Christmas.

I'd be tempted too if I thought I could get away with it. I love the run up to Christmas but could quite happily miss the comments from MIL about "how lucky we are" said in a disapproving tone because in her opinion there are too many presents. Gets a bit wearing when you have heard it for the last 20 years! Then the constant tv watching all through the day and lets hope this year the conversation is a bit better than the details of every funeral that has occurred over the last 20 years. :eek: That was made worse by the fact that my son found out on Christmas day that a boy he was at primary school with had died a few days before of cancer aged only 18. No wonder my two boys spend half of Christmas in their rooms.

Going back to the OP we will be having roast pork with all the trimmings. It is my son's birthday on the 17th so we always have roast lamb for his birthday. For boxing day we will have cold pork and I will probably cook a chicken so we can have that too.

We will be having Christmas pudding for dessert and a mango and almond flan. Pork has been on offer in Tesco's and I think it still is at the moment.

kahunababy

We usually have family over and end up doing a full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, (roast tury, roast ham, flavoured veg, stuffing, roast potatoes etc). Each year my kids sit down, move the food round their plates and are itching to get back to their new presents. My boys and I aren't actually that keen on roast dinners (years spent been forced too endure a badly cooked one every Sunday has scared me for life), and I resent having to spend the majority of Christmas Eve and a good portion of Christmas day in the kitchen slaving over a dinner I don't like. This year it is just me, DH and our kids so we have decided that we are not having a dinner!!

We will still do our family tradition of cooking a ham on xmas eve and having ham, egg and chips for dinner that night. We also make up some muffins just before the boys go to bed and have them xmas morning so that to will stay but Christmas dinner will consist of a buffet table for us to nibble from througout the day. Leftver ham and bread, nuts, breadsticks and dips, cheese board and chutneys, chinese selection etc. That way the most taxing thing I will have to do on the big day is pop some things in the oven to warm through. We are going to visit family on Boxing Day and having a roast beef dinner so DH won't feel too hard done by.

This has taken the pressure off imensely already!!! I am really looking forward to Christmas this year knowing I will be able to spend the day with my family rather than the cooker!

thunderbird

I am thinking of having mexican style food. We are going for a lunch with the in laws on Boxing day and that is a 3 course traditional meal.

Was also thinking of doing these cheesecakes for dessert (not very Mexican!) because even thought I'm not a great cook, I can make them and they look quite impressive! http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/raspberry_cheesecake_04819

raphanius

is quality street a starter or a main course? :rotfl:

mrs_marty

evrardflat wrote: »

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

Sounds Devine!!!!

lemontart

nothing as on 12 hr nights over xmas so sleep when I get home and ready meal during the night

youngbudgeteer

Hi

this will be my first christmas as a proper family in our own home this year. we have decided on christmas eve we are going to have a breakfast-- sausages,bacon,eggs,toast (beans and tomatoes for oh).
christmas day dinner we having the typical roast turkey, mash, roasties, carrots,peas and broccoli and yorshire puddings and gravy (even tho i dont know how to make the gravy yet :S)

for desert i am thinking strawberry cheesecake or chocolate pudding we dont like christmas pudding or mince pies

christmas day tea we are having my family over (oh family not as close) we putting on a big spread of party type food and a few drinks

boxing day dinner will be turkey, chips, pickled onions and stottie buns and for tea i am making turkey and vegetable soup with hedgehog bread.

anniemf2508

We don't do anything too elaborate as theres only 4 of us....1 coeliac and 1 with SED (selective eating disorder).

Xmas breakfast...kids will probably have pancakes, i'll have toast and hubby will have a smoothie

xmas lunch...hubby and kids will have roast turkey, roast potatoes, parsnips,sprouts, stuffing, sausages and gravy

I'm gonna attempt to make a buche noel for dessert (as its gluten free )

boxing day will be just leftovers