Christmas Eve/Christmas day/Boxing Day Menus.

Minxandme1

Wow, they all sound amazing!! There will be 3 of us Christmas Eve and we will have a take away then tuck into our Christmas Eve hampers and watch polar express! I quite fancy making some gingerbread men Xmas eve 2, I will also buy us all new mugs and make up some snowman soup! Aka hot choc with marshmallows

Christmas Day breakfast will be norm with some Buck's Fizz I always buy the marks and spencer one.

Christmas lunch will be spent with my parents.

Christmas tea - a selection of cheeses and meats and homemade chutney.:T

Amanda65

10 for Christmas day / Boxing day here (all at my Mum's for Christmas eve supper)

Christmas Eve
Lunch - Broccoli and stilton soup / toasted sandwiches
Evening - Dinner at mums


Christmas Day
Breakfast - Cereal, toast


Canapes - Nacho’s with guacamole, salsa and cheese, smoked salmon toasts with caper mayonnaise, sugared chorizo

Lunch - Turkey, gammon, sausages in bacon, stuffing, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, greens, runner beans
Christmas pudding, brandy butter, cream, custard, sloppy rum sauce, mince pies, fruit salad

Supper - Meat rolls, snacky bits, pickles, cheese and biscuits



Boxing Day

Breakfast - Eggs Benedict (my favourite)

Back from
Walk - Mulled wine, honey & mustard sausages, crisps and dips, snacky bits

Lunch - Granddad’s soup, part baked baguettes

Dinner - Cold meats, jacket potatoes, bubble and squeak patties, pickles
Blueberry pie & cream, cheese and biscuits




Greedy aren't we :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MarliesMommyxx

Xmas Eve:
Late afternoon hot pork & gravy cobs with stuffing :-)
Then snowman soup & nibbles!

Xmas Brunch 10am:
Tea & Toast

Xmas Dinner 4pm:
Turkey
Gammon
Mash
Roast Pots
Veg
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Yorkies
& gravy/sauces

Dessert:
Homemade Trifle
Homemade Cheesecake
Fresh Cream

Xmas Night 8pm:
Left overs & nibbles
Lots of choccies!!

Boxing Day we have lunch with my family & dinner with OHs :-)

tinkerbellsmum_2

we have xmas dinner on xmas eve i love doing it this way cause it giving me more time to cook xmas eve and more time with the kids on xmas eve morning. on xmas day we just have a buffet that we nibble on all day. i get to relax and don't get stressed and i don't miss one bit of kids playing real lazy day how xmas should be.

browneyedbazzi

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking about these things! My partner looked at me like I'd gone crazy for thinking about it already when I mentioned it to him.

We're going away to a cottage for the holidays (8 hour drive away) and I can't decide what things to buy at home and take with me and which things to leave to buy there (and hope they have stock!).

My family tradition is to have a big meal on Christmas Eve, then a nice breakfast Christmas day with leftovers and picky bits for the rest of the day (so Christmas itself doesn't involve preparing a big stressful meal).

For Christmas Eve my thoughts so far are:
Glazed Ham
roast potatoes
assorted veg
pierogies (not a common thing in the UK but they're a sort of dumpling)
cabbage rolls (again, not common here but it's stuffed baked cabbage leaves)

For dessert I'm undecided but it'll be either my mum's christmas pudding recipe (it's a sort of steamed pudding, almost like sticky toffee pudding but a bit different, not at all like British christmas pud), cherry cheesecake or pumpkin pie. It may end up being the pudding because that is made in advanced and canned then just reheated and the sauce made on the day....but my no-bake cherry cheesecake is a bit of a christmas tradition and quite easy to make. Desserts are always the hardest choice for me!

For Christmas morning I'd like to do pancakes and bacon with a nice glass of fizz.

The rest of the day will be an eat what you want when you want free for all with ham sandwiches (using up leftovers from the night before), salads, spekarouse (bread roll baked stuffed with mince, bacon, onion, garlic) and some picky bits (crackers with cheeses, meats, pickles etc) and some nice home baked goodies.

I've never done a special meal on Boxing Day but as we're going away this year and need to plan the weeks menu anyway I'm thinking about doing a roast beef dinner.

andy.m_2

I made the mistake of buying a nice big solid wooden table off ebay last month, my delightful wife is now in the throes of trying to fill all empty space on it with visitors! To be fair I like a big family Christmas, originally we were going to be just four and now we are up to 12.

It needs to be special, to be a culinary treaty, however the pit is not bottomless so some scrimping is essential!

To start a small round of toast, with a single spoon of caviar
next up, a side plate with Christmas salad, my favourite starter ever.
Then a mix of turjey crown and a roast beef joint, all the trimmings and veg.
Christmas puddings and brandy butter or custard
Cheese and bics
Coffee and mints.

Two years ago we made a superb starter of Ecuadorean prawns (massive!) coctail and everyone ate so much the main event was a real struggle so now I do delicate small portion starters and let them fill up on roasties!

mildred1978

Never planned the menu this far in advance (we isyally go abroad to avois all things xmas), but if I must then:

Xmas eve dinner: beans on toast
Xmas day lunch: scrambled egg on toast
Boxing Day lunch: cheese on toast

There. That's one less stress to worry about!

browneyedbazzi

ostaragirl wrote: »

Bucks Fizz - Never tried it but always wanted to, do you buy it ready made or can you mix champagne and orage juice for the same effect?

You can make your own bucks fizz and it will probably be better than the pre-made stuff you buy in supermarkets. I will be doing my own and I add a little bit of orange liqueur to the champagne and orange juice (a recipe I saw on a tv programme ages ago and I think it makes the fizz extra special).

Rebel_Hedgehog

mildred1978 wrote: »

Never planned the menu this far in advance (we isyally go abroad to avois all things xmas), but if I must then:

Xmas eve dinner: beans on toast
Xmas day lunch: scrambled egg on toast
Boxing Day lunch: cheese on toast

There. That's one less stress to worry about!

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lunar

Sugar, what are the muffin melts and how do you make them? they sound yummy!