How many different vegs with Christmas Dinner? 28 November 2014 at 9:55PM in Special occasions & other celebrations 57 replies 5.2K views

squirrelchops

Hi all

I have read the 'What's on the menu for Christmas Day' thread and Malanza has commented about one person posting 8 different vegetables to go with Christmas dinner.

So, to keep the spirit up, I wondered how many veg dishes you have .....let's include potato as well and list the veg!

I will kick off- we will have: 7 - well at least we will hit the 5 a day!

Roast spuds, carrot and swede mash, roast parsnips, braised red cabbage and sprouts

7roland8

Almost the same - mash, roasties, carrots, swede, peas, sprouts. Just what we like.

enthusiasticsaver

roast potatoes and roast parsnips. carrots, peas, sprouts and broccoli. Just the six but not everyone likes the sprouts and parsnips.

DigForVictory

Depends on the number of pans & rings although some veggies double up...
The really contentious veg get shoved in the split serving dish so there clearly isn't enough for everyone & we can politely ignore unloved offerings. Like sprouts...

melanzana

squirrelchops wrote: »

Hi all

I have read the 'What's on the menu for Christmas Day' thread and Malanza has commented about one person posting 8 different vegetables to go with Christmas dinner.

So, to keep the spirit up, I wondered how many veg dishes you have .....let's include potato as well and list the veg!

I will kick off- we will have: 7 - well at least we will hit the 5 a day!

Roast spuds, carrot and swede mash, roast parsnips, braised red cabbage and sprouts

Hi and happy cooking squirrelchops!

The seven and eight varieties of veg dishes I mentioned on the other thread were MINUS the spuds, :eek:

The amount of dishes needed to serve them up must be huge!

squirrelchops

Melanzana - apologies for quoting your user name incorrectly.

Certainly a heavy duty table would be needed for all that veg let alone the turkey!

bossymoo

We are having sprouts and carrots, plus roast spuds. At a push we may do parsnips too.

We used to go the whole hog and have cauliflower cheese, peas etc etc but you just run out of space, lol. And we are all cutting down our portion size.

LV_Sue

Roast potatoes, sprouts, parsnips, peas, sweetcorn, mashed potatoes, red cabbage and swede (but only for me as no-one else likes it!)

melanzana

squirrelchops wrote: »

Melanzana - apologies for quoting your user name incorrectly.

Certainly a heavy duty table would be needed for all that veg let alone the turkey!

No worries, as long as I'm not called "too early in the morning"!

I'd be more concerned about the heavy duty tummies, and we know that lots of veg can result in a rush to the little room...:rotfl:

And BTW I love veg... I have my faves though, and that's ok.

Merry Christmas.

nearlyrich

We do roast potatoes and parsnips carrots, green beans broccoli cauliflower sprouts maybe cabbage boiled potatoes.. never have to throw any away and the 4 tier on hob steamer comes in handy as does the hostess trolley which probably only gets used at Christmas.

Hoipolloi

Sweet potato mash and ordinary potato mash, roast parsnips, carrots, peas, roast potato, sprouts, braised red cabbage and broccoli.

Served with onion gravy and the main components of meat/vegetarian alternative and yorkshire puds.