Tell me your Christmas FOOD list! :D

daisiegg

Lilyplonk wrote: »

Thinking of booking a holiday on a dessert island next year

A DESSERT island sounds amazing! :rotfl: I'm picturing mountains of cake and custard waterfalls :T

daisiegg

Thanks so much everyone, you have really helped I LOVE talking about Christmas food!

Well, with your help, this is my list so far...


Christmas shopping list

MEAT/FISH
Turkey crown - GOT IN FREEZER
Smoked salmon - GOT IN FREEZER
Gammon
Bacon wrapped sausages - GOT IN FREEZER
Cocktail sausages
Sausagemeat
Streaky bacon to go on turkey - GOT IN FREEZER
Bacon lardons

DRINK
Champagne
Port - GOT
Wine
Schloer or similar - GOT
Coke - GOT
Lemonade - GOT
Tonic water - GOT
Orange juice

FRIDGE/FREEZER
Pât!
Cheese
Croissants
Pastry, chilled and frozen
Gravy
Stuffing
Cream
Ice cream
Cooked meat

CUPBOARD
Part baked bread
Bread mixes
Chocolate - GOT
Crackers/oat cakes
Biscuits
Icing sugar
Mincemeat - GOT
Icing for Christmas cake
Cranberry sauce - GOT
Basic baking supplies e.g. flour, sugar
Cartons of custard
Pine nuts

FRUIT/VEG
Grapes
Potatoes
Parsnips
Carrots
Frozen peas
Brussels sprouts
Satsumas/clementines
Leeks
Celery
Braised red cabbage
Broccoli
Onions

krissymas

We're doing a Jacob's Join this year, and as my H2B is veggie, we're tasked with doing the vegetarian food! So far, it's quorn chicken fingers, butternut squash lasagne, savoury whirl wraps and cheese and pineapple on sticks!! Proper party food.

SugarSpun

We're having pasta bake (quick, easy, doesn't destroy my clean kitchen) on Christmas Eve and then dim sum for brunch on Christmas Day before Big Dinner, so simply C&P from my Big Nerdy Food Lists:

sui mai (make)
char sui bao (buy)
har kow (buy)
other dumplings (buy)
black bean ribs (buy the ribs, make the sauce)
chicken feet (freezer, make the sauce)

then around 4pm Christmas dinner:

beef
glazed carrots
sprouts with chestnuts and bacon
roast potatoes
gravy
Yorkshires
stuffing

I also have a box of Hotel Chocolat chocolates and am attending a cookie exchange and will come home with 54 cookies plus whatever I make extra.

Then on Boxing Day we'll be feeding at least 15 people:

Yorkshire pancakes with frozen blueberries/misc fruit/bacon and maple syrup (oven, muffin tin)
mini omelettes (oven, muffin tins)
egg and bacon muffin melts (oven, tray)
bubble and squeak cakes (stovetop, two pans)
hash browns (oven, tray - make in advance)
leftover dim sum (steamer on back ring)
jalapeno poppers
muffin bread (make Christmas afternoon) with jam etc (bring toaster onto sideboard)
fruit
cake (dark chocolate bundt cake, Nordic tree tin)
cookies
trifle
mince pies (make 24th)

hot chocolate with marshmallows
tea/coffee
juices
wine (think we have some champagne/sparkly wine in the basement too)
whatever beer we have in the basement

So my grocery list is huge, but it is mainly fresh things and staples plus the dim sum bits (and we'll make a lot of that ourselves anyway).

grated mozzarella
grated other cheese
cream cheese
milk, 6
thin bacon (4 packs)
yeast
butter (6 salted)
juice (get this delivered)

pasta sauce
flour, 3kg
muffins, 2x6
coffee (2)
cooking chocolate
brown sugar
trifle mix

potatoes
carrots
sprouts
scallions
satsumas
bananas
grapes
apples
jalapenos

beef
pork ribs (buy them chopped?)

eggs (4x12)

har kow
char siu bao
other dumplings
short ribs
red chillies
dried black beans (? check pantry)

System

Crowdpleaser wrote: »

I like pringles etc and dips! xxx

ive ordered a mircowave crisp maker from ebay , i had one years ago and it was great buy hubby over did it and it melted !

ash28

Our dinner is usually - wine

Prawn cocktail - small (in wine glasses) - got to leave room for the rest

More wine
Turkey (small)
pork or beef (for the gravy - I've never been able to make nice gravy from a turkey)
roast potatoes
sausages in bacon
carrot & swede mash
sprouts
roast parsnips.
mushy peas - always had them from being a child - it wouldn't be Christmas dinner without them
yorkshire puddings

More wine

Home made trifle
perhaps a mini christmas pudding - I'm the only one that likes it.
Cheese board - I buy small amounts of cheese from the counter - much cheaper.
savoury biscuits.

A bit more wine

Tea - not a lot - maybe some sweets before I fall asleep in front of the tv.

Boxing Day - we will be having -

Cold meat & turkey and if it's just us, the left over veg fried. If it's more than us I'll make some salad and crusty bread and give the fried veg a miss!

In addition we usually have
a couple of tins of sweets
crisps
pickled onions - oh makes them
relish & chutney (I make the relish)
christmas cake - I make
mince pies - I make.
sausage rolls - some plain, some with cranberry jelly and some with stuffing mixed through the sausage meat - I make them - unfortunately I eat at least one every time I pass them.

I have in the freezer for the between Christmans and New Year

A huge gammon - don't know what possessed me tbh, I could feed the street with it.
leg of lamb
large beef joint

I usually have enough stuff anyway to make something to feed an unexpected crowd quite quickly - I would make something like Chicken and Chorizo Jambalaya - always a favourite or maybe a simple paella (I can bulk both out with extra rice if I have to). It doesn't happen often but it did happen last New Years Eve.

And on New Year's Day I always make a big pot of home made broth - carrots, swede, leeks, split peas and some gammon - again a family tradition from when I was child, and my mother was a child, and her mother....it's offered to everyone who visits, along with a bit of crusty bread.

And then it's back to normal.

So not a shopping list exactly but hopefully you get the picture.

We already have the wine and beer and always have spirits in the house - so probably won't need to buy much in the way of booze, other than a couple of bottles of fizzy for breakfast on Christmas morning.

The relish is already made and the first jar has already been eaten - we had glut of green tomatoes this year so I used those, and fortunately had everything else, bar a couple of peppers in the house - so it was extremely cheap and it's delicious.

The pickling onions we bought from the farm and they cost about a third of the cost they are in the supermarket - OH will make a few jars in the next couple of weeks - if he makes them any sooner they will be gone by Christmas.

lazysheep

Speaking of food - it's my first Christmas having to cook and I was wondering about a 3 bird roast as something a bit different, does anyone have any recommendations about which ones are good?

Other than the meat my list is
Christmas Day dinner -
veg - roasties, parsnips, probably carrots and brocolli
sausages in bacon
stuffing
gravy
xmas pud and clotted cream

Christmas Day evening -
general nibbles to include crisps, sausage rolls, mini sausages, veg + dips, tins of chocs, breadsticks and anything else that takes my fancy!

Not sure what the plans are for Boxing Day yet, if I end up entertaining Boxing Day and not Christmas Day then swap the name on the list above.

SugarSpun

ash28 wrote: »

Our dinner is usually - wine

My kind of party :beer:

CupOfChai

quoia wrote: »

Should have got it from ASDA over the weekend

just £6 a bottle - down from £24.21

even better with a few of the £5 OFF £40 spend coupons that were valid until Sunday

18 bottles for me and a dozen for a couple of relatives

Only 17 left now - just finished off the one we opened on Sunday to try it :beer:

I was in an Asda over the weekend (we don't get there often) but they didn't have any! Boo!

bossymoo

I've got family coming round and staying two nights, so we have a bit of a plan:
Christmas Eve we may have an early tea out, but supper will be a small hot buffet, probably with spring rolls, bhajis and that sort thing.
Christmas Morning will be fruit toast, crumpets etc.
Lunch we are having a turkey crown, gammon joint, roast spuds, stuffing, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, sprouts, carrots and peas.
If anyone wants pudding we have a Xmas pud and cake, and I will make some mini banoffee pies and mini lemon cheesecakes.
For supper a small pizza buffet and leftovers.
Boxing day we are having bacon rolls, leftovers for lunch and tea is a big family buffet at my aunt's. We usually take pât! and part-baked rolls and maybe some prawns.

I have a 2yo and nearly 4yo and I don't suppose they will sit still long enough for Xmas dinner, and I'm prepared to let that one go, so I'll make sure they have some good snacks like cheese and some of the meat, so they can play as much as they like. I'm usually quite keen for them to sit to the table at mealtimes but it won't hurt to loosen the rules for a day.